Define sales commission amounts

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The following describes how to define the commission amount a sales person should receive.

Scenario
Assume that you want to set up the following in the Salesman commission table:

  • The recipient will receive a 2% sales commission based on the net sales value of the ordered quantity.
  • The recipient will only earn a commission when selling to customers belonging to a customer group for domestic sales.
  • The recipient will be entitled to receive this commission for a limited amount of time.

Prerequisites
Sales persons that receive commissions, have to be defined as salesmen in the Signature table (see About sales commissions for more details).

  1. Select the Work with salesman commissions menu item.
  2. On the main panel, click Add.
  3. You access the detail panel. Complete the following fields:
  4. Salesman
    Enter the code that identifies your employee to the system. Note: This employee record must exist in the Signature table and must have the Salesman field set to YES.
    Customer group
    Assume the recipient will only receive a commission when selling to a domestic customer. Enter the customer group to which domestic customers are connected.
    Valid from
    Enter the start date. This must correspond to the first day that the sales commission will be tracked.
    Valid to
    Enter the date when the sales commission tracking will expire.
    Commission %
    Enter the applicable commission percentage.
    Comm base amount
    Valid codes are:
    Code Commission based on When commission is calculated
    1 Net sales price * quantity Calculated when the order line is entered
    2 Net sales price * dispatched quantity Calculated when the pick list is confirmed

    if pick lists are not printed then it will be calculated when the invoice is printed.

    3 Invoiced amount Calculated when the invoice is printed.
    4 Paid amount Not calculated. The invoiced amount is used as a default value but it can be changed.
    Since the recipient should receive two percent of the net sales value of the ordered quantity, enter 1.
    Changeable
    Indicate if the commission can be changed once it is calculated.

    Click OK. Click Back to return to the initial panel. The next time a sales order line is placed in the system for this salesman a commission will be calculated.

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