MLM Management Software

April 20, 2006 5:25 PM

My agency brought on a start-up MLM, and we need to provide software to manage the MLM salesforce, their downlines, commissions, etc. (Yeah, yeah... I know... ). In the past, for our normal clients, we've used SugarCRM to manage customers and the like. I'm wondering: can anyone recommend a good MLM management app — must have an internet interface.
posted by silusGROK to computers & internet (6 comments total)

Dear Google...
posted by disillusioned at 5:27 PM on April 20, 2006

Yeah, but disillusioned, most of those options are probably MLMs in and of themselves; silusGROK is probably asking for legit possibilities.
posted by delfuego at 8:00 PM on April 20, 2006

disillusioned: I think it would take longer to go through all those pages on google (and evaluate the software) then it would to write your own MLM app!
posted by delmoi at 8:06 PM on April 20, 2006

I can't believe I just read this article.
posted by RikiTikiTavi at 9:02 PM on April 20, 2006

I used to work as a programmer at an MLM company. We never found any usable software that could be used out of the box. The issue with that type of business is that the business logic changes a lot, and the commission strategies, organization of the downlines, etc would change a lot, and most companies have their exclusive system for paying the sales people.
We had a standard cold fusion app that we wrote which was easy to change according to the prevailing winds of the day.
The whole "downline" issue does make for some pretty interesting recursive programming though.
posted by muddylemon at 11:39 PM on April 20, 2006

Oh - and if you want to email me, you can get the addy via my profile. I can put you in touch with the company I worked for, I'm sure they'd be interested in selling a copy of the program that they built/use to manage their sales (they run about 4-5 MLM type companies off it.) It's in cold fusion, but there's also another one I wrote in ASP for another project for them.
posted by muddylemon at 11:42 PM on April 20, 2006