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Compensation that keeps up with a company that won’t slow down

Several teams, several plans, new markets every quarter: at this scale commissions outgrow spreadsheets and outpace legacy tools. Qobra gives your comp owners the autonomy to change anything in minutes, and Finance the controls to sign off with confidence.

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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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“We have sales engineers, account managers, sales directors, everyone has slightly different plans but connected to each other. With Qobra, we can have different models that we reuse for the same positions, while being able to adjust a few small variables.”

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Tomas Hons
GTM Strategy & Operations Manager at Make
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Change plans as fast as your business.

Pricing shifts, new products, mid-year reorgs: comp plans change constantly. Taking days to update a rule, or waiting on a vendor to do it, isn’t an option.

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Stay autonomous for 99% of changes.

Your team knows the rules and the updates better than any implementation team. Qobra lets you build, test, and ship changes yourself, with our support team available whenever you need it.

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Put AI to work on comp.

AI is transforming every GTM function, and comp is no exception. Plans that build themselves, data that explains itself, reps that get instant answers.

How Qobra does it

Ship plan changes in minutes.

No-code comp builder

Accelerators, ramp-ups, clawbacks, multi-currency: build any rule yourself. If you can describe it, you can configure it.

Accelerators
Ramp-ups
Multi-currency

The Architect

Draft a plan from any document, update several plans in one prompt, and simulate before launch. Weeks of implementation become a conversation.

Agentic builder
Bulk updates
Pre-launch simulation

Sandboxes to test before you ship

Run new plans against real data in a sandbox, measure the impact, and launch with confidence, not fingers crossed.

Real data
Impact simulation
Safe rollout
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One platform for every team, country, and currency.

Multi-currency management

Pay reps in their local currency with controlled exchange rates, and report cost of sales in one. No parallel spreadsheets per country.

Local currencies
FX rates
Consolidated reporting

Custom validation workflows and permissions

Define who reviews, who approves, and who sees what, team by team. From rep to manager to Finance, every statement gets the right sign-offs before payroll.

Validation workflows
Custom permissions
Approvals

Built-in request management

Reps raise questions directly from their statement. The Sales Coach answers instantly and escalates to your admins only when needed. Every request is tracked and closed before payday.

Raised from statements
AI answers
Smart resolution
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Native integrations with your stack.

CRM, warehouse, and ERP connectors

Salesforce, HubSpot, Snowflake, BigQuery, NetSuite, and more: data flows in natively, no technical skills required to set up or maintain.

Salesforce
Snowflake
NetSuite

API and SSO

Push and pull comp data from your own tools, and let your team log in with the identity provider they already use.

API
SSO
Custom flows

Qobra MCP for LLMs

Plug your comp data directly into your AI stack: pull data, trigger actions, and build comp workflows that run themselves.

Claude
ChatGPT
Custom agents
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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 mid-market companies manages several commission plans and bonus schemes, teams, countries, and currencies in one platform, with the autonomy to change rules in minutes and the validation workflows Finance needs to sign off. Qobra adds AI agents that build plans, answer reps, and flag anomalies before payroll.

Weeks, not months. Our team maps your existing plans with you, The Architect can draft them directly from your comp documents, and you run Qobra in parallel with your current process for a period before switching payroll over.

Yes. Each team gets its own plans and quotas, reps are paid in their local currency with controlled exchange rates, and you report cost of sales in a single view. One account, one source of truth.

You do, for the vast majority of changes. The no-code builder and The Architect let your RevOps team update rules, roll out new plans, and test them in minutes. Our in-house support team is there for the complex cases, with follow-the-sun coverage.

Through custom validation workflows (rep, manager, Finance, and beyond), granular permissions, request management, and an audit trail of every adjustment: who changed what, and when. Nothing reaches payroll without the right approvals.

Yes. Snowflake, BigQuery, NetSuite, and the main ERPs are native integrations, alongside your CRM and HR systems such as HiBob. An API and the Qobra MCP cover anything custom.

The Architect builds and updates plans from a prompt, The Analyst answers any comp question in natural language and flags anomalies before payroll, and The Sales Coach takes rep questions off your plate. You move from running commissions to supervising them.

Yes. Every rep has a transparent statement showing every deal and every calculation behind their payout, updated in real time, and can raise a question directly from it. The Sales Coach answers instantly and simulates earnings on any deal.

Qobra is SOC 2 Type II certified and GDPR compliant, with role-based access control, SSO, and a full audit trail of every change. See our Security page for more details.