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Audit trail

Commission is money, and money attracts questions months after the fact. Lokom records who did what so those questions have answers that are not somebody's memory.

There is no single "audit log" screen

Lokom records the trail, but reads it back in the place each record belongs — plan version history, statement diagnostics, the manual-pay line. The complete audit log is available as a file, in your data export, not as a page you browse. → Download your data

Where each part of the trail lives

What you want to knowWhere to look
Who changed a plan, when, and what changedThe plan's Version history — every version, with a diff against the previous one
Which plan version produced an old payoutThe statement itself; superseded versions stay readable forever
Who validated or rejected a statementThe statement's Diagnostics panel — statement ID, version, status, approved by, approved at, rejection reason, version history
Why a manual pay line existsThe line on the statement — author, date and reason code, never folded invisibly into a total
Which deals were excludedReview & Close → Deal review, filtered to Excluded
Everything, as raw recordsSettings → General → Danger Zone → Download your dataaudit log

Why the version model matters here

Because superseded plan versions are retained, an old statement points at the rules that actually produced it. Without that, changing a rate would silently rewrite the explanation of every past payout — the numbers would stay, but the reason would now be wrong.

The same applies to role targets: a target is committed at save time, and later changes to member quotas do not move it retroactively.

Answering "why was I paid this?"

The usual path:

  1. Open the participant's statement for the period.
  2. Read the components — which rules contributed and how much.
  3. Trace a component to its deals. → Payout lineage
  4. Check the plan version that was active then, not the plan as it is now.
  5. Check for manual pay lines and excluded deals.

Steps 4 and 5 are where the surprises are.

Things the trail cannot help with

It records what happened in Lokom. It does not record a promise made verbally in a one-to-one, or a spreadsheet someone kept alongside. If an exception is agreed, put it in Lokom as a manual pay line — that is what makes it survive the person who agreed it.