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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Everstage

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/AEverstage is a no-code commissions automation platform that provides a transparent and gamified incentives experience to customer-facing teams.N/A

    Slack

    Score9 out of 10
    N/ASlack is a group messaging or team collaboration app that aims to simplify communication for businesses. Features include open discussions, private groups, and direct messaging, as well as deep contextual search and message archiving, and file sharing. Slack integrates with a number of other tools, such as MailChimp, Dropbox, and Google Drive. Slack was acquired by Salesforce in December 2020. The product is free to use, and also has paid plans with more features and greater controls. The…

    $8.75

    per month per user

    Pricing
    EverstageSlack
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Free
    $0
    Pro
    $7.25*
    per month per user
    Business+
    $12.50*
    per month per user
    Enterprise
    Contact Sales
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    EverstageSlack
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—*Per active user, per month, when paying once a year. Pro is $8.75 USD per active user when paying month to month. Business+ is $15.00 USD per active user when paying month to month.
    More Pricing Information
    Community Pulse
    EverstageSlack
    Considered Both Products
    Everstage
    Chose Everstage
    I was not involved in the evaluation of other products and thus cannot comment.
    Incentivized
    Chose Everstage
    It is much more easier to operate and dashboard gives a good information.
    Incentivized
    Chose Everstage
    Excel was a nightmare to manage and scale commissions with. The information was always late and dependent on multiple factors. Everstage integrating with our CRM made it very easy for us
    Incentivized
    Salesforce
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Would buy again
    225 Answers
    97%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    212 Answers
    99%
    Delivers good value for the price
    426 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    225 Answers
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    510 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    203 Answers
    98%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    295 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    203 Answers
    99%
    Implementation went as expected
    330 Answers
    Features
    EverstageSlack
    Sales ICM
    Comparison of Sales ICM features of Everstage and Slack
    Feature
    Everstage
    9.4
    226 Ratings
    18% above category average
    Slack
    -
    Ratings
    Sales compensation plan creation9.5218 Ratings00 Ratings
    Complex sales crediting9.2205 Ratings00 Ratings
    Sales compensation process automation9.5219 Ratings00 Ratings
    Incentive auditing/regulation compliance9.6207 Ratings00 Ratings
    Sales compensation dashboards & forecasting9.4225 Ratings00 Ratings
    Incentive modeling9.6217 Ratings00 Ratings
    Agile incentive strategy9.6188 Ratings00 Ratings
    ICM mobile visibility9.1188 Ratings00 Ratings
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of Everstage and Slack
    Feature
    Everstage
    -
    Ratings
    Slack
    7.9
    628 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Task Management00 Ratings7.6430 Ratings
    Gantt Charts00 Ratings6.961 Ratings
    Scheduling00 Ratings7.8363 Ratings
    Workflow Automation00 Ratings8.0396 Ratings
    Mobile Access00 Ratings9.4601 Ratings
    Search00 Ratings8.2608 Ratings
    Visual planning tools00 Ratings7.3275 Ratings
    Communication
    Comparison of Communication features of Everstage and Slack
    Feature
    Everstage
    -
    Ratings
    Slack
    8.7
    636 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Chat00 Ratings9.6635 Ratings
    Notifications00 Ratings8.7632 Ratings
    Discussions00 Ratings9.2620 Ratings
    Surveys00 Ratings8.1413 Ratings
    Internal knowledgebase00 Ratings7.8412 Ratings
    Integrates with GoToMeeting00 Ratings8.9110 Ratings
    Integrates with Gmail and Google Hangouts00 Ratings8.7182 Ratings
    Integrates with Outlook00 Ratings8.9120 Ratings
    File Sharing & Management
    Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Everstage and Slack
    Feature
    Everstage
    -
    Ratings
    Slack
    8.4
    603 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Versioning00 Ratings8.2326 Ratings
    Video files00 Ratings8.2541 Ratings
    Audio files00 Ratings8.4527 Ratings
    Document collaboration00 Ratings7.9429 Ratings
    Access control00 Ratings8.3411 Ratings
    Advanced security features00 Ratings8.3362 Ratings
    Integrates with Google Drive00 Ratings9.0211 Ratings
    Device sync00 Ratings9.0455 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    EverstageSlack
    Small Businesses
    No answers on this topic
    Flock
    Score9.5 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    QuotaPath
    Score8.4 out of 10
    Troop Messenger
    Score9.8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    CaptivateIQ
    Score9.3 out of 10
    Cisco Business Edition 7000 (discontinued)
    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    EverstageSlack
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.1
    (226 ratings)
    9.1
    (639 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.4
    (14 ratings)
    10.0
    (25 ratings)
    Usability
    9.2
    (31 ratings)
    9.0
    (255 ratings)
    Availability
    8.6
    (3 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    8.6
    (3 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.9
    (10 ratings)
    10.0
