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Sales compensation built for the automotive industry

Per-unit pay, front- and back-end gross, OEM targets, and a different pay plan at every rooftop: automotive comp always gets tricky. Qobra calculates it all, accurately, automatically.

Rated 4.8/5 with 1,000+ reviews

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“With Qobra, we can make plan changes very quickly. It took us one day to implement all the 2026 plans.With Qobra, we can make plan changes very quickly. It took us one day to implement all the 2026 plans.”

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“The fact that everything is transparent has a very positive effect on the salesperson’s relationship with the company.”

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Jean-Louis Baffier
CRO at Nextlane
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Run many sites without many spreadsheets.

Every rooftop, brand, and role has its own plan. Multiply that by sales, F&I, service, and managers, and manual calculation becomes a full-time job.

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Keep up with monthly programs.

OEM targets, stair-step bonuses, monthly SPIFFs on aged stock: incentives change every month, and the floor needs to know the rules on day one.

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Earn the trust of a commission-driven floor.

Salespeople check every deal on their pay. When numbers are late or unclear, disputes eat up managers’ time and motivation drops.

How Qobra does it

Calculate on units, gross, and F&I.

Per-unit and gross-based rules

Flats, minis, percentage of gross, volume tiers: build any pay rule by vehicle type, brand, or role, and combine them freely.

Flats & minis
% of gross
Volume tiers

F&I and aftersales commissions

Pay on finance, warranties, protection products, and service revenue, with rules specific to each product.

Finance
Warranties
Service revenue

Splits, chargebacks, and adjustments

Split deals between salespeople, apply chargebacks on canceled contracts, and log every adjustment automatically.

Deal splits
Chargebacks
Adjustment log
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One platform for every rooftop.

Groups and hierarchies by site

Organize plans by dealership, brand, region, and role. Each site keeps its own rules, and the group sees everything in one place.

Dealership
Brand
Region

The Architect, your AI plan builder

Roll out next month’s pay plan across every site in a single prompt, and simulate the cost before launch.

Agentic builder
Multi-site rollout
Cost simulation

SPIFFs in a few clicks

Push a model, clear aged inventory, or hit an OEM target with a targeted SPIFF, tracked on live leaderboards.

OEM targets
Aged inventory
Live leaderboards
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Give the floor answers, not doubts.

Transparent statements

Salespeople see every deal, every unit, and every calculation behind their pay, updated in real time.

Per deal
Per unit
Real-time

The Sales Coach, their AI comp expert

Salespeople simulate what a deal will pay and get instant answers on their plan, without waiting for a manager.

AI agent
Deal simulator
Instant answers

Validation workflows and audit trail

Site managers and Finance approve every statement before payroll, with every change documented.

Site managers
Finance
Audit trail
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Meet the three AI agents
that give you your week back.

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Sales comp management,
on autopilot

The Architect

Your plan builder that creates, edits and simulates commission plans for you.

The Sales Coach

Answers every rep question, so you don't have to.

The Analyst

Catches commission errors before your reps do.

Build and test commission plans instantly. Describe a plan in plain language, update ten plans in one prompt, and simulate the result on historical payouts before anything reaches your reps.

Build and edit plans in natural language
Onboard new admins in hours, not weeks
Simulate before you launch
Meet the Architect

Answer every rep question, automatically. "How much will I earn if I close this deal?" "Why was my commission this amount?" The Sales Coach explains each statement with concrete examples, so reps trust their numbers and stop pinging RevOps.

Cut rep questions by 90%
Let reps simulate earnings in real time
Make every plan self-explaining
Meet the Sales Coach

Catch commission errors before payout. The Analyst reconciles data across plans, tracks quota attainment and pay versus performance, and alerts your team before payroll turns into a fire drill.

Reconcile every plan automatically
Track the metrics that matter
Get alerted before errors cost you
Meet the Analyst
3xFaster to implement
“I will say the Architect has been off the charts good. It really is incredible, so I don't see this being a massive lift like in the past.”
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Khaled AlSaleh
Head of RevOps at incident.io

Qobra MCP Server

Use Qobra from Claude, ChatGPT or any MCP-compatible assistant. Pull commission data, trigger actions, and build custom workflows that run themselves, with your Qobra permissions applied to every request.

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4.8/5
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“I would say the tooling is very simple. You can see where the variables are coming from, so it was very easy and quick for our team.”
Jessica Ho, RevOps Manager at ElevenLabs
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“Since we’ve had Qobra, we’ve seen between 15 and 20% progress towards our objectives.”
Fabian Q. Veit, CEO at Make
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“It’s more the fact that I just don’t have to worry about commissions anymore.”
Chris Cook, RevOps Director at GoCardless
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“At the end of every period, when we run commissions right now, we do a simple check with our finance team, and that’s it.”
Derek Boelig, VP RevOps at DataSnipper
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Integrations

Plugs into the tools you already use

Qobra connects natively to your CRM, data warehouse, HRIS and ERP, so commissions run on the same data, refreshed in real time. And yes, you can still make manual adjustments.

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CRM & ERP
HRIS
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Data Warehouses & Databases
File Storage Systems
Qobra MCP Server
Use Qobra from Claude, ChatGPT or any MCP-compatible assistant. Pull commission data, trigger actions, and build custom workflows that run themselves, with your Qobra permissions applied to every request.
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Security and Control

Enterprise-grade security built into every layer.

Time back. More trust.
Their words, not ours.

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“Qobra increased my team’s confidence, which directly impacts sales performance.”
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RevOps Manager
ElevenLabs
“I don’t really get questions anymore. Reps can see exactly what they’re paid on, and it saves me a lot of time.”



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VP Global Sales
DataSnipper
“Qobra has significantly improved my team’s productivity. They no longer have to calculate their commissions manually, and it gives them more confidence in the process.”
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RevOps Manager
DataSnipper
“Reps can ask themselves: if I close this $100K deal, how much more commission will I make? That little extra can motivate them to close.”
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“We went from 14 to 18 days to 2 days, sometimes 1.”
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Your frequently asked questions

Sales compensation software for the automotive industry calculates pay plans for salespeople, F&I, service, and managers across every rooftop, from per-unit flats and minis to front- and back-end gross and OEM bonuses. It replaces spreadsheets with automatic, transparent calculations that the floor can check deal by deal.

Yes. Qobra calculates on any metric: units, front-end gross, back-end gross, F&I income, or any custom KPI, by vehicle, brand, or role.

Yes. Each site, brand, and role can have its own plan, managed in one platform with group-level reporting, so the group sees everything in one place while every rooftop keeps its own rules.

Deal data flows in through your data warehouse, CRM, or automated imports, so calculations always run on your latest sales. A public API and the Qobra MCP server cover the rest of your stack.

Chargebacks and clawbacks apply automatically when a deal is unwound, and every adjustment is logged on the salesperson’s statement.

Yes. Launch SPIFFs and stair-step bonuses in a few clicks to push a model, clear aged inventory, or hit an OEM target, and track progress on live leaderboards.

Yes. Each salesperson has a transparent statement showing every deal, unit, and calculation, updated in real time. The Sales Coach, Qobra’s AI agent, simulates what a deal will pay and answers their plan questions instantly.

In hours, not weeks. The Architect, Qobra’s AI agent, rolls out a new pay plan across every site in a single prompt and simulates the cost before launch, and site managers can adjust rules themselves in the no-code builder.

Site managers and Finance approve every statement through multi-level validation before payroll, with every change documented in the audit trail.