Emotional Footprint Awards 2025
Sales Compensation
SoftwareReviews names Qobra, Core Commissions, CaptivateIQ, and Qcommission as Sales Compensation Emotional Footprint Award Winners.
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Sales Compensation
Emotional Footprint Awards
SoftwareReviews Emotional Footprint Awards evaluate and rank products based on emotional response ratings from IT and business professionals. Using our Emotional Footprint methodology, we aggregate emotional footprint scores across 26 dimensions of the vendor-client relationship and product effectiveness, creating a powerful indicator of overall user feeling toward the vendor and product.
Emotional Footprint Awards are proudly founded in 100% user review data and are free of traditional “magical” components such as market presence and analyst opinion, which are opaque in nature and may be influenced by vendor pressure, financial or otherwise.
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Measuring Emotional Footprint
Emotional Footprint is scored using our “Net Emotional Footprint” Index. This index tracks responses across 26 dimensions of emotional footprint that span 5 categories: Purchasing, Service Experience, Product Impact, Vendor Strategy, and Conflict Resolution. Then, the following calculation is done across this index:
% of Positive Reviews - % of Negative Reviews
For clarity, the total percentage of positive, neutral, and negative ratings is shown for each vendor as well.
Emotional Footprint Leaders
Qobra
Qobra
Qobra, the Sales compensation platform tailored for your success. Qobra is the all-in-one sales compensation platform that motivates & aligns revenue teams. Say goodbye to Excel friction and hello to commission automation, reliability, and transparency to power your growth. One platform to align a whole organization: Sales Ops (Save time and ensure reliability), Sales (Gain visibility on commissions), and Finance (Control and secure commission payouts). Many companies across Europe have already placed their trust in us, including Boehringer Ingelheim, GoCardless, Make, SeLoger, Factorial, Lemlist, Spendesk, GetAccept, CoachHub, Go1, Mangopay and many more. Join us too!
9.2
CX Score
CX
Score
+96
Net Emotional Footprint
Net Emotional
Footprint
89
Value Index
VALUE INDEX
Core Commissions
Core Commissions
Founded in 2005, Core Commissions is an industry-leading commission automation platform. With nearly two decades of exposure to a wide range of complex and varied incentive compensation plans, Core’s proprietary rules engine is easily the most advanced and powerful in the industry. Intuitive and agile, rule building is simple through Core’s no-code, drag & drop graphical interface. Fully integrated with AI technology, Core’s suite of AI bots are able to convert plain-English descriptions into fully functioning rules. Users can validate results with Core’s single-view auditing to see the calculation steps behind every output.
9.2
CX Score
CX
Score
+96
Net Emotional Footprint
Net Emotional
Footprint
87
Value Index
VALUE INDEX
CellarStone Inc
Qcommission
QCommission is a flexible sales commission software. It calculates your sales people’s compensation accurately and reduces errors related to spreadsheets and manual methods. It allows you to calculate commissions as soon as the commission period is over and saves a lot of time. It can communicate calculated commissions in a detailed and clear manner.
8.6
CX Score
CX
Score
+96
Net Emotional Footprint
Net Emotional
Footprint
85
Value Index
VALUE INDEX
CaptivateIQ Inc
CaptivateIQ
CaptivateIQ is Sales Compensation software that manages and tracks your team’s sales commissions with greater accuracy, speed, and transparency. With CaptivateIQ Connect siloed data sources to build a single source of truth for commission admins, management, and reps, set up any commission plan using this logic-based data modeling platform, automate payouts in seconds, and share clear and actionable data points to shift selling behavior and keep teams motivated.
8.6
CX Score
CX
Score
+96
Net Emotional Footprint
Net Emotional
Footprint
87
Value Index
VALUE INDEX
Other Evaluated Vendors
Everstage
Everstage
Everstage is a no-code commissions automation platform that removes recurring busywork for your Ops and Finance teams and provides a transparent and gamified incentives experience to your customer-facing teams.
8.6
CX Score
CX
Score
+99
Net Emotional Footprint
Net Emotional
Footprint
88
Value Index
VALUE INDEX
Xoxoday
Compass
Compass is the #1 gamification software that automates and digitizes Sales Contests and Commission Programs. With game-like elements, rewards, recognitions, and complete access to relevant information, Compass turbocharges the entire salesforce.
8.5
CX Score
CX
Score
+98
Net Emotional Footprint
Net Emotional
Footprint
84
Value Index
VALUE INDEX
Varicent Software
Varicent Incentive Compensation Management
Varicent Incentive Compensation Management (ICM) removes friction from the compensation process, accelerates the ability to make plan changes and adopt new strategies, and enables new insights to outdo previous performance. Varicent enables businesses to continually refine and improve their sales strategies - from plan, operate, pay, and insights - to maximize revenues. Varicent ICM can help you remove friction from the sales compensation process, improve incentive calculation, adapt your sales strategy to shifting business priorities, and enable your compensation admins.
8.1
CX Score
CX
Score
+94
Net Emotional Footprint
Net Emotional
Footprint
87
Value Index
VALUE INDEX
Spiff Inc
Spiff
Spiff is a sales compensation platform that automates commission calculations and motivates teams to drive top-line growth. With a combination of an intuitive UI, real-time visibility, and seamless integrations, Spiff aligns and enables finance and sales operations teams to self-manage complex incentive compensation plans and provides transparency for sales teams. Spiff automates and optimizes commissions plans (goodbye Excel spreadsheets) and motivates commissioned reps. Spiff resolves the headache of running commissions for the finance team, reduce friction between finance and sales, and increase sales performance.
7.9
CX Score
CX
Score
+88
Net Emotional Footprint
Net Emotional
Footprint
88
Value Index
VALUE INDEX
Performio
Performio
Performio’s solutions for incentive compensation management enable you to quickly and accurately adapt with confidence to changing market conditions. The Performio platform helps you spend more time making decisions and less time administering compensation. Performia commissions process should be seamless, so you can spend your time designing plans that help you enter new markets, launch new products, and adapt to change.
7.7
CX Score
CX
Score
+91
Net Emotional Footprint
Net Emotional
Footprint
81
Value Index
VALUE INDEX
Xactly
Xactly Incent
Xactly Incent is sales compensation software that empowers companies to successfully design, implement, and manage intelligent incentive compensation programs. With robust functionality and seamless integration with existing ERP, CRM, and HCM systems, Xactly Incent maximizes the ROI of incentive compensation with improved efficiencies, greater timeliness and accuracy, and plan optimization.
7.6
CX Score
CX
Score
+88
Net Emotional Footprint
Net Emotional
Footprint
81
Value Index
VALUE INDEX
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