How ListingMine Handles Hierarchies with Double or Triple Uplines — No Customization, No Headache
Every agency wants a fair, motivating, and transparent commission structure. But in practice, hierarchies aren’t always simple.
Most ERP systems assume a single upline relationship — one person overriding another. But Malaysia’s real-world agency structures? Far more complex. Let’s break it down.
The Typical 1-Upline Scenario
This is the default in most firms: you’re under one upline, who receives a small override from your deals. Two common ways this is defined:
- By designation. You’re a Junior Negotiator under a Team Leader; the leader gets an override from your transactions.
- By recruiter. Whoever brought you into the agency is your upline, regardless of title.
That’s one link, one calculation, one override—easy for most ERPs.
The 2-Upline Scenario
Here’s where complexity starts. Many firms want to recognize two relationships at once:
- Upline A (Role Leader): gets an override because of their team leader role
- Upline B (Recruiter): gets an override because they introduced you to the firm
Some agencies even replace these roles with Trainer + Recruiter, both earning a share of your deals. From a motivational standpoint, this makes sense — it rewards leadership, mentorship, and recruitment. But technically, it doubles the logic. Most ERPs start to struggle here.
The 3-Upline (or More) Scenario
Now imagine your deal credits three or four uplines, each with their own share:
- Recruiter Upline — the person who brought you in
- Designation Upline — your current team leader
- Trainer Upline — who coached or certified you
- Ex-Leader Override — a past team leader with legacy entitlement
Multiply that across 100 agents and multiple projects—the math escalates quickly. But here’s the truth: the hard part isn’t three uplines. It’s their uplines.
The Real-World Challenge: Multi-Tiered Uplines
If each of your three uplines also has their own upline, your single deal can trigger six or more overrides across multiple tiers. Each layer may need to:
- Split percentages differently
- Follow separate sharing logic
- Respect designation-based or recruiter-based entitlements
- Stop or cascade based on custom depth limits
Suddenly, the admin’s job turns into a monthly math puzzle:
- Calculate your base upline cuts
- Trace each upline’s parent
- Apply secondary splits
- Verify caps, thresholds, and exclusions
- Export to Excel to finish manually
One deal can trigger dozens of calculations, and one mistake can cause weeks of disputes.
Why Most ERPs Can’t Handle This
Legacy ERPs were built for static hierarchies, not dynamic overrides. Once you go beyond one upline, you’re forced to:
- Pay developers RM10,000+ per new logic rule
- Wait weeks or months for deployment
- Handle edge cases manually in Excel
That’s why most admins end up with hybrid workarounds:
- Calculate what they can inside the ERP
- Export partial results
- Recompute in Excel
- Cross-check manually
It’s tedious, risky, and error-prone.
Why ListingMine ERP Is Different
We built ListingMine ERP for Malaysia’s messy-by-design structures. Recruiters, leaders, trainers, legacy uplines—they coexist. Rules evolve faster than IT tickets.
ListingMine’s flexible hierarchy engine supports:
- Multi-upline per agent. Two, three, or more immediate uplines.
- Tiered cascades. Overrides can flow to the 2nd and 3rd tiers of each upline.
- Role-based logic. Define shares by designation, recruiter, trainer, legacy, or custom tags.
- Depth & cap controls. Limit how far a cascade travels, add caps/floors, or minimum entitlements.
- Instant adjustments. Change schemes in the dashboard; apply immediately—no coding.
No downtime or vendor fees. No RM10k per logic update, no 3-month wait. Admins configure; the system computes—no Excel rescue mission.
From Manual Calculation to True Automation
If your current ERP forces your admin team to:
- Export data
- Adjust numbers manually
- Recalculate overrides for every cycle
You’re not running automation — you’re just using a calculator with a login. With ListingMine ERP, complex uplines don’t scare you anymore. They’re part of the system, not a special case.
Stop paying for every “new logic.” Start using an ERP that’s designed for the real structure of Malaysian agencies.
ListingMine ERP — flexible enough for 1 upline, 3 uplines, or 30.
