Software · KickSplit Commissions
The comp plan looks fine on the slide. Then payroll runs.
KickSplit Commissions is commission tracking, CRM and pipeline for sales teams — built so the number a rep sees on Friday is the number the plan actually says. In Initial Commercial Release, with paying customers running real payouts through it. The app lives at kicksplit.io.
Sign-up and log-in happen at kicksplit.io, under its own terms. This site only points there.
The problem
A comp plan that looks elegant on a slide breaks in the first payroll run.
We built KickSplit Commissions because we had to make this math come out right for real people on a real payroll, before Friday, with a rep on the phone who was right about the numbers. Four ways it goes wrong, and we have hit every one.
The split rule nobody wrote down
Two reps worked the deal and everyone knows they share it. The sheet does not know. It has one formula per row, and the formula was written for one rep.
The clawback that fires twice
A cancelled deal gets flagged and the commission comes back out. Then nothing clears the flag, and next month the formula reads it and takes the same money again.
The rep who is right about the math
Somebody on the floor checks their statement against their deals and finds the gap. They are right. From that day they check every line, trust none of them, and quietly start returning recruiters’ calls.
Every exception is another cell
A draw here, an accelerator at quota, a spiff for the product you are pushing this quarter. Each is reasonable. Each is another formula, and by month nine nobody in the building can predict their own cheque.
See it break
One payroll run, step by step.
A three-rule plan, three deals, and the spreadsheet most teams are running it in. Step through the month and watch where the number goes wrong.
A worked example. The numbers are made up; the failure is not.
Step 1 of 6
The plan. It looks fine.
The plan
- 01Reps earn 10% of closed revenue.
- 02When two reps work a deal, they split it 50/50.
- 03If a customer cancels inside 60 days, the commission is clawed back.
Three rules. 10 percent of what closes, a 50/50 split when two reps work a deal, and a clawback if the customer walks inside 60 days. Every sales manager has written this on a whiteboard, and there is nothing wrong with it.
Now run it through the spreadsheet most teams actually pay from.
What KickSplit Commissions does instead
The split lives on the deal, not in a formula
Two reps on one deal is a fact about the deal. It is recorded once, and every number downstream reads it.
A clawback is an event that happens once
It is dated, it applies to one run, and there is no flag left behind to fire again next month.
Every rep sees their own statement and the math behind it
The number on Friday and the deals that produced it, on the same screen, before anyone has to ask.
What it does
What it does
The deal, the plan and the payout in one place, so the number a rep sees is the number the plan says.
Commission tracking
Splits, clawbacks, draws, tiers and accelerators, defined once against the plan and computed the same way every run. A shared deal is shared on the deal. A clawback happens once.
A CRM and pipeline the reps work in
Not a second system somebody re-keys into on Friday. The deal a rep closes is the deal the commission is computed from, so the pipeline and the payout cannot disagree.
A statement every rep can read
Each rep sees their own number and the deals behind it. The question of why it is what it is gets answered by the screen, not by a manager with a spreadsheet open.
The buildout Sales Engine adds
Pipeline stages with real exit criteria and the handful of KPIs a Monday meeting should run on, built inside the platform as part of Sales Engine rather than handed over as a deck.
Fit
Who it is for
Companies of five to fifty people where revenue depends on someone closing a deal, and where the commission math has outgrown the person doing it.
- Home services and trades
- Roofing and exteriors
- Commission-heavy sales organisations
- Small and mid-size sales teams
Not enterprise
If you have a compensation team, a payroll integration project and a procurement process, we are not the fit and will say so on the first call. This is built for the owner who is still arguing about a split in a spreadsheet on a Friday afternoon.
What it costs
Two ways to buy it
$300 per month, plus $25 per user. 5 seats is $425 a month; 10 seats is $550. Per month, at monthly billing. Annual prepay saves ten percent.
Software pricingSales Engine is KickSplit Commissions for the whole team plus the comp plan rebuilt and a weekly call with someone who has run a floor. For teams that know the plan itself needs fixing, not only the tracking. Ten-seat minimum.
Sales Engine pricing
Pricing
Every number is on one page
The software, Sales Engine and the consulting around them, priced in full and in public. Sign-up itself happens at kicksplit.io.
Where it stands
Said once, not inflated
KickSplit Commissions is in Initial Commercial Release. It has paying customers, and they are running real payouts through it. It is live at kicksplit.io, and you can go and look.
That is the whole claim. There is no customer count on this page and no logo wall, because we are not going to invent either, and because the only proof that counts is a payout that came out right.
The software is sold under its own agreements, published at kicksplit.io: Terms of Service · Privacy Policy · EULA
Questions people actually ask
Where do I log in?
At kicksplit.io. The app, the sign-up and the log-in all live there. This site has no accounts and no database — it describes the product and points to it.
Is this the same company as the consulting, and do we have to buy both?
Same company, KickSplit, LLC, one entity. The software came first and it is the reason the consulting is credible. You do not have to buy one to get the other: KickSplit Commissions is sold on its own at kicksplit.io, and the consulting is sold on its own here.
Does it replace our CRM?
It includes one. The pipeline, the deals and the commission each deal earns live in the same system, which is the point — when the CRM and the commission sheet are two different things, they disagree, and the rep is the one who finds out. If you are attached to your current CRM, say so on the call and we will tell you straight whether this is a fit.
Can it handle splits, clawbacks, draws, tiers and accelerators?
Yes. Those are the things a spreadsheet gets wrong, and they are the reason the product exists. A split is recorded on the deal. A clawback is a dated event that applies once. Draws, tiers and accelerators are defined against the plan rather than in a cell somebody has to remember.
Who owns our data?
You do. Your deals, your reps, your plan and your history are yours. The binding terms are the ones published at kicksplit.io — kicksplit.io/legal/terms and kicksplit.io/legal/privacy — not anything on this site.
What is Sales Engine, and how is it different from just buying the software?
Sales Engine is KickSplit Commissions for the whole team plus two things the software cannot do on its own: the compensation plan audit and rebuild, and a weekly training call with monthly one-on-ones for your reps. It is for teams that know the plan itself needs rebuilding, not only the tracking. Ten-seat minimum, twelve-month term, priced on the pricing page.
The app is at kicksplit.io
Go and look at it. If you would rather see it with someone walking you through your own plan, book twenty minutes and bring the spreadsheet.