Everstage vs. Xactly

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Everstage
Score 9.1 out of 10
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Everstage is a no-code commissions automation platform that provides a transparent and gamified incentives experience to customer-facing teams.N/A
Xactly
Score 8.6 out of 10
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The Xactly Intelligent Revenue Platform unifies the full revenue lifecycle into a single system of action to orchestrate and optimize revenue outcomes. Powered by 21+ years of data, the platform’s AI automates workflows and connects data across an existing ecosystem.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeRequired
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Community Pulse
EverstageXactly
Considered Both Products
Everstage
Chose Everstage
Everstage offers a much better experience that is easier to use and shows more up-to-date insights.
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Everstage is and feels much more personal! And this has been feedback from wider sales team members.
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Spiff seemed like a black box that was hard to discern where data was coming from and how it impacted performance and attainment towards a rep's plan.
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Everstage offered the best solution in terms of ease of use and speed of implementation. With its strong market reputation and ability to handle complex compensation structures, we have significantly improved the relationship between sales and finance, boosting the engagement …
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The overall experience on Everstage has been amazing and it allows our sales team to visualize potential future commission earnings based on different scenarios. I find that this is the best analysis tool for our incentive analysis of every month. It handles complex commission …
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Everstage has kept its promise of providing timely, accurate incentive calculations while outperforming against previous solutions. It takes overly complex process with lots of data and inputs, and streamlines it and makes the process much more efficient. It was chosen also due …
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Our company selected Everstage as it was able to provide the solution we needed to fully automate and manage complex compensation plans, while also offering reps easy access to the system via Everstage mobile app to get accurate data on quota attainment and continue to explore …
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Since we implemented Everstage into our organization the feedback from end users has been really positive. It has already proved to be a super efficient way to understanding compensation and it also helps the management in paying out the employees as well.
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None. We were using Everstage in our previous organisation and hence did not evaluate any other tool for processing commision.
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Simple implementation, end user experience
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I am not sure what other comparable companies were explored, just that we are extremely pleased with Everstage.
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As I mentioned earlier, I'm an individual user of Everstage and did not get to work with or evaluate any similar tools to Everstage except using Google sheets to track my numbers.
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I have not personally used another tool like Everstage. This is the second company I have been a part of that I have been able to track my variable compensation with Everstage and as a user it does what I would hope it does. I would not choose to move off of it.
Chose Everstage
In my opinion, the in-app/slack commission queries feature is more advanced than other products which makes Everstage outstanding. Next is the partnership that they provide and the willingness to adopt their solution to the product we use. In my experience, provides convenient …
Chose Everstage
Everstage easy to use not to much complicated to use and others also can use and maintain your daily work report for analysis. I like to use the Everstage in my check month report and payout report for monthly basis it's very workout to use and very useful to use for every …
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I am first time user of Everstage and would highly recommend all individuals or corporates to implement the Everstage.
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This the best thing to calculate my incentives ,as i am sale person there is no personal life nor time either ,so the thing which give us good is the incentives and to calculate and tell where am i am standing in that cycle and on the whole what incentives i have got , this is …
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I have never used other platform regarding the same since I was new to this platform as a sales rep. and like the way Everstage works. I am not sure about the other platform.
Xactly
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I have not evaluated other systems.
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Je n'ai pas tester d'autre produit comparable
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We've also looked at Lattice, which is a compensation management software, but we found that it was lacking in terms of integration with Salesforce as well as inefficiency. Updates it usually takes a longer time for sales and Salesforce to translate to Lattice, and we find that …
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But staying on track to ensure I am reaching the goals set for me, both daily, monthly & quarterly. This App also helps me stay on Track to the money that I earn and can earn with each level that i meet and can achieve. This app helps me succeed at all times.
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To always see my actual pacing and numbers
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Since I've been employed with this company, we have always used Xactly
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its better with insights and clarity
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We feel that Xactly is the best solution for us
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More granularity; better depth of incentives by timeframes; better data refresh capabilities.
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Captivate IQ offers better pricing and has less limitations in configuration.
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easier customization for our complex comp plans, reporting, more user friendly
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Our company was using a product called SNL Banker to share incentive data with our sales team. We were using this product for other reporting so it was an easy solution but it did not have any of the calcualtion functions of Xactly Incent. I used Xactly Incent at a previous …
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I have not used any other dedicated Incentive tool other than homegrown solutions.
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More straightforward to implement complex incentive plans - faster to implement. Better visibility from the management perspective and user perspective. There are a lot of features to ensure the product is compliant with all the certifications.
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Everstage is a good product however does not have the robust functionality of Xactly Incent®. But a lot cheaper -
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Xactly Incent® is promissing tool in market as it is from long time. and builded the trust with big companies. Whereas rest of the tools are new in market and has most recent features per industry requirement with enough flexibility.
