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With Australia X-Up plan, It usually pays a set dollar amount on a fixed priced product or service rather than a percentage of the purchase price. The first two purchasers you enroll do not earn you anything. The bonus for example is $100, goes up to your sponsor! So, the first two go up. Thus, a “2-Up” pay plan. Now, when you enroll your third person, and every subsequent person after that, you get the $100 bonus.Starting with your third enrollee you start getting the first two bonuses that they generate. That is, when your recruit number three signs up their first two people “A” and “B”, per the same rules that lost you your first two people, they now lose their first two people to you their sponsor. When “3″ enrolls their third person “C” they start getting paid.

The unique characteristic of a matrix plan is its limited width. Unlike other plan types, a matrix limits the number of distributors you can sponsor on your first level, usually to less than five. The most common form of matrix is called the 2×12, meaning two wide and twelve levels deep. Another way of looking at this is that or you can have on your first level, a maximum of two distributors, second level - 4; third - 8; fourth -16; fifth - 32; sixth - 64; seventh - 128. You get the picture. Of course this type of geometric growth usually only occurs on paper and not in the real world. Aside from the 2 x 12, other common matrices are 4 x 7, 5 x 7, and 3 x 9.

The most obvious, and most hyped, benefit to the Matrix plan is the potential for “spill-over.” Meaning, once you sign up the maximum number of distributors you are allowed on your first level, everyone else must spill over into your second level, and possibly even into deeper levels, depending on the number you personally sponsor. As those below you recruit, and spill over distributors below them, the idea is that everyone will stay motivated, downlines will “go deep” faster, and downlines can benefit from their upline’s activity, resulting in motivation and support coming from both directions taking it easy and not working.

Another advantage of spill-over is that a new distributor could very well end up with two sponsors. The one who sponsored them, and the one they fall under in the matrix. However, there seems to be an unwritten rule in Matrix plans that you should really only focus on those in your front line. That way, nobody ever has to defray their attention, support and training between more than however many wide the matrix is. A two-wide Matrix means nobody ever has to support and train more than two people. We’ve seen people in Unilevel plans with over 50 people in their front line, and over 100 in some Breakaways! It’s got to be tough, supporting and motivating that many people — and still have a life.

Matrix plans generally tend to pay down more levels than other types of plans. Since the width is limited, and organizations tend to go deeper in matrix plans, so do the levels bonuses are paid on. It is also much easier to predict how much you will earn on each level, since you will know exactly how many people will fill each one. Generally, matrix plans are simple and easy to explain and understand.

Unilevel plans are, in general, the purest, simplest form of compensation structure. There’s no width limit (a set number of levels) usually ranging from three to nine, and varying bonus percentages on each level. The more volume you, and/or your organization moves within the defined depth, the more you will earn. Occasionally, there may be a “number of active distributor” quota that must also be met to achieve higher stages of bonuses, no one ever breaks away, no one passes anybody up in the hierarchy, and everyone’s volume always counts toward their upline’s monthly volume requirements. And most Unilevel plans incorporate roll-up and compression which enables an active distributor volume to reach deeper, previously uncommissionable, pay levels by temporarily moving that volume up over levels with inactive distributors.

Being such a simple, straightforward form of compensation plan, it is one that can usually be explained, and understood, by most people in a matter of a few minutes. It lends itself well to the duplication process so key to successful recruiting. Unilevel plans seldom overwhelm anyone, and are rarely intimidating to the new, inexperienced distributor.

Some companies trying to attract business builder types have added additional perks in the form of bonuses. You can find car bonuses, quick-start bonuses, monthly profit sharing plans, prize awards, and so forth.
Following are some other things to consider when looking at getting involved with a Unilevel:

• Do you get paid on every commission level or are there volume or active distributor requirements?

  This varies from one program to the next. Many pay on every level simply by meeting you Monthly Product Volume. However, some Unilevels are trying to attract business builder types by putting in some additional requirements to get paid higher or deeper levels of commissions or bonuses.

• What are the volume and/or active distributor requirements to get paid those deeper and/or higher levels of commissions?

  This is very important as it can change a plan that has been more or less designed for a part-time participation to one that requires a more full-time approach