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Commission software built for regulated revenue teams

From fintech scale-ups to established financial institutions, Qobra automates complex commission plans with the accuracy, auditability, and transparency your compliance team expects.

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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“With Qobra’s validation system for each stakeholder, it’s quick and easy. You just click to validate. There’s also traceability of who validates when, which is very useful during an audit!”

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Marion Braud
Revenue Operations Expert at Mangopay
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Handle multi-role crediting.

AEs, brokers, partnership managers, and team leads often share credit on a single deal. Splits, overrides, and referral fees multiply, and so do disputes when they’re calculated by hand.

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Blend every revenue model.

One-off fees, recurring subscriptions, transaction volumes: your comp plans mix them all. Generic tools force workarounds; spreadsheets force errors.

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Stay audit-ready.

Every payout must be traceable, every adjustment justified, every plan change documented.

How Qobra does it

Model any plan, no matter how layered.

No-code plan builder

Tiered rates, accelerators, broker splits, transaction-based bonuses, thresholds: build them all yourself, and test before rollout.

Tiered rates
Broker splits
Transaction bonuses

The Architect, your AI plan builder

Turn your plan document into a working setup in minutes, and update several plans with a single prompt.

Agentic builder
No-code
Bulk updates

Automatic clawback handling

Churn, refunds, and cancellations trigger the corresponding adjustments automatically, with full visibility for admins and reps.

Churn
Refunds
Cancellations
Booking Commission dashboard showing summarized calculations with a purple button for creating variables, a table defining accelerator tiers with ranges and multipliers linked to booking base rates, and a line graph depicting acceleration compensation against closed won ARR with values from $0 to $120,000 and closed won ARR from $0 to $1,400,000. Key financial figures include monthly payout $2,469.68, estimated additional commission $13,446.17, year-to-date commission $26,858.99, already paid $24,383.31, booking base rate 6.63%, annual ARR target $980,000, and OTE $65,000.

Calculate accurately from fragmented data.

Multi-source integrations

CRM, billing, core banking exports, HRIS: all your data flows into one calculation engine, natively.

CRM
Billing
ERP

A calculation engine built for volume

Thousands of transaction lines processed each period, with quick updates and version history per closing period.

High volume
Quick updates
Version history

Discrepancy detection

The Analyst spots gaps between expected and actual payouts and flags them before month-end close, not after.

The Analyst
Anomaly detection
Month-end close

An audit trail to stay compliant.

Validation workflows

Every statement routes through the right approvers before payroll. No payout leaves without the required sign-offs.

Multi-level approval
Custom approvers
Pre-payroll

Full audit trail

Every change, exception, and adjustment is logged with who, when, and why. When the audit comes, the answer is one click away.

Event tracking
Exception log
Audit-ready

Role-based access control

Fine-grained permissions keep sensitive comp data on a need-to-know basis, across teams and entities.

Custom roles
Granular permissions
Multi-entity
Audit trail interface showing activities for Robert Johnson in June 2027 under AEs US. Laura Simmons from Finance added a note 2 hours ago stating fixed transaction id xe10a10938. Laura Simmons approved a request 3 hours ago, overriding booking commission from $77,108.77 to $60,000.00. Robert Johnson raised an issue about a past payment 1 day ago. Text input box for writing a note is visible.
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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 software for financial services automates how variable pay is calculated, approved, and paid across complex plans: multi-role crediting, broker splits, transaction-based bonuses, and a mix of recurring and one-off revenue. It replaces spreadsheets with an auditable system, so every payout is traceable and every plan change is documented.

Yes. Qobra credits several roles on the same deal, including AEs, brokers, partnership managers, and team leads, and applies splits, overrides, and referral fees automatically, so credit is no longer calculated by hand and disputes drop.

Yes. One-off fees, recurring subscriptions, and transaction volumes can be combined in the same plan, with tiered rates, accelerators, thresholds, and transaction-based bonuses configured in the no-code builder.

Churn, refunds, and cancellations trigger the corresponding clawbacks automatically, with full visibility for admins and reps on what was adjusted and why.

Yes. Qobra’s calculation engine processes thousands of transaction lines each period from your CRM, billing system, core banking exports, and HRIS, with quick updates and version history for every closing period.

Every change, exception, and adjustment is logged with who, when, and why, and every statement goes through multi-level approval before payroll. When auditors ask, the full history of any payout is one click away.

Role-based access control with custom roles and granular permissions keeps comp data on a need-to-know basis, across teams and entities. Qobra is SOC 2 Type II certified and GDPR compliant.

Yes. Qobra manages plans, permissions, and payouts across entities and currencies, so groups with several subsidiaries or countries run commissions in one platform while keeping data separated where needed.

The Analyst, Qobra’s AI agent, compares expected and actual payouts and flags discrepancies before month-end close, so errors are fixed before they reach payroll.