Recording Sales Commission Received

Hello there, @wp318.

I’d be delighted to help ensure you’re able to properly record your Sales Commission in QuickBooks Desktop. Let’s get started!

To keep track of the money in in your account as well as for transparency purposes, here’s the work flow to record your Sales Commission.

1. Make a deposit or create a Sales Receipt to record Sales Commission as Income 
   1. Go to Banking.
   2. Choose Make Deposits.
   3. Select Trust Account as the Deposit To bank account.
   4. Enter the details  of the deposit.
   5. Click Save.
2. Write a check to record the transferred premium to the Insurance company.
   1. Click Banking.
   2. Select Write check.
   3. Under Bank Account, choose Trust Account.
   4. For the Pay to the Order of, select the name of the Insurance Company.
   5. Enter the rest of the check details.
3. Make another deposit to show the Transfer of funds from the Insurance Company to your Personal bank account to show your Income.

 Just a heads-up,  ensure to set up a Commission Income account in your chart of accounts and use this account in all of the transactions above.  

That should do it! This should allow you to keep tracked of your Sales Commission as Income.  

Hi,

I am recording the commission income via Sales Receipts and they pay the commission to brokers via checks. Now, it happened that one broker was overpaid and needs to return the commission he was paid. I know that when the refund of the commission was already received I would just make a deposit to the appropriate COGS account, but how to record a commission that is due to be received but has not yet been received. How to account for this commission in QuickBooks?

Thank you for joining this thread, @Agnes_l.

Let me share some steps on how you can record your incoming commission or receivables in QuickBooks Desktop.

Since you're still about to receive the commission, you can create an invoice for it. Once you received the commission, you can mark the invoice as paid.

1. Click the Customers menu.
2. Go to Create Invoice.
3. Enter the complete invoice detail.
4. Click Save and Close.

For a complete workflow in tracking Account Receivables, you may check out this article: Accounts Receivable workflows in QuickBooks Desktop.

Stay in touch with us here in the Community if you have other question about tracking your commission in QuickBooks Desktop. I'm always here to help.

Hi, thank you for your reply but my understanding is that if I create the invoice it will create an extra sales which is not true. I know that if the refund is already in the bank account I just deposit it to the COGS account to reduce the commission paid out but I just have no idea how to handle it when this money is still due to be received. 

Hi,

Currently I am using cash basis system to pay comm on sales. When I receive payment from customer I write ff Invoice at same time but problem is that chq received are post dated chq depends upon credit period.

So under cash basis system I am paying comm when chq is received. But now my management thinking to pay comm when chq goes to bank account I mean when actual fund is received.

Can u pls guide me, How it can be possible in Quick books??

bcs when I enter receipt voucher in system Invoice got paid, I can't hold payment voucher till chq date also bcs customer wants SOA every month , If that Invoice wl be showing there it wl create confusion.

Pls suggest 

Hello Bhags!

It seems like this is more of an accounting question than a How-do-I question for QuickBooks. I imagine myself as your customer. Then, when I receive my SOA, I would probably ask why the invoice I paid is still showing as unpaid.

I don't mean to disrespect your management's decision. However, I would suggest consulting an accountant to know what date to use on your invoice payments (via postdated checks) or what's the proper way to record it. That way, we can be sure that your books are correct. At the same time, we can avoid confusions on your client's side.

If your accountant gives you an instruction that you find it challenging to enter in QuickBooks, feel free to visit us back here. We will help you with it.

I have a similar question. I work for an Insurance Agency, and we collect gross premiums, and then remit a portion of the premium to the insurance carrier and keep our commission. We have setup multiple products/services for invoicing purposes. Here in lies my questions. 

I bill a customer for $5,000, which includes $500 Commission, and $4,500 to send to insurance carrier. Currently, I send an invoice for 5,000 to the customer, and categorize $500 to my product or service, and 4,500 to my trust liability, and track it by customer. These items are deposited into my trust bank account. Once paid, I then pay the $4,500 out of the trust account to the insurance carrier. But now I have $500 still in the trust account that needs to be transferred to my operating bank account. Currently, I manually move the $500 from trust account to the operating account, and keep a manual excel tracking spreadsheet to track which invoices I have transferred commission for and which ones I haven't yet. Is there a way to track this in Quickbooks and more automate the process and eliminate my excel spreadsheet tracker. 

Hey there, Insurance guy.

I know how important it is to track invoices for transferred commission and the ones that aren't transferred yet in QuickBooks Desktop. However, this option is unavailable.

You might want to submit your feedback to make the program better by going to the Send Feedback Online on your QuickBooks Desktop.
 

In the meantime, I'd suggest visiting the What's New section on your QuickBooks Desktop, to stay informed with our latest news and updates including product improvements.
 

Additionally, you can visit the following write-up: Sales and customers. This will provide you links on how to manage your company income as well as resources about other customer-related concerns.

I'm only a post away if I can be of additional assistance or need more help with QuickBooks. I'm always here to keep helping. Wishing you a wonderful rest of the week.