The Liquid Bucketing System, step by step

The Liquid Bucketing System is the method used to calculate your Grid Sharing Earning. It runs every cycle in three steps.

Step 1. Set the bucket size

Every Cluster in your Grid (all your branches plus your Root's shared Clusters) is ranked by total sales volume, from highest to lowest. The volume of the Top Producer (the Cluster with the highest volume), plus any volume carried forward from the previous cycle, sets the size of your buckets. The bucket size is dynamic and is re-established every week.

Bucket size = Top Producer volume + carry-forward

Step 2. Pour the total volume

All Grid volumes, plus any carry-forward, are poured in sequence into equal, empty buckets, starting with the carry-forward and the Top Producer. When a bucket is full, the overflow moves into the next bucket.

Step 3. Find the payable volume

Not all volume is payable. The rules are:

Bucket	When it pays
Bucket 1	Never alone. As bucket 2 fills, the same volume becomes payable from both buckets
Bucket 2	Pays the volume it contains, matched by the same amount from bucket 1
Bucket 3 and beyond	Only when the bucket is complete

Your reward

Grid Sharing Earning = your rate (3% or 7%) × payable volume

What happens to the rest

Volume that does not become payable is carried forward to the next cycle. In the official examples, the carried volume equals the total volume minus the payable volume.

Why it works this way

Because bucket 1 is sized on your Top Producer and only pays when the rest of the Grid fills bucket 2, the system rewards volume that is spread across the Grid, not concentrated in a single Cluster. See the worked examples in "Liquid Bucketing: two worked examples".