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Plan mechanics, commission math and compliance — written for operators, not for recruits.
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Business Growth & How-To
The hard part of MLM software is not the tree view or the dashboard. It is a commission engine that produces the same answer twice, and four records that are unrecoverable if you do not capture them from the first enrolment.
Business Growth & How-To
This phrase is searched by two people with almost nothing in common: someone deciding which company to join and how to begin, and someone intending to found one. The answers share no steps, so they are kept apart here.
MLM Plans
Most established direct selling companies run a hybrid, whether or not they call it one. The difficulty is not the components — it is that the components interact, and the order they execute in changes what people get paid.
Legality, Trust & Compliance
The question splits in two and the answers are unrelated. For a participant, it is answered by an income disclosure statement and a cost column nobody publishes. For a company, it is answered by payout ratio against gross margin, and then by churn.
Business Growth & How-To
A direct selling business plan has one section a conventional plan does not, and that section decides whether the rest of the document is fiction. It is the payout model, and it has to be built from product margin rather than from an ambition about growth.
MLM Plans
A commission structure is not a list of percentages. It is an ordered calculation with a defined input, a defined sequence, and defined behaviour at the edges. Getting the order wrong produces numbers that are individually correct and collectively wrong.
Concepts & Glossary
South Africa has a substantial direct selling sector and a genuine problem with unlawful schemes marketed alongside it. This is how to tell the difference using public records, and why we publish a method rather than a list.
Concepts & Glossary
We do not publish a ranked list of MLM companies, and this article opens by explaining why rather than burying it. What it gives you instead is the set of primary sources the published lists are built from, and how to read each one.
Concepts & Glossary
The product is the least discussed and most decisive thing about a direct selling company. It sets the margin, the margin sets the plan, and the plan sets the behaviour. This covers the main categories, how to evaluate one, and what the price tells you.
Business Growth & How-To
A script is useful for the same reason a checklist is useful: it stops you forgetting something under pressure. It stops working the moment it becomes something you recite, and the recited version is the one most widely circulated.
Legality, Trust & Compliance
Compliance in this industry is not one rule. It is six separate surfaces, each with a different regulator and a different failure mode, and most of them are decided by what the software records at the moment of a sale rather than by a policy document.
Concepts & Glossary
Most searches for current MLM schemes want a list of companies to avoid. A list would be the least reliable thing we could give you, because it would be out of date and unsourced. What holds up is a method you can run yourself on any specific company, in about an hour.
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