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Overview

Supplier commission is money a supplier owes your organisation for a Journey service. It is separate from TA Commission, which is the commission your organisation pays a travel agent on the Journey sale. Use supplier commission tracking when:
  • you pay the supplier and keep commission from their price; or
  • the traveller pays the supplier directly and the supplier pays commission back to you.
Supplier commission terms, amounts, travel-agent splits, and collection status are internal. Travellers do not see them on the public Journey.

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Before you start

  • Supplier commission tracking must be enabled for your organisation. If the pricing options below are missing, ask your administrator or Odia support to confirm access.
  • Add the supplier to the Journey service before creating a supplier commission invoice.
  • Link a travel agent to the Journey if you need to share the supplier commission with them.
  • Recording or reversing a received commission requires Owner or Admin financial permission.

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Add supplier commission to a service

1

Open the service price

Open the Journey, select Financials, find the service, and open its price editor.
2

Choose who pays the supplier

Select one of these pricing arrangements:
  • Supplier commission: your organisation pays the supplier.
  • Client-direct: the traveller pays the supplier directly and you track only the commission owed to you.
For Client-direct services, the selling price is an internal reference. It is not added to Journey revenue or the traveller’s Journey total.
3

Choose the settlement

For Supplier commission, choose:
  • Netted: subtract the commission from what you pay the supplier. It is already In margin.
  • Collected: pay the supplier in full, then collect the commission separately. It starts as To collect.
Client-direct commission is always collected separately because the traveller paid the supplier.
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Choose the pricing source when needed

For a DMC-paid Netted or Collected service with complete Marked-up Cost and Selling price, you can select Use pricing from Marked-up.
  • With Netted, the Marked-up Cost must be the amount you actually pay the supplier after commission. Odia keeps that Cost and Selling price unchanged and does not calculate Cost again.
  • With Collected, the Marked-up Cost must be the full amount you pay the supplier before collecting commission.
If you leave the checkbox unchecked, Netted continues to calculate Cost as Selling minus supplier commission, while Collected continues to use the full Selling amount as Cost.
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Enter the commission amount

Enter either:
  • a percentage of the service amount; or
  • a fixed amount by choosing its currency instead of %.
If the amount is not known yet, leave it blank and return to the service later.
6

Exclude non-commissionable charges if needed

For a percentage commission, select Exclude non-commissionable charges and add each charge as a percentage or fixed amount. Odia subtracts those charges before calculating supplier commission.
7

Add a travel-agent split if needed

Select Split with travel agent and enter the agent’s portion. See Split supplier commission with a travel agent before entering a percentage split.
8

Save the terms

Review the calculation and select Save Pricing.

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How the commission amount is calculated

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Percentage commission

Odia applies the supplier’s percentage to the commissionable amount:
  1. Start with the service amount.
  2. Subtract each non-commissionable charge.
  3. Apply the supplier commission percentage to the remaining amount.
For example, a service amount of €1,000 with a 10% non-commissionable charge has a commissionable amount of €900. A 20% supplier commission is therefore €180.
A percentage non-commissionable charge is subtracted directly. In the example above, 10% removes €100 from €1,000.

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Fixed commission

Choose a currency in the amount-unit menu and enter the exact amount the supplier owes. Non-commissionable charges do not apply to a fixed commission.
Percentage supplier commission continues to use Odia’s service amount. If a supplier contract uses a different hotel amount that is not stored in Odia, enter the supplier commission as a fixed amount instead.

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Netted pricing from Marked-up

For example, if Marked-up Cost is €900, Marked-up Selling is €1,080, and the tracked supplier commission is €100, selecting Use pricing from Marked-up with Netted keeps Cost at €900 and Selling at €1,080. Your margin is €180. Odia does not add the €100 supplier commission again because it is already included in the margin.

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Split supplier commission with a travel agent

The agent split is a share of the supplier commission. It is separate from the Journey’s normal TA Commission.

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Percentage commission: enter rate points

For percentage supplier commission, the split fields show % agent and % you. These values divide the supplier’s commission rate itself; they are not percentages of the final commission money.
For a 50/50 split of a 20% supplier commission, enter 10 for the agent, not 50. The agent value cannot be greater than the supplier’s 20% rate.
Changing % agent automatically updates % you, and changing % you updates the agent value. Together they always equal the supplier commission rate.
If the commissionable amount changes, Odia recalculates the agent and organisation amounts from these saved rate points.

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Fixed commission: enter money

For a fixed supplier commission, enter the amount the agent receives. Odia shows the amount your organisation keeps. The agent amount cannot be greater than the fixed supplier commission.

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Existing travel-agent splits

Older supplier commission entries may store only the agent’s money amount because splits previously used a percentage of the commission money. When you reopen one of these services:
  • If Odia can convert the stored amount into rate points exactly, it shows the equivalent % agent and % you values. Saving keeps the same money amount.
  • If an exact conversion is not possible, Odia preserves the old amount and shows Replace legacy split. You must select it and enter the intended current split before Save Pricing can continue.
Odia does not apply an approximate conversion or silently change an existing split. A value is converted only when the new rate points reproduce the stored amount exactly.

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Review supplier commission in Financials

Open the Journey’s Financials tab and select the Supplier commission card. Each tracked service shows its terms, supplier commission, agent split, status, and available actions. For a Collected arrangement, the ledger’s Type column may show Paid back.

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Use the service Actions menu

The available actions change with the commission and invoice status:
Once a supplier commission is on an invoice, manage its payment from that invoice. The service row does not maintain a separate paid state.
Use Mark as Paid only after receiving the complete commission. For a partial payment, create a supplier commission invoice and record the payment on that invoice.

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Create a supplier commission invoice

Supplier commission invoices bill the supplier for money they owe your organisation. They are different from supplier bills or purchase invoices, where your organisation owes money to the supplier.
1

Start from the commission row

In Journey Financials, open the service’s Actions menu and select Create Invoice.
2

Choose eligible commission rows

Add other eligible services only when they have the same supplier, currency, and settlement type.
3

Review the supplier invoice

Check the supplier organisation, commission line amounts, issue date, due date, and payment terms.
4

Send or record payment

Send the invoice when you are ready. When a collectible invoice is fully paid, its covered commission rows update to Received or Paid automatically.
  • A Collected or Client-direct invoice is collectible.
  • A Netted invoice is documentation only and cannot be marked paid.
  • A partially paid invoice remains To collect · invoiced until the complete invoice is paid. Partial payments are not divided between individual commission rows.
  • Due dates and overdue status belong to the invoice. An uninvoiced To collect commission does not have its own due date.
See Invoices for the shared invoice and payment workflow.

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Common questions

Supplier commission tracking may not be enabled for your organisation. Ask your administrator or Odia support to confirm access.
Confirm that a travel agent is linked to the Journey and enter a supplier commission amount greater than zero. The split control appears only when both are present.
Look for the Replace legacy split notice. Odia could not convert the existing money amount into exact rate points. Select Replace legacy split, enter the intended split, and save again.
Yes. If the commission is not on an invoice, use Mark as unpaid. If an invoice controls the commission, correct or remove the payment from the invoice instead.
Supplier commission receipt is reconciled when the whole invoice is paid. Odia does not allocate a partial invoice payment across individual service rows.
  • Invoices - Create, send, and reconcile supplier commission invoices
  • Travel Agents - Configure TA Commission and understand the separate supplier commission split
  • Suppliers - Manage the supplier organisations linked to Journey services