Rebate slabs and rate scales

A slab is a band of business volume with a rate attached to it. Slabs (and the related scale types below) are how an agreement expresses "how much rebate, at what level of purchasing" — and the calculation engine reads them to work out what each partner has earned.

Volume slabs

The most common shape. You define thresholds, and a rate applies once a partner's cumulative volume crosses one. The top slab is open-ended, so it covers everything above the highest threshold. If a partner hasn't reached the first threshold, no slab applies yet.

Stepped bands

Here the rate is a per-unit amount that applies marginally — each band contributes for the volume that falls within it, and the contributions add up, rather than one rate applying to the whole total.

Tiered rates

Instead of reading the volume directly, a tiered scale looks up the tier a partner is enrolled in and applies that tier's rate. A partner with no matching tier earns nothing under this scale until they're enrolled.

Flat formula

A single fixed rate or amount — the simplest scale, for rebates that don't vary by volume.

Growth and target

These reward performance rather than raw volume. A growth scale pays for beating a prior period; a target scale pays on how much of an agreed target a partner achieves.

How a slab is matched

For cumulative scales, the engine totals each partner's qualifying volume over the agreement period and finds the band that total falls into. Because it works on the cumulative total, moving a threshold or rate changes what's owed — and ClaimDS posts that difference automatically (see accrual adjustments). Changing slabs on a live agreement is a financial change, so it goes through agreement amendment approval.

Related

• How the calculation engine works · How rebate accruals work · Create a sales rebate agreement