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Are you running a brick and mortar business? Register your business with World Customer Hub.
Sell quality products or provide excellent service if you are in the service industry.
Give the agreed commission at the agreed time.
Once you register your business with World Customer Hub, you will get a business membership number.
When a customer purchases products from you and presents his/her membership number, give them a simple receipt that will show:
a) Receipt number
b) Date of receipt
c) Total value of the purchases
d) Customer membership number
e) Your business membership number
The formula for calculating how much commission to give to your customers is not cast in stone. Here is one method:
Write down the product that gives you an average profit (medium amount of profit). Write down the selling price of the item and how much profit it brings.
Look at this profit and ask yourself; ‘How much commission would I be happy to give to someone who buys this product?’
Assuming your answer is amounts to 5% of the gross profit. Then do the following: CALCULATE this amount as a percentage of the selling price of the item.
Use the answer you get to calculate all future commissions on the whole gamut of the products you sell.
For example: You operate a grocery store and one item that brings in an average profit sells for US $10 and has a gross profit of $1.
You want to start by giving a commission of 5% of your gross profit. In this example, 5% of $1 dollar is 0.01 dollars. Now put 0.01 dollars as a percentage of the selling price of the item.
The answer is 0.1%
You will give a commission of 0.1% of the shelf price of the items you sell.
If the customer buys goods worth $30, his commission is 30 x 0.1% = 0.03 US dollars.
Please note that, unlike grocery shops, some businesses have a much higher profit margin, which will raise the customer’s commission.
Note also that, shopping is a daily and continues activity. The customer’s accumulated commission will increase quickly over time and as the customer buys items from various brick and mortar businesses. Businesses will give differing rates of commission. Some items have much higher profit margin than others.
Brick and mortar businesses that provide services to clients will use the same or similar formula to calculate the commission they will give to clients.