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Enterprise-grade compensation, without the enterprise lock-in

Thousands of payees, multiple countries and currencies, audit requirements with zero room for error. Qobra gives you the control, security, and traceability you expect from an enterprise platform, and the autonomy legacy ICM never delivered.

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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“With Qobra, we finally have the ability to scale our commission plans while setting up central governance with Sales Ops.”

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Jean-Louis Baffier
CRO at Nextlane
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Autonomy, not dependency.

In legacy tools, every plan change means a consultant, a ticket, and weeks of delay. In Qobra, your comp team builds, tests in a sandbox, and ships. Support is there when you need it, not required for everything.

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Make every payout defensible.

Custom approval workflows, built-in request management, and a full audit trail: Finance signs off knowing every exception is documented, and reps stop disputing numbers in email threads.

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Security your IT team will sign off on.

SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, SSO, regular third-party penetration tests, and granular access control. Everything is documented in our public trust center.

How Qobra does it

Control every payout.

Multi-level statement approval

From the rep to their manager and beyond, every statement is reviewed and approved at each level before payouts are sent to payroll. No payment goes out without the right sign-offs.

Multi-level approval
Approvals
Payroll

Role-based access control

Define custom roles with granular permissions. Control exactly what each user can see and do, from full admin rights to statement-only access, across countries and entities.

Custom roles
Granular permissions
Multi-entity

Exception handling and audit trail

Record splits, overrides, and manual payments: handle any exception and keep full control. Every adjustment is logged with who did what, and when.

Splits
Overrides
Audit trail
User interface showing an audit trail for Oliver Bennett in June 2027, with tabs for Statement details and Activities, the latter showing three entries: Charlotte Hughes from Finance added a note 2 hours ago with transaction id xe10a10938; Charlotte Hughes approved a request 3 hours ago overriding Booking Commission YTD Commission from £77,108.77 to £60,000.00; Oliver Bennett raised an issue about a past payment 1 day ago.

Integrated with your entire stack.

CRM, ERP, and data warehouse

Salesforce, NetSuite, Snowflake, BigQuery, and 100+ native integrations: data flows in without custom development, and stays in sync without external support.

Salesforce
NetSuite
Snowflake

HRIS sync

Joiners, leavers, role changes, user attributes, groups, and currencies flow in from your HRIS. Headcount changes stop breaking your comp.

Joiners and leavers
Role changes
Currencies

SSO, API, and MCP

Single sign-on with your identity provider, an API for custom flows, and the Qobra MCP to connect comp data to your AI stack.

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API
MCP
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Change at scale, safely.

The Architect for bulk changes

Update several plans in one prompt, draft a new plan from a policy document, or ask it to explain an existing setup. Weeks of implementation become a conversation.

Bulk updates
Agentic builder
Setup explainer

Sandboxes on real data

Run next year’s plans against historical data, visualise payout distribution, find edge cases, and launch knowing exactly what it will cost.

Historical data
Payout distribution
Edge cases

Advanced reporting and The Analyst

Custom dashboards, statement and record-level reporting, and an AI analyst that answers any question in natural language and flags anomalies before they reach payroll.

Custom dashboards
Record-level reporting
The Analyst
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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, 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

Enterprise sales compensation software calculates and pays variable compensation, commission plans, and bonus schemes for thousands of payees across countries, entities, and currencies, with the approval workflows, access controls, and audit trail that Finance, IT, and auditors require. Qobra delivers that level of control without the consultant dependency of legacy ICM, and adds AI agents that build plans, answer reps, and flag anomalies before payroll.

Yes. The calculation engine is built for thousands of payees and large deal volumes, across plans, countries, and currencies, with real-time calculation and built-in discrepancy detection rather than nightly batch runs.

Qobra is SOC 2 Type II certified and GDPR compliant, runs regular third-party penetration tests, and supports SSO and granular role-based access. See our Security page for more details.

Weeks rather than the 3 to 6 months typical of legacy ICM. Our onboarding team co-builds your plans with yours, The Architect drafts them from your existing policy documents, and sandboxes let you validate against historical data before go-live.

No. Your comp team makes changes in the no-code builder or with The Architect, tests them in a sandbox, and ships them. Our in-house support team is available for complex cases, but you’re never blocked waiting on a ticket.

Every calculation step is visible, every statement goes through multi-level approval, every adjustment is logged in the audit trail with who, what, and when, and commission letters are signed electronically. Auditors get traceability from data source to payout.

Yes, natively. HRIS sync, including HiBob, brings in joiners, leavers, role changes, and currencies; ERP and data warehouse connectors (NetSuite, Snowflake, BigQuery, and more) cover financial and deal data. An API and the Qobra MCP handle anything custom.

Yes. Reps are paid in their local currency with controlled exchange rates, roles and permissions are scoped by entity, and Finance reports cost of sales consolidated in one view. One platform, one source of truth across the group.

The Architect updates several plans in one prompt and drafts new ones from policy documents, The Analyst answers any comp question in natural language and flags anomalies before payroll, and The Sales Coach handles rep questions at scale. Your team moves from running commissions to governing them.