Achievement Level: A Distributor's rank within the Young Living Compensation Plan that determines commissions and bonuses. The 9 Achievement Levels are Distributor, Star, Senior Star, Executive, Silver, Gold, Platinum, Diamond, and Crown Diamond.

Active Member: An Active Member (Customer or Distributor) purchases products with a minimum of 50 PV in one month, within a 12-month period.
Autoship: An order made by the 29th day of a calendar month of at least 50 PV which is automatically shipped each month. Shipping date and contents of an Autoship order may be changed every month, within 24 hours of the existing Autoship date. (If Autoship orders are cancelled or returned, bonuses requiring Autoship will be cancelled or retracted.) Autoship orders must be purchased with the buyer's payment method and delivered to the buyer's address.

Autoship Reward Points: A "loyalty program" awarding points to Members who maintain an Autoship order over consecutive months. Each point equals a dollar of free PV that the Member may redeem for products. Points roll over from month to month and only expire if Autoship is discontinued. Click here for more details.

Commissionable Products: Products on which commissions are paid. (Non-commissionable products include such items as business aids and accessories.)

Customer: A Member who purchases products at 24% above the wholesale price, does not have an Autoship order, and does not participate in the Young Living business opportunity. Customers are placed on the sponsor's level, and contribute to the sponsor's PV. Customers do not occupy a place in the downline organization apart from their sponsor's place.

Customer Earnings: A commission of 24% of sales volume generated by Customers to their sponsors.

Director Team Bonus: The second part of the Distributor Team Performance Bonus program rewarding a Distributor an extra $1500 monthly bonus for creating and/or maintaining each month a Manager team structure that has two additional Manager team structures on its first level, thus completing the Director team structure.

Distributor: A Member of Young Living who purchases a Starter Kit and participates in the Young Living business opportunity, as detailed in the company's Compensation Plan.

Distributor Team Performance Bonus: A bonus for building a Distributor team with a two-part structure: 1) the Manager team structure expanding to 2) the Director team structure. This bonus is paid monthly (as long as qualifications are met) in addition to all other commissions and bonuses. It requires all Members of the team to maintain a minimum of 100PV Autoship orders, and for several to maintain 1,000 PGV. Meeting the Manager Team Bonus Qualifications earns a $500 Bonus, and meeting the Director Team Bonus Qualifications earns a $1500 Bonus, totalling $2,000 per month for each completed Manager/Director Team structure.

Downline Organization: The total number of Members (Distributors and Customers) enrolled under you, beginning with your first level and continuing to infinite levels.

Dynamic Compression: An order of 50 PV is considered a "qualifying" order, meaning that it qualifies to be counted as a level in the downline organization on which a Distributor gets paid. Where a Distributor in your downline organization has less than 50 PV in a given month, that person's PV compresses up to the level above it, and further downline volume compresses up until a "qualifying" order of 50PV fills the original spot. You are paid commmissions on all the compressed volume.

Enroller: A Distributor who enrolls a new Member in Young Living.

Generation: A generation consists of all Members in one leg of a downline organization between two Silver (or higher rank) Distributors. The generation begins with a Silver and extends down to, but does not include the next Silver or above. The next generation begins with the next Silver Distributor in that same leg in the downline organization. Generations are not limited by levels and may extend virtually to infinite levels of depth in a leg where no other Silver Distributors appear in the downline organization.

Generation Bonus: A Bonus paid in addition to all other commissions and bonuses to Distributors who have achieved the rank of Silver or above. When you become a Silver, the Bonus is 3% and is paid on all sales volume in your downline organization down to, but not including, the next Silver or above in any leg. If no Silver appears in a leg, the bonus is paid on the entire leg as far as it goes. When other Distributors in your downline organization achieve the rank of Silver, you are paid 4% on their generations.

Leg: A "leg" begins with a Distributor on your first level and includes all the Members (Distributors and Customers) who are enrolled underneath that person.

Level: When a new person is enrolled in Young Living, he or she is sponsored under a Distributor and is considered "First Level" to that Distributor. Someone placed under that person would be the original Distributor's Second Level, and so on.

