Agreed upon channel commissions for reservations can be paid out to the relevant channel via a channel invoice. To do this, a cost item must be set up.
Cost item for channel commission
By setting up this cost item correctly, you turn your channel invoice into a credit invoice with which you can pay out the owed commission to the channel.
Go to 'Costs' and create a new cost item.
Create cost items
Important settings:
Selectability: mandatory.
Applicability: choose the channel for which this cost item applies.
Price calculation: percentage of standard rent amount (discount incl.). Enter the commission percentage that you have agreed with the channel, with a minus sign in front of it.
By entering the commission percentage as a negative number, you ensure that the commission is paid out, instead of being invoiced.
Invoicing: Check 'Count as rent' if you want to deduct the channel commission from the rent before settlement payment to an owner.
Validity: Always valid.
Cost item in channel settings
Go to the relevant channel, and click 'Edit' to correctly set up the newly created cost item here. Under 'Invoicing of rent and costs', choose 'Configure per cost' to ensure that this cost item is invoiced to the channel.
Commission on channel invoices
You can find the channel invoices in the financial module under 'Invoices' and/or 'Invoices to pay', filter by invoice type 'channel'. You can also view them per channel via the administration settings.
Depending on the other costs in your channel settings, a channel invoice may contain both positive and negative amounts. These are settled against each other in the total at the bottom.