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Prowi

Danish commission software that ends at the payroll run, not at the spreadsheet

Prowi is a Danish sales commission and bonus platform that calculates variable pay in real time from CRM data, publishes it to a mobile employee app where each seller watches their pay grow and approves their own sales before payout, handles vacation and sick leave in line with Danish employment law, and runs the result straight into payroll systems such as Danlon and Zenegy; pricing is published at 269 DKK per user per month on Starter and 349 DKK on Business, both billed annually with a separate onboarding fee.

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Overview

Prowi is the local answer to a problem the American commission vendors do not solve. A Danish company paying variable pay has obligations that a US-built calculation engine has never heard of: commission accrues during holiday and sick leave under Danish employment law, holiday pay attaches to variable earnings, and the payout has to arrive in Danlon or Zenegy rather than in a CSV somebody uploads by hand. Prowi builds all of that into the product rather than leaving it as an exercise for the customer.

The company was registered in Åbyhøj, just outside Aarhus, on 5 May 2022, founded by Søren Søe Holm, Mathias Salomonsson, and Morten Ditmer, with Anders Goosmann as chief executive and Rasmus Godske as chief technology officer. Public filings show a small team of around three to five people and a loss-making 2025, which is normal for a young Nordic SaaS company but is a real fact to weigh: this is an early-stage vendor, not an established platform.

The product's centre of gravity is the employee app rather than the admin console. Sellers get iOS and Android apps showing their pay growing in real time, a notification the moment a sale closes, and an approval flow where they confirm their own sales before payroll runs. That last mechanism is smarter than it looks: it converts the monthly dispute from a complaint after payment into a confirmation before it, which is the correct place in the process to catch an error.

Pricing is published, which puts Prowi in a small minority in this category, and the two paid tiers are cleanly separated. Starter at 269 DKK per user per month gives you ten standard commission models, HubSpot and Pipedrive, the employee app, the approval flow, leave handling, and a file-based payroll run. Business at 349 DKK adds custom models, split commission and advanced rules, KPI dashboards, all CRM integrations, direct payroll integrations, and API access. Both are billed annually and both carry a separate onboarding fee, from 5,500 DKK on Starter and 10,500 DKK on Business.

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.

Not the right fit for

  • Companies outside the Nordics; the statutory leave handling, the payroll integrations, and much of the interface are built around Danish practice, and the value proposition largely evaporates elsewhere.
  • Teams needing ASC 606 or IFRS 15 commission capitalisation reporting, which is not part of the published feature set and is not what this product is designed to produce.
  • Large field organisations with territory hierarchies, non-sales KPI incentives, and formal target letters; Prowi is built for a sales team, not for a several-hundred-person distributed force.
  • Buyers who need clawbacks, multi-currency, or historical corrections on the entry plan, since Corrections and multi-currency sit in the Prowi+ tier that requires a call.
  • Organisations with a formal vendor risk process that requires published SOC 2 or ISO 27001 attestations from a vendor of meaningful scale; Prowi is a three-to-five person company founded in 2022.

How it works

  1. 1

    You connect the CRM. HubSpot and Pipedrive are included from Starter; Salesforce and Microsoft Dynamics 365 come with the Business plan, alongside the accounting system e-conomic. A self-serve signup exists at the vendor's app domain and an open API is documented publicly, which is unusual for a company this small.

  2. 2

    You pick or build the commission model. Starter includes ten standard pre-configured models covering the common Danish structures, which is a deliberately opinionated approach: rather than giving a small company a blank rules engine, Prowi gives it a shortlist that already works. Business unlocks custom models, split commission, and advanced rules for teams whose plans do not fit the standard set.

  3. 3

    Commission calculates in real time as deals move. The employee app shows each seller their pay as it accumulates, sends a notification the moment a sale closes, and presents the approval flow where the seller confirms their own sales before payroll. Vacation and sick days are handled automatically in accordance with applicable Danish law rather than being adjusted manually.

