Hosts, co-hosts and commission

A host is the person on camera who runs a show. LASI keeps track of who hosted which show (or which part of a show), what they sold, and the commission they earned on it.

Commission is worked out on the show’s net sales: the gross less TikTok’s fees. It is filed automatically when a show is finalized, to a ledger called the Commission Tracker. Nothing here is taken out of the show’s profit on the finalize screen — commission is payroll, and it is tracked on its own.

Not every host has to be paid commission. Each host can be paid by the hour on air, a daily wage, or a flat amount per show instead — or a wage plus commission. See How a host is paid.

There are two kinds of "host" record, and it helps to know both. A staff member is the payroll record (a name and a rate) that commission is paid to. A login is someone who signs in to LASI with the Host role. Linking the two is what lets a host see their own shows and their own pay.

1. 1Open Settings → Team.
2. 2In the Staff & Payroll card, click + Add Staff.
3. 3Type the Name and pick the Role: Host, Worker or Both.
4. 4Under Host pay, answer How is this host paid? — Commission, Hourly, Daily wage or Per show.
5. 5For Commission, type the host’s Commission % — the percent of net sales they earn when no tier applies. For the other three, type the Rate in dollars (per hour, per day or per show). Tick Also pays commission if they earn commission on top of the wage, and type their Commission %.
6. 6A Worker or Both also has an Hourly wage: their pay for packing and warehouse work, which prices their packing time. It is not what a host is paid for a show.
7. 7Click Save.

To change how a host is paid later, click Edit pay on their row, make the change and click Save pay. To change only a commission host’s rate, click their … % commission, type the new rate and click Save. A change applies to pay filed from then on; pay already filed does not change by itself.

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Each host has their own pay, set on their staff record. An admin sets it in Settings → Team → Staff & Payroll with Edit pay (or when adding them), or on the iPhone app: Menu → Commission, tap the settings button to open Commission settings, pick the host, and in the How they are paid card pick the type, type the rate, set Also pays commission and tap Save pay.

Also pays commission gives a wage host commission as well: a base plus a cut. Without it, a host on a wage earns no commission, even on a show that pays commission to others.

Where the hours come from

• First, the show’s linked streams — the record the LASI Chrome extension keeps of each stream. On a shared show, each host is paid for their own stretch on air, as long as the stream’s record of who was on air still matches the show’s hosts. If a host switch was added or removed after the stream was read, those stretches are not used and the entry asks for hours.
• Otherwise, for a staged, live or sticker show with a single host, the show’s own start and end.
• Otherwise LASI does not guess. The entry pays no wage yet and says Hours needed. Type the hours on the entry in the Commission Tracker (see The Commission Tracker).

Hours you type are kept, even when the show’s pay is filed again.

When pay is filed

Pay is filed when the show is finalized: one entry per host in the Commission Tracker, with the commission and the wage side by side and their total. A host on a wage is paid it even on a show that pays no commission.

Pay is filed again when a finalized show’s hosts change (Link host, a switch, an item given a host), or with Re-file commissions in the Hosts panel of a finalized shared show. Each re-file uses every host’s pay as it is set at that moment.

Invite the host to LASI with the Host role (see Your team and roles). Then connect their login to their staff record:

1. 1Open Settings → Team.
2. 2In the team list, find the host’s login. Hosts have an extra dropdown that reads No payroll link.
3. 3Pick their staff record from it.

Until this link exists, the host’s login does not know which shows are theirs: their own-show rights, their My Commission page and the My pay card on their phone all stay empty.

When you create a show (Auctions → New Show), the Host list names everyone on staff; pick the host who opens the show, or No host. Admins are then asked Include host in commission? — Yes files the host’s commission automatically when the show is finalized, No means nobody is paid commission for this show. A host on a wage (hourly, daily or per show) is still paid their wage when the show is finalized.

Forgot, or picked the wrong person? An admin can fix it at any time from the show’s ⋯ → Link host (or Change host) on Auctions. On a finalized show that files the commission straight away from the recorded sales; picking a different host removes the previous host’s entry, so nobody is paid twice. Details in Finalizing, show reports and fixing a show.

Tiers pay a higher rate on a bigger show. A tier ladder is a list of rungs, each "from this much net sales, this percent". A show earns the rate of the highest rung its net sales reach. Below the lowest rung, the host earns their own default rate.

With that ladder, a show that nets $3,400 pays 2% of $3,400 — $68.

