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  1. External Referrers FAQ

    External referrers are named on the transaction and paid out of the referral commission you entered in Sale Info . Answers to the common questions about adding referrers, their addresses, and who escrow pays. How many external referrers can one ...
  2. Take Your Brokerage's Fee Off the Top

    Some money never belongs to the split — a franchise royalty, a broker credit, a lead fee. Take it out of the gross first and Pipeline calculates every percentage underneath on what's actually left. Introduction An off-the-top amount is one that...
  3. Pay a Transaction Coordinator Through the CDA

    Your coordinator works the file and gets paid at closing, and neither of those should put them in your production reports. Two settings do it: assistant for the access, a deduction for the money. Introduction A transaction coordinator sits in a...
  4. Pay a Third Party Out of an Agent's Commission

    A home warranty, a contractor, a commission advance, a credit back to the buyer — money the agent owes someone else, taken after the split so the brokerage's share never moves. Introduction Plenty of what an agent owes on a closing has nothing ...
  5. Off-the-Top

    Take an amount out of the gross commission before Pipeline calculates anyone's split, so the figure the brokerage and its agents divide is already net of it. Introduction Some costs belong to the deal rather than to a person: a royalty, a B&O t...
  6. Off-the-Top FAQ

    Off-the-top deductions reduce the gross before Pipeline works out anyone's share, which is exactly why they behave differently from every other fee in the module. Answers to the common questions about turning them on, percentage bases, and what they...
  7. Why Are Off-the-Top Deductions Missing or Calculating Wrong?

    Off-the-top deductions go wrong in three recognizable ways: the option isn't there at all, the splits underneath them come out short, or there's nothing left in the gross to take them from. Each has a clean fix. The Off-the-Top Option Isn't There...
  8. Franchise Fee

    The franchise fee is the per-transaction cut your office owes its brand — set it once for a location and Pipeline takes it off the gross commission before the split. Introduction If your office owes a brand a cut of every closing, that cut come...
  9. Franchise Fee FAQ

    The franchise fee is set once per location, comes off the gross commission before the split, and can be renamed to whatever your brand calls it. Answers to the common questions about where to change it, what it's calculated on, and why your math mig...
  10. Deductions

    Deductions come out of the brokerage's share or an agent's share of a commission and get paid to someone else — an in-house teammate or an outside company. Introduction Not every dollar on a closing goes to the brokerage or the agent. The trans...