# About Discount Distribution

If you are a non-paying subscriber with a group subscription to a discount, and your charges are redirected to another account, who gets the discount amount? Would you get the discount on your bill, or does the payer account get it?

In these cases, MetraNet allows you to specify how the system distributes discount amounts between participating accounts using Discount Distribution. Discount Distribution determines who receives the actual value for a group discount.

In the MetraNet Catalog Manager application, a product administrator can set up discount distribution in one of two ways:

- Proportional: With proportional distribution, the discount goes to each subscribed account. The credit that goes to each account is directly proportional to their share of usage contributed toward the group discount's counter.

- Single Account: This can be any specified account, provided that it is billable (see About Payment Redirection).

## A Discount Distribution Example

Let's say MeetingSpace Conferencing is offering a discount to Peter Bergman and Phil Austin in the Boston office, plus Phil Proctor in the LA office. The discount offers $40 off the client's bill if usage reaches 1000 Executive Virtual MeetingSpace Minutes.

At the end of the billing period, the three executives log the following usage: Phil Proctor: 100 minutes, Peter Bergman: 500 minutes, Phil Austin 400 minutes. Since they reached the 1000 minute mark, they qualify for the $40 discount. If they use proportional distribution, Phil Proctor would see $4 of the discount on his bill (proportional to his %10 contribution toward the counter), Peter Bergman would see $20, and Phil Austin would see $16. Since payments are redirected to Audrey Farber in the LA office, Audrey would receive Phil's $16 on her LA invoice. The rest of the discount, $24 would be reflected on Susan Underhill's invoice for the Boston office.

If they used single account distribution, the amount would not be split between Audrey and Susan. The whole $40 discount would go to one payer account.