Setting the ladder for everyone

1. 1Open Settings → Team, and scroll to Host Commission Tiers inside Staff & Payroll.
2. 2Click Edit.
3. 3Click + Add Tier for each rung and fill in the from amount, the to amount (leave No cap empty on the top rung) and the percent. With no tiers yet, Start from the example fills in a starter ladder.
4. 4Click Save Tiers.

With no tiers saved, the card reads No tiers set. Each host earns their own commission rate.

A host or a channel with their own ladder

A host can have a ladder of their own, and a ladder can be limited to one TikTok shop account (a channel). These are set in the iPhone app: Menu → Commission, tap the settings button to open Commission settings, then pick a host. Their screen has a Default rate, their tiers for all channels, and Add a tier with an optional Channel. The Every host row is the ladder everyone else falls back on.

The most specific ladder wins: this host on this channel, then this host anywhere, then anyone on this channel, then the ladder for everyone. A host with any ladder of their own is never priced by someone else’s — below their lowest rung they get their default rate.

Sometimes two people run one show: one opens, the other takes over when the first gets tired. When the swap happens depends on the pace of the show, so LASI records it by sticker number, not by clock: "Kate from #347". Every item with a sticker from #347 on is Kate’s, until the next switch.

• The lead host is the one on air from the first item. A show with no switches is simply a one-host show.
• Each host’s sales are worked out from TikTok’s orders for the show’s linked streams, by the sticker number on each order line.
• Why not by time? A TikTok order is created when the winner checks out, which trails the hammer. A handoff time would give the items sold around it to the wrong host.

Recording a switch during the show

1. 1Open the post-show board (web) or the counting board (phone). The Hosts card shows who is on air. For any other show, use Auctions → ⋯ → Hosts.
2. 2Click Switch host.
3. 3Pick the Host taking over…. The first sticker number starts at the one after the newest sale TikTok has reported — checkouts trail a little, so check the number the host is really on.
4. 4Click Switch at #347 (the button names the sticker).

You can also record or correct switches after the show, from Auctions → ⋯ → Hosts. A switch made afterwards is just as exact, because it is keyed to sticker numbers, not to when you typed it.

Fixing switches and the lead host

• Lead host: click Change, pick someone (or No lead host) and click Save.
• Switches: each switch has Edit (change the host, part or number) and Remove.

A listing’s numbers stop at its size, so a long show runs Part A and then Part B, each numbered from 1. LASI reads the part from the listing title — "A) …", "PART 2 - …" or "ROUND 3 - …" — and treats B and 2 as the same second round.

• The host on air at the end of Part A carries on into Part B unless someone else is given the part.
• When you switch hosts on a show that already has parts, pick the part from the list, or A new part… for one that has not sold yet.
• The Parts list shows each part the stream sold, its first and last numbers, and who had which numbers. Give Part B to… hands a whole part to one host in one step.

LASI never guesses who sold something. An item it cannot place — a line with no sticker number once a switch exists, or one sold before any host was on — goes in an amber Needs a host box, with its title, time and order. Its share of the commission is held until someone gives it a host.

1. 1Open the Hosts panel (Auctions → ⋯ → Hosts, or the phone’s Edit hosts).
2. 2In Needs a host, pick a host from Give all 2 to… (or Give it to…).
3. 3Click Assign.

A hand assignment also overrides the switches, which is how you fix an item that was stickered with the wrong number. On a finalized show, the commission re-files straight away.

The same panel appears in four places: the post-show board while the show runs (a shorter version, with Switch host), the Hosts dialog on Auctions (⋯ → Hosts), the finalize wizard on a shared show, and the phone’s Edit hosts screen.

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• Each host’s line shows their stretches of sticker numbers and what they sold. Details opens their numbers: average sale, net, fees, cost of goods, profit, margin, profit per item, commission, profit after commission, orders, gifted items, shipping, sales per hour and time on air.
• Host vs host puts the hosts side by side, one column each, with the best of each row lit in green (a tie lights nobody; pay, giveaways and time on air are not a contest).
• Commission lists what was filed for each host (admins see every host’s; a host sees their own). On a finalized shared show, Re-file commissions files them again from the current split.

Profit per host needs the show’s selling bin named on its board, because it needs one cost per unit. Without it the panel says so and shows no profit rather than a guess.

On the phone

The counting board has a Hosts card: who is on air, each host’s stretches and sales, and the items that need a host. Admins and managers get Switch host and Edit hosts; a host gets Host numbers. Edit hosts opens the full panel — switches, lead host, parts, items to assign, and Host vs host.

