Merlin’s Commission Sales module was designed to process complex settlements. In particular, for when Merlin users are acting as agents in between buyers and sellers. Cobalt Commission Sales is an enhancement of Merlin’s Commission Sales module. It can be used to trade any commodity, although it was originally designed for trading livestock.

How is an agency system relevant to retail management systems?

Merlin Software believes in the value of providing specialised services. To achieve this, we partner with our clients to ensure the success of their business, our software, and industry overall.

It will be obvious to anybody who’s spent time in regional Australia. Retailers there do more than stock shelves: they consult, they advise, they negotiate. It is common for a rural business to have a retail merchandise division running alongside a livestock or property sales division. But agency sales are inherently more complicated than a merchandise sale in both their negotiation and accounting aspects.

Commission Sales enables Merlin users to make deals without missing any detail. Its facilities ensure that all relevant commissions, charges, rebates, sub-contractor or freight fees are included in processing the paperwork, leaving the sales agent free to close the deal. All of this information is required for sellers to be paid and buyers to be invoiced.

Commission Sales not only ensures trading compliance, it ensures that the relevant journals are posted to the general ledger in Merlin Accounting appropriately as well as to the creditor’s file; in the same process, the debtor’s file is updated in Merlin POS. So completing a single deal in Commission Sales has the power to update other Merlin modules automatically as required.

Commission Sales is another natively integrated module of the Cobalt RMS, guaranteeing consistency across the business operation.

Merlin Software Pty Ltd remains an independently owned, Australian family business that is committed to providing the best software solutions to small businesses. We have grown from a consulting service to a software development and distribution business, but we have never lost sight of our original vision and mission: