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CDA Generation FAQ
One CDA lives on a transaction at a time, it's built from the commission numbers you enter, and only admins with financial permission ever see it. Answers to the common questions about creating, updating, deleting, and sharing a CDA.
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CDA Generation
The Commission Disbursement Authorization tells your closing agent how the commission should be split — and Pipeline builds it from the numbers you enter on the transaction.
Introduction
Somewhere between your office and the closing table, some...
CDA Lock FAQ
Once a CDA exists, Pipeline holds the buyer, sale price, total commission, and earnest money to the figures on it. Answers to the common questions about what locks, why, and how to change it anyway.
Which fields lock when a CDA is generated?
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CDA Lock
Generating a CDA locks the numbers behind it, so the transaction and the disbursement document can never quietly disagree.
Introduction
An agent goes to fix the sale price on a transaction and can't. The field is still there, it just doesn't ta...
Change the Numbers After the CDA Is Generated
The close date moved, the sale price changed, or the name on a payable was wrong. Everything you entered is still there — but there's one way to reopen it that leaves you with a CDA, and one that doesn't.
Introduction
Generating a CDA locks the...
Payables FAQ
Every payable line on a CDA takes its name and its routing from a setting somewhere in your account. Answers to the common questions about payable names, referral lines, and what the numbers include.
Why does my CDA show a person's name where the...
Payables
Payables is the part of the CDA that says who gets paid what — one line per party, written in the names your closing agent should make the checks out to.
Introduction
Most trouble with a disbursement isn't arithmetic. The math comes out right a...
Run a Deal Where Nobody Earns Commission
An agent bought it themselves, or the deal pays nothing — and you still want it counted, and you still need the office's fee. Generate the CDA anyway; that's what makes the deal exist to your reports.
Introduction
A transaction with no commissi...
Tell Title Something the CDA Has No Field For
Wire instructions, a mailing address, an MLS number, a fee to collect from the other side — real closing details with no box to put them in. There's one field for all of it, and it prints.
Introduction
The Commission Module has a field for ever...
Unreviewed CDAs
Every CDA you generate lands in its own section of the Unreviewed page and stays there until an admin marks it Reviewed.
Introduction
A CDA is a document, and in Pipeline every document that lands on a transaction has to be looked at by an admi...
Why Can't I Generate a CDA?
When the option to enter commissions isn't there, or it's there and won't let you through, it's almost always one of five gates. Work down the list in order.
Your Account Isn't on the Commission Module
The Commission Module is a paid add-on. Wi...