  4. 4

    At payroll time the run executes in one click. Starter produces a file-based payroll run; Business integrates directly with Danlon and Zenegy so approved commission, including accruals, lands in payroll without a manual step. Commission statements document every period and model, and the Prowi+ tier adds Corrections for putting right historical sales that were paid incorrectly, plus multi-currency for companies paying across borders.

Feature breakdown

24 features in 4 modules

Commission calculation

Opinionated at the entry tier, flexible one step up.
Real-time calculation
Commission recalculates continuously as CRM records change rather than in a monthly batch, so the figure a seller sees is current.
Ten standard commission models
Pre-configured plan structures covering the common Danish commission and bonus arrangements, included from Starter. For a small company this is faster and safer than a blank rules engine.
Custom commission models
Business-tier ability to build your own model when the standard set does not fit, without moving to an enterprise contract.
Split commission and advanced rules
Deals credited across multiple sellers and more complex rule logic, available from the Business plan.
Budget module
Targets and budgets are managed inside the platform from Starter so attainment-based models read from one source.
Prowi Adjustments
A Business-tier mechanism for adjusting a calculated commission with the change recorded rather than applied invisibly.
Prowi Corrections
A Prowi+ capability for correcting historical sales so that pay already issued can be put right, which is the honest way to handle a mistake discovered two quarters later.
Multi-currency
Payment of performance pay in several currencies across countries, available on the Prowi+ tier.

The employee app

The centre of the product, and the reason sellers actually engage with it.
Live paycheck view
iOS and Android apps show each seller their pay growing in real time rather than presenting a figure once a month.
Instant sale notifications
A seller is notified the moment a deal closes and their earnings move, which is the recognition mechanism the product is built around.
Approval flow
Employees approve their own sales before any salary is paid. This moves the dispute to before the payout instead of after it, which is the single smartest design decision in the product.
Commission statements
Full documentation by period and by model, so a seller can reconstruct how any past payment was derived.
Performance visualisation
Goal setting and team performance views intended to make the plan motivational rather than merely correct.

Payroll and Danish compliance

The part no American competitor builds, and the main reason to choose Prowi.
One-click payroll run
Approved commission executes as a payroll run in a single action rather than through a manual export and import cycle.
Native Danish payroll integrations
Direct integration with Danlon and Zenegy on the Business plan, so commission including accruals lands in payroll without a human in the middle.
File-based payroll run on Starter
Entry-tier customers still get a payroll run, delivered as a file, so the cheapest plan does not leave you copying numbers by hand.
Statutory vacation and sick leave handling
Commission is calculated in accordance with applicable Danish law during holiday and sickness, automatically, which is the compliance detail that pushes Danish companies away from generic tools.
Advanced export
Extended export capability on the Prowi+ tier for companies feeding commission data into other finance systems.

Reporting and integrations

Modest by category standards, sufficient for the size of team it serves.
KPI dashboards
Individual, team, and company-level performance dashboards on the Business plan.
Insights and reporting
Business-tier reporting on what the commission plan is producing rather than only what it paid.
HubSpot and Pipedrive from Starter
The two CRMs most Danish SMB sales teams actually run are included on the cheapest plan rather than held back.
Salesforce and Dynamics 365
All CRM integrations unlock on the Business plan, covering the larger systems.
e-conomic accounting integration
Connection to the dominant Danish small-business accounting system, which matters when commission pays on invoiced rather than booked revenue.
Open API
A publicly documented API available on the Business plan, which is more developer surface than most vendors of this size expose.

Use cases

4 documented

Sales director at a 20-person Danish SaaS company

Commission is calculated in a spreadsheet, exported to Danlon by hand each month, and nobody adjusts correctly for a seller who took three weeks of holiday.

HubSpot feeds Prowi, the standard model handles the plan, leave is applied automatically per Danish law, and the payroll run posts to Danlon in one click.

Seller who has stopped trusting the monthly number

Commission arrives with the payslip, occasionally wrong, and by the time anyone notices the period is closed and the correction is a favour rather than a right.

