Prowi vs Wise Business
An independent, review-free comparison compiled by the SaaSTracker editorial team. Both products are profiled in full, and neither can pay for placement here.
The short answer
Editorial assessmentWise Business compared with Prowi
Prowi is commission software that works out what a rep has earned and shows it to them. Wise Business has no view of a plan, a quota or a deal, and only ever sees an amount, a currency and a bank account. The pairing is natural: calculate in Prowi, pay employees through payroll, and pay international non-employees through Wise at conversion rates no bank will match.
Choose Prowi if
Danish and Nordic sales teams of roughly five to fifty people on commission or bonus, running HubSpot or Pipedrive, who pay through Danlon or Zenegy and need statutory leave handling built in, and who want sellers to see their pay in a phone app rather than in a monthly spreadsheet.
Choose Wise Business if
Small businesses paying commission, referral fees or revenue share to a known set of international contractors, agents or partners, where transfer and FX cost is the dominant concern and recipient verification and tax filing are handled elsewhere or not required.
Side by side
13 attributes| Attribute | Prowi | Wise Business |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Commissions | Commissions |
| Starting price | 269 DKK per user per month (roughly $40) on Starter, billed annually, plus onboarding from 5,500 DKK | $31 one-off set-up fee, with no monthly subscription (free plan available) |
| Pricing model | Per-user subscription billed annually in two published tiers plus a quoted top tier, with a separate one-time onboarding fee on every plan. | No subscription. A one-off set-up fee for full feature access, then transparent per-transaction and per-conversion fees published in a public schedule. |
| Free plan | No | No monthly subscription at any level. The 31 US dollar one-off fee unlocks the full feature set including account details in 22 currencies. |
| Free trial | No | Not applicable; the account has no subscription and you pay only when money moves |
| Best for | Danish and Nordic sales teams of roughly five to fifty people on commission or bonus, running HubSpot or Pipedrive, who pay through Danlon or Zenegy and need statutory leave handling built in, and who want sellers to see their pay in a phone app rather than in a monthly spreadsheet. | Small businesses paying commission, referral fees or revenue share to a known set of international contractors, agents or partners, where transfer and FX cost is the dominant concern and recipient verification and tax filing are handled elsewhere or not required. |
| Setup time | Weeks. The onboarding fee, from 5,500 DKK on Starter and 10,500 DKK on Business, buys a guided setup, and the ten pre-configured models on Starter exist specifically so that a standard Danish commission plan does not need to be built from scratch. | Account opening and business verification typically takes a few business days, sometimes longer depending on jurisdiction and company structure. The first BatchTransfer takes an hour, most of which is formatting the spreadsheet correctly. |
| Learning curve | Low on both sides. Sellers get a phone app rather than a portal to remember, and admins on Starter are choosing from a fixed set of models rather than designing rules. Business-tier custom models raise the admin effort in exchange for flexibility. | Low. The account behaves like online banking with a batch upload attached. The genuine skill is currency discipline: holding balances and converting deliberately rather than at every payment, which is where the savings actually live. |
| Platforms | Web application, iOS app, Android app | Web application, Mobile apps, Multi-currency physical and digital cards, Public API |
| Compliance | GDPR, with a published data processing agreement and a public GDPR FAQ, Commission calculated in accordance with Danish law for vacation and sick leave | Publicly listed company with published financials, FinCEN registered Money Services Business in the US, Licensed to operate in most US states |
| Founded | 2022 | 2011 |
| Headquarters | Åbyhøj, near Aarhus, Denmark | London, United Kingdom |
| Ownership | Privately held Danish company (Prowi ApS, CVR 43243977) | Publicly listed company |
Strengths and limitations
Prowi
Strengths
- Publishes per-user prices and onboarding fees on a public page, including the setup cost that most competitors in this category keep private.
- Danish statutory handling of vacation and sick leave is built into the commission calculation, which no international competitor in this set does.
- Direct payroll integration with Danlon and Zenegy turns the payout into a one-click run rather than a monthly export and import ritual.
- The employee app for iOS and Android with live pay tracking and instant sale notifications is the strongest mobile rep experience in this comparison set.
Limitations
- The company is very small and very young: registered in May 2022, three to five employees, and a loss reported for the 2025 financial year. Vendor durability is a legitimate concern.
- Split commission and custom models are Business-tier features, so any team with team-selling or a non-standard plan is starting at 349 DKK per user rather than 269.
- Corrections for historical sales and multi-currency are Prowi+ features requiring a quote, which puts two important capabilities behind a sales conversation.
- The value proposition is tightly bound to Denmark; outside the Nordics the statutory leave handling and payroll integrations are irrelevant and the product becomes an ordinary commission tool.
