Commission software is priced by the number of people you pay commission to. Add a salesperson and the software bill moves — which is a defensible meter, and one worth seeing in five-year terms before you agree to it.
What the vendors publish
QuotaPath — read 2026-09-03 and again 2026-10-12. Growth **$525/month platform fee including the first 5 users, plus $35 per additional user** per month, billed annually; Premium $800/month platform fee plus $50 a user. Two meters, one of them fixed and large.
Core Commissions — read 2026-10-08 and again 2026-10-12. Reporter *"starts at: $10 per payee/per month"*, billed annually with a 15-payee minimum, sells reporting with rules added on; Launch $20 per payee/month with 5 rules included and additional rules at $0.50 each; Enterprise $35 per payee/month with unlimited rules; Managed Services priced on top again. **It meters the commission rules as well as the people.**
Visdum — read 2026-09-03 and again 2026-10-12: **no public price.** The pricing page publishes what it will not charge — "Platform fee $0", *"Usage / API charges $0", "Overage penalties $0"* — and, on 2026-10-12, a per-payee subscription billed annually plus a one-time setup fee, with "Typical first-year investment starts in the low five figures". The absence of secondary meters is the pitch; the primary price is not on the page.
The arithmetic, labeled as arithmetic
Published entry figure × 60 months. QuotaPath is shown at its platform fee with the included five users; Core Commissions at fifteen payees, its own minimum.
| monthly | five years | |
|---|---|---|
| QuotaPath Growth (platform fee, 5 users) | $525 | $31,500 |
| Core Commissions Reporter | $10 per payee | $9,000 at the record's baseline |
| Visdum | no published price | not calculable |
| Commissa | — | $69, once |
The Core Commissions row is per payee, so its five-year figure moves with your headcount — the total shown is the one this store's comparison record holds; a larger team pays more, and below fifteen payees the minimum still applies. Add a sixth salesperson to QuotaPath and it is $560 a month. Neither is a criticism; it is simply what a per-head meter means over five years.
What Commissa is
Penny-exact commission statements — flat, tiered or per-category — computed in integer cents so a statement always sums to itself. It is deliberately narrow: it computes and it states.
Who should stay where they are
Stay with Visdum if you want commissions run as a managed service with integrations and dispute handling. Stay with Core Commissions if you need automated processing wired into your CRM or ERP, a dispute-management module, or somebody else administering the plan.
Commissa administers nothing and has no live CRM connection: deal exports come in as files. It turns rules and sales into statements you can defend line by line, on your own server, and stops there.
The two links this guide owes you
Commissa is $69, once, with the PHP source. Open the demo — same application, with a tiered plan you can check by hand.
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