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Set your rules once. Every commission calculates itself.

Qobra is the commission calculation software that syncs your CRM, billing and HR data and calculates every commission in real time, ramp-ups and clawbacks included. Your reps get statements they trust. You approve, and payouts go to payroll in one click.

Rated 4.8/5 with 1,000+ reviews

“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 feels like a breath of fresh air. Intuitive yet powerful. Within a few minutes, everything just makes sense.”
Kris Heath, Sales Ops and Commission Analyst at GoCardless

Connect every data source. No more manual imports.

Connect your CRM, data warehouse, and HR systems natively, no more manual imports or exports. No technical skills required to set up or maintain your integrations.

Handle every rule and exception, however complex.

Automate every commission rule and exception to eliminate calculation errors. Multi-currency, ramp-ups, true-ups, and clawbacks configured with full control.

A calculation rules interface showing Increased MRR equals £2,437.50 with three conditional rules: Disabled rule multiplies MRR after Discount by 2 if Payment Terms are Upfront, an invalid rule sets MRR after Discount if Contract Commitment equals 12, and an active rule multiplies MRR after Discount by 1.5 if Contract Commitment is greater than 24.

Show every rep what they've earned, in real time.

Give your reps, managers, and VPs real-time visibility into quota attainment, commissions, and incentives. Transparent dashboards that drive motivation and performance.

User interface showing John Mason's commission statement for June 2027, with a profile photo and currency set to pounds. Displays total payment of £30,405.87, buttons for creating a request, simulation, and Sales Coach. Highlights ARR Bonus, Services, and Manual commission categories. Lists monthly payout of £30,405.87, estimated additional commission £70,800.87, YTD commission £30,405.87, and already paid £0.00.

Send approved payouts to payroll in one click.

Once payouts are approved, automate the last mile. Export payouts straight to your payroll system, formatted exactly the way your payroll team needs them.

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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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Built for every team that touches sales comp

ForRevOps & Operations
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Ship plan changes in hours, automate the busywork, and shift from running commissions to supervising them.

ForFinance
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Accurate payouts, controlled cost of sales, and an audit trail that makes every number defensible.

ForSales leaders
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Reps who trust their numbers sell more. Transparency, live rankings, and instant answers keep the floor motivated.

ForSales Comp teams
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Close every period on time, cut the question flood, and report to execs in minutes, not weekends.

ForHR
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Keep variable pay fair and compliant, and send clean data to payroll on time, without chasing spreadsheets every month.

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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, with UK GDPR compliance and EU hosting.

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

Automated commission calculation software connects to your sales, billing, and HR data and computes every payout from your plan rules, with no spreadsheets. Qobra calculates commissions in real time, shows each rep how every number was computed, and exports approved payouts to payroll in one click.

Qobra connects natively to CRMs such as Salesforce, HubSpot, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Pipedrive, Zoho CRM, and Odoo, HRIS and ERP systems such as Workday, BambooHR, HiBob, and NetSuite, data warehouses such as Snowflake and BigQuery, and file storage. A public API and the Qobra MCP server cover everything else. No technical skills are needed to set up or maintain an integration.

In real time. Every time a deal moves in your CRM or a record changes in your HRIS, Qobra recalculates the affected commissions automatically. Reps, managers, and Finance always see current numbers, not last month's export.

Yes. Qobra's calculation engine is built for compensation logic: multi-currency plans, ramp-ups for new hires, accelerators and tiers, true-ups, clawbacks, splits, and SPIFFs. Every rule and exception is configured once and applied consistently at each close, which removes manual calculation errors.

Once statements are validated through Qobra's multi-level approval workflow, you export payouts to your payroll system in one click, formatted exactly the way your payroll team needs them. Each export keeps a full audit trail of who approved what and when.

Yes. Each rep has a personal statement and dashboard with quota attainment, earned commissions, and a breakdown of every calculation step. Managers and VPs get the same visibility for their teams, which cuts commission questions and keeps the sales floor motivated.