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Agent commission

TourCMS allows the following granular control over commission levels paid for your products:

Different products can have different commission levels
Different agents can receive different commission levels for each of those products
Group similarly commissioned products / agents together to allow for quick changes

Example

Step 1 - Creating Commission types to group products by commission level

A Commission type does not have any value or percentage associated, it is purely for grouping products of the same commission level together. If all of your products have the same commission level you will only need to create one Commission type.

For the purposes of this example we will create two Commission types: "Standard commission" and "High commission", the latter of which we will use for some products that should have an extra incentive attached to a sale.

Log into TourCMS then go to Configuration & setup then Commission types.
Enter each commission level in turn using the "CREATE A NEW COMMISSION TYPE" form.

As you can see in the screenshot below we don't have any products grouped in either type as both the "Options" and "Tours" columns are showing 0. Let's move onto that now..

Step 2 - Applying the Commission types to our Products

To set the Commission type for a Tour or Hotel:

From the homepage go to Tours & Hotels
Click on Setup for the Tour
Under the Money tab select the Commission type and save your changes.

To set the Commission type for an Option:

From the homepage go to Options
Click on Setup for the Option
Select the Commission type and save your changes

Non-commissionable items

Any products without a Commission type will be considered non-commissionable.

Changing commission types

You can change the commission type of a product at any time, this change will only affect new bookings.

Step 3 - Creating Commission schemes to group Agents by commission

Each Commission scheme defines the amount of commission an Agent will receive for products of each Commission type. If all of your Agents receive the same amount of commission then you will only need one Commission scheme.

For the purposes of this example we will presume that the majority of our Agents receive a standard commission percentage, with a select few "preferred agents" receiving a few percent extra.

From the homepage go to Configuration & setup then Commission schemes
Use the CREATE A NEW COMMISSION SCHEME form to create your Commission schemes. For our exampe we have two: "Most agents" and "Preferred agents"
Click the Edit link for the "Most agents" scheme
You should see something like the screenshot below, with a row for each of our product types (Commission types). Here we have entered 7% for our "Standard commission" products and 9% for our "Higher commission" products
Once you have entered your values click "Save changes"
Now complete steps 3-5 for your other Commission schemes. In our example we also have our "Preferred agent" scheme, agents on this scheme receive 10% regardless of product type - we configure this as per the screenshot below:

Step 4 - Applying the Commission schemes to our Agents

All that remains now is to edit our Agents to configure which Commission scheme they come under.

To set the Commission scheme for an Agent

From the TourCMS Homepage click "Agents"
Click "Setup" for the Agent that you wish to edit
Select the Commission scheme and save your changes

Agents who should not receive commission

Any agent who does not have a Commission scheme set will not have any commission applied to their bookings automatically.

Changing the commission an agent / group of agents receive

You can edit the values in a Commission scheme at any time, you can also edit an Agent to move them onto a different Commission scheme. Both of these changes will only affect new bookings.

Final notes

That's really all that's required, your new bookings should now have the correct commission amounts calculated automatically. You can also edit the commission on individual bookings by going into the booking then clicking on the EDIT / RECALCULATE link under Marketing tab.