Xactly SimplyComp (discontinued) Reviews & Insights

SimplyComp was used to calculate commissions for sales reps on a monthly & quarterly basis. The outputs are then uploaded to CEA (Xactly's ASC 606 product) for generating amortization tables & JEs for Netsuite. Our sales reps login to view their commissions & deals, and our accounting org uses it for JE generation. Sales Ops & FP&A use it to calculate commissions.

It's fine if your comp plans are really simple. It should have no problem multiplying ACV by a rep's BCR and maybe having a SPIFF or two. If you have accelerators, decelerators, complicated hierarchies, constant "exceptions to the rule", and need a platform to be flexible...SimplyComp simply won't be able to help here. Any "solutions" they implement will be short-term bandaids that will have to be addressed again sometime in the future.

We purchased Xactly SimplyComp to replace a huge Excel workbook that was used to track and calculate our sales commissions. It used to take me 2 weeks to calculate commissions with this Excel sheet and all the details and look-ups etc. Xactly is being used to save us time, be more efficient and accurate.

I'm saying 5 because my project accountant ended up doing most of our set up. Xactly SimplyComp started it but we ran out of support hours very early on and company did not want to pay for more hours so some type of manual/guide would have helped. My project accountant worked his way through and figured it out.

For those on our team who gets commission, Xactly is extremely helpful. It allows us to see what will be paid to us and where we stand after sales are made. As a salesperson this is our primary motivation.

It's good as it shows the total numbers I have received in commissions, but I'd like to see more numbers. I want to know how much I've sold, what I'm being paid and how much more I need to sell in order to hit the next tier. I can't do that now.

We are implementing SimplyComp to automate the calculation of our B2B sales v-comp plans. The intent is to move from having this done manually through excel spreadsheets which is extremely error-prone to an automated system that also gives transparency to the sales organization as to what they are due on a monthly basis.

Well suited to organizations that need v-comp automation for standard less-complex sales comp plans where the data is easily obtained via the CRM (in our case SFDC). Less suited for organizations that need really complex v-comp automation because the plans have all kinds of complexity. Or where the data needs to be uploaded manually. It can work in these situations but I would consider looking at business processes and your plans if they are overly complex or you are not using a CRM before buying compensation automation software.

The system was bought by a past employee to use for commission purposes. We only have 1 person on commission monthly and 1 person on commission quarterly. At the time it was purchased by an employee, there were 2 other employees going on commission, but they resigned at the end of March, including the person who recommended the purchase. I called immediately to tell them we only had 2 employees on commission, but they would not make any changes. We paid for 4, plus 10 hours of training. I began the training and found the report extremely complicated and the report was so convoluted with the info they needed, but not necessary for me. The columns could not even fit on one screen. In addition, the second person's report is under the first person, but the columns are not the same. I was told others to complain about the same thing. I continued to use my method of paying commission and find their program a waste of time. I could not even print it out for the employee to see his commission. In addition, I could not use the full 10 hours training and now they are pressuring me to use the remaining training, but there is nothing I need training for. Being that I had so few people on commission, they should not have put in automatically for 10 hours of training. To be honest, this has all been a nightmare for me! The trainer was nice, but the program is terrible. I have never written a bad review for any company, but I had to write this one.

I would not recommend it at all in the formats they are presently using.

Xactly SimplyComp is being used by our commissionable employees within our sales organization. SimplyComp allows our employees to have full transparency to their individual selling performance i.e., earnings and payments. SimplyComp has provided us with a tool that eliminates manual calculation and saves time for our staff.

Xactly SimplyComp is being used to calculate commissions at our company. We previously used Google Sheets, one for each AE, and we have since moved to using SimplyComp and their direct integration with Salesforce. We use it across our Global Account Executive organization. We use it for our Sales Engineer, Sales Directors, and Sales VPs as well. We're beginning to set up SimplyComp to calculate commissions for our CSMs and SDRs. SimplyComp is solving the problem of quickly calculating commissions and tracking payouts over certain periods of time.

SimplyComp gets the job done. However, it's more of a necessary evil than pleasant software to work with. My organization has probably invested over 100 hours to set SimplyComp up to support an organization of 50 AEs, 2 VPs, and 8 Directors. I'll acknowledge that we brought some complexity to the table with our comp plans. However, the SimplyComp software didn't make it easy to execute.

SimplyComp is being used to run commissions for our sales organization. This program was put in place to fix the manual processes of Excel spreadsheets we had historically. Xactly SimplyComp is also used to display more visibility to our sales reps, who previously had little information to go on for reconciling their payout.

I would recommend SimplyComp for simple plans. A company that had little to no variations would find this program incredibly useful and reduce manual work. More complex plans should understand going in that the onboarding will be long, but could still find usefulness once it is up and running. This is also great if a company wants to use SFDC as its primary system.

We are using Xactly SimplyComp to improve our commissions reporting for our sales team. It has greatly improved the efficiency of sending out commissions statements to our sales team and provided increased visibility into quota attainment for our sales reps. Previously, the commissions were sent out via individual emails with a unique excel spreadsheet and pdf file provided to each user. Since adding Xactly, we now upload one data file each month and the system does all of the calculations for us. Users are able to access their commissions statements and easily download how their commissions are calculated. Our sales team has been very pleased with Xactly so far and our finance team saves approximately half a business day each month now that we don't have to send out individual statements. We have set an aggressive hiring target for our sales team and Xactly is enabling us to scale as the team grows.

If you have a reasonably simple commission plan and a large number of users, Xactly SimplyComp is a very useful system. Our current sales reps are paid based on monthly sales and Xactly easily simplifies this process. We are also using it to pay managers and directors and we have been able to create lookup tables that make it easy for us to adjust our plans.

Additionally, if you have plans that pay based on monthly or quarterly attainment, Xactly SimplyComp easily accommodates these types of plans.

It is being used by Sales and Account Management team. Finance no longer needs to calculate commissions and issue a commission statement using Excel.

It is well suited for small to medium sized business. It is also suited for a company looking to do a fast implementation on comp software.