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Sales compensation built for manufacturing

Direct reps, distributors, and dealers selling hundreds of SKUs across shifting seasons: manufacturing comp has more moving parts than any spreadsheet can hold. 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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“Qobra allows us to have a common discourse that avoids misunderstandings and therefore sometimes lengthy exchanges with the teams concerned.”

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Adrien Petit
Sales Director at Arjo
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Credit every channel correctly.

Direct sales, distributors, dealers, and inside teams often touch the same order. Splitting credit across channels by hand multiplies errors, and disputes follow.

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Adapt plans to shifting priorities.

New product launches, seasonal demand, changing line priorities: your incentives must redirect the field fast, without weeks of rework each time strategy moves.

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Connect comp to your ERP reality.

Orders, invoices, and margins live in your ERP, not your CRM. Comp is only accurate if it calculates from the data where your business actually runs.

How Qobra does it

Calculate across channels and SKUs.

Multi-channel crediting

Splits between direct reps, distributors, and dealers run by rule, not by hand. Every party gets credited correctly, automatically.

Direct reps
Distributors
Dealers

Margin and volume-based rules

Commission on revenue, margin, units, or any custom metric, by product line or SKU, so plans reward what actually makes you money.

Revenue
Margin
Units

Built for volume

Thousands of order lines processed automatically each period, with every calculation traceable back to its source.

Thousands of lines
Automatic processing
Full traceability
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Change incentives as fast as demand shifts.

No-code plan builder

Adjust rates, quotas, and accelerators yourself when priorities change. No IT project, no consultant queue.

Rates
Quotas
Accelerators

The Architect, your AI plan builder

Update plans across product lines in a single prompt, and launch a new-product incentive in hours, not weeks.

Agentic builder
Bulk updates
Product launches

SPIFFs to redirect the field

Push a product line or clear seasonal stock with a targeted SPIFF, launched in a few clicks, tracked on live leaderboards.

Product push
Seasonal stock
Live leaderboards
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Plug into your ERP and data stack.

Native data integrations

NetSuite, Salesforce, Snowflake, BigQuery, and more: order, invoice, and margin data flows in natively, no exports to maintain.

NetSuite
Salesforce
Snowflake

One source of truth for payouts

Reps, managers, and Finance all see the same numbers, calculated from the same data, updated in real time.

Reps
Managers
Finance

Full audit trail

Every calculation, adjustment, and approval is logged. When Finance or a distributor questions a payout, the answer is documented.

Calculation log
Adjustments
Approvals
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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

Sales compensation software for manufacturing calculates commissions for direct reps, distributors, and dealers from your ERP and CRM data, by product line or SKU. It replaces spreadsheets with automatic, traceable calculations, so every channel is credited correctly and plans can change as fast as demand does.

Splits between direct reps, distributors, dealers, and inside teams run by rule, not by hand. When several parties touch the same order, each one is credited automatically according to your plan, which removes manual errors and the disputes that follow.

Yes. Commissions can be based on revenue, margin, units, or any custom metric, by product line or SKU, so your plans reward the sales that actually make you money.

Yes. Qobra connects natively to ERPs like NetSuite, CRMs like Salesforce, and data warehouses like Snowflake and BigQuery. Order, invoice, and margin data flows in automatically, with no exports to maintain.

Yes. Qobra processes thousands of order lines automatically each period, and every calculation stays traceable back to its source data.

Plan changes take hours, not weeks. RevOps adjusts rates, quotas, and accelerators in the no-code builder, and The Architect, Qobra’s AI agent, updates plans across product lines in a single prompt. ePack Pro changed a plan in three prompts instead of half a day.

Yes. Launch a targeted SPIFF in a few clicks to push a product line, support a new launch, or clear seasonal stock, and track results on live leaderboards.

Reps, managers, and Finance all see the same payouts, calculated from the same ERP and CRM data and updated in real time, so there is one source of truth for every commission.

Yes. Every calculation, adjustment, and approval is logged. When Finance or a distributor questions a payout, the answer is documented and one click away.