Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
Thank you. (Operator Instructions) Your first question comes from [Unidentified Analyst] - Deutsche Bank Securities.
Unidentified Analyst - Deutsche Bank Securities
What are you seeing in the spending environment? Are you seeing customers spending increasingly more than the last quarter? Do you think there's a holdup in budget spending? In particular, are you expending a budget flush in the fourth quarter in your current outlook?
Zachary Nelson
Looking at the new business side of the equation, Q2 was a very solid quarter based on all the metrics we talked about - the average selling price both of conventional NetSuite as well as the OneWorld product, both ASPs rising nicely; the number of new customers signed also increasing. So we certainly saw an uptick in customers' willingness to procure during the quarter, particularly as compared to Q1.
For the rest of the year we sort of look at Q3 basically as a flattish quarter when compared to Q2. You've got all the vagaries of summer and summer holidays that come into play there, so that's how we're modeling that.
And then Q4, Q4's has historically been our strongest quarter, quite frankly typically not related to budget flush from the markets we usually serve but just because of the way the compensation model is structured, perhaps more so. So we are expecting Q4 to show that similar trend that it has historically, to be the strongest quarter of the year.
James McGeever
And the thing I would add to that is I think when we look at the overall economy, we don't think it's getting any worse. We think we've seen some stabilization in terms of how people plan their businesses and plan their application purchases. That's actually relatively positive for us. As long as they see stabilization that changes their buying behavior and allows them to plan their business going forward.
Operator
Your next question comes from Rich Baldry - Canaccord Adams.
Rich Baldry - Canaccord Adams
I'm a little surprised to see the commission line cited as down sequentially when the bookings, number of new customers and the ASPs are up on the strength in the OneWorld. Can you talk about how that happened and then maybe where that would trend forward assuming your trend to increasing new customers continues?
James McGeever
Sure. So we do amortize our commissions of their life of the contract, so what you're seeing in commission expense primarily relates to deals sold in prior years and prior quarters. So if you look at the Q2 commission expense, that change is mostly related to the new business bookings in Q1, which obviously were down from Q4. The other component of commissions being down is that the rates this year that we're paying are slightly less than what we were paying in prior years as well.
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