GADEN PAYOUTS · POWERED BY AEL
Your desk already knows how to get paid. This is the other side — commissions, partner splits, bills, adjustments — each with a trigger, a date and an owner, so the number you think is yours actually is.
FOUR QUESTIONS, IN THIS ORDER
That is the law of this screen. A desk that counts its commissions before the fee lands feels poor when it is fine, and pays out when it has nothing to pay with.
Live debt only — payouts whose trigger has actually fired, each with a date. Nothing speculative gets to sit in this number.
Contingent payouts exist and are visible, but they are counted apart and never added to today. The fee has not come in, so the commission is not yet a debt.
The board catches what slips through a spreadsheet: duplicate payouts, clawbacks owed back after a fall-off, and payees missing their paperwork.
Fees collected set against payouts paid. The one number that belongs to the owner, and the one no invoice dashboard will ever show you.
Commission, split, bill, adjustment, other — one-off, monthly, quarterly or annual. If it leaves the desk, it lives here with a trigger attached.
1099 status and W-9 on file tracked per payee, so the compliance problem surfaces before the payment goes out, not in January.
IN PLAIN LANGUAGE
THE LAW
A commission on an unpaid fee is contingent, not debt. Mixing the two is how a desk pays out on revenue that never arrives and then discovers the hole a month later.
THE BOARD
Duplicate payouts, clawbacks nobody reversed after a fall-off, a payee about to be paid without a W-9 on file. Every one of them is invisible until it is expensive.
QUESTIONS PEOPLE ACTUALLY ASK
Every payout carries a trigger, a date and an owner. Once the trigger fires it becomes live debt with a due date; until then it is contingent and counted separately. That separation is the point — it stops a desk from treating commissions on uncollected fees as money it owes today.
A contingent payout exists but its condition has not been met — usually the fee has not been collected yet. It is real, it is visible, and it is never added to what you owe today. A desk that adds them together believes it is poorer than it is, and then pays out when the cash is not there.
Yes. Payout kinds cover commission, split, bill, adjustment and other, on one-off, monthly, quarterly or annual schedules. Anything that leaves the desk is tracked the same way, with the same trigger discipline.
Yes. The board surfaces duplicate payouts, clawbacks owed back after a fall-off, and payees missing paperwork such as a W-9. These are the errors that survive in a spreadsheet indefinitely because nothing is looking for them.
Fees collected set against payouts paid. That is the owner’s number, and it is different from collections — collections is gross. What the house keeps is what remains after every commission, split and bill has gone out.
PART OF THE LOOP
Payouts are what happens after the loop closes and the money has landed. It is one module of an Autonomous Employee Loop — the system that runs sourcing, screening, presenting, interviewing, placing, onboarding and payment as one continuous loop. An ATS tracks the process. An AEL runs it.