Unpaid Sales Commissions

Challenge

  • Identifying and quantifying revenue leakage
  • Working out how to approach revenue leakage with the client.  If we asked for the revenue all at once we might be rejected whereas if we establish a test case we have a stronger position.
  • Obtaining the leaked revenue

Solution

  • Quantify the volume of revenue leakage.
  • Work out customer engagement strategy
  • Piecemeal revelation
  • Identifying a subset of sales made that would be used to test if the client agreed these should have been paid.
  • Revealing the larger batch of sales for which commissions were in error.

Outcome

  • Hundreds of thousands of dollars in unpaid commissions were identified.
  • The unpaid commissions were recovered in full.
  • This happened to be an issue across multiple oeprators but had previously been unidentified by multiple CFOs and revenue assurance teams.