Supplier Rate Changes & Rate History

Suppliers change their commission rates. When one does, the new rate should apply to bookings made after the change — not rewrite the math on everything you booked before it.

JourneyFuse keeps a history of your supplier rate changes, and the booking form uses it: the rate that pre-fills on a booking is the rate that was in force on the booking's Date Booked, not whatever the supplier record happens to say today.

Why This Matters

Bookings are often entered days or weeks after they're actually made — you book the cruise on the 15th, and the confirmation gets logged on the 26th. If the supplier raised their rate in between, a system that only knows the current rate would quietly apply the new, wrong percentage to your backdated entry.

Example: a cruise line moves from 10% to 15% on August 23. A booking made August 15 but entered August 26 should still calculate at 10% — and with rate history, it does. Set the Date Booked and the form picks the 10% automatically.

Changing a Rate with an Effective Date

When you edit a supplier's commission rate (open the supplier and click Edit next to the rate), an optional field appears once you've typed a different rate:

Rate changed on (optional) — the date the supplier's change actually took effect.

• Fill it in with the supplier's real change date (from their announcement or rate sheet). Bookings dated before that day keep the old rate; bookings dated on or after it get the new one.
• Leave it blank and the new rate applies from today. That's the right call when you're just correcting a number you'd entered wrong, rather than recording a genuine supplier change.

You don't have to remember to use the field for history to exist. Every rate change is archived automatically — the old rate is preserved the moment you save a new one, so nothing you change ever silently vanishes.

How Bookings Pick Their Rate

On the booking form:

1. Select the supplier — the current rate pre-fills, as always.
2. Set Date Booked — the form checks your rate history and, if a different rate was in force on that date, swaps it in and recalculates the commission amount.

The order doesn't matter: pick the supplier first or the date first, and the rate lands on whichever era the Date Booked falls into.

A rate you typed yourself is never overwritten. The date-aware pick only ever replaces a rate the form filled in automatically. If you've entered a special rate for this booking — a group override, a promo rate — changing the Date Booked leaves it alone.

The same rule applies when JourneyFuse auto-creates a commission entry from a booking: the entry uses the rate in force on the booking date.

What Rate History Is (and Isn't)

• It's per-workspace. The history records your rate changes on your supplier records. It isn't shared between agencies, and the built-in supplier catalog doesn't carry dated rates.
• The supplier card still shows one number — the current rate. History works behind the scenes; there's no timeline to maintain.
• It's forward-looking from your edits. Suppliers with rates set before this feature simply have a current rate; history starts accumulating the first time you change one. Existing bookings and commission entries are never recalculated retroactively — history only affects what pre-fills on new entries.

A Note on Cruise Commissions

The rate is only half the calculation — the other half is the base it's applied to. If you enter a cruise booking with a rate and a pre-tax price but no commissionable amount, the commission computes on the full pre-tax price, and the form shows a reminder: cruise lines usually pay on the fare minus discounts, excluding non-commissionable fees (NCFs), gratuities, and taxes. Check the confirmation's commissionable total and enter it in the Commissionable amount field if it differs — the computed figure will look plausible either way, so the field is worth the extra ten seconds.

Related Articles

• Managing Suppliers — setting up suppliers and their default rates
• Tracking Commissions — the per-booking commission lifecycle
• Per-Trip Commission Overrides — overriding the split on a specific trip