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Sales comp, done right and on time

Calculations, rep questions, exec reporting: comp teams carry it all, usually with legacy tools and goodwill. Qobra gives you the engine, the answers, and the reports, so closing a period stops being a battle.

Rated 4.8/5 with 1,000+ reviews

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“Qobra feels like a breath of fresh air: intuitive yet powerful. Within a few minutes, everything just makes sense.”
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Kris Heath
Sales Ops and Commission Analyst at GoCardless

“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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“One thing that stands out right away is the transparency into how things are being calculated. That’s amazing to have.”

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Priyanka Dalal
Finance & Compensation at Sendoso
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Close every period without the crunch.

The end-of-period crunch isn’t inevitable. When data flows in automatically and calculations run themselves, closing becomes a checklist, not a marathon.

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Catch every error before your reps do.

One formula error found by a rep costs more than money: it costs credibility. Accuracy is what lets you stand behind every number you publish.

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Report to execs without the scramble.

Leadership wants numbers on demand: cost, attainment, trends. Live reports mean you answer in minutes.

How Qobra does it

Every commission, calculated automatically.

Native data integrations

CRM, data warehouse, HR systems: data flows in automatically, so your period starts clean instead of starting with imports.

CRM
Data warehouse
HRIS

A calculation engine built for commissions

Accelerators, ramp-ups, true-ups, clawbacks, multi-currency: every rule runs itself, with every formula visible.

Accelerators
True-ups
Multi-currency

Discrepancy detection

The Analyst spots gaps between expected and actual payouts and flags them before you publish, not after a rep does.

The Analyst
Anomaly alerts
Pre-publish checks
Sales compensation table showing companies with deal commission amounts in pounds, commission rates, and accelerator percentages, under the 'Won + Pipeline' tab. Companies listed include Noble, Singh and Adams; Galvan and Sons; Stone, Hernandez and Mitchell; Porter and Sons; Collins-Sampson; Lee-Gilbert; and Roberts-Little. Deal commissions range from £296.54 to £2,617.00, commission rates are around 3.21% to 3.53%, and accelerator rates are 3.21%.

Let reps answer their own questions.

Transparent statements

Reps see every deal and every calculation behind their payout. Most questions disappear before they're asked.

Deal comp
Transparency
Real-time

The Sales Coach, their AI comp expert

Plan rules, payout logic, deal simulations: reps get instant answers, and you only step in when it truly needs you.

The Sales Coach
Plan rules
Simulations

Built-in request management

When a real issue comes up, it arrives as a tracked request tied to the statement, not as the fifth Slack ping of the morning.

Requests
Resolution
Status tracking
Table listing four requests with columns for Subject, User, Topic, and Owner. Entries: 1) Missing deal, last message 3 days ago, User Robert J. June 2027, Topic Data issue, Owner CRM admin. 2) Multi-year kicker, last message 5 days ago, User Laura S. June 2027, Topic AE issue, Owner RevOps. 3) Target to update, last message 1 week ago, User Aaron W. May 2027, Topic SDR issue, Owner RevOps. 4) Set-up fees fix, last message 2 weeks ago, User Veronica W. May 2027, Topic Pre-sales issue, Owner Finance.

Report in minutes, not weekends.

Custom reports and dashboards

Cost per team, attainment by plan, payout trends: build the views your execs ask for, and share them live.

Cost per team
Attainment by plan
Payout trends

The Analyst, your AI reporting agent

Ask a question in natural language, get an aggregated report across all your plans in seconds.

The Analyst
Natural language
Data reconciliation

Full audit trail

Every calculation, change, and approval documented, so when anyone challenges a number, the answer is already written.

Calculation history
Change log
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
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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 automates how a company calculates, publishes, and reports on variable pay, from commission plans to bonus schemes. Instead of spreadsheets, it pulls deal data from your CRM and other systems, applies every commission rule automatically, gives each rep a statement they can check, and gives comp, Finance, and leadership live reporting on commission spend.

Qobra connects natively to your CRM, data warehouse, and HR systems, so data flows in automatically instead of through manual imports. The calculation engine then applies every rule on its own, and The Analyst flags discrepancies between expected and actual payouts before you publish. Closing a period becomes a checklist, not a marathon.

Qobra handles the rules comp teams deal with every period, whatever the plan or scheme: tiered rates, accelerators, ramp-ups, true-ups, clawbacks, caps, SPIFFs, and multi-currency payouts. Every formula stays visible, so you can explain any number to a rep, a manager, or Finance.

Reps get statements that show every deal and every calculation behind their payout, so most questions disappear before they're asked. The Sales Coach answers the rest instantly, and real issues arrive as tracked requests tied to the statement instead of Slack pings.

The Sales Coach is Qobra's AI comp expert for sales reps. It explains plan rules and payout logic, runs deal simulations, and answers reps' questions in seconds, so the comp team only steps in when a question truly needs them.

Build custom reports and dashboards (cost per team, attainment by plan, payout trends) and share them live. With The Analyst, you ask a question in natural language and get an aggregated report across all your plans in seconds.

Yes. Every calculation, change, and approval is documented with its full history, so when a rep, a manager, Finance, or an auditor challenges a number, the answer is already written.

Qobra connects natively to CRMs like Salesforce and HubSpot, data warehouses, and HR systems such as HiBob, so deal, quota, and employee data flows in automatically and every period starts clean.

Most Qobra customers go live in a few weeks, including data integration and plan setup, with a dedicated CSM and no external consultants.