Commission operations software for wealth management firms.
Built by BlueSail AI as part of the TidalCap product line, Dropzone replaces legacy desktop commission systems with a web platform for clearing-firm file ingestion, representative compensation calculation, exception resolution, payout approval, reconciliation, payroll exports, and reporting.
Built for the real month-end workflow
Brokerage compensation is full of small, specific rules: temporary rates, partnership splits, manager overrides, tiered ticket charges, expenses, cancellations, negative amounts, and missing data. Dropzone gives operations teams one place to catch exceptions and calculate payouts before payroll.
Full commission lifecycle
- File ingestion
- Trade-to-representative assignment
- Compensation calculation
- Exception resolution
- Payout approval
- Monthly and daily reconciliation
- Payroll-ready report generation
Validate files before bad records enter payroll
- Clearing-firm trade files and branch expense spreadsheets imported through a web platform
- Structure, format, and column-layout validation before records are accepted
- Whole-file duplicate protection and record-level duplicate control-number checks
- Automatic recognition of monthly summaries, daily supplemental trades, and expense uploads
- Full import rollback that removes imported records and orphaned account mappings cleanly
Surface exceptions instead of hiding them
- Trades assigned through representative-code mappings first, then account-level defaults
- Unmatched revenue and record counts surfaced separately before payroll
- Backfill workflows apply corrected representative assignments to previously unassigned trades
Handle compensation rules generic payroll cannot
- Direct revenue, partnership distributions, tiered ticket charges, fees, expenses, period-specific rates, and manager overrides
- Partnership revenue split fractionally before each representative's individual rate applies
- Manager overrides calculated after supervised representatives' gross revenue is known
- Missing rates create flagged zero payouts so gaps are fixed before approval
- Payout snapshots preserve the rates and calculated values used for each period
- Cancellations and negative amounts flow through without breaking downstream totals
Export the reports finance actually needs
Less cost, less manual correction, less key-person risk
- $4,500 monthly software subscription
- Over an hour of daily manual file processing and correction
- Dependence on one specialist to run commission calculations
- Informal email-based branch expense collection
- Disconnected spreadsheet tracking
- Operational risk from crash-prone desktop payroll software
See Dropzone with your commission workflow
Walk through trade files, representative mappings, rate exceptions, partnership splits, manager overrides, payroll exports, reconciliation, and reporting requirements.