Income planner for corporate sales agents

A computer-implemented method for providing an indication of a compensation for a sales agent within a corporate sales force, comprising the steps of:

• retrieving past sales and future sales opportunities of an authenticated sales agent from a database;
• retrieving at least one compensation plan for the authenticated sales agent;
• applying the retrieved past sales and future sales opportunities to the retrieved at least one compensation plan to calculate a compensation of the sales agent;
• providing an indication of the calculated compensation to the authenticated sales agent remotely over a computer network.

An electronic system for remotely providing sales agents within a sales force with an indication of their sales-based compensation over a computer network, the system comprising:

• a database configured to store at least one compensation plan, past sales of the sales agents and future sales opportunities of the sales agents;
• at least one first computer arranged to receive login and authentication requests from the sales agents over the computer network, to retrieve an appropriate compensation plan for each of the logged in and authenticated sales agents from the database and to retrieve each of the sales agents' past sales and future sales opportunities from the database and to apply the retrieved past sales and future sales opportunities to the appropriate compensation plan upon request to generate a compensation report for each of the sales agents and to send the generated compensation reports to the at least one second computer;
• at least one second computer, the at least one second computer being arranged to accept login and authentication requests from the sales agents and to send the requests to the at least one first computer over the computer network, to input new future sales opportunities into the database, to modify future sale opportunities previously stored in the database, to request the compensation report from the at least one first computer and to display the compensation report received from the at least one first computer.