A Distributor's personal volume from the day he or she becomes a Distributor to present. Only Active Distributors may have earnings.
Some plans impose other requirements as well.
The Qualifying Volume from the sales order that will be the volume credited for a sale. When these unpaid commissions are retained by the company, they are called Breakage. Breakage also happens when an order is placed by a distributor who is close to the top of the genealogy such as a distributor sponsored directly by the company or an orphan. In these cases, some or all of the commissions that would normally be paid to an upline are retained by the company because there are few, if any, distributors in the purchasers upline. Please note that commissions are always paid upline.