Salesforce Maps vs. Xactly Commission Expense Accounting

This is best suited when there is territory management at the field or rep level. One can easily distribute the area/ locality, balance revenue, and optimize sales/outcome. However, this may be less appropriate for organizations that operate entirely on remote sales or for those where geographic location does not matter.

Incentivized

CEA is well suited for small and rapidly growing companies where manually calculating commissions expense for ASC606 is not an option due to a lack of internal resources. CEA is less appropriate for larger companies that have the resources and likely a person, or people, who only focus on commissions.

Incentivized

• Drilling down from the map point, to account/work order/opportunity.

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• Amortization waterfalls
• Locked periods & PPA adjustments
• Journal entries

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• They just restructured their pricing model and we are ending our contract because of it - you have to pay for 10 users.
• The crossover with accounts and contacts are hard to map.
• The window sizes when navigating the maps are difficult to work with.

Incentivized

• Dashboard is on a different page
• Needing to rerun reports
• Not being able to download reports and edit them

Incentivized

It aligns well with business needs. We clearly get productivity gain, and its seamless integration with Salesforce makes things easier. The ability to visualize things and performance geographically helps us to make better decisions. It also saves us lots of time and effort and increases efficiency.

Incentivized

Support was comical. It was barely available and the few times I did get help the language barrier was extraordinarily problematic

Incentivized

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).

Incentivized

Allows for many more contacts to be loaded into the map.

Incentivized

We selected Xactly CEA for ASC 606.

Incentivized

• For the first time, we were able to see donors on a map which was life-changing.
• Its allowed us to target donors on trips and other email campaigns when we haven’t been able to before.

Incentivized

• Efficiency
• Centralized
• Accurate

Incentivized