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## Managing and tracking commissions for your sales team: not an easy task

As a business owner or entrepreneur, there are several elements that need to be included in your commmission plans and commission tracking process to reward every piece of effort that employees deliver. Basically, successful commission plans focus on realizing company goals by driving the **right actions in workers**. One of the leading failures of commission plans and commission tracking processes is that they often do not consider all the key drivers that will make the company successful. And that’s why it is important to choose the right performance measures for your commission plans. Setting a **commission threshold amount per every period** is identified as the first and the most effective way to know if you have the right measure of performance in relation to efforts.

How does a business define effective commission plans and a commission tracking process? Well, coming up with an **effective commission plans** requires a company to line up interdependent essentials within the business in a way that links a clear behavior standard to its staffs. Commission plans must have a purpose - projecting the potential that can be achieved if the goal is realized and recognize the persons that are in a position to impact those outcomes. That's why setting threshold in commission plans help in cases where a company’s sales team has a healthy base salary and that base salary account for a big percentage of their income.

In such cases, a sales persons’ effort can easily be rewarded through the fixed part of their income. This helps in motivating employees, hence you can be able to establish a unified direction for the company that offers the **right platform for performance expectations**, personal development and decision making.

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Developing the right commission plans with well-set threshold can be a bit tricky for entrepreneurs. And that’s why **[Blitz](https://www.blitzrocks.com?hsLang=en),** the ideal commission tracking software, is here with the right concepts that will enable you achieve every goal. This commission tracking software is automated and it is user-friendly.

##### Source

- [Shockwave Innovations - Two Variants of the Straight Line Sales Commission Plan](https://shockwaveinnovations.com/2014/03/13/two-variants-of-the-straight-line-sales-commission-plan/)
- [Wilkening & Company - Incentive Payment Thresholds—Making Them Work for You](https://www.wilkeningco.com/articles/sales-force-effectiveness/incentive-payment-thresholds-making-them-work-for-you)

 

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