Reading the money

Finance5 min read

The finance screens answer three questions: what came in, what went out, and what each lead and each deal actually cost. Every figure is computed from your own records — deals, campaigns, the expense ledger — and a number that has not been recorded yet shows as a dash, never as a zero.

01

The four tiles

The finance page opens on four numbers: net commission from approved deals, total operating expenses, the net position between the two, and commission still owed to agents. That last tile is the one owners forget and agents never do — it is computed from what each deal has actually paid out, so it is always current.

02

Where the money went

Every expense lands in one of seven categories — ads, commission, salaries, expenses, transportation, referrals, other — with an editable ledger underneath: who was paid, for what, and whether it is settled or still pending. The same entries read as a bill list with paid and outstanding totals, filterable and exportable, so month-end is a review rather than a reconstruction.

03

What the ads returned

The ads view shows spend, leads and cost per lead for the last thirty days, then month by month. What you typed into the ledger and what campaigns actually committed are combined into one figure without double-counting — and reservations that were refunded because a campaign never ran are excluded, so the spend shown is spend that happened.

The return line is computed only once ad spend has been logged. Until then it shows a dash and says what to do — it does not print a placeholder percentage. The month report ties it together: spend into leads into deals, and what each step cost.

app.yourcompany.com/finance
Month reportMay
AED 38,400
spend / 3 deals
SpendAED 38,400
Leads312
Deals3
Marina Vista — 2BR videoAED 16,800148 ld2 dl
Creekside One launchAED 14,200121 ld1 dl
JVC townhousesAED 7,40043 ld0 dl
04

Agent cash

Every approved deal that still owes commission is listed with the amount outstanding against the total. Record a payment and the balance updates; when a deal is fully settled it moves to closed on its own. Each deal’s commission also breaks down line by line — referral, cashback, expenses, the agents’ share, what the company keeps — so nobody argues from memory.

A deal only becomes money after two separate approvals: one role verifies the documents, a different role gives final approval. Until both have happened, it appears as pending — visible, but never counted.

05

Exports and the written report

Four one-click reports cover the usual asks — sales and commission by month, lead sources, expenses by category, commission settlement — and any report downloads as a spreadsheet or a print-ready PDF. One button also produces a written company report: a summary, the key figures, and recommended decisions with an owner for each, grounded in your live numbers and saved so you can reopen it.

Common questions

Who can see the money?
Finance is management-only. An agent sees their own leads, their own deals and their own commission — never the company’s books. Roles are enforced on every screen, not just hidden from the menu.
Do the numbers match across screens?
Yes, by construction. Every screen reads the same records, so the month report, the return page and the finance tiles cannot tell two different stories about the same month.
What counts as a deal here?
Only deals that have passed both approvals count toward sales and commission. Pending deals are shown so you know what is coming, but they never inflate the totals — and a double click can never approve the same deal twice.
Reading the money — Entrestate for Business