    (68 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    4.6
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.3
    (6 ratings)
    8.9
    (5 ratings)
    Configurability
    7.7
    (3 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    8.6
    (3 ratings)
    9.7
    (2 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    7.7
    (3 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Professional Services
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    7.3
    (3 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    7.3
    (3 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    EverstageSlack
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Everstage
    Everstage is well suited for smaller sales teams as it is little rigid with handling changes and maintenance is a task. Managing and computing on everstage is accurate and fast but making changes will require you to take help from the support team. They have an amazing support team to help you out.
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    Salesforce
    Slack is ideal for Scrum and agile teams that need continuous communication during sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, testing, and retrospectives. Slack is well-suited for maintaining team knowledge through searchable conversations and dedicated channels, where experienced team members help onboard new QA analysts.
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    Pros
    Everstage
    • User friendly UI - It is easy to navigate the platform and learn the details without any additional help.
    • Ability to show the underlying formula that was used to calculate commissions.
    • Provide visibility on how far the consultant is from achieving their quarterly quota.
    • Automatically publish leader board for the team based on performance that drives the sense of friendly competition to succeed.
    Incentivized
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    Salesforce
    • Customer issues: Threads feature allows us to group a particular issue in a single thread and discuss within that thread. I can use the thread link to embed in JIRA ticket for tracking progress in JIRA (which is our details engineering tracking system).
    • Ability to add folder to Slack channel helps keep important information, documents easily accessible. e.g., we use this to keep a "ramp up" folder that can be used by any new joiner.
    • Global search is effective when I forget which group a particular message was in.
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    Cons
    Everstage
    • Improving the user interface of Everstage could enhance its usability and make it more intuitive for team leaders and users.
    • Offering more advanced customization options would provide organizations with greater flexibility to tailor Everstage to their specific needs.
    • Integration with Third-Party Tools would be very helpful.
    • Developing a mobile app for Everstage would provide users with the convenience of accessing the tool on-the-go.
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    Salesforce
    • Would love a better integration with GitHub. For example, notifications when your PR is updated, when review is requested, @-mention in comments, etc.
    • Improved "Later" tab, for example the ability to create to-do lists or making the "Later" tab into a more powerful to-do list (annotate items with notes)
    • More powerful integrations, e.g. Google Calendar could render a calendar view within Slack, rather than sending the daily schedule
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Everstage
    The reason to give this rating is corely because of multiple level analysis, everstage provide product level analysis which is truly beneficial for any business manager, we can understand which product is doing good in the organization and we can understand which sales executive is selling more which course. The sales executives can understand their next stage of the incentive and monthly target left to do
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    Salesforce
    To be more transparent, I give 10 because Slack serves our collaboration needs. It provide us a good platform for team communication relaying important update within the company, it has even mobile app where you can install in your phone to monitor any updates within that team that needs your immediate attention and intervention.
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Everstage
    Everstage provides a modern functional incentive platform that supports accurate sales compensation calculation. With Everstage in place our organization is experienced a huge savings in time and costs, and was able to boot sales team engagement. From automation to compensation visibility, analytics to integration with our back office systems and CRM, Everstage covered all our bases.
    Incentivized
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    Salesforce
    Slack has good usability. Devs that are not familiar with the platform are able to jump into conversations and start sharing code and links within just minutes. Non developers are also able to understand the layout such as the Project Managers that are keeping the projects on track. We have not seen any tickets where employees are having trouble understanding Slack.
    Incentivized
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    Reliability and Availability
    Everstage
    All team have nothing but high praise for the live element of Everstage -
    Incentivized
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    Salesforce
    Yes, the app works 24/7. I don't even recall having any period that we could not use since the implementation. Even the maintenance periods are barely noticeable and our work is not impacted by it when it happens.
