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Create a Team Performance Bonus That Pays the Whole Team, Not Just the Closer

“How do I pay my sales team a monthly bonus pool from a share of revenue, with the reps closest to the team lead earning a bigger share?”

Siren turns a slice of your store's qualifying revenue into a team performance bonus, a monthly pool that the team lead's coupon code splits across their reps, with the largest piece going to the person nearest the lead.

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Team Performance Bonus Snapshot

A quick overview of who this program is for, what it tracks, which partners it rewards, and how Siren helps you manage it.

Best for	Sales managers rewarding a whole team, not one closer
Main goal	Fund a monthly team bonus from a share of store revenue
Partners involved	The reps below the team lead in an ordered chain
Actions tracked	The team lead's coupon code applied at checkout
Rewards supported	Monthly pool shares sized by per-layer point weights
Starting point	Start free with Siren Lite

What This Recipe Does

This recipe pays your sales team a monthly bonus that the team lead earns for them. A share of your store’s qualifying revenue funds a bonus pool, and each use of the team lead’s coupon code credits the reps on their team. Every month, Siren splits that pool among the credited reps, with the people closest to the lead earning the largest piece and the share getting smaller for each position further down.

It turns a team lead’s selling into a reward for the whole team they manage, instead of sending commission out to external affiliates. The lead’s coupon-tracked selling is what brings their reports into the bonus, and each rep’s position on the team decides how much they share.

The bonus is ready to run as soon as you apply the recipe. Replace the example team members with your own people, set how much of the revenue funds the pool and how the shares are weighted, and the monthly bonus starts paying out on schedule.

Who It’s For

Sales managers who want to reward the reps on their team with a monthly bonus pool
Department heads sharing a slice of their team’s revenue back to the people who deliver it
Team leads who want their closest reports to earn the biggest piece of the bonus
Channel and dealer sales leads whose results arrive as a monthly sell-through report rather than a stream of checkout orders

How It Works

You build the team as a simple ordered chain, with the team lead at the top and their reps below them in order. The order matters because it decides who earns the most: the rep directly below the lead earns the biggest share, and each position further down earns less.

Two things happen as your store runs. First, Siren sets aside a share of your qualifying revenue into a bonus pool. The default is 10% of the product revenue on your completed orders since the last payout, with shipping, taxes, and fees left out. Second, when the team lead’s code is applied at checkout, Siren credits the reps below them on the chain, giving the most to the rep nearest the lead and less to each one further down. That crediting is what decides who shares the pool and in what proportion. The two run on different clocks: the pool only grows from orders that complete, while team credit lands as soon as the code is applied.

The lead’s deals do not all have to close at your checkout. If they come in by phone or land on a monthly sell-through report, enter or import them as orders, turn on the manual attribution trigger alongside the coupon trigger, and attribute each one to the lead, by hand in your Siren admin or over the REST API, and the team is credited the same way the lead’s code credits them at checkout.

At the end of each month, Siren pays the pool out to the reps who were credited, with each rep’s slice sized by where they sit in the chain. You choose how many reps deep the bonus reaches, up to five, and how much weight each position carries.

You size the shares with simple point weights rather than fixed dollar amounts, so every payout scales with how much the pool actually earned that month. With the default weights, the three reps closest to the lead split the pool 4 to 2 to 1, so the nearest rep takes home twice what the next one does. Adjust the weights to make the split as flat or as steep as you want, and set any position to zero to stop the bonus there. The configure cascade payouts guide covers tuning the per-position weighting.

The team lead’s code drives the bonus but the lead is not paid from the pool. This program rewards the people they manage. If you also want to pay the lead directly on their own sales, add a separate commission program for them and run it alongside this one. Siren handles both at the same time.

If a rep is inactive, Siren skips them and they earn nothing, but their slot in the chain stays put. The reps below keep the weights of their own positions, and the share the inactive rep would have claimed spreads proportionally across the active reps who were credited. To actually move people up, change their positions in the collaborator group. Refunded or cancelled sales are subtracted from the pool’s revenue before it pays out, so the bonus reflects revenue that actually stuck.

When To Use This

Use this recipe when you want to motivate a whole team, not just one closer. A standard commission rewards the individual who made the sale. A team performance bonus rewards the people around them too, which encourages mentoring, shared accounts, and the kind of teamwork that flat commission plans tend to discourage. It is a strong fit for inside sales teams, account pods, and any group where a senior lead drives revenue the junior members help support.

