Straight, practical guides on tracking your commissions and getting paid every dollar you're owed.
A short commission check does not announce itself — it looks exactly like a normal one. One bath remodel followed to the last dollar, the four things a $450 gap can actually be, and how to tell which one you are looking at before you raise it.
Read more →A $2,500 payment sat filed under the wrong deal for a year, and nobody noticed because no record existed to notice with. Why home improvement commissions arrive in five or six pieces, why a spreadsheet cannot hold that, and the five things to track instead.
Read more →One roofing deal followed from signature to final check — the eight columns a commission tracking spreadsheet needs, the three places most sheets get the math wrong, and a monthly check that proves yours adds up.
Read more →A commission tracking spreadsheet is genuinely good — until tiered rates, partial payments, and clawbacks break it. Here are the five points where a spreadsheet stops keeping score correctly, and a three-question test for whether it already has.
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