Unilevel Plan

How it works

Every distributor can sponsor an unlimited number of people directly (unlimited "width"). Commission is then paid on sales generated by each level below a distributor, down to a fixed depth — commonly 5 to 10 levels, depending on your plan design.

1. A distributor joins and can sponsor as many people as they want directly onto their own frontline — Level 1. There's no cap on width.
2. Each Level 1 recruit can do the same. Their own frontline becomes Level 2 relative to the original distributor.
3. This continues downward, level by level, entirely independent of anyone else's placement — nobody's recruits get placed under someone else without their own choice to sponsor them.
4. When someone in the downline makes a qualifying purchase, commission is calculated and paid automatically up through however many levels the plan pays.

No spillover

Unlike Binary or Force Matrix plans, Unilevel has no spillover. Every person you personally recruit joins your own frontline — nobody else's overflow lands in your team, and none of yours lands in anyone else's. What you build is entirely a function of your own recruiting and how active your downline is, for better and worse: no help from an upline's excess recruits, but also no risk of your position being diluted by placements you didn't make.

A worked example

Say a distributor personally sponsors 4 people at Level 1, each of whom purchases RM1,000 in product. At a 10% Level 1 rate, that's RM400 in commission. If each of those 4 people goes on to sponsor 4 more — 16 people at Level 2 — and the Level 2 rate is 5%, that adds another RM800 (16 × RM1,000 × 5%). Level 3 might have 64 people at a lower rate again, and so on. Levels typically hold more people the deeper you go, which is exactly why the rate is usually stepped down at each level — to keep total payout sustainable as the team grows.

Typical bonus types

• Sponsor bonus — paid immediately when a direct recruit makes their first qualifying purchase.
• Fast start bonus — a time-limited bonus (commonly the first 30–60 days) for hitting a volume target early, aimed at giving new distributors quick momentum.
• Level commission — a percentage of sales at each depth level, usually decreasing further down the tree.
• Rank advancement bonus — a one-time or recurring bonus unlocked once a distributor's team hits a rank threshold.
• Leadership bonus — an ongoing override for distributors who actively mentor and support downline leaders, separate from straight level commission.

Pros and cons

How it compares to other plans

Plan	Frontline width	Spillover	Best suited to
Unilevel	Unlimited	No	First-time, easy-to-explain plans
Binary	2 legs	Yes	Fast, recruitment-driven growth
Force Matrix	Fixed (e.g. 3)	Yes	Bundled, low-cost entry packages
Breakaway	Unlimited	No	Leadership-heavy organisations

Why companies choose it

Unilevel is straightforward to explain during recruitment ("build your team, earn from your team's sales") and doesn't require balancing two legs the way a binary plan does. It's a common starting plan for companies launching their first direct selling business.

What to configure

Depth of paid levels, commission percentage per level, minimum qualifying purchase amount, and any rank-based multipliers are all configured per your business rules — see the Admin Back-Office module for where these settings live. Want to see the numbers for your own rate schedule? Try the commission calculator.