This feature is available only to paid customers and is no longer sold to new customers.
Shopping Guide Distribution includes five sections: Distribution Products, Distribution Orders, Data Analytics, Commission Records, and Distribution Settings.
Turn the distribution feature on and off
The Distribution Orders, Data Analytics, and Commission Records pages display the status of the distribution feature at the top. Click the Enable or Stop link to go to the Distribution Settings page to turn the feature on or off.
After you enable the Shopping Guide Distribution feature, distribution data appears in the shopping guide list under Outlets > Shopping Guide Management.
Initialization
Before using the Shopping Guide Distribution feature, configure the initial settings in Distribution Settings.
Distribution pattern settings
The only distribution pattern setting is Service guide has priority over attached guide.
A "service guide" is a shopping guide who sends a promotion link or QR code to a customer.
This setting applies when the service guide and the attached guide belong to the same outlet as the customer's order. It determines who receives the commission.
Select Priority: The commission is paid to the service guide.
Select No Priority: The commission is paid to the attached guide.
Notes:
If the service guide and the attached guide belong to different outlets, the promotion is not associated with the same outlet. In this scenario, the promotion order is unrelated to the attached guide, and the commission is paid to the service guide.
The relationship between a shopping guide and a customer is stronger than the relationship between a public distributor and a customer.
If a user is already attached to a public distributor and then attaches to a shopping guide, the user is automatically detached from the public distributor.
After a user is attached to a shopping guide, they cannot attach to a public distributor.
Commission settings
Select a settlement epoch.
Monthly settlement (using WeChat's corporate payment to Balance feature)
For monthly settlements, commissions for orders completed in the previous month are paid on the 16th of each month.
For monthly settlements, you can set the system to withhold individual income tax from commissions. This option is selected by default but can be deselected.
View the tax calculation formula.
If you select the tax withholding option in the console, the commission received by the shopping guide is the amount after tax deduction.
Daily settlement (using WeChat's cost allocation to Balance or corporate payment to Balance features)
For daily settlements, commissions are paid automatically after the order's after-sales protection period ends.
Daily settlement supports commission calculation only as a percentage of the previous month's sales.
Daily settlement does not support withholding individual income tax.
Select a commission calculation method.
Calculate commission based on the sales amount of each order. You can add multiple sales tiers.
Example of tiered commission: If sales are between 10,000 and 20,000, the commission rate is 3%. If sales exceed 20,000, the commission rate is 5%.
Calculate commission based on the sales amount of each product.
Set a default product commission. If a product does not have a specific commission configured, the default commission is used for allocation.
This selection cannot be changed after it is made.
Calculate commission based on order sales
Calculate commission based on product sales
Distribution products
When you select the Calculate commission based on the sales amount of each product pattern, you can add, view, edit, and remove distribution products.
Select products that are for sale in your private domain store application and add them as distribution products.
Click a product name to preview the product page in the retail application.
Search for distribution products by product name, product code, or bar code.
Filter distribution products by price or commission amount.
A new filter for commission amount is available. You can enter an amount range. Numbers are automatically formatted to two decimal places.
Set the commission amount for distribution products.
If you select the default commission amount, you cannot edit the commission value. If you select a custom commission amount, you can edit the value.
Remove distribution products from the list. A confirmation dialog box appears when you click Remove.
Sort products by price, sales volume, commission amount, or the time they were added.
Distribution orders
The Distribution Orders page shows all orders generated by customers who enter the store through a shopping guide's promotion. This includes clicking a shared mini program card or scanning a promotion QR code. It also shows orders from customers with an attached guide who enter the store independently.
The order list displays the order ID, order time, shopping guide name, employee ID, phone number, product name, product specifications, amount paid, and order status.
Click an order ID to go to the order details page in the retail console.
Click a shopping guide's name to go to the shopping guide's details page.
Click a product name to go to the product details page in the retail console.
Search by shopping guide name, employee ID, phone number, or order ID.
Search by shopping guide employee ID, phone number, or order ID requires an exact match.
The distributor name supports fuzzy matching.
Filter by outlet, order time, or order status.
Data analytics
Data Overview
Displays the number of promotion orders, promotion amount, refund amount, and commissions paid.
Promotion orders: The number of paid orders from customers attached to or served by shopping guides.
Promotion amount: The total product amount of paid orders from customers attached to or served by shopping guides.
Refund amount: The total refunded product amount from paid orders by customers attached to or served by shopping guides.
Commissions paid: The total settled commissions for all shopping guides.
Trend graph
Filter by time and outlet to view the number of promotion orders, promotion amount, refund amount, commissions paid, and the trend for each metric.
By default, data from the last 7 days is displayed. You can set a custom date range.
View metric trends by day, week, or month.
By default, all outlets are displayed. You can switch to a specific outlet.
Commission records
The Commission Records page shows all commission payment records.
The commission record list displays the transaction ID, shopping guide name, commission paid, and payment time.
By default, records are displayed in descending order of payment time.
Sort records by payment time or commission amount.
Search and filter
Search by transaction ID.
The transaction ID must be an exact match.
Filter by payment time.
Export all or filtered commission records.
Shopping Guide Mini Program
The outlet page now includes content related to shopping guide distribution.
Distribution orders
View the shopping guide's promotion orders (paid) and order records for the current outlet.
By default, the order list is sorted in descending order of payment time.
Distribution center
Promote outlet
Click Promote Outlet to generate a promotion QR code that includes the current outlet parameter. You can save the QR code locally or send it directly to customers.
Promote product
Displays a list of all products in the current outlet. By default, products are sorted in descending order of their listing time. You can sort by sales volume or price.
Click Promote Product to generate a promotion QR code that includes the current outlet parameter. You can save the QR code locally or send it directly to customers.
Distribution orders
View all paid distribution orders. By default, orders are sorted in descending order of payment time.
There are two types of order status labels.
Transaction Completed / Transaction Closed
Other order statuses such as Awaiting Receipt / Awaiting Shipment / Awaiting Acceptance
Distribution rules
View distribution and commission rules. The rules are dynamically displayed based on the settings in the console.
The income records in the personal center show the records of distribution commission payments.
The display format differs for daily and monthly settlements.