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Everstage

Score9.1 out of 10

322 Reviews and Ratings

What is Everstage?

Everstage is a no-code commissions automation platform that provides a transparent and gamified incentives experience to customer-facing teams.

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

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Top Performing Features

  • Incentive auditing/regulation compliance

    Internal workflow and tracking elements create an audit trail and help ensure regulatory compliance.

    Category average: 8.4

  • Sales compensation plan creation

    Easy for Sales to create incentive compensation plans without IT assistance.

    Category average: 8.5

  • Sales compensation process automation

    Automates processes related to sales compensation, like incentive and quota plans, approvals, dispute resolution, payroll processing, etc.

    Category average: 8.9

Areas for Improvement

  • Agile incentive strategy

    Incentive plans are flexible; users can create and adjust compensation plans and incentive rules in order to strategically adapt to changes in sales performance/the marketplace/corporate goals.

    Category average: 8.3

  • Complex sales crediting

    Users can set up complex crediting chains to attribute credit for sales to multiple tiers of employees and/or partners.

    Category average: 8.3

  • ICM mobile visibility

    Real-time reports about sales performance and compensation are accessible on mobile devices; may also allow managers to update plans and/or reps to submit questions, disputes, etc.

    Category average: 7.6

Comprehensive platform for analyzing performance against quotas with great transparency

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

By introducing Everstage, the whole organization now has the ability to quickly and accurately calculate compensation data and create a fair incentive program for our sales reps. Both sales and finance report improved collaboration and it has multiplied the capacity of our resources and staff while effectively engaging sales team members to sell more.

Pros

  • Insight into payments
  • Tracking performance
  • Individual dashboards
  • Data accuracy
  • Great Integrations to pull data

Cons

  • Custom building some features
  • Getting configurations up to date
  • Quite rigid table structure

Return on Investment

  • Now, data and analytics requests are completed 99% faster, going from 10 minutes to five seconds.
  • Reduced compensation variance from 10% to 0.2%.
  • Clean, integrated data across systems.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Xactly Incent®

Other Software Used

ActiveCampaign, LocaliQ

Smoothest commission tracking tool that's a massive motivator to hit targets.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

From reps through to HR and Finance, our organization uses Everstage to automate the compensation process, making us more effective in managing large-scale teams and enabling sales managers to coach their reps with the next best actions to achieve quota. Payments have also been accelerated, and finance has easy access to the data they need to close their books faster.

Pros

  • Transparent payout structure.
  • Ties together performance and earnings in one view.
  • Every calculation is precise.
  • Instant data updates.

Cons

  • Visual customization for reports
  • Customer alerts for specific thresholds
  • Offline mode

Return on Investment

  • Enhanced data analysis ensured semi-annual quota setting process
  • Accuracy rates of up to 99.9% on five thousand transactions monthly
  • Accurate and timely payments with fewer internal resources

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Salesforce Spiff

Neatly combines sales performance and commission tracking in one easy to access place

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Everstage is enabling our company to provide sales and finance leadership with tools to ensure forecast accuracy and interdepartmental collaboration. The same data that is pulled into Everstage to enable accurate commissions is used to power timely analytics and reporting. Forecasting next month’s payouts is easy and accurate, without the hassle of building my own spreadsheet.

Pros

  • Reliable view into performance metrics and incentives.
  • Automation of calculations.
  • User-friendly experience.
  • Quotas deployment.

Cons

  • Occasional data sync delays.
  • Guidance on using advanced features.
  • Limited charts.

Return on Investment

  • Better sales motivation and performance.
  • Improved accuracy and cut commission processing time by 96 per cent.
  • Elimination of disputes and shadow accounting.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Core Commissions

Other Software Used

Salesforce CRM Analytics, SAP Sales Cloud

Concise and accurate in commission tracking and transaction audit

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It easily manages multiple incentive plans for our agents and provides transparency on how incentives and commissions have been calculated. It’s good as a manager to be able to download the entire sales team’s results in a single report.

Pros

  • The ability to download reports and ease of operation.
  • Display of upcoming payments.
  • Real time sales results.

Cons

  • Viewing PDFs on mobile app.
  • In some months there is a very short window to get disputes in.

Return on Investment

  • 35% increase in rep productivity.
  • Cloud sales increased by 41%.
  • Mitigates risks of top performers migrating to greener pastures.

Usability

Fantastic solution to pre-set rules that automatically calculate the right compensation per deal

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Everstage has become a central component for our company’s sales and marketing processes and is used across the company as the automated and integrated compensation system that ensures incentive compensation is directly linked to the score. The sales team uses it to shape more relevant sales conversations and ultimately deliver more personal buyer interactions.

Pros

  • Dynamic alignment of plans with goals.
  • Faster, more efficient commissions processing.
  • Financial reporting around sales operations.
  • Agility to easily alter plans.

Cons

  • Performance in data heavy reporting.
  • Just learning all the connections
  • Designing the tables.

Return on Investment

  • These days we are hitting 98 percent compensation accuracy.
  • Greatly reduced our dependence on IT for managing compensation.
  • Saves time by eliminating commissions disputes and rework

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Salesforce Spiff