How do I record that I paid someone their commission?

Mark paid records a payment you made — cash, check, payroll, however you pay people — against what the ledger says is owed. It does not send money anywhere. A paid row is never edited afterwards: if a payment later refunds, the ledger adds a negative row against the same charge so the history stays intact and the next payout nets it off; a correction works the same way. Commissions are computed from net amounts, so a refund never leaves a commission standing on money you gave back — that holds for a card refund on a DeskOps invoice paid online too. The total you confirm on Mark Paid has to equal the rows it settles, to the cent; if the two disagree, nothing is marked and the screen asks you to refresh and try again. Even a one-cent difference is refused. Hours are checked against the saved rate or the rate in effect on the work date; a missing rate must be corrected before those hours can be marked paid. Native invoice refunds retain the original commission and add separate adjustments, including before payout, so successive partial refunds keep the same original calculation basis.