Glossary
Unilevel Plan
A unilevel plan is a compensation plan with no limit on how many people a distributor can sponsor directly, placing every personally recruited distributor on the same first level. Commissions pay out across a fixed number of levels below that first level, usually with the payout percentage decreasing at each deeper level.
Also called: unilevel compensation plan
Why it matters
Because there is no leg limit, unilevel plans reward wide recruiting more directly than a leg limited plan such as binary. Companies typically add rank requirements so a distributor must personally sell and build depth to unlock commissions on the deeper levels.
Example
A distributor who personally sponsors ten people has all ten on level one. The company then pays a percentage of volume on levels one through seven, stepping the percentage down at each deeper level.