CaptivateIQ vs. PayScale Insight Lab

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
CaptivateIQ
Score 8.0 out of 10
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CaptivateIQ in San Francisco offers their flagship sales commission management product designed to enable companies to manage and tailor mission critical sales incentive compensation programs for their workforce.N/A
PayScale Insight Lab
Score 4.2 out of 10
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PayScale Insight Lab is a sales intelligence software solution offered by PayScale, Inc.N/A
Pricing
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Features
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Sales ICM
Comparison of Sales ICM features of Product A and Product B
CaptivateIQ
8.2
Ratings
10% above category average
PayScale Insight Lab
-
Ratings
Sales compensation plan creation8.40 Ratings00 Ratings
Complex sales crediting8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Sales compensation process automation9.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Incentive auditing/regulation compliance8.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Sales compensation dashboards & forecasting8.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Incentive modeling8.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Agile incentive strategy8.10 Ratings00 Ratings
ICM mobile visibility6.60 Ratings00 Ratings
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CaptivateIQ
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Score 8.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
CaptivateIQPayScale Insight Lab
Likelihood to Recommend
9.1
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10.0
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Likelihood to Renew
9.1
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Usability
9.0
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Support Rating
9.0
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Implementation Rating
8.2
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Vendor post-sale
9.1
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9.1
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User Testimonials
CaptivateIQPayScale Insight Lab
Likelihood to Recommend
Captivate IQ is well-suited for sales teams of any size. Its ability to handle multiple, complex plan management allows for any amount of reps or level of complexity to be built in, allowing any organization to benefit from its automation and platform. We've changed our plans massively each year, and it is able to handle these changes with ease. It does seem as though it pairs better with SFDC. We use Hubspot, and this works okay, but our integration sometimes lags or needs a heavier lift to adjust.
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If you have a large employee base and you are trying to remain competitive from a compensation perspective, this tool is well suited to help you accomplish this goal. If you are not a comp expert, they have experts on hand that can help you through projects or just answer basic questions.
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Pros
  • Employee Self-Service: CapIQ include self-service portals for employees. This allows them to access their compensation details, track their performance, and understand how their pay is structured.
  • Error reduction - Manual calculation of incentives and bonuses is prone to errors, especially in organizations with complex compensation structures involving multiple variables, such as sales targets, performance metrics, and different payout rates. These errors can result in underpayments, overpayments, or discrepancies in compensation, which can lead to dissatisfaction among employees.
  • Real-Time Updates: In dynamic environments, compensation plans may change frequently due to shifts in business goals or market conditions. Compensation incentive software can quickly adapt to these changes, ensuring that compensation calculations remain accurate even as plans are updated. CapIQ allowed me to track my incentives live.
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  • PayScale has been great for our organization for benchmarking market salaries and wages for our positions.
  • The service was great as well, in that we were able to send our job descriptions over to have our jobs matched with the market.
  • The market reports have been extremely helpful and are easy to understand, and being able to see a breakdown between total cash, base salary, and bonus has been great.
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Cons
  • If there was a way to easily add a visual with the main quota's, accelerators, incentives from my comp plan and track progress to those goals that'd be a nice feature
  • Sometimes pay periods don't match up perfectly, probably an error on our end.
  • Integrations with HR software? (we use namely)
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  • Pre-recorded webinars on product updates would be great. I know they offer webinars, but many times they do not work into my schedule so I miss them. If they had a section on the site for training on product updates or new features that I could view on my own time I think would help me utilize the tool even better.
  • The ability to add-in or take away elements in the EE comp report. Some things are just not relevant to a company. I know a new release recently came out on the EE comp report and I am not a fluent with it as I once was (this is where the pre-recorded webinar or a learning byte would be helpful), but previously there were 3 versions of the EE comp report you could use. If I could add-in or drop-out sections to customize it to my company it would be nice.
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Likelihood to Renew
because CIQ has been a great solution to our commission systems and we're confident we can improve the features we use for the future. We want to continue improving the statements and the plans in the platform
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Usability
I give this rating because I think that this works really well, and it helps our teams see things faster and we are able to keep up with pay outs, I give Captivate a 10/10 because I love the format and how quickly we are able to see the payouts
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It is user-friendly and easy to learn.
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Support Rating
We used support during our initial setup regarding statment errors. They were quick and concise to respond and help us solve our issues regarding this. They also directed us to the office hours that enabled us to learn of new features and upcoming announcements.
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Never had any issues with customer support as they are very responsive. The system is very reliable, therefore, we rarely interact with their customer support.
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Implementation Rating
I worked with a vendor to implement. CIQ support was very good. The implementation was very fast, particularly compared to other platforms
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Alternatives Considered
Captivate offers much more than Salesforce does on a much lighter platform at a significantly lower cost. We also see a possibly higher level of customization and better customer service in our interactions with Captivate IQ compared to Sales Force's arm of staff. Both are great companies, but we will be sticking with CIQ for the future, we see it as much more agile.
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First of all, PayScale was by far the easiest tool to navigate and provided us with appropriate data. We had been working with Mercer for all of our compensation studies so the partnership with Mercer was attractive to us as well. I felt like I didn't get the best customer service with the other two products when we were in the decision stage. There was some pressure tactics that I didn't appreciate, and some unprofessionalism that seemed like red flags to me when discussing entering into a long-term contract. Not only was PayScale the best user interface for us, but they had our best interests in mind and were very professional to work with.
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Return on Investment
  • Simplified comp plans overall; after implementing CapIQ, I was able to demonstrate to Leadership that our plans were far too complex, resulting in simplification the next time plans were created.
  • Fast payout processing. Before CapIQ payout processing was manual in spreadsheets and took significantly more time than now, I quickly validated the data by comparing it to a saved report in Salesforce and then send the payouts for approval.
  • Reps can easily see their payout information and create what-if scenarios to see where they might end up if they close a deal.
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  • We wanted to ensure that we were able to support our compensation strategy and decisions with verifiable and trusted market data, and Payscale Insight has allowed us to do that. Now, compensation conversations with employees are more effective and transparent, enhancing our engagement and retention.
  • Additionally, we have been able to better train our managers to understand our compensation philosophy and how we can leverage it to improve performance and set effective goals for our employees.
  • Payscale Insight has become our main source for compensation data, eliminating the significant time investment it would previously take to bring it all together, review and make a decision.
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ScreenShots

CaptivateIQ Screenshots

Screenshot of Automatically syncs commission data to power commission reports in real-time across every team. Data sources can be integrated directly into the commission system.Screenshot of Customized user access and visibility into commission plans and data to meet security and compliance requirements.Screenshot of The Approvals workflow, where reps and managers can ensure every payout is correct before it’s distributed.Screenshot of Displays for business performance by team, comp plan, territory, or any other metric to make data-driven decisions.Screenshot of The reps' view into earnings, with a homepage and customizable commissions statements that outline how much they've earned, details by deal, and future earning potential to keep them motivated.