ALERE COMMISSIONS MODULE

A sales commission is extra pay a salesperson receives for successfully making a sale. The purpose of the Commissions Module is to:

• Designate who is eligible to earn commissions.

• Design the rules for earning a commission.

• Determine who has earned a commission and calculate the amount.

• Create a payable for those individuals or companies who are not receiving payment through a payroll system.

• Create a report listing those individuals earning a commission that will be receiving payment through a payroll system.

A sales representative can be easily set up using a single screen. Since the information on the Sales Rep Definition screen is actually an amalgamation of other screens, when a sales representative is added using the screen all the other locations for the information are automatically updated.

You can define many and varied rules to use for calculating the commissions. For example, a rule can be defined for a single sales representative selling a single item to just one customer or a group of sales representatives selling a selection of products.

Rules can also be created to start on a given date and end on a given date. This might be useful if your intent is to promote a new product during its introduction phase or push a soon-to-be obsolete product to draw down stocks in inventory.

Commissions that sales representatives earn can be reviewed and payables created for them using the Generate Commissions screen. This is common practice when your sales representatives are independent companies.

 For sales representatives whom work directly for your company and receive their commissions as part of their paycheck, a separate report can be printed that can be passed to the payroll department.

Draws against commissions for sales representatives are handled by printing a check for a suppler prepayment in the amount of the draw. When commissions are released as payables the prepayment can be netted against the payable before the commissions check is printed.

Altogether, the Commissions Module enjoys a range of flexibility wide enough to suit a variety of requirements.