compensations selected models scenarios can be made available to a sales executive and used to compare modeled to actual performance the help 322 d menu leads the user to help screens to get help on various aspects of the compensation system the home page 340 for a user defined as a sales representative will now be described with reference to fig7 the home page 340 includes a dashboard 342 a my performance section 344 an alerts section 346 and a spiffs section 348 the my performance section 344 provides a summary of the user 39 s performance for a given time period and can include details on commissions bonuses and any spiffs that have been earned a user has the option of defining different views based on different time periods or by sorting the data using different sorting criteria the alerts section 346 like the alerts sections described above provides a user with a quick summary and count of current alerts or warnings that indicate an undesirable condition or error the spiffs section 348 allows the user to view details on current spiffs as well as past spiffs and upcoming spiffs the dashboard 342 of the home page for the sales representative is similar to the other dashboards described above but includes less options the dashboard 342 includes 4 menus each of which when selected opens a pull down menu to provide the user with a number of different options in the embodiment shown in fig7 the menus include home 342 a activity 342 b reports 342 c and help.