Milestone Rewards Program

What This Recipe Does

This recipe creates a monthly competitive distributor that rewards the single highest-scoring collaborator with the entire revenue pool. It is built around the concept of hitting milestones and targets. The collaborator who accumulates the most engagement points by the end of the month wins everything.

Unlike a flat sales bonus, this distributor is designed to work across any type of collaborator and any combination of engagement metrics. Whether you are running a program for affiliates, content creators, course instructors, or a mix of all three, you define what “winning” means by choosing which engagement types to track and how to weight them.

Who It’s For

• Program managers who want a flexible, competitive reward structure that works across different collaborator types, not just sales teams
• Course platform operators looking to incentivize the instructor who drives the most student engagement each month
• Content-driven businesses that want to reward the creator who reaches the highest performance milestones within a monthly cycle

How It Works

When you apply this recipe, Siren creates a distributor shell configured for monthly, winner-take-all payouts. The distributor uses the topScoreWins resolver, which awards the entire accumulated pool to the collaborator with the highest engagement score at the end of each cycle.

After applying the recipe, configure three things in your Siren admin. First, set the metric tracking events appropriate to your program. This is where you define what “winning” means. For an affiliate-focused program, track referredSiteVisit. For a content creator program, track boundPostUsed. For a course platform, track courseCompleted and lessonCompleted. You can combine multiple event types with different point values to create a composite score that reflects the behaviors you care about most. Second, set the revenue percentage that defines the pool size. This percentage of qualifying revenue accumulates throughout the month and forms the reward. Third, configure the commission pool filters to determine which transactions contribute.

Each month resets cleanly. Siren tallies all engagement scores, identifies the single highest scorer, and distributes the full pool to that person on the first of the following month. The flexibility of this structure means you can reshape the competition at any time by adjusting which metrics are tracked and how they are weighted.

{
  "version": 1,
  "name": "Milestone Rewards Program",
  "description": "Monthly competitive reward where the collaborator with the highest engagement score wins the entire revenue pool.",
  "distributors": {
    "milestoneRewards": {
      "name": "Milestone Rewards Program",
      "description": "Awards the full monthly revenue pool to the single collaborator who achieves the highest engagement milestone score.",
      "distributionResolver": "topScoreWins",
      "distributionPoolResolver": "revenueSinceLastDistribution",
      "status": "active",
      "units": "USD",
      "schedule": ["first day of next month"]
    }
  }
}