For a deeper look at the pieces behind this recipe, see what is a cascade for how the lead’s code credits the team, the performance-weighted pool for how the pool is split, and create a revenue share for setting up the bonus itself.

How the Team Performance Bonus Works in Siren

1

Start with a ready-made program

One distributor bound to one linear-chain collaborator group: a performance-weighted pool fed by 10% of qualifying revenue, paid down the chain by a downline cascade. Swap the example roster for your own people and the monthly cycle starts running.
2

Define partners and eligibility

Your team lead and their reps form a linear chain, ordered top to bottom. Position is the whole eligibility rule: the rep directly under the lead sits at layer 1 and earns the most, and each rung further down earns less.
3

Set tracking rules

Team credit runs on the lead's own coupon code: the moment the code lands in a customer's cart, a downline cascade fires through the chain and credits up to five reps below the lead. Orders without the code still grow the pool but credit no one.
4

Customize rewards

Per-layer points size each rep's slice of the pool. The default 100, 50, 25 weighting splits it 4 to 2 to 1, and you can raise the pool's revenue percentage, flatten the weights, or zero a layer to stop the cascade early.
5

Manage approvals and payouts

On the first of each month, Siren splits the accrued pool in proportion to each rep's credited score and posts every share to the collaborator dashboard. Refunded sales come out of the pool before it pays, and you release the money on your own schedule.

Watch the lead's code credit the whole team

The example team from the recipe JSON, scored with the default point weights.

When a shopper enters Jordan's code at checkout, the cascade credits everyone below, with more points the closer a rep sits to the lead. Points decide each rep's slice of the monthly pool. Click anyone to see the cascade run from them.

Each month, 10% of qualifying revenue becomes the bonus pool, and it splits in proportion to the points each rep accrued.

Everything You Need to Build and Manage a Team Performance Bonus

Siren gives you the tools to create the program structure, track the right actions, and reward the right partners, all from one flexible incentive program system.

Create

Prebuilt Team Performance Bonus recipe
Custom program builder
Program-specific rules
Partner eligibility rules
Product and category filters
Multiple program support

Track and Manage

Referral link tracking
Coupon tracking
Product or category tracking
Lead, form, or signup tracking
Partner dashboard
Payout management

Reward

Percentage commissions
Flat-rate rewards
Recurring commissions
Royalties or revenue share
Tiered rewards
Performance bonuses

Why Use Siren for a Team Performance Bonus?

Traditional sales incentive software tools	Siren
Built for one program type	Built for multiple incentive programs
Often limited to one reward model	Supports commissions, bounties, royalties, revenue share, and bonuses
Rewards usually tied to one action	Rewards can be tied to different measurable actions
Harder to manage overlapping programs	Program groups and rules control how programs interact
May require multiple tools as you grow	Supports different partner programs from one system

Dedicated sales incentive software usually means a per-seat compensation suite sold to enterprise comp teams. Siren runs the same pool-and-cascade math on the WordPress site that already takes your orders, and because it's a full incentive program system, the same install can carry your affiliate and referral programs beside it.

Similar Programs, and When to Use Each

Recipes that share machinery with this one, the rule that actually separates them, and the situation where the other recipe is the better pick.

Program	How it differs	Use it instead when
Instructor Team Revenue Share	The Instructor Team Revenue Share fires its downline cascade on courseCompleted events from a lead instructor's LifterLMS or LearnDash courses, where the Team Performance Bonus cascades each time the lead's coupon code is applied at checkout. The Instructor Team Revenue Share also funds a larger default pool, 30% of qualifying revenue against the Team Performance Bonus's 10%.	Pick the Instructor Team Revenue Share when the team being paid is a lead instructor's supporting teachers and course completions, not orders, should drive the split.
Monthly Sales Bonus	Where the Team Performance Bonus divides its monthly pool across every credited rep in the chain, the Monthly Sales Bonus awards the entire pot to whichever competitor finishes the month on top, then everyone starts the next round from zero. Competitors in the Monthly Sales Bonus build their own scores from referred visits or coupon redemptions, with no team chain involved.	Run the Monthly Sales Bonus when you want a head-to-head contest where one top performer claims the whole prize each month.
Sales Override Commission Program	The Sales Override Commission Program settles on every individual sale: the closing rep keeps a 10% commission and a fixed $50 override pool relays up the chain to the managers above them. By contrast, the Team Performance Bonus accrues one revenue-funded pool all month and cascades credit downward from the team lead's coupon activity to the reps below.	When managers expect a predictable per-deal override paid as each rep closes, not a share of a monthly pool, lean on the Sales Override Commission Program.

