Managing Commission

Mimick popular online stores such as eBay, Amazon, Etsy, Envato, or Groupon! Commission System will allow you to earn a profit every time an authorized seller makes a sale on your site.

There are 2 possible ways to setup your commission;

1. Instant Commission

Using Paypal Adaptive Payments (Chained/Split or Parallel), the money from sale will split automatically between the store manager and vendors without human intervention.

For chained payment you can define a primary receiver, it can be the store admin or vendor. The primary reciever will be the one responsible for any possible refund may arise. Once a refund is made, paypal will automatically take all the money from the vendor and store admin and return it to the buyer.

2. Manual Commission

When a product is sold through the store, the money from the sale goes either to the merchant account of the store manager or vendor depending on your cart settings.

jMarket will automatically calculate how much you owe to each of your vendors from each sale. It also allows you to keep a record of payments you make to your providers so that at any moment you can check which payments have already been made.
The vendors can also see their income from each sale and find out the status of the respective payent in their dedicated vendor area in the frontend.

• If Vendor will receive directly the money from sale, he/she will be responsible for the transfer of commission from the sale to the store manager.
• If Store Manager will receive directly the money from sale, he/she will be responsible for the transfer of earnings after the deduction of his commission to the Vendor.

This method is only advisable if Paypal is not available in your location. Instant Commission is the most convenient and hassle free processes if you don't want to do any of the manual work.

Enabling the commission rate

To enable jMarket to calculate the amount due for payment to each of your vendors, you need to set your Vendors commission rate (%). But before you can create a rate(%), you need to create a Commission Program. The Program allows you to create different commission percentage for different products.

Step 1 — Create a commission program

1. From the Admin panel, select Components >> jMarket >> Vendors >> Programs
2. From the Programs page, click New to create the Program
3. Fill in all the required fields, which are indicated by a red asterisk (*). Most of the options obtain a tooltip that will help you explain its usage.The following should be setup to:
a. Program Level
b. Program Type

The level will define where the commission will go to first.

4. Click [ Save ] to save your changes.

The image below shows the backend Program creation.

Step 2 — Define commission rate

1. In the Program page, click "View Commissions" under Commissions Column.
2. Click New, to create new commission.
3. Fill in all the required fields, which are indicated by a red asterisk (*). Most of the options obtain a tooltip that will help you explain its usage.
4. Click [ Save ] to save your changes.

Ensuring all "vendors" are subscribed to your Commission Program

jMarket will not calculate any commission if the vendor is not one of your Program partners. To verify this, go to jMarket >> Vendors >> Program and click "Partners (1)".

Only the vendorsthat are  listed in the partners page will be detected in the system whenever a sale is made.  see below image for reference.

You can add your vendors as your Partner by clicking New and manually add each user.

You can also automatically add every Vendor by publishing the Program in the frontend to allow Vendor to choose. if you don't want the Vendor to miss the option upon registration, you can easily edit the option to make it required using "Direct Edit".

Program creation page...

Once the Program is set to frontend visible, it will appear in th Vendor registation. see below image for reference.

Defining the Reciever

When a sale is made in your store, the money will go directly to either Store manager or Vendor.

To setup this up, go to jMarket >> Orders >> Cart Preferences >> Cart Tab

If Direct Payment to vendor >> Yes, the vendor is the receiver and the money will go directly to the his/her and he/she then will be responsible to pay the commission to the Store manager. Additionally, the vendor is required to setup it's own payment system, before it can take any order.

If Direct Payment to vendor >> No, the Store manager is the receiver and the money will go directly to his/her account. And he/she will be responsible for the transfer of earnings after the deduction of his commission to the Vendor.

Warning! If you are using Instant Commission, you need to set Direct Payment to Vendor >> No.

Viewing and Managing your commission 

Skip this step if you are using Instant Commission and proceed to below topic.

Now that you have Commission Program and rate setup, jMarket will automatically calculate how much you owe to each of your vendors. Everytime a sale is made in your Store the Store manager  and vendor are notified via email about the transaction.

When manual commission is being used, the money will NOT split automatically between Store manager and Vendor. The  "Reciever" which you have setup from above topic "Define the reciever" will receive the full amount of money directly. 

The reciver either Store manager or vendor can keep track how much you owe to each of your vendors from each sale. 

For Store manager...

Go to jMarket >> Vendors >> Programs and click Partners (1)

 Partners page...

Commision tracking area...

Instant commision setup

To get started with this tutorial, we created a dedicated article on how you can setup Instant Commission.