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Sales compensation built for media companies

Campaigns that run over months, agency and direct deals, digital, print, events, and sponsorships in one portfolio: media comp has its own rules. Qobra calculates them all, accurately, automatically.

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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“Before Qobra, compensation calculations took 5 weeks, relying on finance managers from multiple countries. Now, one person can handle everything efficiently.”

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Philippine Vendeuvre
Global Sales Ops Director at Ogury
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Pay on revenue that actually runs.

A signed insertion order isn’t revenue yet. Campaigns are delivered, adjusted, and billed over time, and commissions need to follow the money, not just the booking.

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Credit the right seller.

Agency leads, direct accounts, territories, specialists: several people touch the same deal. Splitting credit by hand leads to errors and disputes.

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Reward the product mix you need.

Digital, print, video, events, sponsorships: strategic priorities shift every quarter, and incentives need to push the formats that matter now.

How Qobra does it

Calculate commissions the way you bill.

Booking, billing, or collection-based rules

Pay on signed, delivered, invoiced, or collected revenue, or a mix of them, with the timing your plan requires.

Booking
Billing
Collection

Splits across agencies, accounts, and teams

Split credit between agency leads, account managers, and specialists by rule. Every party gets credited correctly, automatically.

Agency leads
Account managers
Specialists

Clawbacks and adjustments

Makegoods, cancellations, and unpaid invoices adjust payouts automatically, with every change traceable.

Makegoods
Cancellations
Unpaid invoices
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Steer the field toward your priorities.

Product-based rules

Different rates by format, product line, or channel, so plans reward the revenue that matters most to you.

By format
By product line
By channel

The Architect, your AI plan builder

Update plans across teams in a single prompt when priorities change, and simulate the cost before launch.

AI agent
Bulk updates
Cost simulation

SPIFFs and leaderboards

Push a new offer or an event package with a targeted SPIFF, tracked on live leaderboards.

New offers
Event packages
Live leaderboards
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One source of truth for sales and Finance.

Native data integrations

CRM, ad server data via your warehouse, ERP, and billing systems: data flows in natively, no exports to maintain.

CRM
Data warehouse
ERP & billing

Transparent statements

Sellers see every campaign and every calculation behind their payout, updated in real time.

Per campaign
Transparent
Real-time

Full audit trail

Every calculation, adjustment, and approval logged. When a payout is questioned, the answer is already documented.

Calculation log
Adjustments
Approvals
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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

Sales compensation software for media companies calculates commission plans and bonus schemes on advertising revenue across digital, print, video, events, and sponsorships, whether deals come through agencies or direct accounts. It replaces spreadsheets with automatic, transparent calculations that follow each campaign from booking to collection.

Yes. Plans can pay on bookings, delivered revenue, invoices, or collections, or combine them, depending on how you want to reward your sellers.

Split rules credit every seller involved, whether the deal comes through an agency, a direct account, or a specialist team. Each party is credited correctly, automatically.

Clawbacks and adjustments apply automatically on the next statement for makegoods, cancellations, and unpaid invoices, and every change is logged.

Yes. Rules can vary by product, format, channel, or team, and you can update them yourself when priorities change, without waiting for a consultant.

Qobra connects natively to your CRM, data warehouse, ERP, billing systems, and HR systems such as HiBob, so campaign and billing data flows in without manual imports. A public API and the Qobra MCP server cover the rest of your stack.

Commissions follow the revenue as it is delivered, invoiced, or collected, month after month. Each statement shows what was paid on each campaign and what remains to come.

Yes. Each seller has a transparent statement showing every campaign and every calculation behind their payout, updated in real time. The Sales Coach, Qobra’s AI agent, answers their plan questions instantly.

Most Qobra customers are live within weeks, including data integration and plan configuration, with a dedicated CSM and no external consultants. The Architect speeds things up further by drafting plans from your existing documents.