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Commissions & SPIFFs is how you reward partners without spreadsheets: define plans, let Introw calculate what each partner earns from your CRM or billing data, review the results, and pay out, with partners able to see their earnings any time.

What this area does

Partner incentives are usually run in fragile spreadsheets that nobody trusts. This area replaces them. You define commission plans, including revenue shares, fixed fees, tiered rates, and one-time bonuses, and Introw calculates commission lines from your CRM or billing source of truth. The result is incentive data that reconciles to the same records your sales team already works in. From there, your team reviews the calculated lines, groups them into partner payouts, and moves each payout through approval to paid, generating statements along the way. Partners see their potential, expected, and paid earnings in the portal and can even ask an AI assistant about commission status, so the constant “where’s my commission?” questions disappear. Global settings control schedules, minimums, currency, and billing details so the whole program runs predictably.

Why it matters

  • CRM-native - Commissions calculate directly from your CRM or billing source of truth, so every line is auditable and reconciled against the same numbers finance already trusts, with no export-and-recalculate step to introduce disputes.
  • Time to value - Model a commission or SPIFF plan and run the first payout in a day, not a comp-plan implementation project, so a new incentive is live while it still matters.
  • Low total cost of ownership - Partner ops builds plans, tiers, and payout batches with no engineering, and versions them as the program changes.
  • Work where you already are - Partners check what they have earned in the portal or by asking an AI assistant, so ops stops fielding “where’s my money” emails.

How it fits together

Incentives flow from a plan to a paid partner, reconciled to your source of truth:

Capabilities

Commission Plans

Define how partners earn, from revenue shares to one-time bonuses.

Commission Lines

Review, decline, postpone, and adjust calculated commission line items.

Payouts

Group lines into partner payouts and move them to paid.

Settings

Set schedules, minimums, currency, and billing details.

Who works in this area

Partner Operations

Builds plans, reviews lines, and runs payouts.

Finance

Approves payouts and reconciles statements.

VP Partnerships / CPO

Wants incentives that are accurate and trusted.

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Add a manual commission line

Put an adjustment, bonus, or one-off correction directly onto a partner’s payout.

Review and adjust commission lines

Check calculated commission, then decline, postpone, restore, or correct lines before anyone is paid.

Build and launch a commission plan

Take a commission plan from an empty wizard to live, partner-earning rewards end to end.

Set eligibility conditions

Define exactly which records earn on a commission plan - stack property filters with And/Or groups, target partner-attributed deals, and use the live data preview to confirm only the right records qualify.

Request a partner invoice

Generate a statement and collect a partner’s invoice before you pay, the invoice-first payout path.

Run a payout cycle

Take approved commission from a new batch all the way to partners marked paid, with statements along the way.

Configure commission and payout settings

Set the payout schedule, minimum amount, billing info, and the currency and fiscal year commissions rely on.