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Leave the spreadsheet behind, keep the control

Your first quota carriers deserve better than a formula nobody dares to touch. Qobra gets your plans live in days, pays every rep accurately each month, and grows with you, no RevOps team required to run it.

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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“I used to have a lot of questions, but since Qobra, we hardly have any questions at all.”

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Raphaël Boukris
CRO and co-founder at Didomi
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Go live in days, not quarters.

You don’t have a quarter to spend on implementation. Our team builds your first plans with you, and most small teams run their first payout in Qobra within weeks of signing.

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End the “why is my number wrong?” emails.

Every rep sees a live, transparent statement and gets instant answers from The Sales Coach. Customers cut rep requests by up to 90%.

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Start simple, scale without migrating.

Start with the Core package. Add multi-currency, custom workflows, HRIS sync, and sandboxes when you need them. Same platform, same data, no re-implementation.

How Qobra does it

Build your first plan in a day.

No-code comp builder

Quotas, tiers, accelerators, SPIFFs: configure any rule yourself in readable logic blocks. If you can describe it, you can configure it.

Quotas
Tiers
SPIFFs

The Architect drafts it for you

Upload your current comp plan as a PDF or Excel file and The Architect drafts a first version in Qobra. Review, adjust, ship.

PDF
Excel
AI draft

In-house support, no consultants

A dedicated in-house support team answers your questions directly. No implementation partner, no services bill bigger than the software.

In-house team
Direct support
No consultants
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Connect your CRM, forget the exports.

Native CRM integration

Salesforce, HubSpot, and more: deals flow in automatically. One connection, and commission data is always current, no CSV imports.

Salesforce
HubSpot
Auto sync

Real-time calculation

Commissions update as deals close. Reps see where they stand mid-month, not three weeks after the period ends.

Real-time
Mid-month visibility
Auto updates

Standard validation workflow

Review, approve, send to payroll. A simple approval flow, so no payout leaves without the right sign-off, and every adjustment is tracked.

Review
Approve
Send to payroll

Reps who trust their numbers.

Live, transparent statements

Every rep sees their current and projected earnings, and can click any amount to see exactly how it was calculated.

Current earnings
Projected earnings
Click-to-explain

The Sales Coach

“What do I earn if I close this deal?” The Sales Coach answers instantly and simulates earnings on any deal, so the questions stop landing in your inbox.

AI agent
Instant answers
Deal simulator

Slack and mobile

Reps check their earnings where they already work, with notifications when a payout is ready.

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Mobile
Notifications
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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 small businesses and startups replaces the commission spreadsheet with a tool that connects to your CRM, calculates every rep’s commissions automatically, and shows them a transparent statement. Qobra is built to go live in days, run without a RevOps team, and grow with you as plans get more complex.

Qobra starts making sense at around 10 quota carriers, or earlier if your plan already has tiers, ramp-ups, or clawbacks that a spreadsheet struggles with. Below that, a well-built spreadsheet is usually enough, and we’ll tell you so.

For a small team with one or two plans and clean CRM data, we’re talking days to a few weeks, not months. Our onboarding team builds your first plans with you, and The Architect can draft them from your existing comp document.

No. Most small teams have one person owning commissions alongside their main job. Once the CRM is connected, calculations run automatically, reps get answers from The Sales Coach, and your monthly work is reviewing and approving statements.

The no-code compensation builder, one native CRM integration, live and transparent statements for reps, standard validation workflows with permissions and accesses, and statement adjustment tracking. Everything you need to replace the spreadsheet.

You upgrade your package, not your platform. Multi-currency, custom approval workflows, request management, ERP and HRIS integrations, sandboxes, and advanced reporting are all available on the same Qobra account, with no re-implementation.

Salesforce, HubSpot, and the main CRMs natively, plus 100+ integrations across HRIS, ERP, and data warehouses when you need them. Deals sync automatically, so you never upload a CSV again.

Yes. Upload your current comp plan as a PDF or Excel file and The Architect drafts a first version in Qobra. You review, adjust, and ship it, with our onboarding team alongside you.

Yes. Reps see their current and projected earnings where they already work, on Slack and on mobile, with notifications when a payout is ready and the ability to click any amount to see how it was calculated.