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Sales Compensation Software

Sales Compensation

What is Sales Compensation Software?

Sales Compensation Software also referred to as Sales Incentive Compensation Management (ICM) allows the creation, management, and tracking of compensation, commissions and incentive plans for an organizations sales teams. Commission structures can often be complicated and convoluted but the software can display this in a simplified, transparent way as well as provide answers to common questions from salespeople on their commissions.

Common Features

  • Incentive Plan Designer
  • Regulatory Compliance and Audit
  • Data Integration
  • Reporting and Analytics
  • Commissions Management
  • Pre-Built Incentive Plans
  • Incentive Dashboards
  • Collaboration
  • Multi Currency
  • Adjustments & Clawbacks

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Products: 9
Next Award: Sep 2025

Top Sales Compensation Software 2024

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

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Core Commissions

Core Commissions

Composite Score
8.6 /10
CX Score
8.9 /10

Founded in 2005, Core Commissions is an industry-leading commission automation platform. With nearly two decades of exposure to a wide range of complex and varied incentive compensation plans, Core’s proprietary rules engine is easily the most advanced and powerful in the industry. Intuitive and agile, rule building is simple through Core’s no-code, drag & drop graphical interface. Fully integrated with AI technology, Core’s suite of AI bots are able to convert plain-English descriptions into fully functioning rules. Users can validate results with Core’s single-view auditing to see the calculation steps behind every output.

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Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Trustworthy
  • Unique Features
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CaptivateIQ Inc

CaptivateIQ

Composite Score
8.5 /10
CX Score
8.6 /10

CaptivateIQ is Sales Compensation software that manages and tracks your team’s sales commissions with greater accuracy, speed, and transparency. With CaptivateIQ Connect siloed data sources to build a single source of truth for commission admins, management, and reps, set up any commission plan using this logic-based data modeling platform, automate payouts in seconds, and share clear and actionable data points to shift selling behavior and keep teams motivated.

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Pros

  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity
  • Unique Features
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CellarStone Inc

Qcommission

Composite Score
8.4 /10
CX Score
8.7 /10

QCommission is a flexible sales commission software. It calculates your sales people’s compensation accurately and reduces errors related to spreadsheets and manual methods. It allows you to calculate commissions as soon as the commission period is over and saves a lot of time. It can communicate calculated commissions in a detailed and clear manner.

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Pros

  • Reliable
  • Enables Productivity
  • Trustworthy
  • Efficient Service
Badge Winner
Xoxoday

Compass

Composite Score
8.0 /10
CX Score
8.1 /10

Compass is the #1 gamification software that automates and digitizes Sales Contests and Commission Programs. With game-like elements, rewards, recognitions, and complete access to relevant information, Compass turbocharges the entire salesforce.

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Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
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Spiff Inc

Spiff

Composite Score
8.0 /10
CX Score
8.2 /10

Spiff is a sales compensation platform that automates commission calculations and motivates teams to drive top-line growth. With a combination of an intuitive UI, real-time visibility, and seamless integrations, Spiff aligns and enables finance and sales operations teams to self-manage complex incentive compensation plans and provides transparency for sales teams. Spiff automates and optimizes commissions plans (goodbye Excel spreadsheets) and motivates commissioned reps. Spiff resolves the headache of running commissions for the finance team, reduce friction between finance and sales, and increase sales performance.

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Pros

  • Transparent
  • Client Friendly Policies
  • Appreciates Incumbent Status
  • Security Protects
Composite Score
7.7 /10
CX Score
8.1 /10

Varicent Incentive Compensation Management (ICM) removes friction from the compensation process, accelerates the ability to make plan changes and adopt new strategies, and enables new insights to outdo previous performance. Varicent enables businesses to continually refine and improve their sales strategies - from plan, operate, pay, and insights - to maximize revenues. Varicent ICM can help you remove friction from the sales compensation process, improve incentive calculation, adapt your sales strategy to shifting business priorities, and enable your compensation admins.

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Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Reliable
  • Enables Productivity
  • Trustworthy
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Composite Score
7.5 /10
CX Score
7.6 /10

Xactly Incent is sales compensation software that empowers companies to successfully design, implement, and manage intelligent incentive compensation programs. With robust functionality and seamless integration with existing ERP, CRM, and HCM systems, Xactly Incent maximizes the ROI of incentive compensation with improved efficiencies, greater timeliness and accuracy, and plan optimization.

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Pros

  • Unique Features
  • Inspires Innovation
  • Caring
  • Fair
Performio

Performio

Composite Score
7.4 /10
CX Score
7.7 /10

Performio’s solutions for incentive compensation management enable you to quickly and accurately adapt with confidence to changing market conditions. The Performio platform helps you spend more time making decisions and less time administering compensation. Performia commissions process should be seamless, so you can spend your time designing plans that help you enter new markets, launch new products, and adapt to change.

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Pros

  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Trustworthy
  • Saves Time

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Visdum

Visdum

Composite Score
8.2 /10
CX Score
8.6 /10

Visdum is a SaaS solution to help companies manage and optimize sales compensation. Visdum is a sales compensation software tailored specifically for SaaS companies and designed to streamline the complexities of sales commission plans, Visdum empowers Sales, RevOps, and Finance teams to effortlessly design and automate their compensation structures

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
Composite Score
8.2 /10
CX Score
8.4 /10

Compensation management software for accurate & on-time commission payouts. Setting up a commission plan is one thing, running it successfully is quite another. ElevateHQ takes that weight off your shoulders