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Commission — what the person who sold it earns
A salon pays Ayesha 10% of every haircut she does. A showroom pays its salesman Rs 500 on every air conditioner and nothing at all on the cable. A clinic pays the therapist a flat Rs 300 a session.
One mechanism, three trades — and it works on services and on goods alike, because a shop that sells both pays on both.
A shop where nobody earns a share of what they sell does not need any of this, and will see none of it.
Who earns
Commission is set on the employee record, not on a login: most of these people never sign in, which is exactly why Sellify keeps an employee book of its own.
Staff → the person → Edit, and tick Earns commission. They then appear in the till's own picker, on each line.
The switch is not called "stylist" or "salesman" on purpose. A barber, a therapist, a showroom salesman and a bakery counter girl are the same thing to Sellify, and a name borrowed from one trade would make the others read as a workaround.
What they earn
The rate has two shapes, and both are real:
| Shape | What it means | Where it fits |
|---|---|---|
| A share of the sale | A percentage of what the line came to | A haircut, a facial, a service |
| A flat amount | A fixed figure for each one sold | An air conditioner, a bottle of shampoo |
A flat amount is per unit. Two haircuts is two commissions.
A share is worked out on the line after any discount and before tax. A half-price promotion pays a share of the half price, not of the full one — the shop never took the rest — and nobody earns a share of the government's tax.
A raise takes effect on a date
Staff → the person → Commission records a new rate from a date, exactly like a salary. Nothing is ever edited in place, so:
- a rate entered today for the first of next month moves nothing today;
- last month's sheet keeps last month's rate, whatever you change now.
Every line already remembers what it paid, so raising Ayesha's rate in June can never rewrite what March owed her.
Which rate applies
A rate can be set in three places, and the first one that says anything wins:
- The product — Catalog → the product → Commission
- Its category — Catalog → Categories → the section → Commission
- The person — Staff → the person
It replaces, it never adds. One line carries one rate, the way one bill carries one discount.
That is what makes both shops work off one setting:
- A salon sets the rate on the person and leaves the menu alone. Every service she does pays her 10%.
- A showroom leaves the person's rate blank and prices the goods: Rs 500 on the air conditioners, nothing on the cables. Then only what the shop chose to pay on, pays.
Somebody with no rate of their own is not a gap — it is the second arrangement, said plainly.
At the counter
On each cart line there is a small person button. Tap it, pick who did the work, and the line reads Sold by Ayesha underneath.
- Most lines name nobody, and that is normal. A line with nobody on it earns nobody anything and is not an error.
- One bill can name two people. A haircut by Ayesha and a facial by Sana on one bill is two lines with two names — which is also how the customer is billed.
- The cashier never types a rate. They pick the person; Sellify works out what that is worth. A till that could type a rate is a till that can pay a friend.
- A parked table keeps its names. Recall it, settle it, and whoever did the work is still on it.
The picker shows a name and a code and nothing else — a cashier cannot read the staff book, and this is not a way into it.
Commission needs the internet. Who may be credited comes off the staff book, which is deliberately not kept on the tablets — a device can be left in a taxi. The web POS is served from your own server and is unaffected.
What is paid, and what came back
Reports → Staff → Commission earned.
| Column | What it says |
|---|---|
| Sold | What their lines came to |
| Lines | How many |
| Earned | What those lines paid them |
| Returned | The commission on goods that came back |
| Payable | Earned, less what came back |
Goods that came back are counted apart, not quietly netted away. Somebody who sold forty thousand and had eight come back is not the same salesman as one who had none, however alike the payable figures look.
A voided sale simply is not on the sheet: it never happened. A sale a manager wrote off pays nobody, whichever shape the rate was — a share of nothing is nothing, and a flat Rs 500 on a carton that was given away is money the shop never took either.
Sellify does not run payroll. This page is what you hand to whoever does.
Who may read it: the owner, HR, and a branch manager for their own outlet. A stylist does not read the company's sheet. The rate itself sits with the salary — anybody who may not read what somebody is paid does not see what they are on either.
What it does not do yet
- It does not pay anybody. No payroll run, no payslip, no "mark as paid".
- No targets or tiers. "15% past fifty thousand a month" is not a rate; it is a rule, and it is not in this version.
- One line, one person. Two stylists on one head is two lines.