You decide what your partners earn: a share of what you collect, with different rates for different products, larger deals, or later years of a customer's life. It is one screen, and it shows you what a real payment would pay before you commit to it.
The standard rate
The share a partner earns when no more specific rule applies. It is taken of money you have actually collected, not of what you invoiced, so a partner is never paid on an invoice that goes unpaid.
A rate that changes with the years
Common for subscriptions: pay more to win a customer than to keep one. Set year one, year two and year three onward independently. A year you leave blank uses the standard rate.
The years count from the customer's own start, not from your calendar or financial year, so every partner's year two means the same thing regardless of when they brought the customer in.
Which rule wins
The order is fixed and published, and deliberately not something you can rearrange: a programme whose precedence you could reorder is one where neither you nor your partner can predict what a deal pays.
- Signing bounty: a one-off on a partner's first few deals.
- Product: the most specific thing you can name.
- Plan.
- Currency.
- Deal size: a band the payment falls into.
- Year: year one, two, or three onward.
- The standard rate, when nothing above matched.
See it before you save it
“Show me what this pays” runs your policy against real amounts and tells you the rupees, and which rule decided it. A percentage is abstract; every disagreement about commission starts with someone expecting a different number.
Changing it later
Saving changes what future payments earn. Commission already accrued is never recalculated. It is a record of what was owed at the time, and rewriting it would change a partner's past statements after they had seen them.