Quarterly cliff

Crossing a threshold re-rates the entire quarter, not just the excess.

Worked example

A rep at 101% of a $300,000 quota earns 12% on all $303,000, $36,360. At 99% they earn 8%: $23,760.

The plan definition

This is the plan exactly as the product would create it. Rates are decimal strings rather than numbers throughout, because binary floating point cannot represent most of them exactly and a commission rate is not a place to discover that.

id: cliff-accelerator
version: 1
effective_from: 2026-01-01
period: quarterly
currency: USD
measures:
  quota: payee.quota_quarterly
  booked: 'sum(allocations, allocation.amount)'
  attainment: "measure.quota > 0 ? measure.booked / measure.quota : 0"
components:
  - id: bookings
    label: Bookings
    basis: allocation.amount
    rate:
      type: tiered
      on: measure.attainment
      mode: cliff
      tiers:
        - through: "0.80"
          rate: "0.04"
        - through: "1.00"
          rate: "0.08"
        - through: null
          rate: "0.12"

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