Sales Commissions

You can track sales totals for individual salespeople when you enter sales transactions, and then distribute commission pay to those salespeople based on the amount they’ve sold.

• Create employee cards for each of your salespeople using the Card File window.
• If you don’t already have a wage for commission wages, use the Wages Information window found in Payroll Categories at the Payroll Command Center to create one. Use the Employee button in this window to link each salesperson to the commission wage.
• Create sales transactions in the Sales window as you normally do. Be sure to enter the salesperson’s name in the Salesperson field when you enter transactions that are eligible for commission.
• When you're ready to distribute commission wages on a salesperson’s paycheck, go to Index to Reports > Sales.
• Highlight the Sales (Salesperson Summary) Report or Sales (Salesperson Detail) Report.

Note: Be sure to enter the correct dates in the Dated From and To fields of the Report Customize/Filters window and then choose to display your report.

• Find the salesperson’s sales total at the bottom of the Sale Amount column.

Note: If you base your salesperson’s commission on cash payments, use the report Customer Payments (Salesperson) to find the cash payments made on invoices.

• Calculate the salesperson’s commission wages by multiplying the sales total by the commission percentage you normally pay the salesperson. If you are taking advantage of OfficeLink, you can also use the 'Send to Excel' button at the bottom of you report display screen. This will open the report in Excel, and you can create a formula to calculate the commission automatically.
• From the Payroll Command Center, go to Pay Employees/Write Paychecks. Enter the salesperson's name and then enter the amount of commission being paid to that salesman.