Agent Name

Agents who receive a commission for organising students to enrol in courses being given by your organisation.

Select the agent, then you can:

• add, delete and maintain rules that apply to the agent
• update the agent's commission schedule and invoices

• launch into Creditor Maintenance for the agent.

Agents are displayed if they are creditors with a Category of Agent. This is set on the Account tab of Creditor Maintenance. See Creditor Maintenance - Account tab in the Creditors manual.

Note: The Agent or similar category must have a SynergyMeaning of Agent.

Rule

Rule control entry used for the rule.

Select the rule control entries from the drop-down list.

Tip: If you use unique letters for the Rule Control Codes you can press the letter on the keyboard and then press the Tab key to select the record, as shown in the example above.

Rule control entries are maintained on the Commission Control tab. See Course Agent Maintenance - Commission Control tab.

From

Threshold used to determine the number of students to be enrolled by the agent before the Rate applies.

Additional rules can be used to add higher thresholds with different rates. That is, the greater the success of the agent the better the rate.

Note: It is assumed that the agent is not entitled to a commission if they have not enrolled anyone in the course.

In the following example, the:

• first rule specifies that a 5% rate applies for 1 to 2 students enrolled by the agent in the course
• second rule specifies that a 10% rate applies for 3 or more students enrolled by the agent in the course.

Rate

Percentage of tuition fees that is paid to an agent for organising students to enrol in courses being given by your organisation.

See the example immediately above.

Launch into Creditor Maintenance for the selected record.

See Maintaining creditors in the Creditors manual.

Select the agent to add the rule for, then either:

• Type in the rule details, for the first rule being entered for the agent.

  

• Click when adding extra rules. A new record is added. Type in the rule details.

  

  Tip: Use the Tab key to move between fields and records.

Delete the selected rule from the agent.

Update the agent's commission schedule and invoices.

See Using the Agent Commission Schedule Maintenance window.