Monthly Sales Bonus

What This Recipe Does

This recipe creates a competitive monthly bonus distributor where a single winner takes the entire pool. At the end of each month, the collaborator with the highest engagement score receives 100% of the accumulated revenue pool. Everyone else receives nothing from this distributor for that cycle.

This is a winner-take-all structure designed to drive competition. It works well as a supplemental incentive layered on top of standard commission programs, giving your top performer an extra reward for outpacing the field.

Who It’s For

• Affiliate program managers who want to add a competitive bonus layer that rewards their single best-performing affiliate each month
• Sales team leaders looking for a monthly contest structure that motivates representatives to push harder for the top spot
• Store owners who want to create urgency and friendly competition among their partners without replacing existing commission structures

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 pool to the collaborator with the highest engagement score at the end of the cycle.

After applying the recipe, configure three things in your Siren admin. First, set the metric tracking events. For affiliate-driven programs, use referredSiteVisit to score collaborators based on the traffic they generate. For sales teams that rely on discount codes, use boundCouponUsed to score based on coupon redemptions. You can configure both if your program includes a mix of affiliates and sales reps. Second, set the revenue percentage that defines the pool size. This percentage of qualifying revenue accumulates throughout the month and becomes the prize. Third, configure the commission pool filters to determine which transactions contribute to the pool.

The monthly cycle resets on the first of each month. Siren tallies scores, identifies the single highest scorer, and pays out the full pool to that person. Scores reset, and the competition begins again. This creates a recurring incentive that keeps collaborators engaged month after month.

{
  "version": 1,
  "name": "Monthly Sales Bonus",
  "description": "Competitive monthly bonus where the top-performing collaborator wins the entire revenue pool.",
  "distributors": {
    "monthlySalesBonus": {
      "name": "Monthly Sales Bonus",
      "description": "Awards the full monthly revenue pool to the single highest-scoring collaborator.",
      "distributionResolver": "topScoreWins",
      "distributionPoolResolver": "revenueSinceLastDistribution",
      "status": "active",
      "units": "USD",
      "schedule": ["first day of next month"]
    }
  }
}