Allocora payout calculation glossary

Use this glossary to align finance, operations, and engineering around the same payout workflow terms.

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What to know

These are the objects most users need to understand before configuring payout logic.

Payee: a person, partner, seller, affiliate, creator, contractor, or entity that can receive a calculated allocation.
Contract: the commercial terms that a rule should represent in Allocora.
Rule: versioned payout logic that decides how source revenue is allocated.
Revenue event: a source revenue row such as a sale, refund, or adjustment.
Revenue split: a rule-driven allocation of one revenue basis across more than one payee.
Royalty: a calculated obligation owed to a rights holder, creator, licensor, or similar payee.
Commission: a calculated obligation owed to a partner, affiliate, salesperson, agency, or similar payee.
Statement: a payee-facing explanation generated from reviewed calculation output.
Settlement: the reviewed obligation set for a period before downstream payout execution.

These terms explain how payout evidence moves through Allocora.

Calculation run: deterministic evaluation of revenue rows against active rules.
Adjustment: a correction or delta applied to prior revenue or allocation context.
Payout period: the close period being reviewed.
Audit trail: the record of important changes, runs, exports, and review actions.

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Start free, use sample data, then replace examples with your own revenue rows when the workflow is clear.