Wise Business
Strengths
- The cheapest cross-border cost structure in this category by a wide margin: one-off 31 dollars, conversion from 0.23 percent at the mid-market rate, wires from 1.13 dollars.
- BatchTransfer pays up to 1,000 recipients from a single spreadsheet upload with no per-recipient charge, which covers essentially any small-business partner network.
- Recipients need no Wise account and receive money in their own bank in their own currency, removing the onboarding friction other payout networks impose.
- Holding 40-plus currencies lets you match payout currency to revenue currency and skip conversion entirely, which is the single biggest saving available.
Limitations
- It calculates nothing. No plan, no quota, no accelerator, no split, no clawback, no rep statement, no CRM integration and no link between a payment and the deal that earned it.
- No recipient onboarding portal, no white-labelled invitation flow and no identity verification you can require, which makes it unsuitable for paying large numbers of people you have never met.
- No per-recipient tax reporting for IRS, DAC7 or OECD digital platform regimes, which for a genuinely international partner programme may be a legal requirement rather than a nice-to-have.
- Approval settings are an account feature rather than a designed multi-stage payout workflow, so a demanding finance function may find the controls thin.
Pricing compared
Prowi
Per-user subscription billed annually in two published tiers plus a quoted top tier, with a separate one-time onboarding fee on every plan.
- Starter269 DKK per user per month
- Business349 DKK per user per month
- Prowi+Quoted
For a Danish sales team, this is strong value and the comparison set is not really the American vendors. At roughly $40 per user with published onboarding from 5,500 DKK, Prowi costs about the same as Sales Cookie and less than QuotaPath once the platform fee is counted, and it does something neither of them does: it applies Danish statutory leave rules to variable pay and posts the result into Danlon or Zenegy without a human. The employee app and the pre-payout approval flow are worth more than their feature descriptions suggest, because they remove the argument rather than documenting it. The weaknesses are structural rather than about pricing: split commission and direct payroll both live on the Business tier, corrections and multi-currency sit behind a quote, and the vendor is a three-to-five person company that filed a loss in 2025. Excellent value inside Denmark. Almost no case for it outside the Nordics.
Wise Business
No subscription. A one-off set-up fee for full feature access, then transparent per-transaction and per-conversion fees published in a public schedule.
- Wise Business account$31 one-off
On pure cost of moving money internationally, nothing in this category comes close. A one-off 31 dollars, conversion from 0.23 percent, wires from 1.13 dollars, free domestic receipts and no subscription is a structurally cheaper proposition than Payoneer's 1.2 to 4 percent international transfers or Trolley's 2,399 dollar annual Pay module plus a 2 percent FX margin. For a company paying a known set of partners, the saving is real and often larger than the entire budget for the software that calculates the commission. The trade is the missing layer: no recipient onboarding, no identity verification, no per-recipient tax filing, no payout-designed approval workflow, no calculation. Buy Wise when the compliance work is already handled or genuinely not required, and pay Trolley's premium when it is not.
Editorial verdict on each
Prowi
Prowi is a local product that beats the international field on local ground. If you are a Danish company paying commission through Danlon or Zenegy, the statutory leave handling and the one-click payroll run remove the two steps that actually break a Danish commission process, and no American competitor offers either. The employee app and the approve-before-payout flow are genuinely well judged, catching errors before the money moves instead of documenting them afterwards. Prices and onboarding fees are published openly, and a five-person team can sign up without a sales call. Set against that: split commission needs the Business tier, corrections and multi-currency need a quote, there is no ASC 606 story, and the company is three to five people two years past registration with a loss on the books. Inside Denmark, this is the sensible first choice. Outside the Nordics, there is no reason to buy it.
Read the full Prowi profileWise Business
Wise Business earns its place in a sales compensation shortlist through arithmetic rather than through features. If part of your commission programme goes to people in other countries, the cost of moving that money is frequently larger than the cost of the software calculating it, and Wise is structurally the cheapest common answer: 31 dollars once, no subscription, conversion from 0.23 percent at the mid-market rate, and up to 1,000 recipients paid from a single spreadsheet with no per-recipient charge. Backed by a listed, regulated company with a fully published fee schedule, it is also easy to evaluate honestly. The boundaries are firm and worth repeating. It calculates nothing, verifies nobody, files no tax statements, and offers approval settings rather than a payout workflow. If your partners are people you know and invoice normally, that is a fine trade and Wise will save you real money. If you are onboarding strangers with reporting obligations attached, pay Trolley's premium instead and do not try to make this fit.
Read the full Wise Business profileProwi profile last reviewed 2026-08-22; Wise Business last reviewed 2026-08-22. Pricing is compiled from public sources and can change without notice. See our methodology.