Authorizing Employee Commission
When you authorize a commission you verify that the calculated commission amounts are correct. Authorization creates a commission payable transaction, and may give accounting approval to cut a payment check.
Before the commission can be paid to the employee, it must be authorized by the employee's supervisor. You can authorize only eligible commission. For more information about eligible commission, see Commission Eligibility.
You can also set a preference to require accounting approval for commission payable transactions.
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If you do not enable the preference, commission authorization approves a check to be cut to pay the commission.
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If you do enable the preference, when you authorize the commission, it goes to the accounting approval queue before a check can be cut.
To set this preference, go to Setup > Sales > Sales Management > Commissions (Administrator). On the General subtab, check the Require Accounting Approval of Employee Commissions box, and then click Save.
You can pay commissions to employees either on their paychecks or on a separate payable check.
If you use SuitePeople U.S. Payroll, you can pay commission on paychecks. An administrator can go to Setup > Payroll > Setup Tasks > Set Up Payroll (Administrator) > Preferences subtab. Check the Pay Employee Commissions on Paychecks by Default box.
If you do not pay commissions on paychecks, approved commission transactions generate commission payable bills. An administrator can do this at Transactions > Payables > Pay Bills (Administrator).