Don’t settle for one-size-fits-all commission calculation software. Celebrate your uniqueness with Commission Plan by EthoTech.
In 1884, a 19-year-old named Wilson Bentley took the first successful, close-up picture of a snowflake. Growing up in an area of Vermont that received a whopping 120 inches of annual snowfall, Bentley was naturally fascinated by snowflakes. After he kept failing to draw their unique structures, he went outside with his camera and a microscope he got for his birthday. He waited hours to catch an interesting-looking snowflake. Then, working 100% outdoors, he used a feather to transfer the flake to his microscope lens and exposed the image for 1.5 minutes through his camera. After this first success, he took more than 5,000 snowflake photos until his death in 1931. And it is thanks to Bentley’s passion, dedication, and ingenuity that we now know that every snowflake is unique.
At EthoTech, we are passionate and dedicated — to variable compensation calculation software! And we’ve learned that, like snowflakes, every commission plan is unique.
Many developers of commission software believe that all commission plans are the same. But we’ve discovered that each business requires its own configuration, integrations, and personalization options for a smooth process. Here are a few ways you can use EthoTech’s robust and powerful software to meet your unique needs.
Configuration
Over 20+ years, we have built a lot of flexibility into Commission Plan for GP. Your installation and setup feature a comprehensive configuration of Commission Plan’s built-in functions, including (but not limited to) these:
- Multiple calculation engines that can automate handling for commissions, bonuses, rebates, employee bonus pools, royalties, and SPIFFs.
- Complex calculation drivers that make it easy to split commissions, designate items or people as non-commissionable, and add multiple people to one ship-to address or process multiple payments for a single person on a single line item.
- Advanced setup capabilities that reduce your workload when processing standard tiers, quotas, milestones, thresholds, or accelerators. These capabilities also help with one-off, permanent, or scheduled (e.g., seasonal) adjustments.
The best part is that, once you set them up, these configurations turn your complex, time-consuming calculations into a simple, automated task. As one of our clients put it, “All I have to do is make sure sales are closed, click the mouse a few times and boom! Commissions are done.”
Integration
To streamline your commissions process, the EthoTech team will gather your scattered commission data into one view.
We feature quick integration for:
- Salesforce
- Dynamics CRM
- SalesPad / Cavallo
- SmartList Builder, which ties together up to 32 tables across SmartList, GP, SQL tables and views, and third-party data sources
Since Commission Plan is the only completely integrated variable compensation solution for GP, it is also the only software that enables secure, easy access to all your commission-related data from right within GP. This means you can finally stop exporting from so many databases.
Personalization
Here’s another fascinating fact. By studying thousands of snowflakes across the world, Wilson Bentley found that their shapes change in response to different atmospheric conditions. Our six-pointed snowflake is common only in North America. Elsewhere, snowflakes look like long columns or flat plates.
Like snowflakes, your unique commission setup may not match the “standard” look that most software developers envision.
In such cases, no built-in configuration will meet your unique needs. That’s why the EthoTech team is always happy to add unique functions to your software for you.
Consider these real-life examples:
- Some companies offer rebates to customers and commissions are net of rebates. This would need personalization that calculates the commission against the net sale.
- Some companies offer tiered commissions with base commissions. For example, a $1-50 sale would offer no commission. A $50-100 sale would pay a $10 base commission plus 35% of the difference between the sale and the base commission. This setup would need personalization to meet the calculation’s complexity.
Do you have another precise personalization you want for your commission processing software? Don’t worry. You’re covered with EthoTech. We promise: if you can’t get the precise behavior that you want from Commission Plan, we will personalize it for you.
Note: In addition to our Customization Services, we also provide comprehensive Implementation Services to get your commission software up and running smoothly and efficiently. This ensures you can start enjoying the full benefits of EthoTech’s Commission Plan software without delay.
Meet Your Unique Needs the Easy Way with Commission Plan by EthoTech
You deserve software that runs your unique commissions setup your way. Unfortunately, most variable compensation solution providers insist that you run their software their way.
Celebrate your commissions’ uniqueness with EthoTech’s one-of-a-kind variable comp software for GP. It’s the one solution you can count on to always meet your exact needs, now and in the future.
Any time you have a question, want to set up a new commission calculation method, or find yourself thinking, ‘if only my software could do that, I’d save a lot of time…’ you have a solution. Reach out to EthoTech and ask how we can help.
We take pride in empowering our unique, one-of-a-kind customers every day, and we look forward to powering your unique commission setup too.
Ask How EthoTech Can Meet Your Unique Needs
Since 2002, companies across every sector have relied on EthoTech for the right tool for tracking, calculating, and paying variable compensation. We provide solutions, integration, and support that is focused solely on integrated variable compensation software for Microsoft Dynamics GP. It’s all we do, and we do it better than anyone. Contact EthoTech to learn more.
Sources
Smithsonian Institute. 2016. Wilson A. Bentley: Pioneering Photographer of Snowflakes.https://siarchives.si.edu/history/featured-topics/stories/wilson-bentley-pioneering-photographer-snowflakes.
Smithsonian Magazine. 2020. Why Scientists Find Snowflakes Cool. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/national-museum-of-natural-history/2020/12/21/why-scientists-find-snowflakes-cool/.