Connect QuickBooks Online and approved commission posts itself as vendor bills, against the right vendor and the right expense account, in the right period.
Open Airstride's App Centre, select QuickBooks and authorise. The connect screen lists every scope before you grant it, and the write access it asks for is deliberately narrow: creating bills, and creating a party record for a partner who does not have one yet.
A run collects every deal that reached a won stage in the period and prices each one against the tier its partner held at the time. You get a list with the working shown: partner, tier, rate, amount.
Then it stops. Nothing is transferred and nothing is posted until someone with approval rights releases the run, and the approval is recorded against it. That gate is the difference between automation you can defend in an audit and automation you cannot.
Each partner is matched to a record you already have before anything new is created, so you do not end up with a second entry for a partner you have paid for two years. Commission is coded by type rather than dropped into one catch-all account, which is what keeps programme-level reporting usable.
Bills are dated to the period close on the run, not the day they were created, so a run approved after month end still lands in the month it belongs to. When finance pays a bill, QuickBooks reports it back and the partner sees paid in your portal without asking anyone.
Paying partners is where programs lose trust, so the guard rails matter more than the automation.
Beyond the QuickBooks connection, Airstride handles your full setup within 24 hours of signup: partner data migrated with tiers and history, collateral connected, the portal white-labelled to your brand, SSO configured, the Partner Activation Agent trained, and your partners invited.
No. Bills are the only thing it creates. Paying them stays in QuickBooks, with your existing approval and payment process untouched.
Airstride looks for an existing vendor first and creates one only when there is no match, so you do not end up with a second vendor for a partner you already pay.
By commission type, mapped to your chart of accounts when you connect. Referral fees and tier commission can land in different expense accounts, which is what stops the classification being unpicked at year end.
The period close date on the commission run, not the date the bill was created. A run approved after month end still posts to the month it belongs to.
Yes. Airstride reads bill payment status back, so the partner sees paid in their portal without anyone in finance being asked.
The tier each partner holds. Rates are attached to the rungs of your tier ladder, and a run prices against the tier the partner held when the deal closed. See invite partners and set what they see for how the ladder is built.
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