Glossary
Commissionable Volume
Commissionable volume, sometimes called CV or BV, is the portion of a sale's point value that a company actually pays commissions against, after removing shipping, tax, and any non commissionable items or discounts. Companies separate commissionable volume from a product's PV or retail price because the two figures do not always match.
Also called: CV, BV, business volume
Why it matters
A distributor's real commission depends on commissionable volume, not on the retail price a customer paid or the PV credited toward rank. Two products with the same retail price can carry different commissionable volume, so distributors need this figure, not the sticker price, to estimate what a sale actually pays.
Example
A product retails for 100 dollars and carries 90 points of PV toward rank, but only 70 points of that is commissionable volume once packaging and freight costs are excluded.