On a shared show, each host is paid their share of the show’s net, at their own rate.

• Their share is the part of the show’s sales their sticker numbers sold. An order that mixes both hosts’ items is split by the items’ list prices, to the cent.
• Their rate is their own: their default rate, or the tier rung their share reaches — not the rung the whole show reaches.
• Held items are part of the pie too, so the shares always add up to the show. When a held item gets a host, that host’s entry grows.
• Shipping buyers paid is split the same way, so each host’s shipping and units are on their own entry.

Finalize files one entry per host. Any later change on a finalized show — a switch fixed, an item assigned, the lead changed — re-files the entries at once.

Commission is paid on net sales, and net sales depend on TikTok’s fees. At finalize the fee is an estimate at your shop’s rate. Within about a day TikTok reports its own fee for the show’s orders, and LASI updates the show’s fee to match.

When that happens, LASI recalculates each host’s commission once at TikTok’s figure, keeping the rate on the entry exactly as it was. After that the entry stays put: later settlement adjustments never move it again. It changes again only if a person does something — finalizes again, changes the host, or edits the entry.

If an admin types a new fee, net or amount on an entry by hand, LASI treats that as the final word and does not recalculate it. Changing only the rate does not stop the update.

Open Analytics → Commission. The Commission Tracker has four tabs:

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Hosts paid a wage

When a host in view is paid a wage, the tracker adds it beside the commission. The Daily Log gets a Wage column — for example “4.5 h × $18.00 = $81.00”, “Daily wage $120.00” or “Per show $75.00” — and a Total Pay $ column, commission plus wage. The Weekly Dashboard gets Wage $ and Total Pay $, and the Weekly Summary a Total Pay $ switch. A business that pays only commission sees none of these.

The Ready-to-Send Message then speaks of pay: “here’s your pay for the week … earning $X in commission and $Y in wages, $Z in all”.

Typing an hourly host’s hours

1. 1Open the Daily Log tab. An entry waiting for its hours shows an amber note under Wage starting “Hours needed”, and the Weekly Dashboard says how many entries need hours.
2. 2Type the hours on air in the entry’s Hours box, for example 4.5.
3. 3Click Save (or press Enter).

The wage becomes the hours times the rate the entry was filed with, and Total Pay $ updates. To correct hours LASI found, click Edit hours under the wage. Changing an entry’s commission rate with Edit leaves the wage alone.

Weeks run Monday to Sunday in your business timezone. Deleting an entry here removes the payroll line only; the show’s sales are untouched.

On the phone, admins open Menu → Commission: every host by week, a range switch (Today, Week, Month, Year, All), and a tap on an entry to Change rate or Remove entry. On an hourly host’s entry the same tap offers Enter hours (or Change hours), which works like the Hours box on the web.

A host sees their own pay and nothing about anyone else’s. They never see a show’s cost of goods or profit — commission is their number, profit is not.

On the phone: My pay

The Today tab carries a My pay card: what this week and today paid — commission, plus the wage for a host paid hourly, daily or per show — the week’s streams and gross, and a line for the Last stream with what it paid, the shipping, average sale, giveaways and units. If the stream was read by the LASI Chrome extension, its audience (peak and average viewers, views, time live) sits beside it.

Tap the card (or Every stream) for My pay: every stream with its show’s name and what it paid (a wage on its own line, with its hours, and an amber note when hours are still needed), weekly bars, and a sort — Newest, Best pay, Best gross, Best avg sale, Best units, Best shipping — to rank streams best to worst. It is also at Menu → My pay. An admin taps an hourly entry there to Enter hours or Change hours.

Streams not finalized yet

A show pays commission only once it is finalized. So a host who streamed last night but whose show is still being counted would otherwise see nothing and wonder whether they were paid. Instead, the card says 1 stream not finalized yet, and My pay lists them under Waiting to be finalized with what the show is doing: sales not entered yet, on air, being counted back or counted, not finalized.

No dollar figure is shown for a stream that is not finalized, on purpose: what it pays depends on the gross and the rate chosen at finalize.

On the web

Hosts have My Commission in the sidebar: this week’s total, a chart by week, Past weeks, and Streams. On a show they co-hosted, the Hosts panel shows the show total and their own figures; another host’s figures show as a dash.

A host paid a wage sees their whole pay there: this week’s total is commission plus wages, with the two named under it; the chart becomes Pay by week; and Past weeks and Streams add the wage and Total Pay $. A stream waiting for its hours says so in amber until an admin types them.

Staff and customer service see no commission at all.