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Everstage

Score9.1 out of 10

325 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

The best tool for commission calculations

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Making the commissions and managers dashboard easy for saving time and making the calculations easy

Pros

  • Perfect calculation
  • Easy interface
  • Customer support

Cons

  • Choosing of current quarter every single time is a little frustrating sometimes
  • Breakdown of revenue from different business units

Return on Investment

  • Time savings
  • No errors in calculations

Usability

My go-to product for daily needs.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

This is my go-to product to track my sales performance and commission. It plays a vital role in the development my business growth. It keeps me independent of my seniors to track my performance and it keeps every person updated about there performance and setting there goals. For me I keep daily track of performance and how easily it calculates commission and performance of a person on daily basis. The integration with Salesforce I'd the best and it serves me a lot on daily basis.

Pros

  • Track of comission and performance.
  • Updates on the realtime and integration with Salesforce.
  • Dashboard of Everstage is very easy to understand.

Cons

  • Real time updates needs to be implemented.
  • Use of AI in customer support
  • Comission metrics should be more easy

Return on Investment

  • It keeps track of our performance.
  • It keeps updated regarding the comission.
  • It calculates evey incentive that the company has given.

Usability

Other Software Used

Salesforce Agentforce Education, Revenue.io, Five9 Intelligent Virtual Agent

Everstage - A goto tool for Sales Comp management

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Everstage to handle our commission plans and computing. Statements can be locked on the platform which then becomes visible to the users

Pros

  • Pay plans management
  • Commissions computing
  • Backend datasheet manipulation

Cons

  • Creating archived folder to move inactive plans
  • Ability to view historical payouts in one single screen
  • Flexibility to make changes

Return on Investment

  • Accurate compensation tool
  • Reliability on the tool
  • Quick turn around

Usability

Everstage creates a single source of truth for attainment variable compensation

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Everstage has been a game-changer in understanding variable sales compensation and performance in real-time. Before, we were using a combination of Salesforce dashboards and Point solutions, which made understanding performance hard and often led to different data sources being used as a source of truth. Now with Everstage, I have a single live dashboard that shows me how I'm pacing for the month and how that relates to my variable compensation.

Pros

  • Mapping out commission payouts
  • Visibility into deals, credit and ticket disputes
  • Real time earnings updates

Cons

  • UI had a little bit of a learning curve but easy to navigate overtime
  • I wish there was a way to see performance overtime relative to specific deals
  • Crystals could be easier to use. Seems overly complex

Return on Investment

  • Saves time relative to performance tracking
  • Consolidates sales performance and compensation into a single source of truth
  • Visibility into IC attainment overtime

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Salesforce Spiff

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