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Commission spend without the surprises

Accurate payouts, your true cost of sales, and an audit trail behind every number. Qobra gives Finance full control, from the first calculation to the payroll export.

Rated 4.8/5 with 1,000+ reviews

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“I asked it to break down the month’s commission by deal and explain how that amount was calculated. The agent did it perfectly.”
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Diogo Marujo
Senior Field Finance Manager at Contentsquare

“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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“Our CFO never questions the reliability of the figures in Qobra, he has total confidence in the tool.”

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Marion Braud
Revenue Operations Expert at Mangopay
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Get every payout right the first time.

Wrong formulas create errors and tension. Commission accuracy isn’t a nice-to-have: it’s what keeps trust between Finance and the field.

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See what every deal really costs you.

Commissions are one of your largest spend lines, yet most teams only know the total. Deal-level and rep-level visibility is what turns comp from a cost into a growth lever.

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Prove every number.

When commission numbers are challenged, Finance owns the answer. Full traceability on every payout means you can defend any number, anytime.

How Qobra keeps you in control

Control every payout.

Validation workflows

Statements go through multi-level approval, from reps to managers to Finance. Nothing reaches payroll without the right sign-offs.

Multi-level approval
Requests
Hierarchy

Exception handling and tracking

Splits, overrides, manual payments: handle any exception, with every adjustment logged and traceable.

Splits
Overrides
Manual payments

The Analyst flags discrepancies

The Analyst spots gaps between expected and actual payouts and alerts your team before errors cost you a clawback.

AI agent
Anomaly alerts
Payroll checks
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Keep comp spend on budget.

Sandboxes to run simulations

Test plan changes or replay past periods in a sandbox, and measure the cost impact before anything goes live.

Sandboxes
Past period replay
Cost impact

Dashboards to track costs and performance

Know your true cost of sales, per deal and per rep. Track payouts against budget in real time.

Cost per deal
Margin
Budget tracking

Forecasting and accruals

Forecast future payouts and generate accruals effortlessly so every close holds no surprises.

Payout forecast
Accruals
Period close
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Stay audit-ready.

Complete audit trail

Every change, exception, and approval is logged, with who did what, and when. The full history of every payout, one click away.

Overrides
Change history
Audit trail

Data for ASC 606 reporting

Commission data stays clean, structured, and traceable, ready to feed your ASC 606 reporting and your auditors’ requests.

ASC 606
Structured data
Auditor-ready

Role-based access control

Fine-grained permissions control who sees what. Sensitive comp data stays visible to the right people, and no one else.

Custom roles
Granular permissions
Confidentiality
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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
with 1,000+ reviews
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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

Commission management software calculates, validates, and reports on variable pay from your CRM, billing, and HR data. For Finance, it replaces spreadsheets with accurate payouts, approval workflows, cost-of-sales reporting, accruals, and a full audit trail, so every commission number can be trusted and defended.

Qobra pulls deal and employee data directly from your CRM and HR systems and applies every plan rule automatically, with every formula visible. The Analyst, Qobra’s AI agent, compares expected and actual payouts and flags anomalies before statements are published, so errors are caught before they reach payroll.

Statements go through multi-level approval, from reps to managers to Finance, and nothing reaches payroll without the required sign-offs. Every approval is timestamped and visible in the audit trail.

Yes. Qobra forecasts future payouts from pipeline and historical data and generates accruals automatically at each close, so Finance books commission expenses accurately and every close holds no surprises.

Qobra shows your true cost of sales per deal, per rep, and per plan, and tracks payouts against budget in real time. Finance can test plan changes or replay past periods in a sandbox to measure the cost impact before anything goes live.

Yes. Qobra keeps commission data clean, structured, and traceable, so it can feed your ASC 606 reporting and answer your auditors’ requests without manual reconciliation.

Yes. Every calculation, plan change, exception, approval, and export is logged with who did what and when. Finance and auditors can trace any payout back to the rule and data behind it in one click.

Role-based access control with custom roles and granular permissions ensures sensitive comp data is only visible to the right people. Qobra is SOC 2 Type II certified and GDPR compliant, and the same permissions apply to its AI agents.

Once statements are validated, approved payouts export to your payroll system in one click, in the format your payroll team needs. Every export keeps a full audit trail of who approved what, and when.