Do you want to be a Herbalife Member or a Herbalife Distributor?

Recently Herbalife International took a decision to create clarity to distributors, customers, employees, investors and the public in general. When are you a distributor? What does it entail? Do you have to distribute? If not, why call me a distributor?

Hence new terminology to fit in with the Herbalife Marketing Plan, the Herbalife Gold Standard Guarantees and the future of the company were created. In essence, all Herbalife distributors are Herbalife members, but not all Herbalife members are distributors.

Here is how it work:

In the past, the distinction was only between Herbalife customers and Herbalife distributors.

The reality however is that a lot of Herbalife distributors, only became distributors because they wanted to get the products at a discount for themselves. Because there were no obligations on the distributor to sell any products or do any business, these distributors were free to order products as and when they wanted for personal consumption at the discount they chose.

Herbalife recognises that these Herbalife users makes up a huge part of their market. In essence they are not distributors, they are merely wholesale customers. And here at Herbalife, we love our wholesale customers. They are loyal to the company, use our products regularly and spread the word of good nutrition on casual basis. As from 1 May 2016, these wholesale customers in the United States and India, have the further option to register directly with Herbalife as a discounted customer; they are called preferred members.

Herbalife Customers

Herbalife customers are people who buy the Herbalife products at full retail from other Herbalife members and distributors, but not from preferred members (see below).

Herbalife members

Each person that enters into a written agreement with Herbalife (formerly know as the Distributor Agreement), will now be known as a Herbalife Member. This written agreement also becomes known as the Herbalife Member Application and Agreement. This holds true for people joining Herbalife in all other Herbalife countries, except for the United States and India. In the United States and India the new person joining must decide whether he just wants to join as a wholesale customer, i.e. a preferred member or as a distributor. In India the distributors are called “associates”.

Each Herbalife member for all other countries (and distributors/associates for United States and India) will have the exact same rights as the previously known “Herbalife distributor”, and that is to:

1. Buy the products at a discount from Herbalife
2. Sell the products to Herbalife customers to make a profit
3. Recruit / sponsor new Herbalife members

The term “Herbalife Member” refers to all people who entered into a written Herbalife Member Agreement with Herbalife and who are below the Supervisor level.

Herbalife Preferred Members (for United States and India only)

All preferred members from the United States and India do not have the above rights! Yes, they can purchase directly from Herbalife at a discount and even qualify for higher discounts and other preferred member benefits and their starting discount is also 25%, but, they are not allowed to resell the products and they are not allowed to sponsor new people, i.e. build a network. In short, they are not allowed to do business, UNLESS they first upgrade to become a distributor for the US and an associate for India.

Distributors can decide to change their status to become preferred members, but this is not recommended. There are no real benefits for you personally to switch from a distributor to a preferred member. As a matter of fact, if you already sponsored other people to become Herbalife members in any shape or form, you will lose them for ever if you downgrade your status to become a preferred member. So if you are already signed up as a Herbalife distributor, keep that status, even though you are only a discounted product user. For you, there are no real advantages to switch to preferred member status.

How does Preferred Members affect your business?

For existing distributors, no matter where in the Herbalife world you are, if you do business in the US or India, having distributors and preferred members in those countries will affect you directly! Pay close attention:

If you are at the Supervisor level or above, you will know that your distributor’s and member’s personal volume count for your personal volume too, and in order to earn your Royalty commissions, you need certain personal volume targets every month. As from 1 May 2016, the personal volume from Distributors and Associates in the Unites States and India, DO NOT COUNT for you as personal volume in order to qualify for these royalty commissions or any other qualifications. Their volume is labeled as “undocumented volume”. In order to earn your full 5% royalty overides, you need 2500 personal volume, but this may not include undocumented volume. As first upline supervisor, you will still earn the wholesale commission on this volume, but it will not help you to reach your 2500 volume point target for royalty earning purposes.

On the other hand, all the products purchased by Herbalife preferred members in India and the United States, are called “documented volume” and these volume points DO COUNT for you as personal volume that you can use. So, in short, it is to the upline members’ benefit to have a healthy number of preferred members in his team. As a matter of fact in the US and India, it is imperative for all the distributors / associates in those two countries to build their business based on preferred members, and only sponsor new distributors who really wants to do the business. If they just want to join as Herbalife wholesale customers, it’s best to join as a Herbalife preferred member straight away. The new Herbalife preferred member have the same discount buying privileges, however, as mentioned before, he or she may not resell the products, sponsor new people or do the Herbalife business in any shape or form. If they happen to fall in love with the products and wants to do the business, they can then always upgrade to become a distributor. In the meantime their volume as preferred members will assist their sponsors. In short, Distributors and Associates in the US and India should consider signing up all their customers, as preferred members (wholesale customers).

TIP: To know what percentage of your personal volume includes undocumented volume, you can log onto the United States MyHerbalife website. When you do, you will see on the home page a wheel that shows you exactly how much personal volume you have, how much of it is documented and how much is undocumented. It even tells you for what percentage of royalty overides your are already qualified. Why is this important? Because you can sit in Australia, and log onto your Australian myHerbalife website and just see that you have 2500 personal volume and you might assume you have enough to qualify for the full 5% royalty overides. However, if some of that volume was purchased in the US by a US distributor, that volume will be undocumented and not count. For example, your US distributor might have bought 200 vp, which means your total documented volume will only be 2300vp for that month, and hence you will only qualify for 4% royalties. It’s therefore important to check your volume status on the United States myHerbalife website to make double sure your personal documented volume requirements are met.

To sum up:

When you become a Herbalife Member, Distributor or Associate (depending on your country of residence), your minimum product discount is 25%.

Like any other good wholesale business: the more you buy, the higher your discount. The next level discount is 35%. Then 42% and lastly, 50%. Once you reach the 50% discount level in Herbalife, you are called a Supervisor. The 35% discount position is known as “Senior Consultant” and the 42% discount as Qualified Producer. (However, in the US and India you can no longer buy your way up the marketing plan, you have to earn it via building preferred members.)

For more about these discount levels and how to qualify to each of them, click here: Herbalife Discounts

Therefore, once you reach the Supervisor level and above, you will in generic terms be referred to as a Herbalife distributor. Whilst you are on any of the levels below that, i.e. 25%, 35% or 42%, the generic term for you would be a Herbalife Member.

Caveat: Do not at any stage as a Supervisor “accidentally” downgrade yourself to become a Herbalife preferred member; you will lose your whole downline business as if you resigned.

Everybody therefore starts as a Herbalife Member. Whether you then advance to become a Herbalife distributor, is completely up to you. Only in the US and India can you register as a preferred member from day one, but only if you are certain that you do not want to do the Herbalife business, i.e. sell the products or sponsor/recruit new members. You decide.

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Frequently asked questions for people who consider to join Herbalife:

Q: How do I join Herbalife if my country of residence is not on the list of countries that offer online Herbalife applications?

Q: What are the benefits of becoming an Independent Herbalife Member?

Q: What are Herbalife Volume Points?

Q: How do I make money with Herbalife in 90 days or less?

You qualify to higher levels of discount, based on the volume of products you and your team purchase from Herbalife in a calendar month. Your starting discount is 25%.

Q: How do I qualify for each discount level?