The employee app shows earnings accumulating in real time, a notification confirms each closed sale, and the approval flow requires the seller to sign off before payroll runs.

Finance lead at a growing Nordic company

Two sellers now split larger deals, the standard commission model no longer fits, and the spreadsheet workaround has quietly become the system of record.

The Business plan unlocks custom models and split commission, KPI dashboards give leadership a view, and Prowi Adjustments records any manual change instead of hiding it.

Operations manager cleaning up a historical error

A rate was applied incorrectly for two quarters and eleven people were underpaid, and correcting it in a spreadsheet means re-deriving every affected payslip.

Prowi+ Corrections recalculates the affected historical sales and produces the right pay, with the correction documented rather than performed by hand.

Pricing

from 269 DKK per user per month (roughly $40) on Starter, billed annually, plus onboarding from 5,500 DKK

Per-user subscription billed annually in two published tiers plus a quoted top tier, with a separate one-time onboarding fee on every plan.

PlanPriceIncludes
Starter269 DKK per user per month
billed annually, onboarding from 5,500 DKK
  • Real-time commission calculation
  • Employee app for iOS and Android
  • Approval flow
  • Ten standard commission models
  • HubSpot and Pipedrive integrations
  • Budget module and statutory vacation and sick leave handling
  • Phone and email support
  • File-based payroll run

Roughly $40 per user per month at mid-2026 rates. Complete for a team on a standard plan, but no split commission and no custom models.

Business349 DKK per user per month
billed annually, onboarding from 10,500 DKK
  • Everything in Starter
  • Custom commission models
  • Split commission and advanced rules
  • KPI dashboards plus insights and reporting
  • All CRM integrations including Salesforce and Dynamics 365
  • Prowi Adjustments
  • Direct payroll integrations including Danlon and Zenegy
  • API access

Roughly $51 per user per month. The tier most teams past ten sellers will need, mainly for split commission and direct payroll posting.

Prowi+Quoted
per user, billed annually
  • Everything in Business
  • Prowi Corrections for historical sales
  • Multiple currencies across countries
  • Advanced export
  • Dedicated support

Positioned for companies with more than 50 people on performance pay or bonus. Onboarding scales accordingly.

Billing notes

  • All tiers are billed annually, so the smallest commitment is a full year even though prices are quoted monthly.
  • Onboarding is a separate one-time fee on every plan, from 5,500 DKK on Starter and 10,500 DKK on Business, rising for Prowi+. Unlike much of this category, the fee is published rather than scoped privately.
  • Prices are quoted in Danish kroner, which is the honest tell about the target market. A non-Danish buyer should assume currency exposure as well as a product built around another country's employment law.
  • The Prowi+ tier is described as being for companies with more than 50 people on performance pay, which is a soft signal about where the published tiers stop being appropriate rather than a hard cap.
  • Direct payroll integration is a Business-tier feature. On Starter the payroll run is file-based, which still works but reintroduces one manual step per month.

Value assessment: 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.

Strengths & limitations

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.
  • The approval flow, where sellers confirm their own sales before payroll runs, moves the dispute to before payment instead of after it, which is the right place for it.
  • Ten pre-configured commission models on the entry tier is an opinionated choice that gets a small company live faster than a blank rules engine would.
  • A self-serve signup path and a publicly documented open API, which is more developer surface than most vendors of this size bother to expose.

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.
  • No published ASC 606 or IFRS 15 capitalisation support, which rules it out for a company preparing for a US-style audit or a pre-IPO revenue recognition review.
  • No published SOC 2 or ISO 27001 attestation, though the site does publish a data processing agreement, a GDPR FAQ, and an IT contingency plan, which is more transparency than the certification-free norm at this size.
  • Annual billing with a separate onboarding fee means the first-year commitment for a ten-person team on Business is meaningfully more than the monthly figure suggests.