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Xactly Forecasting has a smart AI tool, this is what puts them ahead of the competition. With their smooth interaction with other apps and programs, it makes it seamless when using other apps and programs. I find that when it uses its forecasting skill it shows us exactly what …
Features
EverstageXactly
Sales ICM
Comparison of Sales ICM features of Product A and Product B
Everstage
9.4
Ratings
18% above category average
Xactly
7.5
Ratings
13% below category average
Sales compensation plan creation9.40 Ratings7.70 Ratings
Complex sales crediting9.20 Ratings7.80 Ratings
Sales compensation process automation9.40 Ratings7.30 Ratings
Incentive auditing/regulation compliance9.60 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Sales compensation dashboards & forecasting9.40 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Incentive modeling9.50 Ratings6.70 Ratings
Agile incentive strategy9.50 Ratings7.10 Ratings
ICM mobile visibility9.00 Ratings7.50 Ratings
Analytics and Reporting
Comparison of Analytics and Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Everstage
-
Ratings
Xactly
8.5
Ratings
3% below category average
Personalized dashboards00 Ratings6.60 Ratings
Color-coded scorecards00 Ratings8.80 Ratings
KPIs00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Key Performance Indicator setting00 Ratings9.20 Ratings
Benchmarking with external data00 Ratings9.20 Ratings
Revenue Forecasting00 Ratings8.80 Ratings
Pipeline Analytics00 Ratings8.40 Ratings
Sales Gamification
Comparison of Sales Gamification features of Product A and Product B
Everstage
-
Ratings
Xactly
8.1
Ratings
11% below category average
Sales contest templates00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Custom sales contests00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Team competitions00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Multiple competitions00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Contest flexibility00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Sales rep view00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Mobile game functionality00 Ratings8.40 Ratings
Game notifications & updates00 Ratings8.40 Ratings
Social competition / Game collaboration00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Sales game integration to Salesforce00 Ratings8.40 Ratings
Sales performance reporting00 Ratings7.90 Ratings
TV streaming00 Ratings5.00 Ratings
Best Alternatives
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Small Businesses

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Medium-sized Companies
QuotaPath
QuotaPath
Score 8.5 out of 10
Clari
Clari
Score 8.6 out of 10
Enterprises
CaptivateIQ
CaptivateIQ
Score 9.1 out of 10
Clari
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Score 8.6 out of 10
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User Ratings
EverstageXactly
Likelihood to Recommend
9.1
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8.5
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Likelihood to Renew
8.6
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8.2
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Usability
9.2
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8.0
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Availability
8.6
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8.1
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Performance
8.6
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1.8
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Support Rating
8.1
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7.0
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In-Person Training
4.6
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8.2
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Online Training
8.2
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8.2
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Implementation Rating
7.3
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5.9
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Configurability
7.7
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2.4
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Ease of integration
8.6
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1.3
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Product Scalability
7.7
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1.5
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Vendor post-sale
7.3
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8.6
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Vendor pre-sale
7.3
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7.8
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User Testimonials
EverstageXactly
Likelihood to Recommend
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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Xactly has helped us recognize where our sales incentive plans are overly complicated and find ways to make them more functional and easy-to-understand for the sales reps who are expected to be motivated by them. Having data in Xactly allows us to more quickly identify outliers and communicate potential challenges to our stakeholders. Xactly also has reduced the number of errors in the incentive process (from quota and credit data received to getting those payments to payroll) and reduced the amount of time it takes to do that. It has also allowed us to make sure consistent practices are being used across 100+ sites in the US and Canada. My biggest complaints about Xactly are about the navigation within various objects - sometimes it can be time-consuming to switch between periods (especially in different years) and that can be frustrating. We're still figuring out the new reporting tools, but I see the value in the newly released tools.
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Pros
  • Crystal - It helps in understanding which are the key sales or opportunities to be closed to attain the required commission
  • Quota Attainment Tracker - This gives graphical representation of how much attainment has been achieved year wise
  • Tier attainment helps us to understand what more to be added to gain more to be added to go to next tier of commission
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  • Xactly Incent allows quick feed changes with Connect.
  • Xactly Incent allows intuitive plan design so that quick changes can be made with plan changes.
  • Document Management allows quick disbursement of plans to reps as well as record management of the plans.
  • Xactly Incent allows visibility to the reps at any time so that they do not have to wonder what their commissions are.
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Cons
  • 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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  • It doesn't provide real-time results after updates are made that require recalculation. You have to wait for a refresh time to pass.
  • The ability to edit the Draw section, so that you can identify and/or distinguish the difference between Recoverable and Non-Recoverable Draws.
  • Customizing the rare and out of the ordinary situations. It can be done, but typically requires the aid of Support.
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Likelihood to Renew
Because as of now how much I have used I am ok with it as it is helping me in daya to day work because it hep us to see the content in right manner with help of good visualization. the dashboards and all are up to the mark which make it more convinient to use .
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We have been using Xactly as a primary application to calculate the commissions payout on a daily basis and would continue the same as Xactly Incent meets our requirement. It keeps the process automated and reduces the manual effort to calculate commissions.
