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Product fit
What is KickSplit?
KickSplit is a sales commission tracking and calculation workflow designed to help teams move commissions out of fragile spreadsheets. It covers plan building, sales data review, commission runs, rep statements, payout questions, and payroll-ready exports in one structured process.
Is KickSplit payroll software?
No. KickSplit is not a payroll provider or accounting system. It prepares payroll-ready outputs that you bring into your existing payroll or accounting workflow. KickSplit handles the commission calculation and payout-readiness layer; your payroll system handles the disbursement.
Who is KickSplit built for?
Sales teams that need clearer commission plans, reviewed sales data, structured commission runs, rep statements, rep visibility into earned and projected compensation, payout question workflows, and clean payroll-ready handoffs.
Commission plans
Can KickSplit support more than flat-rate commissions?
Yes. KickSplit supports a range of plan shapes — standard commissions, gross profit and margin-aware plans, overrides, bonuses, SPIFs, flat-unit structures, trailing patterns, and anchor-based plan types. The plan builder encodes these structures so they are visible and auditable rather than hidden in spreadsheet formulas.
Can we add bonuses and SPIFs?
Yes. Bonus plans and SPIFs can be kept distinct from base commission so each incentive category is separately understandable when reps review their statements and when admins prepare payroll-ready outputs.
Can owners review plan-driven payouts before they are final?
Yes. Commission runs are structured around a calculate, review, and lock workflow. Admins can review calculated payouts before they are locked and exported, which gives the team a consistent checkpoint before anything goes to payroll.
Sales data
Where does sales data come from?
Sales records can come from CRM-connected workflows, CSV imports, manual entry, or other supported sales intake paths. The goal is to consolidate the right inputs before commissions run rather than assembling them manually each cycle.
Can KickSplit track cost of sale and gross profit?
Yes. Sales Hub can surface cost of sale, additional backend costs, gross profit, and margin context alongside sales records before commissions are calculated. This supports margin-aware plan structures and gives admins a clearer picture of what is driving each payout.
Can sales records be reviewed before they affect commissions?
Yes. Admins can review rep assignments, source attribution, record status, cost and margin figures, and commission readiness before running payouts. This review step is designed to catch data issues upstream rather than discovering them in a payout question after the fact.
Statements and exports
Do reps get commission statements?
Yes. Statements are designed to explain payout components — base commission, bonuses, SPIFs, adjustments — rather than showing a single unexplained total. Reps can see what they earned, what changed, and why their payout was built the way it was.
Can KickSplit export payroll-ready data?
Yes. KickSplit can produce payroll-ready CSV-style outputs for downstream payroll or accounting workflows. The export preserves compensation categories so the structure that makes payouts understandable carries through the handoff rather than being flattened into one number.
Does KickSplit directly integrate with payroll providers?
No. KickSplit provides payroll-ready exports that you bring into your payroll or accounting system. It is not a native integration with payroll providers — it is the layer that prepares clean, structured data for that handoff.
Rep visibility
Can reps see what they earned and why?
Yes. KickSplit is designed to make payout categories, statements, and commission context clearer for reps. Instead of waiting for a single number and trying to reverse-engineer it, reps can see the components that built their payout.
Can reps preview future commission impact?
The What-If Simulator helps reps understand how future deals could affect projected earnings before those deals close. This gives reps a way to connect activity to expected payout rather than treating compensation as an outcome they find out about later.
Can reps ask questions about payouts?
Yes. Disputes Management gives reps and admins a cleaner way to keep payout questions tied to the relevant context — the specific sale, the run, and the payout category — rather than handling them through separate email threads or spreadsheet notes.
Setup and operations
Do we need to replace our CRM?
No. KickSplit is not a CRM replacement. It is a commission workflow that can work alongside your existing sales data sources — CRM exports, CSV files, or manual entry — rather than replacing the system where your team manages deals.
Do we need an enterprise implementation team?
KickSplit is designed to be simpler than enterprise compensation platforms while still supporting a structured rollout. We walk through your plan types, sales data, incentive structures, rep visibility needs, and payroll handoff in a demo so you can evaluate whether it fits before committing.
What happens next if we want to evaluate KickSplit?
Schedule a demo. We will walk through your actual sales process, plan types, incentive structures, rep visibility needs, payout questions, statements, and payroll-ready handoff so you can evaluate whether KickSplit fits your commission workflow.
The short version: plans, sales data, runs, statements, exports.
Build the plan
Encode plan rules in a structured builder.
Review sales data
Confirm source, cost, margin, and assignment.
Run commissions
Calculate, review, and lock payouts.
Explain payouts
Statements surface payout categories for reps.
Export for payroll
Payroll-ready output preserves compensation structure.
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