    Incentivized
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    Performance
    Everstage
    Pages load quickly and dashboards refresh reliably under normal conditions. Reports complete in reasonable timeframes for standard queries. The Salesforce integration runs smoothly without noticeable slowdowns
    Incentivized
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    Salesforce
    Slack is a soft app, we don't have many issues with it. I recall one or two people complaining about something during our usage period, but I didn't have a bad experience. When the app is slow, usually the problem is with my computer or my internet. The app works just fine.
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    Everstage
    It's Wonderful. They have been accessible when in need. the response is immediate and genuine. the support wait time is not too long either. when a fault is pointed out, thy accept it and try to work on it and within a week they try to find a better option to resolve the issue. Accepting and working to deliver better is really appreciable thing. Kudos to the team on that
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    Salesforce
    Whenever I've had to troubleshoot an issue with Slack (which, to be honest, has not happened very often), their online documentation has been easy to locate, easy to understand, and effective in resolving my issue. Slack's ever-growing popularity also means that there's a large community of practice out there that can be depended upon.
    Incentivized
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    In-Person Training
    Everstage
    our team leader spoke very highly of the training and the positive experience. This then brought the team on board and were looking forward to a positive experience of a product to minimise manual tasks and room for human error ! All the team have nothing but high praise for the product.
    Incentivized
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    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    Everstage
    Our team leader in US was responsible and involved with this and they spoke very highly of the training and product. This is what really brought the whole team on board. From this response and interaction the team really looked forward to using the product which was a great intro !!!
    Incentivized
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    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    Everstage
    Our team leader led the implementation - but then implemented with our team directly and all of our team comment very positively about EverStage
    Incentivized
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    Salesforce
    I was not part of the implementation team, but I recall being 100% happy and excited to learn and use a new tool. I'm still am to be honest.
    Incentivized
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    Alternatives Considered
    Everstage
    It was a company decision, Excel was not automated and had high chances of human error and if not updated properly there may be chances of someone losing out on their attainment Ever stage being automated and linked to salesforce there is very less probability of mistake and also transparency in the records
    Incentivized
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    Salesforce
    I like Slack better than ClickUp, because I would spend 30-60 minutes a day updating my ClickUp tasks. The way ClickUp was used was very micromanaging. I billed by the hour, so I was willing to put in the time to alert the boss what tasks I was working on.
    One of my jobs used Hive - I mostly just ran it in the background in case anyone messaged me. I did not use it often.
    Incentivized
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Everstage
    I don’t have this visibility. But heard from team it good
    Incentivized
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    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    Scalability
    Everstage
    Sales, Finance, and HR all operate off the same platform without friction. Managing multiple incentive plans across B2B and B2C segments simultaneously demonstrated its scalability firsthand.
    Incentivized
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    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Everstage
    • It helps me to track my progress in terms of Commission earned and motivate me to work harder to earn more.
    • It's Statement feature helps me to track my previous performance.
    • It's user friendly interface helps every individual to get all details very easily.
    Incentivized
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    Salesforce
    • Slack has been incredibly helpful in connecting various tech apps and ecosystems, creating a more streamlined and responsive process.
    • Slack has made it significantly easier to communicate with our team members across multiple time zones, creating a more engaging environment for our all-remote team.
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    Everstage Screenshots

    Screenshot of on-demand commission data and advanced payout forecasting to drive performance of customer-facing teams .Screenshot of commission plans that can be configured from scratch or with readily-available templates using Everstage's no-code plan designer.Screenshot of the integrations available with the entire techstack including CRMs, ERP, HRIS, data warehouses and more to collect, calculate and communicate payout data.Screenshot of Everstage’s custom dashboards and advanced reporting provide commission tracking, as a single source of truth.Screenshot of where commission budgets can simulate how much payees will earn against each commission plan using the Time Machine feature.