A unilevel plan lets you sponsor as many people as you want on your first level — no legs, no balancing. Everyone you personally bring in earns you a direct commission. Everyone they bring in sits one level below, and pays you a smaller cut. The rate decreases with each level down, and payouts usually stop at a defined depth. Unlike binary, there's no spillover — your levels are built entirely from your own customers and affiliates, and the people they personally bring in. Nobody from above you ever lands in your unilevel org.
Levels here count distance from whoever sold to the customer, starting at 0. Level 0 is that seller's own retail cut — never a self-purchase, always a sale to someone else. Level 1 is whoever sponsors the seller directly. Level 2 is that person's sponsor. And so on, one relationship at a time.
This exact schedule is just one common example — real plans vary widely in both depth and rate. That's why the model below is fully adjustable rather than fixed.
Important: a single sale can pay out to more than one person — but each of them is a different person at a different distance from the sale, each collecting a different row. Note this is a distance from the sale, not a fixed label for any one person — the same person is "Level 0" on their own sale and some other number on anyone else's. Example: someone 2 levels below you makes a $100 sale. They keep Level 0's rate on it (10%, their own cut). Whoever sponsors them directly (1 level below you) collects Level 1's rate (5%). You, two relationships away, collect Level 2's rate (4%). Three different people, three different numbers — nobody collects the same row twice.
One more connection worth making: a real commission run doesn't trace one sale at a time the way the calculator below does — it totals an entire period at once. Because unilevel has no width limit, many different people can sit at the same level, each generating their own sales through this exact mechanic. A real payout is just this same chain, repeated for every sale that happened that period, and added up by level: your Level 1 rate applied to everything your whole first level sold combined, your Level 2 rate to everything your whole second level sold combined, and so on down the schedule. The one-sale view below isn't a simplified stand-in for a different formula — it's the same formula, just for a single transaction at a time, so you can see exactly who's eligible to collect and why.
Illustrative only, not a real org — but the shape is the point. Level 1 has 5 people here; Level 2 has 12, split unevenly across them. Neither number is fixed — a real level could hold 3 people or 3,000. Compare that to Binary, where every position caps at exactly two.
This only works because everyone in the chain is your own downline — people you, or someone you sponsored, personally brought in. Unlike a binary plan, unilevel has no spillover: nobody from above you or outside your own recruiting ever gets placed into your unilevel org.
Set the rate schedule, then pick how many relationships below you made the sale. Every person between the seller and you collects one row each — their own distance from the sale, never anyone else's.
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"Made this sale" means sold it to someone else — a real customer. It's never a self-purchase; nobody earns Level 0's rate (or any rate) for buying product for themselves. The customer who bought it doesn't earn anything on it either — this schedule pays whichever affiliates are in the sponsorship chain above the sale, not the buyer. More on that on Rank & Activity.
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Illustrative calculator only. No specific company, product, or income outcome is implied — real plans may cap payouts by rank, active-volume requirements, or compressed levels.
Binary and Unilevel are two of several shapes real comp plans take — see other common structures.