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Variable pay your people can trust

Commission letters, payroll inputs, joiners and leavers, fair pay: HR and Total Rewards own the employee side of variable pay. Qobra makes it accurate, documented, and transparent for every employee.

Rated 4.8/5 with 1,000+ reviews

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“Qobra also makes it possible to manage potential increases, changes in status, scopes, etc. in advance. And programming them is extremely useful.”
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Thibault Daval
RevOps Team Lead at CoachHub

“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 our previous system, it took three to four days to run all the processes and double-check the data against Salesforce. With Qobra, it’s one day at most.”

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Julija Slapaka
Revenue Operations at GoCardless
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Send payroll numbers you can stand behind.

Every error in variable pay becomes high-stakes. Payroll needs accurate, final numbers on time, not a spreadsheet sent the night before cut-off.

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Handle every employee event.

Joiners, leavers, promotions, leaves, territory changes: each one changes how someone is paid. Prorations and ramp-ups should follow automatically, not depend on someone remembering.

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Keep pay transparent but confidential.

Variable pay is sensitive data. Consistent rules across teams, controlled access, and documented decisions protect both your people and the company.

How Qobra keeps variable pay fair and on time

Make every plan clear and signed.

Commission letters with e-signature

Generate plan letters for every employee and send them for signature through DocuSign, right from Qobra. Track who signed, and remind who hasn’t.

DocuSign
Signature tracking
Reminders

Transparent statements

Employees see every deal and every calculation behind their payout. Fewer surprises on payday, fewer tickets for HR.

Deal-by-deal
Full calculation detail
Real-time

The Sales Coach, their AI comp expert

Employees ask about their plan in plain language and get instant, accurate answers, any time of day.

AI agent
Plain language
24/7
Digital commission letter for FY 2027 signed by Marcus Green, Sales Consultant, with a timestamp of 10 September 2027. The activities panel shows Marcus Green signed the letter on 10 September 2027 at 09:12, received it on 9 September 2027 at 13:33, and Qobra sent the letter on 9 September 2027 at 13:33. A checkmark indicates the letter is signed.

Feed payroll with clean numbers.

HRIS sync

Joiners, leavers, role changes, managers, and currencies flow in from your HRIS. Prorations and ramp-ups apply automatically.

Joiners & leavers
Prorations
Ramp-ups

Validation workflows

Statements go through multi-level approval, from managers to Finance and HR. Nothing reaches payroll without the right sign-offs.

Multi-level approval
Audit trail
Pre-payroll

Payroll-ready exports

Export validated payouts in the format your payroll needs, every period, with no manual rework.

Validated payouts
Payroll format
Every period
Payroll exports validation interface showing three employees: Grace Turner, BDC Representative; Marcus Green, Sales Consultant; and Charlotte Hughes, Account Executive. Each name is paired with a photo and payroll amount for June 2027: £2,415.00, £3,842.20, and £5,130.50 respectively. Grace, Marcus, and Charlotte have green check marks indicating their payrolls have been exported. A horizontal status bar below lists three icons: a lock icon on the left, a centered check mark and user icon, and a currency symbol on the right.

Keep pay fair, accurate, and documented.

Role-based access control

Fine-grained permissions control who sees what. Sensitive pay data stays visible to the right people, and no one else.

Custom roles
Granular permissions
Confidentiality

Dashboards across teams and roles

Compare payouts, attainment, and pay mix across teams, roles, and regions, and spot inconsistencies before they become an issue.

Pay mix
Dashboards
Pay equity

Full audit trail

Every plan change, adjustment, and approval is logged, with who did what and when. Ready for audits, disputes, and pay transparency requests.

Change log
Approvals
Transparency
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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

Variable pay management software calculates commissions and bonuses, across every commission plan and bonus scheme, from your CRM and HRIS data, then documents and communicates them to every employee. For HR and Total Rewards, it replaces spreadsheets with signed commission letters, automatic handling of joiners, leavers, and role changes, payroll-ready exports, and transparent statements employees can check themselves.

Qobra syncs with the main HRIS on the market, including HiBob, so employee data, managers, and role changes stay up to date without manual imports. A public API and the Qobra MCP server cover the rest of your HR stack.

Yes. Qobra generates commission letters for each employee and sends them for e-signature through DocuSign, with signature tracking and reminders.

Lifecycle changes come from your HRIS and are dated in Qobra, so prorations, ramp-ups, and plan changes apply automatically from the right date. Upcoming changes, like a promotion or a new scope, can also be scheduled in advance.

Once statements are validated through multi-level approval, you export final payouts in the format your payroll needs, every period. Every number is traceable back to its source data.

Employees get real-time statements showing every deal and calculation behind their payout. The Sales Coach, Qobra’s AI agent, answers their plan questions in plain language, 24/7, so there are fewer surprises on payday and fewer tickets for HR.

You decide. Role-based access control with custom roles and granular permissions lets you define exactly what each employee, manager, HR, or Finance user can see. Qobra is SOC 2 Type II certified and compliant with UK GDPR and EU GDPR.

Yes. Dashboards compare payouts, attainment, and pay mix across teams, roles, and regions, so HR can spot inconsistencies early. Consistent plan rules and documented decisions make every payout easier to justify.

Qobra documents every rule, calculation, and adjustment, and gives employees full visibility on how their variable pay is calculated, which makes equal pay and pay transparency requests much easier to answer.