As an existing Commission Plan customer, you have 3 opportunities to improve commission management in Dynamics GP: tapping into features and updates you may not be using, adding EthoTech’s low-cost productivity solutions, and personalizing Commission Plan to fit your business even more precisely.
You’re already getting a lot out of Commission Plan. But here’s the million-dollar question: are you getting everything out of it?
Chances are, there are capabilities you haven’t explored, tools you didn’t know existed, and configurations that could make your system work even harder for your business. Not because you missed anything, but because software and businesses evolve, and what you needed on day one isn’t necessarily the full picture of what’s possible today.
That’s all well and good, but here’s the thing:
So, to get you “in the know,” here are three steps to take when you’re ready to get more out of Commission Plan.
First, Make Sure You’re Using Everything Commission Plan Already Offers
Most people learn a piece of software to the level they need it on day one, and then they stop. That’s understandable: you were solving a specific problem, you solved it, and you moved on.
Task done? Well… not exactly.
Commission Plan gets regular feature and capability updates, and there’s a good chance something has been added since you first implemented it. Something that would genuinely change how you work. (It happens all the time.)
The easiest way to improve commission management in Dynamics GP is to start with what you already have: check the release notes, browse the knowledge base, and keep an eye on the EthoTech newsletter. You may find a capability that makes you wonder how you ever got along without it.
And if you’re still not sure whether you’re getting the most out of your current setup (and you don’t want to read a manual), the EthoTech team is happy to take a look with you.
Second, Explore EthoTech’s Productivity Solutions for Dynamics GP
Since you’re running Microsoft Dynamics GP, chances are you’re dealing with at least one nagging inefficiency that has nothing to do with commissions. Slow data lookups? Tedious manual data entry? Something else?
Like you, we’ve been working with GP for years, and, like you, we love it – while openly acknowledging its flaws. And we wanted to do something about those.
That’s why we built our EthoTech productivity solutions:
- Customer Service Collection gives your team everything they need to serve customers faster and more accurately, right inside GP. You can see a customer’s purchase history during a sales call, check real inventory levels before promising a shipment, and handle returns consistently with policy-driven automated restocking fees. It’s an affordable add-on that very quickly pays for itself through time saved and errors avoided.
- Next Numeric Collection automatically generates the next ID number for every master record type in GP, including customers, vendors, inventory items, employees, and more. It’s a small thing until you consider how much time gets lost to manual entry, typos, and the cascading errors both of those tend to cause, which means this low-cost solution can have a surprisingly big impact on daily productivity.
- SmartSort cuts the number of clicks required to find anything in GP by letting each user filter lookups to the data that’s relevant to them. It’s fast, it’s simple to use, and it’s completely free with no obligation and no strings attached. You don’t even have to have Commission Plan to use SmartSort. If you’re not already using it, there’s no reason not to.
The good news is that you can get any (or all!) of these up and running quickly within an hour, so you don’t have to wait long to see the benefits.
And if you’re wondering whether it’s worth investing in GP add-ons given Microsoft’s 2031 end-of-life timeline, the short answer is yes – EthoTech is fully committed to supporting Commission Plan and our productivity solutions, including adding new features, well beyond that date. We’re here for all of our clients who have decided to remain on GP because it’s the right fit for them, at the right price, with the right features and functionality.
Third, Personalize Commission Plan to Improve Commission Management in Dynamics GP
Sometimes, optimizing existing features or adding productivity tools can only get you partway to full efficiency. When that’s the case, the answer is personalization.
For more than two decades, the EthoTech team has been adding flexibility to Commission Plan in order to handle every unusual compensation structure, every edge case, and every “we do it a little differently here” that customers have thrown at us. Along the way, we’ve also added a lot of capabilities that our team figured would be neat to have.
What we’re saying is that, by this point, we’ve thought of or seen everything… except maybe your one-of-a-kind thing.
Since your business is unique, there’s a chance you have a need we haven’t encountered yet. If that’s the case, we want to know about it.
We will work directly with you to personalize Commission Plan around your business’s specific needs, structures, and workflows – whether you need custom reporting, an unconventional compensation structure, an integration with another system your team relies on, or something else entirely. Our goal is to make sure you have a system that doesn’t just process commissions accurately, but that fits your company so well it feels like it was built for you.
Because, in a meaningful sense, it was.
Now You Know
Knowing about these three opportunities to get even more out of Commission Plan is a great start. But, of course, there’s probably still plenty you don’t know. Specifically, which of these opportunities applies to your setup and how much of a difference it could make. That’s what EthoTech is here for.