First Things First

Start strong with a clear understanding of your Novae business fundamentals. This section provides the essential knowledge that forms the foundation of your success – core activities, key metrics, and organizational structure. Choose your path and build your business with confidence from the beginning.

First Things First

Affiliate Basic & Affiliate Pro

Every new Affiliate can choose between two business paths:
Affiliate Basic

Focus on direct Customer sales, earning Personal Commissions from each product or service you sell.

Affiliate Pro

Build a complete business through both Customer sales and team building. Earn Personal Commissions plus Override Commissions and CAB bonuses when building and supporting your team.

$199 + $49/mo
$349 + $99/mo
Commissions:
  • Personal Sales Commission
Commissions:
  • Monthly Residual Commission

  • Personal Sales Commission
  • Override Commissions
  • Customer Acquisition Bonus
  • Advancement Recognition

Affiliate Basic & Affiliate Pro

Every new Affiliate can choose between two business paths:
Affiliate Basic

Focus on direct Customer sales, earning Personal Commissions from each product or service you sell.

$199 + $49/mo
Commissions:
  • Personal Sales Commission
Affiliate Pro

Build a complete business through both Customer sales and team building. Earn Personal Commissions plus Override Commissions and CAB bonuses when building and supporting your team.

$349 + $99/mo
Commissions:
  • Monthly Residual Commission

  • Personal Sales Commission
  • Override Commissions
  • Customer Acquisition Bonus
  • Advancement Recognition

Core Business Activities

Your earning potential with Novae is built on three key activities that drive both immediate income and long-term business growth:
SELLING

You generate immediate income by introducing Customers to Novae’s products and services. Every sale strengthens your foundation and contributes to your overall volume.

TEAM BUILDING

Expanding your team by recruiting new Affiliates increases your earning potential. The more Affiliates you enroll and develop, the greater your ability to earn overrides and bonuses.

MENTORING

Helping your team succeed by selling and recruiting, multiplies your business growth. By supporting their success, you strengthen your organization and unlock higher commissions and leadership rewards.

Key Business Metrics

  • Active Status

    You maintain an Active Status by having a paid membership or qualifying for the Five & Free Program each month as well as keeping an active payment card on file for your autopay purchases. Maintaining Active Status is required for earning commissions.

  • Sponsor

    The Affiliate who introduces a new Affiliate to Novae and helps them get started in the business. As a sponsor, you have the ability to strategically place your new Affiliates and Customers within your organization.

  • Personally Enrolled Active Affiliates

    Personally Enrolled Active Affiliates are those that you have personally sponsored into the business who maintain their Active Status. The number of active Affiliates you personally enroll is one of the key metrics for rank advancement.

  • Customer Points

    Each product sold is worth 1 Customer Point. These Customer Points are essential for rank advancement. As you progress in your Novae career, maintaining strong Customer relationships becomes increasingly important, with rank requirements ranging from 1 point at Senior Affiliate to 40 points at Presidential Ambassador.

  • Personal Volume

    Personal Volume is the total volume generated from your sales of Novae products and services, used to determine your monthly Rank qualification. Each of our products and services has a specific volume value assigned to it. Personal Volume is essential for rank advancement and maintenance.

  • Group Volume (GV)

    Group Volume (GV) is the combined volume from your entire organization, including your Personal Volume plus all volume generated by your team members and their teams, infinitely deep in your organization.

  • Qualified Legs

    A Qualified Leg is a Leg of your organization that meets or exceeds the GV requirement for that Rank. The Qualified Leg requirement for the Senior Affiliate Ranks is 40GV, and 160GV for all other Ranks.

  • Leg Max Rule

    To ensure a balanced and sustainable business, the Leg Max Rule limits the amount of required GV that can come from a single leg of business.

    Starting at Senior Consultant, a maximum of 50% of your required GV can come from any one leg. As you reach higher ranks, this cap adjusts to 35%.

    For example, to qualify as a Senior Consultant, you need 2,500 GV, but no more than 1,250 GV (50%) can come from a single leg. Any additional volume from that leg will not count toward rank advancement.

Organizational
Structure

  • Five & Free Program

    You can have your next month's autopay membership fee waived when you do any of the following during the month:

    • Gain 5 or more personally enrolled active Affiliates (whose Affiliate level is equal to or greater than yours)
    • Gain 5 or more personal credit customer subscriptions
    • Gain any combination of qualified Affiliates and credit customers totaling 5 or more

    Both new enrollments and existing members who maintain their monthly payments count toward your five.

    Note: To earn monthly commissions, your monthly membership fee must be paid through autopay or by qualifying for the Five & Free program.

  • Genealogy

    Your genealogy is the organizational structure that shows how all Affiliates are connected to you within Novae. Your genealogy displays your upline, downline, and helps you track generations for Override Commissions.

  • Generations

    Generations indicate the location of each of the Affiliates below you in your genealogy. The Affiliates you personally enroll are your Generation 1. Your Generation 2 refers to the Affiliates enrolled below them, and so on. As Affiliates within your generations sell Novae products and services to their Customers, you earn override commissions on these sales through ten generations of your organization.

  • Rank

    Your journey with Novae involves two distinct types of Rank; Paid-As Rank and Career Rank.

    Your Paid-As Rank is the Rank you qualify for each month based on meeting monthly Rank business metrics. This Rank determines your commission earnings, including your Monthly Residual Commission, and CAB earnings.

    Your Career Rank is the highest Rank you have achieved as an Affiliate. Your Career Rank is used for recognition on your website and corporate events, as well as for contests and awards.

  • Upline/Downline

    Your upline consists of the Affiliates above you in your genealogy, starting with your sponsor. Your downline includes all Affiliates positioned below you in your organization through unlimited generations.

Enrollment vs. Placement

Understanding the difference between Enrollment and Placement is key to maximizing your commissions, accelerating rank advancement, and strategically growing your business.

Enrollment:
Establishing Generations & Overrides

Enrollment occurs when you directly bring a new Customer or Affiliate into the business. As the enrolling Affiliate, you establish a permanent generational structure for:

  • Override Commissions
  • Qualification for Customer Acquisition Bonuses
  • Clear lines of leadership throughout your organization

This enrollment relationship never changes – the generations in your organization are permanently based on who enrolled whom, creating a consistent foundation for your long-term business growth.

Placement:
Structuring Your Team for Growth

Placement refers to strategically positioning a newly enrolled Customer or Affiliate under another team member in your organization. As the enrolling Affiliate, you have 60 days to make these placement decisions in your Member’s Lounge.

Strategic Placement helps you:

  • Accelerate rank advancement by optimizing leg volume
  • Help team members unlock CAB bonuses
  • Create balanced, stable team structure for long-term growth

When you place Customers under new Affiliates, the Customer Points follow your new Affiliate while you retain all direct commissions.

Important Placement Rules:

  • Placement becomes permanent after 60 days
  • After 60 days, you can still request placement through Novae Corporate within the next 30 days for a $25 fee (as long as that Affiliate has not been placed previously)
  • If you make a placement mistake, you have 24 hours to contact the Novae corporate office for a one-time correction