# Where do commissions come from, and what are the four dollar states?

Commissions come from your recorded closings. When a closing event is recorded on a deal, the engine computes the commission from your plan (the deal code, role, calculation basis, and rate) and it appears on the ledger. Nobody types the numbers into a spreadsheet.

Each entry shows one of these statuses: Pending (the entry exists, but no closing event has been recorded yet for that close), Earned (the closing event is recorded; base pay, bonuses, and adjustments start here), Approved (the account owner or a workspace admin approved it), and Paid (the owner or an admin marked it paid). A fifth status, Forfeited, is used only for quarterly square-ups, when the member is inactive or no longer on the team at Mark paid, or is not eligible when the quarter is settled. Commissions are real dollars, not credits, and the ledger is append-only. If a commission did not appear, confirm the closing event was recorded and a deal code matches the role and exit.

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