The Company and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies	9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2014
Accounting Policies [Abstract]
The Company and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies	The Company and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies Organization and Business Vocera Communications, Inc. (the “Company”) is a provider of secure, integrated, intelligent communication solutions, focused on empowering mobile workers in healthcare, hospitality, energy, and other mission-critical mobile work environments, in the United States and internationally. The significant majority of the Company's business is currently generated from sales of its solutions in the healthcare market, but the Company is actively engaged in other markets. Vocera helps its healthcare customers improve patient safety and satisfaction, and increase hospital efficiency and productivity through its Communication and Care Experience solutions. These have been installed in more than 1,200 healthcare and non-healthcare organizations worldwide. The Vocera Communication System, which includes an intelligent enterprise software platform, a lightweight, wearable, voice-controlled communication badge, and smartphone applications, enables users to connect instantly with other staff simply by saying the name, function or group name of the desired recipient. It also securely delivers text messages and alerts directly to and from smartphones, replacing legacy pagers. Vocera Care Experience is a hosted software solution suite that coordinates and streamlines patient-to-provider and provider-to-provider communication across the continuum of care. Vocera Care Experience is complemented by the Company’s Experience Innovation Network, a membership-based program to spread the adoption of leading strategies to improve patient and staff experience. The Company was incorporated in Delaware on February 16, 2000. The Company formed wholly-owned subsidiaries Vocera Communications UK Ltd and Vocera Communications Australia Pty Ltd. in 2005, Vocera Canada, Ltd. in 2010, Vocera Communications India Private Ltd. in 2013 and Vocera Communications Middle East FZ-LLC in 2014. Basis of Presentation The Company’s unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“U.S. GAAP”) and pursuant to the instructions to Form 10-Q and Article 10 of Regulation S-X of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and include the accounts of Vocera and its wholly owned subsidiaries. All intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated. Certain information and disclosures normally included in financial statements prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP have been condensed or omitted pursuant to such rules and regulations. Accordingly, these unaudited interim condensed consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the annual audited consolidated financial statements and notes thereto contained in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2013. The year-end condensed balance sheet data was derived from the Company's audited financial statements, but does not include all disclosures required by U.S. GAAP. In the opinion of management, the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements reflect all adjustments, which include only normal recurring adjustments, necessary to present fairly the Company’s interim consolidated financial information. The results for the quarter presented are not necessarily indicative of the results to be expected for the year ending December 31, 2014 or for any other interim period or any other future year. Use of Estimates The preparation of the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires the Company to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenue and expense during the reporting periods. The estimates include, but are not limited to, revenue recognition, useful lives assigned to long-lived assets, excess and obsolete inventory charges, warranty reserves, stock-based compensation expense, provisions for income taxes and contingencies. Actual results could differ from these estimates, and such differences could be material to the Company’s financial position and results of operations. Revenue Recognition The Company derives revenue from the sales of enterprise-grade communication badges, mobile device application software, subscription services, software maintenance, extended warranty and professional services. The predominant portion of the company’s revenue are from direct sales of communications badges and perpetual software licenses, with smaller portions of revenue from subscription software licenses and services and through multi-year lease agreements with customers. The Company's revenue recognition policy has not changed from that described in its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2013. . Transfer of sales-type leases to third-parties Proceeds from transfers of sales-type leases to third-party financial companies are allocated between the net investment in sales-type leases and the executory cost component for remaining service obligations based on relative present value. The difference between the amount of proceeds allocated to the net investment in lease and the carrying value of the net investment in lease is included in product revenue. Proceeds allocated to the executory cost component are accounted for as financing liabilities. For the nine months ended September 30, 2014 and 2013, the Company transferred $1.0 million and $1.0 million, respectively, of lease receivables in non-recourse sales to third-party financial companies, with immaterial net gains (losses). For the nine months ended September 30, 2014 and 2013, the Company recorded $0.6 million and $0.7 million, respectively, of financing liabilities for future performance of executory service obligations. For lease receivables retained as of September 30, 2014 and December 31, 2013, the Company recorded $1.0 million and $1.4 million of net investment in sales-type leases, respectively, equivalent to the minimum lease payments less the unearned interest portion. Recent Accounting Pronouncements In May 2014, the FASB together with the International Accounting Standards Board issued converged guidance for revenue recognition that will replace most existing guidance, eliminate industry-specific guidance and provide a unified model for determining how and when revenue from contracts with customers should be recognized. Under the new guidance, an entity should recognize revenue to depict the transfer of promised goods or services to customers in an amount that reflects the consideration to which the entity expects to be entitled in exchange for those goods or services. The standard will also introduce additional disclosures, changes in asset and liability accounting, and changes in gain/loss recognition for asset transfers unrelated to customer transactions. The Company’s effective date for this standard will be the first quarter of 2017; no early application is permitted. Two methods of transition are provided: a full retrospective approach, with certain practical expedients allowed, and a cumulative effect method, with balance sheet adjustment as of January 1, 2017. The Company is evaluating the effect the new standard will have on its consolidated financial statements and related disclosures. The Company has not yet selected a transition method nor has it determined the future effect of the standard on its financial position or results of operations.

