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Design any compensation plan yourself, change it in minutes

Model any plan in a flexible, no-code sales compensation plan builder, with the Architect, our AI agent, at your side. Test new scenarios on your own, without waiting on a consultant.

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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“All in all, it was kind of like having an additional person helping me build the plans. It was super handy.”
Emily Harte, Revenue Strategy and Operations at ElevenLabs

A no-code plan builder made for comp logic.

Our no-code plan builder is designed specifically for compensation logic. Pull data with natural-language filters, transform it with logic blocks, and calculate commissions with formulas. Every rule is easy to read and audit, no more black box, no reliance on external support.

Screenshot of a Booking Commission dashboard showing summarized calculations including monthly payout (£2,469.68), estimated additional commission (£13,446.17), year-to-date commission (£26,858.99), and amount already paid (£24,389.31). Performance section shows acceleration curve (£33,930.46), target achievement (52.20%), and closed won ARR (£511,567.00). Inputs list booking base rate (6.63%), annual ARR target (£980,000.00), and OTE (£65,000.00). The Accelerator table defines commission tiers based on input ranges and multipliers with booking base rate percentages at 50%, 100%, and 150%. A graph plots Acceleration Commission against Closed won ARR values from £0 to £1,400,000.00.

Let the Architect draft your plans for you.

Save hours: upload a PDF or Excel file and The Architect drafts a first version of your plan. Ask it to make bulk updates, implement specific components, or explain your existing setup.

Chat interface labeled The Architect BETA showing a user requesting to build a plan with an attached PDF file named AE_Commission_Plan_2027.pdf; the response suggests proposed changes including a monthly booking commission plan for Account Executive with base rate, cumulative accelerator, multi-year bonus, and professional services commission, starting with scope creation for Signed Deals YTD.

Test every plan on real payouts before launch.

Control and roll out plans with confidence by creating a sandbox that calculates commissions based on historical data. Identify edge cases, fix errors, simulate different scenarios and visualise payout distribution.

Bar chart comparing annual payouts for statement users Amanda Lawrence, Brandon Suarez, David Barker, Javier Casey, Jessica Solomon, John Anderson, Samuel Lee, and Timothy Liu, across three plans: Plan V1 (purple), Plan V2 (yellow), and Plan V3 (orange). A tooltip highlights Jessica Solomon's payouts: £45,707.00 for Plan V1, £31,145.00 for Plan V2, and £45,707.00 for Plan V3. The vertical axis ranges from $0 to £150K. The horizontal axis displays user names.

Custom statements and dashboards your reps actually trust.

Give sellers a tailored view of their comp: when they understand the plan, it drives the right behaviours. Every calculation step is visible, building trust in every payout and cutting rep questions.

Sales dashboard displaying multiple charts: a purple bar chart for performance distribution, a scatter plot with a trend line for discrepancy check, a line graph showing average achievement by period with three colored lines, a stacked bar chart for closed sales by region in US, EMEA, CA, and UK, and a dual-colored bar chart for ranking and pacing sales.
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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

A sales compensation plan builder is software that lets you model commission plans without spreadsheets or code. In Qobra, you pull data with natural-language filters, transform it with logic blocks, and calculate payouts with formulas. Every rule stays readable and auditable, so RevOps and Finance can change a plan without waiting on a vendor or an external consultant.

Most plans take minutes to hours, not weeks. Upload your existing plan as a PDF or Excel file and The Architect, Qobra's AI agent, drafts a first version. You then refine it in the no-code builder and test it in a sandbox. Customers typically roll out their new plans for the year in a single day.

Qobra handles quota-based plans, tiered rates, accelerators and decelerators, SPIFFs, bonuses, team and manager overrides, split deals, ramp-ups for new hires, and clawbacks. Plans can run in multiple currencies and combine several data sources, such as CRM deals and HRIS data, within the same rule set.

The Architect builds and edits compensation plans for you. It turns a plan document into a working configuration, applies bulk updates across several plans from a single prompt, and explains how an existing plan is set up in plain language. Your team reviews and validates every change, and The Architect only acts within your Qobra permissions.

Yes. Qobra's sandbox calculates commissions on your historical data so you can see exactly what each rep would have earned under the new plan. Use it to catch edge cases, fix errors, compare scenarios, and visualise payout distribution before anything reaches your sales team.

Each rep gets a custom statement and dashboard showing their plan, their deals, and every calculation step behind each payout. Because the logic is visible, reps trust their numbers, ask fewer questions, and focus on the behaviours the plan is designed to drive.