Commissions

A Commission setup records which of a player's earnings carry an agency commission, and at what rate. There are two kinds. A playing setup pairs a playing contract with a representation agreement. A Commercial commission setup pairs a Brand agreement with a Management & commercial agreement.

Each decision names one earning row. Relai suggests rates from the agreement, and a person confirms them. A scenario can then forecast commission over a period under assumptions you state.

Open the player, choose Commercial, then Commissions. The tab lists one compact row for each setup, and for each source that has no setup yet. Rows sit in two bands:

Playing

One row for each playing contract, paired with a representation agreement.

Commercial

One row for each Brand agreement, paired with a Management & commercial agreement. This band shows only while the Management & commercial agreements module is on.

A row shows the source and its dates, the paired agreement (or No agreement chosen), the status, how many rows are included and excluded, and the leading rate, for example “20%, 1 row at 10%”. Rows that need a decision sort first, and the band header shows N need review.

When a player has exactly one setup and it is confirmed, its earnings table opens in place under the row. Its scenarios stay in the setup panel.

Not set up

The source has earnings, but no rates are confirmed against them yet. The row needs a decision.

Confirmed

Every earning row is decided: included at a rate, or excluded.

Stale

The earnings changed after the rates were confirmed. Review the rates against the new earnings and confirm again.

Flags N

The rates are confirmed, and N points are flagged beside some earning rows for you to check. Flags never block a confirm.

Not set up and Stale count as needing review. A confirmed setup with flags is not counted, because its rates are recorded; open it when you want to check the flagged points.

Choose Open on a row. The setup opens in a panel over the tab. The panel has its own link, so you can share it with a teammate or bookmark it. Back closes the panel and returns you to the index.

The panel holds everything about one setup: Earnings and rates with the citations behind each amount, the flags, Edit setup and the confirm flow, and the setup's Scenarios. Use View contracts or View agreements to go to the records that the setup rests on.

A setup lists every earning recorded on its source. For each row, choose Include and set the agency rate, or exclude it. A rule for a whole category is not enough, because two bonuses in the same category can carry different rates.

Playing: rates are suggested from the representation agreement's fee wording, or from your agency defaults when the wording says nothing. Each suggestion shows the passage it came from. Wording that cannot be read as a plain rate, such as banded rates, becomes a flag beside the row instead of a guessed percentage. After you confirm, Relai offers to save the rates as your agency defaults for future setups.

Commercial: rates are suggested from the Management & commercial agreement's rate for each row's category: its different rate when it has one, else its standard rate. In-kind rows are excluded by default. The panel shows the Commission window, the dates within which Brand earnings carry commission, which Relai computes from both agreements.

Confirm setup stays unavailable until every row is decided and every included row has a rate. Confirming writes a new version and records an event on the player's timeline. To change a confirmed setup, choose Edit setup, then Save changes. The earlier version is kept.

A setup remembers the exact version of the earnings it was confirmed against. When the earnings change, for example after a contract amendment, the setup becomes Stale. The panel says that the earnings changed after you confirmed the setup. Choose Review, check the rates against the new earnings and confirm again.

Relai recalculates nothing behind your back. If someone tries to confirm against an older version of the earnings, the confirm is refused and asks them to review the latest earnings. When Brand earnings change, the player also gets the alert Commercial setup needs review.

A Commission scenario forecasts the agency's commission from one confirmed setup over a period you choose. In the setup panel, choose Add scenario, name it, choose the period and state the assumptions. Each line shows its working and a status, such as counted, needs an assumption, not triggered or outside the period.

Playing scenarios ask for an event count for each per-event earning, such as goals or appearances, and whether each conditional bonus is triggered.

Commercial scenarios use the Brand earnings kinds:

Fixed fee

No assumption. A one-off fee counts when its date falls inside the period and the Commission window. A recurring fee counts once for each payment inside both.

Per-deliverable

State a count for each agreement year. The count is capped at the row's cap. Blank means the line needs an assumption.

Royalty

State the assumed income in the row's currency. Blank means the line needs an assumption.

Conditional bonus

Choose whether it is triggered. It is not triggered by default.

In kind

No assumption. Counted at its estimated value, but only if you included it.

A commercial scenario can also take a Hypothetical termination date. It moves the Commission window as if the Management & commercial agreement ended on that date, and it changes no agreement. Payments after the new window end show as outside the commission window. If the agreement has Post-termination commission, the window still runs that many months past the hypothetical date, but only for a Brand agreement secured during the term.

The workspace Commissions page lists every setup across the roster. Use To decide, Confirmed and All to focus the list. Rows that need a decision lead. The page shows rates, counts and status, and no amounts.

While the Management & commercial agreements module is on, a Playing / Commercial filter switches between playing contracts and Brand agreements. A commercial row shows the player, the Brand, the paired agreement and the status. Choose any row to open the player's Commissions tab with that setup's panel open.

A setup creates no payments, instalments, due dates, invoices or receipts. It marks nothing as earned or received, and it does not change a rate, an earning or an agreement. A Deal's completion review does not create commission either; commission is set up on the player.

See also Agreements → and Deals & Scenarios →