QCommission Integration with Wisenet

Sales commission programs are possibly the most variable programs conducted by a firm. These programs tend to vary significantly from industry to industry, and many times within companies in an industry. Sales commission programs tend to be different by employees even within a single firm. Because of the highly variable nature of commission calculations, solutions attempting to solve the problem must be highly sophisticated. At the same time, they should not burden the user with additional complexity in their operations. One key area of complexity is allowing data interchange between the customer's existing accounting systems and the commissions system. A commission system that can understand the structure of the accounting system data and seamlessly bring in the appropriate data necessary for calculating commissions can be a huge benefit in reducing the inherent complexity in that process.

QCommission is a powerful, flexible sales commission software tool. It calculates sales people's compensation accurately, quickly and professionally. QCommission is integrated with QuickBooks® but can also be operated stand- alone.

Wisenet is the leading vendor of integrated Cloud learning management solutions serving hundreds of vocational education providers in Australia, New Zealand and Singapore. Wisenet offers a student management system that suits all training applications and registered training organizations. Wisenet is fully compliant with standards in Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore, regardless of state or territory.

Technology
The Wisenet API is a RESTful web service. The web service have set of API calls and it can be used for building applications and integrating with third party applications.

With the Wisenet API below are the some of the operations we can do:

• Obtain data from Wisenet.
• Send new data to Wisenet
• Update existing data in Wisenet 

The Wisenet platform also ensures that the third-party product is properly authenticated prior to getting access to get the Wisenet data. All access to Wisenet is through the REST API requests provided by the Wisenet API.

QCommission utilizes a technology called QXchange to integrate to other applications including Wisenet. Specific data access plug-ins (DAP) for different systems can be added to QXchange to integrate with various data sources. A special DAP for Wisenet allows QCommission to exchange data with Wisenet.

Architecture
QCommission is a fully web-based SaaS application with the ability to be implemented as a public or private cloud application.

Importing Data
Commissions are primarily calculated on Revenue. Revenues are mostly based on invoices entered into the Wisenet system. The various attributes of invoices can be used in the calculation of commissions. In many situations, sales reps are directly associated with invoices. This can be used in properly crediting the invoice to the sales rep prior to calculating commissions. Other data attributes useful in commission calculations include learner, promotion, course enrolment, etc.

A key requirement is the ability to only import enrolment transactions for the particular commission period that is being currently processed. The QCommission system automatically understands the date range being processed and only brings in the transactions necessary for proper calculations. The system brings in data from Wisenet system and push it into QCommission as transactions. The transactions will be used to do the calculations.

Conclusion
QCommission does a tremendous job, understanding the intricacies of the Wisenet as well as the complications inherent in the data integration process.  With this ability it integrates the two systems in such a manner that the complexity to the customer is reduced to a minimal level.