A spreadsheet is the better fit when
Few payees, rules that rarely change, and one person who can check the whole workbook. Shared version history and a statement a rep can follow are optional. So is another product.
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What the sheet keeps, and what the cycle adds
Keep the workbook if one person can still check the whole run. Switch when imports, corrections, plan changes, and the statement are the job. Read When Excel is enough.
| Question | CompDay | Spreadsheet |
|---|---|---|
| Published price | $10 per payee per month. That is our list price as of November 2026. We have not measured it against the market. | No commission-software license. The cost is the hours of the people who run it. That cost is not quantified here. |
| Who is billed | Payees. | Nobody. There is no seat. |
| Setup fee | No setup fee. The offer is no implementation project. | None. Building the workbook is the setup. |
| Time to go live | We say you can connect today, not in a month. We have not timed that against anyone else. | As soon as the workbook exists. Every later cycle is manual. |
| Who does the setup | You set it up. An implementation partner is not part of the offer. | Whoever owns the file. |
| Data sources named | Spreadsheets, HubSpot, Salesforce, and a database. | Whatever can be pasted or exported in. Nothing stays connected unless someone rebuilds the link. |
| Plan changes | Configured in the product, and the previous version is kept. | Edit the cells. The previous logic is easy to overwrite. |
| Calculation | Deterministic. The same plan version and mapped data produce the same payout. | Formulas, if they are still the formulas that were checked. A copied sheet can drift. |
| Audit and history | An audit trail of the run, plus plan and workflow versions. | Whatever comments and file history the spreadsheet happens to keep. There is no commission audit trail unless someone builds one. |
| Rep statement | A payout explanation produced with the calculation. | Usually a number sent by hand. An explanation is a separate document. |
| Security certification | SOC 2 Type II is in progress. It is not certified. | The file’s own sharing settings. There is no product certification. |
CompDay is the better fit when
More than one source has to be mapped, adjustments have to be written down, and a plan change has to stay reconstructable. No implementation project. You can connect it the same day. List price is $10 per payee per month.
Still open
How often you run, how many payees you have, and what the security review will accept. A demo is where we check the integrations. The hours inside the spreadsheet are not priced here.
Tell us how the run works today
CompDay has no implementation project. You can connect it the same day. The list price is $10 per payee per month.