> ## Documentation Index
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# Set up commissions and see what each person earned

> Pay your team a share of their sales, and see each person's payout for every pay period.

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<WhoCanDoThis permission="Manage commissions" feature="Commissions" devices="computer and tablet" />

Commissions works out what each team member earned as a share of their sales, for every pay period, with a statement you can print. Onsuki does the math. It does not pay anyone or file any tax.

## Before you start

* Add your team. See [Add a team member](/business/team/add-a-team-member).
* To pay by level, set up your levels first. See [Set up staff levels](/business/team/staff-levels).

## Set the rates

The first time, **Set up service commissions** asks how you want to start. Choose a template, such as **Weekly barbershop**, **Salon by staff level** or **Simple percentage**, to have the settings and the structure filled in for you to check, or choose **Start from scratch**. Nothing is saved until you select **Save**, and you can change everything.

<Steps>
  <Step title="Choose services or products">
    On **Commissions**, select the **Services** or **Products** tab, then **Set up service commissions** or **Set up product commissions**.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Choose a type">
    Choose **By Member** for a rate for each team member, **By Service** (or **By Product**) for a rate for each item, or **By Tiers** for a rate that rises with monthly sales. Select **Next**.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Choose who is paid and set the rates">
    Tick each team member to pay. For By Member, enter a rate for each person, or one rate in **Assigned members** to fill them all. If you use levels, enter a rate under **Rates by level** and leave a person's rate empty to use their level's.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Save">
    Select **Save**.
  </Step>
</Steps>

To change rates later, select the structure's card on the **Services** or **Products** tab.

## Choose how commission is worked out

<Steps>
  <Step title="Open Commissions">
    In the menu, go to **Team**, then **Commissions**.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Edit the settings">
    Under **How commission is worked out**, below your team's rates, select **Edit**.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Choose what commission is paid on">
    Choose **The full price** to pay on the price before discounts, or **What the client paid**.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Take out tax, if your prices include it">
    Turn on **Take out tax before commission**. Choose **VAT, included in prices** (12% is filled in, and sales are divided by 1.12) or **Percentage tax, on sales** (3% is filled in). Change the rate if yours is different.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Choose your pay period">
    Under **Pay period**, choose **Weekly**, **Twice a month** or **Monthly**. For weekly, choose the day your week starts.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Save">
    Select **Save**.
  </Step>
</Steps>

The settings show in plain words on the Commissions page, so you can check them at a glance.

## See what each person earned

<Steps>
  <Step title="Open Payouts">
    On **Commissions**, select **Payouts**.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Pick the pay period">
    Use the arrows beside the dates to move between pay periods. With more than one location, pick one beside the title.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Open a statement">
    Select a team member's name to see their statement: sales by day, the total, tax taken out, the commission, and the payout.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Add a credit, allowance or adjustment">
    On the statement, select **Add**, choose the type, and enter the amount and a note. A credit is added to the sales commission is paid on. An allowance or adjustment is added to the payout. Use a minus sign to take an adjustment off.
  </Step>
</Steps>

Select **Print** to print the statement. The same figures for any dates are in **Reports**, **Commission Earnings**, with an export.

## Good to know

* A rate change takes effect the next day and never changes earlier days. The first rates you set apply to past sales too. A rate set today can be corrected today.
* A refund takes commission back in the pay period the money went back, at the rate the sale earned. A refund never changes an earlier pay period.
* Every statement says its figures can change until the pay period is closed. Pay periods can't be closed yet, so a sale recorded late on an earlier day still changes that day's pay period.
* With By Tiers, the rate of the highest tier a team member reaches in a month applies to all of their sales that month, so the rate for the start of a month can rise as the month goes on.
* Tips are never commission. They go to the team member whole and show beside the payout.
* A visit paid with a package earns commission on the day of the visit, at the service's regular price unless you chose the package's price per visit. Selling the package earns none.
* A sale with no team member on it, like a quick sale of a product, earns nobody a commission. Payouts shows how much that is.
* Withholding is an estimate for your records. When you turn it on, 5% is filled in, the rate on commissions paid to individuals (10% if their income is over ₱3 million a year). Use the rate your accountant gives you. Onsuki never files it.
* To pay someone the same allowance every pay period, open their statement and select **Set** beside **Standing allowance**. An allowance you add to one pay period replaces it for that period.
* On a quick sale, **Sold by** says who earns the product commission. It starts as whoever is signed in.
* A refund takes back exactly the commission its sale earned, even if your rates or settings changed since.
* Each team member can see their own statement under **Team**, **My Commission**. To hide it from someone, turn off **See their own commission** in their permissions. See [Change a team member's permissions](/business/team/change-permissions).
* Don't see **Commissions**? Ask an owner to give you the Manage commissions permission.


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