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Close commissions in two days

Qobra calculates every commission automatically, lets you update any plan on your own, and fields your reps’ questions for you.
Commissions stop eating up your month, so your RevOps team can get back to driving revenue.

Rated 4.8/5 with 1,000+ reviews

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“Closings went from 2 weeks to 2 days, we’re getting down to 1 day now.”
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Chris Fine
RevOps Manager at DataSnipper

“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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“I wanted us to be as autonomous as possible, and Qobra was one of the only tools that allowed us to be autonomous.”

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Philippine Vendeuvre
Global Sales Ops Director at Ogury
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Change any plan yourself, in hours.

Plan changes shouldn’t mean support tickets or consultant fees. Build, edit, and launch comp plans yourself, in hours instead of days.

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Stop answering the same rep questions.

Reps who trust their numbers don’t flood your inbox. Real-time visibility and instant answers mean fewer questions, and more time for strategy.

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Know what every plan really costs.

A comp plan is always evolving. Track what each plan really costs, spot what underperforms, and adjust fast, before inefficiencies compound quarter after quarter.

How Qobra gives you your time back

Automate any compensation plan.

Native data integrations

Connect your CRM, data warehouse, and HR systems natively. Data flows in automatically, with no external support required to maintain integrations.

CRM
Data warehouse
HRIS

No-code comp builder

Build any rule yourself: accelerators, ramp-ups, true-ups, clawbacks, multi-currency. If you can describe it, you can configure it.

Accelerators
True-ups
Multi-currency

The Architect, your builder partner

The Architect turns weeks of implementation into a conversation: draft a plan from any document, update ten plans in one prompt, and onboard new admins by letting them just ask.

The Architect
Plan builder
Bulk updates

Keep reps informed, and out of your inbox.

Transparent statements

Tailor each statement and dashboard the way your teams need it. Reps see their commissions update in real time, with every calculation visible.

Custom statements
Real-time
Formula drill-down

SPIFFs, simulations, and more

Launch SPIFFs in a few clicks, let reps track their live ranking, simulate earnings on any deal scenario, and send custom performance notifications.

SPIFFs
Leaderboards
Earnings simulator

AI request management

Reps ask questions from their statements. The Sales Coach answers instantly and escalates to you only when needed.

The Sales Coach
Instant answers
Smart resolution
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See what every plan pays, and what it delivers.

Tailored performance reports and dashboards

Build reports on your own KPIs, such as quota attainment, payout trends, and plan costs, and share live dashboards instead of exports.

Quota attainment
Payout trends
Performance

Comp plan simulations

Test plan changes in a sandbox against real data, and measure the impact before anything reaches your reps.

Sandboxes
Past data
Impact analysis

Discrepancy detection

The Analyst spots gaps between expected and actual payouts and flags anomalies before payroll turns into a fire drill.

The Analyst
Anomaly detection
Payroll checks
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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 automation software connects to your CRM, data warehouse, and HR systems, applies every rule of your comp plans automatically, and publishes statements reps can check. For RevOps teams, it replaces spreadsheets and manual imports with a single engine that handles calculations, plan changes, and rep questions, so the team can focus on plan design and revenue impact.

Qobra connects natively to your CRM, data warehouse, and HR systems, so deal and employee data flows in automatically. Its calculation engine then applies every rule, including accelerators, ramp-ups, true-ups, clawbacks, and multi-currency payouts, and recalculates commissions in real time as deals move.

Yes. Qobra’s no-code builder lets RevOps configure any rule themselves, and The Architect, Qobra’s AI agent, drafts plans from a document or applies bulk changes from a single prompt. Plan changes take hours instead of days, with no support tickets or consultant fees.

The Architect is Qobra’s AI agent for comp admins. It drafts a plan from any document, updates several plans from one prompt, and explains how an existing plan is configured, which also speeds up onboarding for new admins. Your team reviews and validates every change.

Reps get statements that show every deal and calculation behind their payout, updated in real time. When they still have a question, they ask it from their statement and The Sales Coach answers instantly, escalating to RevOps only when needed.

Yes. Qobra’s sandboxes run plan changes against your real historical data, so you can measure the impact on payouts and costs before anything reaches your reps. It is the safest way to fix edge cases and compare scenarios.

The Analyst, Qobra’s AI agent, compares expected and actual payouts and flags anomalies before month-end close. RevOps fixes issues before statements are published, instead of after a rep finds them.

Qobra connects natively to CRMs like Salesforce and HubSpot, data warehouses, and HR systems, with no external support required to maintain integrations. A public API and the Qobra MCP server cover the rest of your stack.

Most Qobra customers go live in a few weeks, including data integration and plan setup, with a dedicated CSM and no external consultants. The Architect speeds up setup further by drafting plans from your existing documents.