Terminology
There are several common terms you will hear when you start sharing. Here is a list of them for your convenience.
Retail: an individual who enrolls (creates an account) with Young Living and purchases less than 100PV in products at full price.
Wholesale: an individual who enrolls in Young Living by purchasing a starter kit or a total purchase of at least 100PV or who places any item on subscription/loyalty rewards which qualifies them to purchase YL products at a 24% discount
Enroller: the person responsible for bringing a new member into Young Living. The enroller is eligible for Fast Start Bonuses.
Sponsor: a new member’s direct upline. The sponsor provides members under them with direct support. The sponsor may also be the enroller.
PV - Personal Volume: the total commissionable value of your personally placed orders in a month. This includes your Loyalty Rewards order, as well as any shop you may place. This is the commissionable value of a product. This amount does not always match the US currency value of the product (example, the cost of the Premium Starter Kit is $165, but the PV value is 100PV).
CV - Customer Volume: the total commissionable value of the orders placed by you AND the customers in your first level
Legs: each personally sponsored member is considered a leg. Legs run down vertically. For a leg to be considered a “qualifying leg” the person at the top of the leg must have 100CV (Associate through Executive) or 100PV (Silver and above).
Levels:the position of a member within an organization. Members who are directly sponsored by another member are considered the sponsoring member’s first level. Levels run across horizontally.
OGV - Organizational Group Volume: (sometimes referred to as Overall Group Volume) the total volume (based on each individual person’s PV) that you plus all of the members (brand partners and customers) in your organization have collectively purchased for the month.
Unilevel Commission:the percentage of commission earned for each level based on your current rank. Brand Partners who order 100PV (or have 100CV Associate through Executive) in any given month will be paid unilevel commission on any of their organization’s volume in that month. The depth on which unilevel commission is paid is based on the brand partner’s current rank.
Compression: When a brand partner in your Downline fails to reach 100CV/PV, their customers/brand partners up to the first qualifying brand partner (first brand partner with 100CV/PV) roll up to be on the same level as the brand partner who did not have 100CV/PV. This maximizes your unilevel commissions as it virtually gives you more level 1 brand partners which earn higher commission rates and gives you the opportunity to have more qualifying legs for rank achievement.
PGV - Personal Group Volume: your volume plus the total volume of all members up to first brand partner who ranks as Silver or above in each leg. This means that any silvers or above and the people in their leg are excluded from the volume calculated for PGV.
And, a few abbreviations you will see often include:
CL: Crossline
CS: Customer Service
DL: Downline
EO: Essential Oil
EODP: Essential Oils Desk Reference
EOPR: Essential Oils Pocket Reference
LR: Loyalty Rewards (sometimes called ER - Essential Rewards)
LV: Leg Volume
NR: Ningxia Red
OOS: Out of Stock
P&C: Peace and Calming
PP or P+: Progessence Plus
PSK: Premium Starter Kit
RCD: Royal Crown Diamond
UL: Upline
VO: Virtual Office (brand partners only - account section dedicated to business)
YL: Young Living
YLEO: Young Living Essential Oils