So i'm still designing my zoho one crm as i come over from salesforce.
One of the things i'm trying to build is a commission tracking module. At some point i'll probably hire someone to help with custom code, I'm just proof of concepting it. I"m not sure if this will even be possible in zoho crm, it was very much shoehorned into salesforce that we had built for us through a custom module that a 3rd party vendor made that we have severed ties with, it worked, but was clunky.
Maybe another zoho one app would be better for this, and if it is, i'm open. Maybe creator?
Commission statements have the following key fields. Statement date, commission date, contract id, and sales agent.
I have a custom built contract module, however the contract name is a human readable field, and then there's a separate custom contract id field, along with a start date, and stop date. I really wish I could rename the default required value of contract name to contract id, that would be helpful, but otherwise it's so incredibly counter intuitive to put the ID in the default "Contract *name*" field. I suppose I could do that and create "contract *description*" for something that's a human readable description. For us contract name is auto generated with a function as something along the lines of "customer name - vendor name - product name(s)". Even if I did that it still leaves us with 1 problem.
That is to make matters even more confusing is this: contract id, while being unique per customer, is not unique per contract. One of our vendors reuses the same contract id for a customer if we cancel 1 contract and replace it with another. IE contract 12345 for customer john snow was active for 1/1/2022-04/31/2022, then john snow decides he wants to change products we cancel the contract, and make a new one for 5/1/2022-12/31/2022 but it has the exact same id of 12345; the contract id id is tied to the customer number. This is not what I would like, but it's what the vendor does and we can not change it.
As such we also have to track comissions by contract id and comission date, so if the comission date falls in the window of 1/1/22-4/31/22 it gets applied to the first contract, but if it's between 5/1/22-12/31/22 it goes to the second contract. we usually get paid quarterly commissions, so each contract can have multiple transactions.
What I would like to do is have a commission transaction module, that has an auto generated number as the primary "name", and then a lookup to the contract id and the start start date and stop date of that contract ID. so we're dealing with 3 fields here to make sure we're assigning the transaction to the correct contract. Commission Transaction Record X with a comission date of 1/15/22 and Record Y with a transaction date of 4/1/2022 would both need to be assigned to a Contract ID of 12345 with a start date of 1/1/2022 and an end date of 4/31/2022. But then Comission Z would need to go to contract id 12345 but with a start date of 5/1/22 and end date of 12/31/22.
The goal is to upload a csv and have the commission transactions auto matched to the policy record and sales agent, manually reveiw the matches to make sure they are good, fix any errors.
There are standalone products that do this commission tracking but we would have to export a report from zoho every period, import it to a commission tool., and then manage it separately.
I'd like to do something in the zoho world, even if i have to get a little custom development done, that can have some integration and bidirectional data flow back to the CRM that's ultimately our central 'hub'.
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