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Usability
Using Everstage, plans can now be easily rolled out in a matter of minutes and today, everyone from sales ops to the C-Suite has quick access to the intelligence they need to inform better sales forecasting. With Everstage on our desktops and mobile devices, we keep commission pay transparent and accessible.
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From an admin perspective, the software's usability is high. The different components are organized in a way that is easy to figure out, for example, all elements of a plan are under the Plan Design section. There are some areas where searching within the system is a bit cumbersome because after clicking into a result and back out it clears your filter. I found the software easy to navigate when I first started and the amount of documentation and helpful videos they have on the community and within the University make the system even easier to learn.
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Reliability and Availability
All team have nothing but high praise for the live element of Everstage -
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In general the system is nearly always available. But the daily achievement calculation takes a hugh amount of time. therefore it was in the past month sometimes only from midday onwards completely updated and usable for Sales employees. Xactly support was and still is working hard to get it available early mornings. Availablility time has increased a lot. It's now down to around 10 am in the moring
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Performance
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
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Xactly is a very helpful tool ensuring appropriate and correct data is used when calculating commissions. The interface loads timely, but it is not intuitive to use. The learning curve to be proficient in Xactly takes a significant amount of time.
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Support Rating
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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They take the time to understand the system. They keep us updated on the status of our cases. Finally, their continued follow up ensuring the initial issue was resolved is very nice. They will not close the case out until they have confirmed that our issue has been completely resolved and fixed.
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In-Person Training
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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It was great, good explanations and good training material provided, we were able to get a really good idea of how to use the system. I also think that it was enough time to learn how to setup the system.
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Online Training
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 !!!
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Xactly offers training on new releases on a monthly basis and training on basic principles regularly via registration. My experience with both is that they do not provide the in-depth knowledge necessary to truly master the system and advanced courses still do not go to the level needed to autonomously manage the system and plans. Professional services are a large part of any cloud based service such as Xactly and I feel a reliance on such paid consulting services is a great money-maker for Xactly.
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Implementation Rating
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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Go into implementation knowing how you will handle churn, if there are claw backs, treatment for every type of commission payment (i.e. new business, renewals, etc.) and know your average customer life. You'll also want details by customer for as far back as you can go (within reason).
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Alternatives Considered
Everstage has kept its promise of providing timely, accurate incentive calculations while outperforming against previous solutions. It takes overly complex process with lots of data and inputs, and streamlines it and makes the process much more efficient. It was chosen also due to its high level of integration with our existing CRM platform, as well the robust nature of the software itself.
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We've also looked at Lattice, which is a compensation management software, but we found that it was lacking in terms of integration with Salesforce as well as inefficiency. Updates it usually takes a longer time for sales and Salesforce to translate to Lattice, and we find that with Xactly it usually takes about one business day, which is always beneficial to have things updated quicker.
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Scalability
Absolutely fantastic and high praise - before Everstage everything was reliant on manual tasks - this has saved so much team time in all aspets
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It's very flexible. In most cases it can be adapted to your needs by programming which may cost extra money. We have a lot of different complans and close to 1.000 employees using Xactly in EMEA. It's mainly used by Sales and Finance
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Return on Investment
  • Build transparency amongst consultants and management in terms of commission calculations. Earlier when this was done using manual Excel sheets, many a times sharing the underlying details with the consultants was missed and they had to follow-up with the Revops team or the management.
  • Faster reconciliation - With Manual sheets, reconciliation was done at the end of the quarter. With this tool, we are pushed to ensure that the data that is fed into the system is reviewed and approved every month, thereby ensuring a faster quarter end closure from commissions stand point.
  • Generating leader board for friendly competition and President's club. Earlier, we struggled to keep this updated, but Everstage ensures that this is accessible and udpated every month based on the consultant performance.
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  • Being about to see their progress towards goals is motivating participants to do more.
  • Stack ranking reports allow participants to see how they are performing compared to their peers. Creating some competition among the sales team.
  • More accountability of sales team to perform. No more excuse of I didn't know I was behind goal.
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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.

Xactly Screenshots

Screenshot of the Chat-based AI Assistant interface surfacing compensation insights, attrition risk predictions, and quota recommendations, drawn from 20+ years of proprietary SPM data.Screenshot of a rep-facing incentive statement showing commission earned, quota attainment, and deal-level payout breakdown in a single view.Screenshot of a multi-dimensional forecast view showing deal health scores, risk signals, and AI-generated revenue trajectories across commit, best case, and pipeline categories.Screenshot of a view of territory design decisions that used to take quarters now take days with the coverage visibility and quota alignment field teams need to hit plan.Screenshot of the what-if scenario modeling view with plan variants, projected spend, pay equity impact, and attainment outcomes compared side by side, powered by 20+ years of benchmark data.Screenshot of a single source of truth dashboard for territory assignments, headcount, credits, and quota targets with workflow approvals for mid-year changes built in.