Manager Team Bonus: A bonus of $500 paid to a Distributor who meets specific qualifications: a 100PV Autoship, 1000 PGV, 6 personally-enrolled first-level Distributors (each with 100PV Autoship orders), 2 of those 6 Distributors are "Team Captains" with 1000PGV and enroll their own 6 first-level Distributors who have 100PV Autoship orders.

Matching Bonus: A bonus paid to you that matches the Star Bonus paid to your personally enrolled new Distributors during the first three months of the new Distributor's enrollment. If they earn the Star Bonus in month 1 and 2, you receive a matching bonus for those first two consecutive months, but nothing in the third month. If they earn the Star Bonus in month 2 and 3, you receive a matching bonus for those 2 months.

Member: A Distributor or Customer who buys directly from Young Living Essential Oils.

Month End: Month End is the cutoff date for processing online, phone, fax, and postal orders. The cutoff is midnight Mountain Time on the last calendar day of the month. To be included in commissions for a month, mailed-in orders must be received by the last business day of that month.

Organization Group Volume (OGV): The total sales volume of your entire organization, including PV, Customers and Distributors.

Personal Group Volume (PGV): The sales volume (including your PV) in your organization that is not under an Executive (e.g., when you become a Silver, you need to have 1000PV that is outside your two required Executive legs). For Gold ranks and above, PGV is all sales volume in your organization that is not under a Silver Distributor or above.

Personal Volume (PV): The value (usually equal to the wholesale price) of products purchased by a Distributor and/or his/her personally sponsored Customers and Preferred Customers.

Preferred Customer: A Customer who maintains an Autoship order of at least 50PV and thus qualifies to purchase products at 12% above the wholesale price. Preferred Customers are placed on the sponsor's level, and contribute to the sponsor's PV. Preferred Customers do not occupy a place in the downline organization apart from their sponsor's place.

Preferred Customer Earnings: A commission of 12% of sales volume generated by Preferred Customers to their sponsors.

Preferred Customer Performance Bonus: A bonus paid monthly, in addition to all other commissions and bonuses, rewarding Distributors for building a three-stage Customer/Distributor structure in which all Members maintain a minimum 50PV Autoship order: Stage 1) 6 personally sponsored Preferred Customers, Stage 2) 2 personally sponsored Distributors who sponsor 6 Preferred Customers, and Stage 3) the two personally sponsored Distributors sponsor 2 Distributors who sponsor 6 Preferred Customers. Meeting the Stage 1 Qualfications earns $100, Stage 2 earns $200, and Stage 3 earns $500, totalling $800 maximum Bonus for each three-stage structure maintained.

Professional Discount: (As of March 1, 2006) Individual or business Customers who give proof of their business status (e.g., License, EIN, etc.) to YLEO may purchase products at a special discounted rate: Orders of 500-999.99 PV are discounted 24% of Customer Price; orders over 1000PV are discounted 27% of Customer Price. Commissions on discounted sales are calculated on 50% of the PV.

Rank: An achievement level of sales and leg development qualifying a Distributor to earn a range of commissions and bonuses according to the compensation plan. There are 9 Ranks.

Sponsor: The Distributor under whom a new Member is placed. Unless specified otherwise, the Enroller is also the Sponsor.

Star Bonus: A bonus paid to you on the purchases made by your personally enrolled new Distributors for their first two consecutive months of business: 25% for the first month and15% for the second. You must have 50PV the first month and an autoship of 50PV in the second month to qualify. The maximum Star bonus paid in any one month on any one Distributor is $200. Note: Distributors upline from a Distributor who makes the Star Bonus will earn their Unilevel 5% commission on only 50% of the PV of the new Distributor's orders.

Unilevel: The Unilevel part of the compensation plan covers the first 5 levels of your downline organization, paying out 5% on the purchases of all the Members in those levels, according to your Achievement Level. See the Compensation Plan Diagram for details.

Wholesale Price: The price paid for products by Distributors.

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