The Company and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

Organization and Business

Vocera Communications, Inc. (the “Company”) is a provider of secure, integrated, intelligent communication solutions, focused on empowering mobile workers in healthcare, hospitality, energy, and other mission-critical mobile work environments, in the United States and internationally. The significant majority of the Company's business is currently generated from sales of its solutions in the healthcare market, but the Company is actively engaged in other markets. Vocera helps its healthcare customers improve patient safety and satisfaction, and increase hospital efficiency and productivity through its Communication and Care Experience solutions. These have been installed in more than 1,200 healthcare and non-healthcare organizations worldwide.

The Vocera Communication System, which includes an intelligent enterprise software platform, a lightweight, wearable, voice-controlled communication badge, and smartphone applications, enables users to connect instantly with other staff simply by saying the name, function or group name of the desired recipient. It also securely delivers text messages and alerts directly to and from smartphones, replacing legacy pagers. Vocera Care Experience is a hosted software solution suite that coordinates and streamlines patient-to-provider and provider-to-provider communication across the continuum of care. Vocera Care Experience is complemented by the Company’s Experience Innovation Network, a membership-based program to spread the adoption of leading strategies to improve patient and staff experience.

The Company was incorporated in Delaware on February 16, 2000. The Company formed wholly-owned subsidiaries Vocera Communications UK Ltd and Vocera Communications Australia Pty Ltd. in 2005, Vocera Canada, Ltd. in 2010, Vocera Communications India Private Ltd. in 2013 and Vocera Communications Middle East FZ-LLC in 2014.

Basis of Presentation

The Company’s unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“U.S. GAAP”) and pursuant to the instructions to Form 10-Q and Article 10 of Regulation S-X of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and include the accounts of Vocera and its wholly owned subsidiaries. All intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated. Certain information and disclosures normally included in financial statements prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP have been condensed or omitted pursuant to such rules and regulations. Accordingly, these unaudited interim condensed consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the annual audited consolidated financial statements and notes thereto contained in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2013. The year-end condensed balance sheet data was derived from the Company's audited financial statements, but does not include all disclosures required by U.S. GAAP.

In the opinion of management, the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements reflect all adjustments, which include only normal recurring adjustments, necessary to present fairly the Company’s interim consolidated financial information. The results for the quarter presented are not necessarily indicative of the results to be expected for the year ending December 31, 2014 or for any other interim period or any other future year.

Use of Estimates

The preparation of the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires the Company to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenue and expense during the reporting periods. The estimates include, but are not limited to, revenue recognition, useful lives assigned to long-lived assets, excess and obsolete inventory charges, warranty reserves, stock-based compensation expense, provisions for income taxes and contingencies. Actual results could differ from these estimates, and such differences could be material to the Company’s financial position and results of operations.

Revenue Recognition

The Company derives revenue from the sales of enterprise-grade communication badges, mobile device application software, subscription services, software maintenance, extended warranty and professional services. The predominant portion of the company’s revenue are from direct sales of communications badges and perpetual software licenses, with smaller portions of revenue from subscription software licenses and services and through multi-year lease agreements with customers. The Company's revenue recognition policy has not changed from that described in its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2013.

Transfer of sales-type leases to third-parties

Proceeds from transfers of sales-type leases to third-party financial companies are allocated between the net investment in sales-type leases and the executory cost component for remaining service obligations based on relative present value. The difference between the amount of proceeds allocated to the net investment in lease and the carrying value of the net investment in lease is included in product revenue. Proceeds allocated to the executory cost component are accounted for as financing liabilities.

For the nine months ended September 30, 2014 and 2013, the Company transferred $1.0 million and $1.0 million, respectively, of lease receivables in non-recourse sales to third-party financial companies, with immaterial net gains (losses). For the nine months ended September 30, 2014 and 2013, the Company recorded $0.6 million and $0.7 million, respectively, of financing liabilities for future performance of executory service obligations. For lease receivables retained as of September 30, 2014 and December 31, 2013, the Company recorded $1.0 million and $1.4 million of net investment in sales-type leases, respectively, equivalent to the minimum lease payments less the unearned interest portion.

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

In May 2014, the FASB together with the International Accounting Standards Board issued converged guidance for revenue recognition that will replace most existing guidance, eliminate industry-specific guidance and provide a unified model for determining how and when revenue from contracts with customers should be recognized. Under the new guidance, an entity should recognize revenue to depict the transfer of promised goods or services to customers in an amount that reflects the consideration to which the entity expects to be entitled in exchange for those goods or services. The standard will also introduce additional disclosures, changes in asset and liability accounting, and changes in gain/loss recognition for asset transfers unrelated to customer transactions.

The Company’s effective date for this standard will be the first quarter of 2017; no early application is permitted. Two methods of transition are provided: a full retrospective approach, with certain practical expedients allowed, and a cumulative effect method, with balance sheet adjustment as of January 1, 2017. The Company is evaluating the effect the new standard will have on its consolidated financial statements and related disclosures. The Company has not yet selected a transition method nor has it determined the future effect of the standard on its financial position or results of operations.