PayoutPilot
vs QCommission
QCommission is a 25-year-old incentive compensation suite sold through a demo. PayoutPilot is a commission calculator you can run right now, at one flat price per company. They are not the same product, and this page says which one your team should be buying.
The short answer
If your comp plans need clawbacks, draws, multi-currency or deep ERP integration, buy QCommission. If you run 10 to 25 reps on plans PayoutPilot supports and you want the price on the page and the math visible per rep, PayoutPilot is the cheaper and faster answer.
No signup, no email, no card. It runs in your browser.
What each one costs a 15-rep team
$0 · per month at 15 reps · $129
| Reps | PayoutPilot | QCommission |
|---|---|---|
| 10 | $129 | $170 to $500 |
| 15 | $129 | $255 to $750 |
| 20 | $179 | $340 to $1,000 |
| 25 | $179 | $425 to $1,250 |
QCommission publishes no subscription price, so this row carries no figure. Its editions page lists Pro, Premier and Enterprise with no software price and closes "Talk to a Commission Expert", re-read 30 July 2026. That page is not silent on money: it prices a $195 charge per incident beyond the incidents your edition covers, and optional support plans at 20%, 100% or 200% of subscription with minimums of $200, $400 and $600 a month. None of those is the subscription itself, and nothing on their site publishes an implementation figure either. Third-party listings do quote per-user numbers and they disagree by a factor of three: Capterra and GetApp both list QCommission from $17 per user per month, while ITQlick puts it at $50 per user and $450 a month for ten users. This page previously charted the $17 end alone. That understated them, which is no more defensible than overstating them, so the chart now shows what their own site shows, which is nothing, and the headcount table below carries the full spread instead of one end of it.
QCommission column is a RANGE because its two published third-party listings disagree: the low end is Capterra and GetApp at $17 per user per month, the high end is ITQlick at $50, each multiplied by headcount and each before implementation. QCommission itself publishes neither number, so treat both ends as other people’s estimates of a price QCommission has chosen not to publish, not as a quote. PayoutPilot column is the published price, which is the whole bill. PayoutPilot is $129/mo up to 15 reps and $179/mo for 16 to 25 reps, with no setup charge.
Where the two differ
The last column says which product wins each row, including the rows PayoutPilot loses.
| Dimension | PayoutPilot | QCommission | Better here |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Flat, per company. Two bands. | Per user, per month. | PayoutPilot |
| Price published | Yes, on the pricing section of this site. | No subscription price. Three editions listed with no figures. Support-plan fees and a per-incident charge are published; what the software costs is not. | PayoutPilot |
| Setup and implementation | $0. You enter or paste your plan yourself. | Quoted per project. QCommission publishes no implementation figure; a third-party listing puts it at about $1,000 for a small business, with training and customisation project-dependent on top. | PayoutPilot |
| Try before you buy | Full calculator, free, no signup and no email. | Request a demo. No self-serve signup path on the site. | PayoutPilot |
| Per-rep math shown line by line | Yes, on screen and on a printable statement per rep, before you pay anything. | Payee commission statements are an advertised feature of the suite. There is no way to see one without booking a demo. | PayoutPilot |
| Plan mechanics supported | Flat rate, tiered bands, quota attainment with accelerator, threshold plans. Clawbacks, draws, true-ups and multi-currency are not supported and are flagged rather than guessed. | Full incentive compensation suite: splits, draws, clawbacks, multi-currency, complex hierarchies. | QCommission |
| Integrations | None. You upload a CSV or Excel export, or type the figures in. | Over 50 direct integrations advertised, across CRM, ERP and accounting. | QCommission |
| Track record | None. PayoutPilot has no customers yet and says so. | CellarStone has been building it since 2000, and advertises 1,700+ customers across 65+ industries. | QCommission |
| Where your data sits | The free calculator computes in your browser. Nothing is uploaded unless you save it to a workspace. | A hosted platform with a login at app.qcommission.com. Your comp data lives on their side. | PayoutPilot |
When QCommission is the right purchase
These are not concessions written to look fair. Each one is a real reason to spend more money somewhere else, and if any of them describes your situation you should.
Your plans are genuinely complicated
Splits across multiple reps, draws recovered over time, clawbacks on churned deals, multi-currency territories, tiered manager overrides on top of rep plans. QCommission is built for all of it and PayoutPilot supports none of it. If any of those words describe your plan, this comparison ends here and the answer is QCommission.
You need the data to arrive on its own
QCommission advertises over 50 direct integrations across CRM, ERP and accounting systems. PayoutPilot has none: you export a CSV from wherever your closed revenue lives and upload it, every period. That is a real cost in minutes and a real risk of a stale export, and it is a fair reason to pay more elsewhere.
A long track record is part of what you are buying
CellarStone has been building QCommission since 2000 and advertises 1,700+ customers across 65+ industries. PayoutPilot has no customers, no case studies and no third-party reviews, because it is new. For a payroll-adjacent purchase that is a legitimate thing to weigh, and pretending otherwise would be a strange way to start a product that calculates your team’s pay.
When PayoutPilot is the right purchase
The bill does not move when you hire
Per-user pricing means your eleventh rep costs you money before they close anything. PayoutPilot is one number for the company: $129/mo up to 15 reps, $179/mo to 25. Hire and the invoice is identical.
You can see the price, and the product, today
QCommission’s editions page lists Pro, Premier and Enterprise and asks you to contact them for a figure. Every buying path on their site books a call. PayoutPilot’s price is on this site and the calculator runs in your browser with no signup, so you can test your own plan against your own numbers before you speak to anyone.
There is no implementation project
QCommission quotes implementation per project and publishes no figure for it; a third-party listing puts it at about $1,000 for a small business, with training and customisation on top. PayoutPilot has no setup charge because there is nothing to implement: you type your plan in, or paste it and confirm the rules read back to you.
Every payout is defensible to the rep who disputes it
PayoutPilot shows the arithmetic band by band on screen and prints a per-rep statement you can hand over. That is the whole reason the product exists, and you can test it on your own plan in the next two minutes without giving anyone your email.
Run your own plan before you believe any of this
Every number on this page is checkable and dated, and the product it argues for is on the other side of one click with no account. Put your own comp plan and your own reps into the calculator and see whether the payout figures match what you compute by hand. If they do not, PayoutPilot is not worth your money and you will know inside five minutes.
How this page was written
Every claim about QCommission comes from a page CellarStone publishes, or, where they publish no figure, from named third-party software listings that is said next to the number. Nothing here is a quote we were given, an estimate we invented, or a benchmark we ran. Pages were read on the dates below and prices change, so check theirs before you sign anything.
- QCommission editions and pricing page, which publishes no subscription priceRead 30 July 2026
- QCommission "Why QCommission" page, for company history, customer count and integration countRead 28 July 2026
- ITQlick QCommission pricing listing, which says $50 per userRead 28 July 2026
- Capterra QCommission listing, which says $17 per userRead 28 July 2026
- GetApp QCommission listing, which says $17 per userRead 28 July 2026
PayoutPilot is not affiliated with CellarStone. Product names belong to their owners and are used here to identify the products being compared.