Connect Your Team Performance Bonus to the Tools You Already Use

Siren works as the incentive layer behind the systems where partner-driven actions happen: your website, checkout, ecommerce store, forms, LMS platform, subscription flow, or custom workflow.

WordPress WooCommerce Easy Digital Downloads North Commerce REST API Custom workflows

Start Your Team Performance Bonus for Free

Use Siren Lite to launch your first team performance bonus without paying upfront. Start with a real program, test your setup, and upgrade when you need more advanced partner management, reward logic, or attribution.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is a team performance bonus?

A team performance bonus is a reward shared by an entire sales team instead of paid to the one person who closed the deal. A slice of revenue funds a pool, and the team splits it on a set schedule, weighted by each member's place in the team. In this recipe, the team lead's coupon activity decides who shares the pool, and the reps nearest the lead take the largest cut.

Who should use a team performance bonus?

Teams where revenue is a group effort: inside sales pods, account teams, and departments where a senior closer depends on the people supporting them. If flat commission keeps paying one closer while everyone else watches, a shared pool rebalances the incentive toward mentoring and teamwork. It fits best when the team has one clear reporting line, since each rep's share follows their distance from the lead.

What funds the bonus pool, and who gets paid from it?

The pool is funded by a share of your store's qualifying revenue, 10% by default, accrued since the last payout. The reps on the team get paid from it. The team lead's selling is what puts that bonus in reach of their reps: each time a customer applies the lead's code, the reps below the lead get credited, which is how Siren decides who shares the pool and in what proportion. The lead is not paid from it.

What counts toward the pool, and how are the lead's sales tracked?

The pool grows by a share of the product revenue on your completed qualifying orders, with shipping, taxes, and fees left out. Team credit works differently: it lands as soon as the lead's code is applied to a cart, before the order completes. Sales without the lead's code still add to the store revenue that funds the pool, but they do not credit the team.

Our sales close off-site and arrive as a monthly report. Can the bonus still run?

Yes. Bring those sales in as orders, enable the manual attribution trigger on the bonus alongside the coupon trigger, then attribute each order to the team lead from your Siren admin or over the REST API. Siren's commission tracking treats an attributed order like a coupon-tracked one, so the revenue grows the pool and the attribution credits the team. See the manual attribution guide, linked below.

How does Siren decide how much each rep gets?

You give each position on the team a point weight, and Siren splits the pool in proportion to those weights. With default weights of 100, 50, and 25, the three reps closest to the lead split the pool 4 to 2 to 1. The points are just a way to size each share, not fixed dollar amounts, so the actual payout scales with how much the pool earned that month.

How many people on the team can earn from the bonus?

Up to five reps below the lead can earn a share. You choose how many levels deep the bonus reaches and how much each level earns. Set a level's weight to zero to stop the bonus there.

Does the team lead earn a share of the pool too?

Not from this program. The lead funds the pool and shares it down to their reps. If you also want to pay the lead directly on their own sales, add a separate commission program for them alongside this one. Siren runs both at the same time.

What happens if a team member is inactive?

An inactive rep is skipped and earns nothing, but their spot in the chain stays occupied, so the reps below them keep their own layer weights instead of moving up. The unclaimed share isn't handed to the next rep down. It spreads proportionally across the active reps who were credited. If you want the team to re-rank, update the positions in the collaborator group.

How and when does the team get paid, and what about refunds?

The pool pays out on the schedule you set, the first of each month by default, and you pay the reps from Siren on your own schedule. Each rep can see their share in the collaborator dashboard. Refunded or cancelled sales are subtracted from the pool's revenue before it pays, so the bonus reflects revenue that actually stuck. See the how to pay collaborators and collaborator dashboard guides, linked below.

Do I need WooCommerce for this to work?

Yes. Siren funds the bonus pool from your WooCommerce sales, so WooCommerce must be installed and active. Easy Digital Downloads and North Commerce are also supported.

Does this require a specific Siren plan?

Yes. The team revenue-share bonus is a Siren Pro feature.

Can I run this alongside my other programs?

Yes. Siren supports multiple programs at once, so a team bonus can run right next to a standard affiliate program or a direct sales commission without interfering.

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