Automate Varying Commission Rates (Lookup?)

Joey Jr

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Hi All,

Wonder if you can help me with something.

I need to work out commission for a number of individuals.

The problem is there are two rates of commission, depending on whether a product is sold to a new customer, or an existing customer.

1% for existing customers
1.25% for new customers.

To establish whether a product (loans, in this example) was sold to a new customer or an existing customer, I need to look at the amount of the loan, and the interest rate charged to the customer.

So I have printed a sheet which shows loan bands and interest rates. I use this to manually determine whether the loan was sold to a new or existing customer. The sheet looks like this:

A Loan Amount / B New cust Rate / C Existing cust rate
$1,000 - $2,999 / 14.9% / 13.9%
$3,000 - $4,999 / 12.9% / 11.9%
$5,000 - $7,499 / 10.9% / 9.9%
$7,500 - $9,999 / 10.5% / 9.5%
$10,000 - $15,000 / 9.9% / 8.9%


Using this, I can tell that if a customer has a loan of $1,500, and has interest at 13.9%, he is an existing customer, so commission should be paid at 1%.

The commission is worked out in a table with

Column A - Loan amount
Column B - Interest Rate
Column C - New/Existing customer
Column D - =IF(C1="New Customer",(A1*1.25%),(A1*1%))

What I would like to do, is replace the manual input in Column C. I'd assumed it could be done with a LookUp - but it's proving to be beyond me at present....

I think I need to split column A in the first sheet, and have an upper and lower limit, but I'm now stumped.

Any help gratefully received.

Regards
Any
 

Excel Facts

How to total the visible cells?
From the first blank cell below a filtered data set, press Alt+=. Instead of SUM, you will get SUBTOTAL(9,)
Book10
ABCD
1ALoanAmountBNewcustRateCExistingcustrate
2$1,00014.90%13.90%
3$3,00012.90%11.90%
4$5,00010.90%9.90%
5$7,50010.50%9.50%
6$10,0009.90%8.90%
7
8
9Commission
10$1,50014.90%$18.75
Sheet1


Note the rate table that A2:C6 houses. This area is name RateTable via the Name Box on the Formula Bar.

The formula to determine the commission in C10 is:

=A10*IF(VLOOKUP(A10,RateTable,2)=B10,1.25%,1%)
 
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