Commission Management


What is Commission Management in HostBooks?

Commission management is an option to manage Sales or Purchase agent commissions based on their performance. This is a master setting of multiple types of commission category for multiple agent types.

Create Commission Master

To create commission master, click on ‘+Commission Master’ button

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Enter the following

  • Commission Name
  • Commission Code
  • Commission Type – This is option to set commission master on sales or purchase transaction.
  • Commission Category – This is option of commission will be fixed amount or it is % based on achieving the target.
  • Commission Duration – This is option of commission frequency whether it is monthly commission or annual.
  • Validity – (In case of Monthly commission) Enter date range, commission will be applied on the transactions pertaining to given range.
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  • Validity – (In case of Yearly commission)

Select the financial year for which commission will be applied.

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  • Status – This option to on/off the commission master applicability. Default is ‘Active’ if it is marked as ‘In-Active’ then this commission master will not be applied anywhere in the system.
  • Commission Range Amount (= & above) – This is option to set multiple milestones/targets for the given period. Commission (%/Fixed Amount) – Based on multiple milestones/targets offered commission in % or fixed amount form.
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Accordingly, multiple commission master can be created

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Tag Commission master with Agents

Go the contact > Create/Edit contact

Mark contact as 'Agent'

Apply Commission

  • Monthly – Select applicable commission master
  • Yearly - Select applicable commission master
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Tag Agent in the transactions

Go to any transaction (example: Sales under this screen), Flag on ‘Agent’. By doing this, option to select agent in the line items will be available. This option allows to tag multiple agents in a single invoice. Agent performance will be derived from the transactions.

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Agent commission calculation

To calculate agent commission, go to Expense module

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Go to Expense > Sales Commission

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Create Sales Commission Voucher

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  1. Enter Voucher Details and select ‘Agent’
  2. Select Commission Duration (Monthly/Yearly commission)
  3. Select Commission Master
  4. Enter Reference
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  1. Option to Flag on transactions to be included to calculate agent performance/turnover achieved by the agent.
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  1. Enter date range, based on this turnover and commission master, commission will be auto-calculated, user can edit the commission based on his/her choice.
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Accordingly, commission for other agents will be calculated for sales or purchase, process is same.

Get Agent Commission Report

Go to the report’s module > Utility Reports > Agent Commission to access the agent commission report.

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Click on ‘View as’ following options is available:

  1. Company Wise
  2. Agent Wise
  3. Agent Invoice Wise
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Select 'Agent Wise' and select agent. Click on 'Update' button.

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Below is commission report of an Agent. Where commission passed for the different periods based on performance can be viewed.

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