See exactly how much time and revenue your current commission process is costing you every month.
Most commission teams we speak to have no idea what their current setup is actually costing them. Not because the numbers are hidden. Because nobody has added them up. This calculator does that in 60 seconds. Enter your team size, your current setup, and how much time you spend on commission admin. Dolfin calculates four things: what you're losing to manual errors, what you're losing to rep shadow accounting, what you're losing to admin overhead, and what performance uplift you could unlock with real-time visibility.
Without real-time commission visibility, reps build their own tracking spreadsheets to verify what they are owed. This is the most expensive invisible cost in your sales team.
A rep earning 80,000 EUR OTE with a 30% commission component has 24,000 EUR at stake each year. Of course they track it manually.
Dolfin gives every rep a live, verified dashboard. Reps spend time actually selling.
Annual saving from better sales productivity
€243,750
R x 12 x h_rep x (OTE / 12 / 160 x 1.3)
Data reconciliation across CRM, payroll, and spreadsheets. Manual calculation checks. Dispute resolution email chains. Payout validation before close.
Dolfin automates the full commission cycle, from data sync to payout validation, using agentic AI for real-time calculation monitoring.
5.0 hours/month per admin (60h/year)
With Dolfin
0.8 hours/month per admin (10h/year)
Annual saving from admin automation
€1,875
h_admin x 12 x 0.8 x (SA / 12 / 160)
For a company paying 11M EUR in commissions per year, a 1% error rate is 110,000 EUR in overpayments or underpayments annually.
Overpayments damage margins. Underpayments damage trust and trigger disputes that cost even more to resolve.
Dolfin validates every payout against live source data before any figure is confirmed.
Without Dolfin
97-99% accuracy (1-3% error rate)
With Dolfin
100% accuracy
Annual saving from error prevention
€110,000
commissions_spend x 1% error rate
Commission disputes start with an email, escalate to Slack, require a spreadsheet audit, and conclude with a 30-minute call to explain a calculation that should have been obvious.
Dolfin's agentic AI instantly intercepts commission questions in the Dispute Resolution Center with a full, ticket-free calculation breakdown.
Without Dolfin
8 to 12 disputes/month per 50 reps
With Dolfin
1 to 2 disputes/month per 50 reps
Annual savings from dispute resolution
~€18,984
~9 disputes/50 reps x 0.75h x admin_rate x 12
Estimated benchmark. Not included in total impact until dispute rate input is validated.
When every rep can see exactly what they have earned, how close they are to their next accelerator, and which deals to prioritise, behaviour changes.
Dolfin's agentic AI (Flipper) nudges sales reps toward the right deals and shows each rep their personal path to their bonus.
Without Dolfin
0% performance uplift
With Dolfin
+18% average uplift in quota attainment
Annual profit impact from better sales performance
€450,000
revenue x uplift% x (1 - gross margin%)
Top performers are the most likely to leave over commission errors, delayed payouts, or lack of visibility into what they're owed. They have the most at stake and the most options elsewhere.
Replacing a quota-carrying rep typically costs well over their annual OTE once ramp time, lost pipeline, and hiring costs are factored in.
Dolfin gives reps real-time, trustworthy visibility into their earnings, removing one of the most common, and most avoidable, reasons top performers walk.
Real results from teams that replaced spreadsheet chaos with agentic commission intelligence.
Block Quote"More than 900 people are connected, with 90% actively using Dolfin every week. It has become one of their most trusted apps. I see it as the Runtastic for sales performance."
Block Quote"Before Dolfin, commission season meant chaos. With Dolfin, that process disappeared. Our RevOps team moved from calculating commissions to improving how the revenue engine runs."
Book a 30-minute call with our team. We will run the ROI analysis using your actual setup, team size, and commission spend, and send you a personalised analysis.
Industry data puts it at 3 to 10 days per month. Dolfin customers report under 2 hours per month after deployment. This calculator uses a conservative default of 10.8 hours saved per admin per month.
Shadow accounting is when reps keep their own private spreadsheets because they don't fully trust the official commission numbers. Industry data shows roughly 240 hours per rep per year on this activity without a commission platform.
1 to 3 percent industry-wide. For a company paying 500,000 EUR per month in commissions that translates to up to 15,000 EUR per month in overpayments or underpayments, before factoring in dispute costs.
Five sources: eliminating shadow-accounting time, reducing admin overhead, eliminating payout errors, reducing commission dispute volume, and the performance uplift from real-time visibility. The performance uplift is typically the largest and most underestimated.
Most customers see measurable ROI within the first full commission cycle (30 to 60 days). Dolfin deploys in under 8 weeks.
Excel has no upfront cost but carries hidden costs: a 1 to 3 percent error rate, 12+ admin hours per month per person, 240+ shadow-accounting hours per year per rep, and zero performance lift. Other vendors solve accuracy but take months to implement and leave reps in the dark. Dolfin solves accuracy, cuts admin time by ~80 percent, and adds the rep-visibility performance lift.