Faberlic points confuse new consultants for a predictable reason: most explanations lead with numbers, and those numbers go stale within a couple of catalogue cycles. The underlying idea does not, so start there.
Points are a ruler, not a wallet
Faberlic operates in more than 40 countries with different currencies, prices and tax treatments. Comparing what two consultants achieved by looking at their local currency totals is meaningless. Points solve that: they are an internal unit of volume attached to products rather than to money.
Two consequences follow immediately, and they cover most of the confusion people arrive with:
- Points are not a store credit. They do not sit in a balance you can spend
- Points are not your income. They measure activity; earnings are calculated from that measurement according to the compensation plan
Where they come from
Products carry a point value, and that value is credited to the consultant whose number the order was placed under. Your total for a cycle combines:
Personal volume — orders you place, whether for yourself or on behalf of customers buying through you.
Group volume — the volume produced by the people in your organisation.
How those two combine, what thresholds exist and what each threshold unlocks are all set out in the current compensation plan on faberlic.com. I am deliberately not quoting figures: any article that does starts misleading its readers at the first update.
What points actually affect
- Qualification levels for a given period
- How the company calculates your reward — based on volume, not on unit count
- Your own honest self-assessment. Points are the only way to compare one cycle against another without currency and pricing noise
What they do not affect is retail margin. The gap between catalogue price and consultant price is the fastest and simplest money in this business, and it has nothing to do with points. Your personal discount there runs up to 26% depending on conditions.
The timing detail that catches people out
Volume is counted within a catalogue cycle, and cycles run roughly three weeks. An order that is not completed before a cycle closes carries its volume into the next one. This is why experienced consultants collect and place orders in the first half of a cycle rather than in its closing hours — not for discipline's own sake, but because a technical hiccup at the deadline moves a whole period's work.
Your current figures are visible in your account; find them there rather than from a description, since the layout changes. If a number does not match what you expected, that is a question for your sponsor or Faberlic support, not for mental arithmetic.
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