The commission structure has been designed to resemble a bank account. When you view a member's commissions, like a bank statement, you will see the date, description, amount and balance of each commission transaction. There is also a More Info link beside each commission transaction which allows you to view even more detailed information on any commission transaction, including the exact reason commission was added.

You can manually add commission to a member by going to the Commission->Add Commission menu of the Admin Control Panel. When you first go to this menu, a page will come up asking for the username of a member. Enter the username of the member who you would like to add commission to.

The next page contains two sections titled Member Profile and Commission Information. The Commission Information section asks two questions and should look like:

To add commission to the selected member, enter the amount in the provided field. You may also specify a reason why commission is being added to the member. The reason you enter will be displayed when you view the member's commissions, and click on the More Info link beside this transaction.

Once commission has been added to the member, a new commission transaction will appear when you view the member's commission through the Commission->Manage Commission menu. The new commission transaction will show exactly how much was added, and will show ADMIN as a description, meaning the administrator manually changed the commission.

Subtracting commission from a member is much like adding commission. First, go to the Commission->Subtract Commission menu of the Admin Control Panel, and a page will come up asking for the username of a member. Enter the username of the member you would like to subtract commission from, and submit the form.

The next page which appears will contain two sections titled Member Profile and Commission Information. The Commission Information section asks two questions. Simply enter the amount you would like to subtract in the provided field. If wanted, you may also specify a reason why commission is being subtracted from the member. The reason you enter will be displayed when you view the member's commissions and click on the More Info link beside the commission transaction.

Once you have subtracted commission from a member, a new commission transaction will appear when you view the member's commissions through the Commission->Manage Commission menu. This transaction will show exactly how much was subtracted, and will have ADMIN as a description, meaning the administrator manually changed the commission.

The Web Site Replicator allows you to easily pay your member's commissions. To do this, go to the Commission->Pay Commissions menu of the Admin Control Panel. This page contains three sections, the first of which is titled Payment Information and looks like:

The first question in this section asks for the Payment Date. Set this to the date which you will pay your member's commissions. For example, if you are mailing commission checks on February 1st, you would set this question to February 1st. The Payment Date you specify will be shown when you view the member's commissions, as the date the member was paid.

The second question asks for a Payment Period. This should be set for the time period which you are paying commissions for. Using the image above, members will be paid for all commissions earned between November 1st, 2001 and November 30th, 2001. The script will only pay member's for commissions which they earned during the Payment Period. The script will not pay member's commissions which were earned before or after the Payment Period.

The next section is titled Pay Specific Member and looks like:

Instead of paying all members, you can pay commission to one specific member. For example, if a member quits your program, you can pay out all commissions due for that member. Simply, enter the username of a member and click on the Pay Specific Member submit button. The script will then show you exactly how much commission the member was paid, and will add an extra commission transaction to the member's account.

The last section of this page is titled Pay All Members and looks like:

This section allows you to pay all members in your database. There are three questions in this section which allow you to define exactly which members will be paid commissions. The first question allows you to specify a minimum commission amount. For example, if you enter $50 in this field, commissions will only be paid for members which currently have $50 or more in commission. If this field is left blank, the script will default to $0.

The other two questions allow you to specify the exact member status and member type which will be paid. If these questions are not applicable, simply leave them exactly as they are. Once you have chosen exactly which members to pay, click on the Pay All Members submit button. The script will then go through your database and pay commissions to all needed members. The next page which appears will show exactly which members were paid, and how much commission they were paid. For every member paid, the script will add one commission transaction to their account, subtracting the commission paid from their balance, with the description PAID OUT.

To view details on all commissions which a member has earned, go to the Commission->Manage Commissions menu, and a page will appear asking for a username. Enter the username of the member who you wish to view commissions for. The next page which comes up will show a monthly summary of all commissions on the member's account, since the member joined. It will look something like:

Each row in this table represents one month since the member joined. The second, third and fourth columns in the table show exactly how much commission the member earned each month, how much commission was refunded each month, and how much commission was paid out to the member each month, respectively. The last column contains a More Info link which you may click on to see details on any of the months. When you click on the More Info link, a page will come up showing all commission transactions for the selected month. The page will look something like:

Each row in the table represents one commission transaction. Each commission transaction shows the exact date, description, and amount of the transaction, plus an overall balance for the selected month. The description column shows a quick description of the transaction. The below table explains exactly what the description can be.

Variable	Description
PAID OUT	Commission was paid out to the member. This description is shown in bold letters, so your members will recognize it easily.
SIGN - USERNAME	Commission was added to the member when someone joined your program, and was placed in the member's downline.
DIRECT - USERNAME	Commission was added to the member when someone joined directly from the member's web site.
INTERVAL - USERNAME	Interval commission was paid to the member (eg. monthly commissions)
UPGRADE - USERNAME	Commission was added to the member because someone in their downline upgraded their membership
ADMIN	The administrator manually changed the commission
BONUS	Commission added to the member because the member was awarded a commission bonus

If you look at the third row in the above image where the description is SIGN - sanchez, you will see that the amount shows $0.00. The reason for this is because the commission transaction was refunded, most likely because the member sanchez was deleted. If you click on the More Info link beside the commission transaction, you will see the exact reason commission was added, and refunded. When you click on the More Info link, a new web page appear which looks something like:

The above image shows detailed information on the SIGN - sanchez commission transaction. Through these details you can see that $10.00 in commission was originally added on December 3, 2001, but has been refunded. The reason the commission was added is because the member sanchez joined the program, and was placed on the member's 2nd level downline. Then, the commission was refunded on December 7, 2001 when the member sanchez was deleted.