When calculating commissions, Pluribus has asked that we account for gross margin on accounts. Sales representatives will receive 15% of gross margin on direct deals and 5% of gross margin on partner deals.
To facilitate this, Rich has provided an option for developer-level admins to manually adjust commission payments on accounts in the backend system. This option can be found under the Advanced tab of each account. An image of the commission fields can be found below.
By default, the Social5 system will apply a 15% sales commissions of the customer's TOTAL commissionable payment to a Level 1 sales representative. The system will apply a 3% sales commissions of the customer's TOTAL commissionable payment to a Level 2 sales representative.
Your responsibility is to adjust those commissions to reflect a 15% commission on gross margin to Level 1 sales representatives and a 5% commission on gross margin to Level 2 sales representatives. Here is a guide for applying commissions.
(NOTE: Our system does not allow for decimal points. Please round commissions to the nearest whole number.)
============================
GROSS MARGIN CHART
Get Social Package
3 Unique Posts/Week — 50% Gross Margin
2 Unique Posts/Week — 60% Gross Margin
1 Unique Post/Week — 70% Gross Margin
Get Noticed Package
Custom Advertising Campaign — 50% Gross Margin
Shared Advertising Campaign — 70% Gross Margin
Get Found Package
50% Gross Margin
Get Premium Package
50% Gross Margin
Get Ranked Package
50% Gross Margin
The only time a gross-margin calculation would exceed 70% would be with an automated signup program that does not require any additional content/advertising resources from Social5. The only expenditure would be ongoing customer support. In these cases, the gross margin would be 80%.
============================
Hopefully that provides some clarity that will help you establish gross-margin calculations before the first of each month.