Patent ID: 7949577

Claim:
A computer system for managing commissions, comprising: a storage device containing a database having sales data representing sales made to purchasers by members of a distributed sales team of a business enterprise, commission calculation data for computing sales commissions for the members of the distributed sales team and a periodic extract of sales transactions for the business enterprise stored therein; a user interface for inputting the sales data and commission calculation data into the database and viewing reports derived from the sales data and the commission calculation data stored in the database; and a processor for processing data associated with the members of the distributed sales team; wherein the processor retrieves only a sub-group of the billing, inventory, corporate, and affiliated sales information associated with a selected sub-set of the members of the distributed sales team to calculate commissions for the sub-set of the members of the distributed sales team based on rules set by the commission calculation data and forwards the calculated commissions for the selected sub-set of the members of the distributed sales team to a payroll department within the business enterprise; and provides an interface for enabling the members of the distributed sales team to review commissions prior to payment of the commissions.