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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

    Varicent

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AFrom quotas to sales and compensation, Varicent helps revenue leaders in enterprise organizations chart a more effective, connected path to revenue by providing vital data, insights, and sales go-to-market planning tools.N/A
    Pricing
    EverstageVaricent
    Editions & Modules
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    EverstageVaricent
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    EverstageVaricent
    Considered Both Products
    Everstage
    Chose Everstage
    Analysis of Data transparency when exercising order data in real time, The organisation must maintain a specific emphasis on the objective that was established more than ten years ago and is currently supported by an appropriate data format. For minor level analysis, an …
    Incentivized
    Chose Everstage
    You can use this site to analyse your past performance and rank within the team. As a result, you will receive an overall package. You will get an overall idea of the commission you have made in graphs, monthly predictions, and projections as well. One piece of software that …
    Incentivized
    Chose Everstage
    We've integrated Everstage with Salesforce, which enables us to display team performance data as well as individual team member rankings. This helps us to inspire our employees and fosters healthy rivalry among the team members. Everstage additionally makes it simpler to divide …
    Incentivized
    Varicent
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Would buy again
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    92%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    77%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
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    81%
    Implementation went as expected
    25 Answers
    Features
    EverstageVaricent
    Sales ICM
    Comparison of Sales ICM features of Everstage and Varicent
    Feature
    Everstage
    9.5
    226 Ratings
    19% above category average
    Varicent
    6.7
    55 Ratings
    16% below category average
    Sales compensation plan creation9.5218 Ratings7.148 Ratings
    Complex sales crediting9.2205 Ratings7.548 Ratings
    Sales compensation process automation9.5219 Ratings7.452 Ratings
    Incentive auditing/regulation compliance9.6207 Ratings6.546 Ratings
    Sales compensation dashboards & forecasting9.5225 Ratings6.447 Ratings
    Incentive modeling9.6217 Ratings6.243 Ratings
    Agile incentive strategy9.7188 Ratings6.538 Ratings
    ICM mobile visibility9.1188 Ratings6.232 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    EverstageVaricent
    Small Businesses
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    Medium-sized Companies
    QuotaPath
    Score8.3 out of 10
    Everstage
    Score9.1 out of 10
    Enterprises
    CaptivateIQ
    Score9.3 out of 10
    CaptivateIQ
    Score9.3 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    EverstageVaricent
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.1
    (226 ratings)
    7.3
    (67 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.4
    (14 ratings)
    4.8
    (15 ratings)
    Usability
    9.2
    (31 ratings)
    7.0
    (59 ratings)
    Availability
    8.6
    (3 ratings)
    5.2
    (3 ratings)
    Performance
    8.6
    (3 ratings)
    5.8
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.9
    (10 ratings)
    6.8
    (6 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    4.6
    (2 ratings)
    7.7
    (2 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    7.7
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.3
    (6 ratings)
    6.8
    (6 ratings)
    Configurability
    7.7
    (3 ratings)
    5.2
    (3 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    Ease of integration
    8.6
    (3 ratings)
    4.3
    (3 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    7.7
    (3 ratings)
    6.8
    (58 ratings)
    Professional Services
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Vendor post-sale
    7.3
    (3 ratings)
    5.9
    (3 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    7.3
    (3 ratings)
    5.9
    (3 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    EverstageVaricent
    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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    Varicent
    For the use cases we have at the bank, ICM is a perfect solution. For any bank or institution that has similar requirements, ICM would be a perfect solution. But I also think for any use case that has any sort of incentives based on Sales done, this would work amazing, as both Calculations and reports are handled by ICM very well; it's an all-in-one solution, I feel like.
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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.
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    Varicent
    • Flexibility - Varicent is not template based. You can implement the model specifically for your organisation.
    • Scalability - Since it is not stick to templates you are able to expand the model for other domains as well.
    • Reporting - Several ways of reporting are possible and each has their own benefit/purpose.
    • Strong/Powerfull Calculation Engine delivering fast results/speed to insight
    • User Interface is minimized to what you need and is not showing off all the functions it can "also" do
    • Strong audittrail
    • Appears to be almost unlimited in what you are able to create
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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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    Varicent
    • As [the] model gets more and more transactional data, the calculation time increases. This should/can be handled internally with better model optimization.
    • Migrating from one env to other sometimes is challenging. There can be better 'Alerts' or 'Explanation' provided to handle it or at least to give a hint of the error.
    • For managers viewing their rep's report, the access part can be made easier. It should be linked to Payee hierarchy and access can be done automatically.
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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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    Varicent
    Customer support from IBM is impeccable. They are quick to respond and they don't nickel and dime you for every request you make. Their goal is to ensure your success and as a user, I really feel like they listen to my concerns. That's not to say there are no problems. All software has its issues, but I don't feel like those issues fall on deaf ears.
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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.
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    Varicent
    Any calculations can be implemented as there are hardly any limitations on complexity. However, online real-time usability is lacking - a simple user enters, and the system calculates work in a way that it is in the browser and hence still needs overnight to be properly reflected in the batch calculations and backend tables.
    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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    Varicent
    Never went down in last 3 years that I worked with it (every hour of the day basically). That is a 10 in my book.
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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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    Varicent
    All is fast, but with API's it is sometimes slower due to the application we are pulling data from. Reports are loaded directly or within seconds and our reports are very detailed with many columns and rows.
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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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    Varicent
    Giving a 10 would suggest there is no room for improvement. I don't feel like their support is perfect. However, I have never met another team that was more dedicated to making sure we get what we want and need.
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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.
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    Varicent
    The training was good in general with a nice trainer as well. But, the training could be better if it is more focussed on our process/data etc.
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    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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    Varicent
    There is a learning portal with many videos about navigation, creating reports and managing your model.
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    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
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    Varicent
    Test test test. Make sure that the product is calculating everyone 100% correctly. DO NOT accept a 70% pass rate as some companies would like to have you believe is acceptable. This means conducting thorough testing by providing 100% of all expected results, but it will be worth it when you know that the compensation plans are working entirely as expected.
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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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    Varicent
    In 2015, we used a scorecard containing 80 attributes in our review of Oracle, Callidus, and Xactly & Varicent. Oracle did not have true self serve capabilities- programming was heavily required, not intuitive, out of the box functionality was limited. Callidus & Xactly could not provide us a demo using our data, statements could not be sent out in bulk form, difficulty in importing/exporting to CRM. Varicent excelled in most areas and was the clear winner.
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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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    Varicent
    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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    Varicent
    It is very scalable and adaptable to changing complexities of calculations and business rules under a variety of different scenarios. It does not get full points because in large data loads the time needed to calculate and import the data increases exponentially and may cause issues related to timing potentially.
    Incentivized
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    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.
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    Varicent
    • Compliance - with a central system used for calculation incentive payments and commissions, we are able to provide reports and data showing every detail of how payments are calculated and why they are justified. We can also identify anomalies and outliers.
    • Integration with our payroll system is seamless. Except for regular pay, nothing goes to payroll without going through ICM. The process for paying incentives/bonuses/commissions is now very structured and efficient.
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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.

    Varicent Screenshots

    Screenshot of Varicent providing clarity and transparency to sellers, helping them to find answers faster and have confidence in compensation plans.Screenshot of Tools for sellers that help them align strategic initiatives, and that help them understand which deals will help them win.Screenshot of Varicent ICM model compensation plans that display the financial impact of changes. Its ability to more accurately forecast commission payouts with “what-if” assumptions, users can budget more effectively for sales compensation costs, manage target total compensation for sales representatives and assess plan effectiveness.Screenshot of Shareable information sent to the right people to drive the right results.