Head-to-head comparisons

3 alternatives

Prowi vs QuotaPath

from $525 per month platform fee plus $35 per user per month (Growth), billed annually

QuotaPath is a far broader platform with plan modelling, territory and capacity planning, ASC 606 support, and multi-level approvals, but it costs a $525 monthly platform fee plus $35 per user and knows nothing about Danish payroll. Prowi is roughly $40 per user with statutory leave handling and direct posting to Danlon and Zenegy. If you pay through a Danish payroll system, Prowi wins on the only criterion that matters; everywhere else QuotaPath is the more capable product.

Full Prowi vs QuotaPath comparison

Prowi vs Palette

from $590 per month for up to 15 seats on annual billing ($790 monthly)

Palette is a much bigger platform with more than twenty native connectors, warehouse support, a scenario builder, EU hosting in France, and SOC 2 Type 2, at a flat $590 per month for up to 15 seats with free admin seats. Prowi is per user, mobile-first, and built around Danish employment law and payroll. Choose Palette if you need warehouse data, multi-currency from the start, and a vendor with a documented security posture; choose Prowi if you are a Danish team who wants sellers approving their own pay on a phone.

Full Prowi vs Palette comparison

Prowi vs Kennect

from Starts at $20 per user (Basic)

Kennect starts at $20 per user and is built for large field organisations with territory rollups, non-sales KPI incentives, and formal target letters, sold through a demo with a four to eight week implementation and unpublished Enterprise pricing. Prowi is smaller in every dimension but publishes its full price list including onboarding and can be signed up for directly. Pick Kennect for a several-hundred-person field force; pick Prowi for a Nordic sales team of five to fifty.

Full Prowi vs Kennect comparison

Implementation & onboarding

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.
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.
Onboarding
A paid engagement, and unusually for this category the fee is published rather than scoped privately: from 5,500 DKK on Starter, from 10,500 DKK on Business, and higher on Prowi+. Phone and email support is included from the entry tier, with dedicated support on Prowi+.
Migration notes
Historical commission data does not migrate from another vendor's plan logic; models are rebuilt from Prowi's standard set or configured custom on Business. Because Prowi+ Corrections exists specifically to fix historical sales, a company arriving with a known past error has a supported path to putting it right rather than a spreadsheet reconciliation. With no free trial available, negotiate a parallel run of one closed period as part of the paid onboarding.

Platform, API & security

Platforms
Web applicationiOS appAndroid app
API
Open API available on the Business plan with public documentation hosted at the vendor's app domain. Self-serve signup is available directly rather than only through a demo.
Compliance
GDPR, with a published data processing agreement and a public GDPR FAQCommission calculated in accordance with Danish law for vacation and sick leave
Data residency
Danish company operating in the EU. A specific hosting region is not published; confirm during onboarding if residency is a formal requirement.
Security notes
Prowi publishes a data processing agreement, a GDPR FAQ, and an IT contingency plan, which is more documentation than most vendors of this size provide. It does not publish SOC 2 or ISO 27001 attestations, and public filings show a company of roughly three to five employees, so a buyer with a formal vendor risk process should expect to do the assessment themselves rather than read a certificate.

Support & resources

Channels
Phone and email support from the Starter planDedicated support on Prowi+Guided paid onboarding on every plan
Documentation
Public API documentation, a commission dictionary, an OTE ratio calculator, a corrections calculator, and a GDPR FAQ, all published on the company site in Danish and English.
Community
No public user community. The company runs a Prowi Insider content programme instead.

Company

Founded
2022
Headquarters
Åbyhøj, near Aarhus, Denmark
Ownership
Privately held Danish company (Prowi ApS, CVR 43243977)
Founders
Søren Søe Holm, Mathias Salomonsson, Morten Ditmer
Employees
Approximately 3 to 5 (per public Danish filings)
Funding
No venture round publicly announced. Public Danish filings show a small company with roughly three to five employees and a loss reported for the 2025 financial year.

Timeline

  1. 2022Prowi ApS is registered in Åbyhøj near Aarhus on 5 May by Søren Søe Holm, Mathias Salomonsson, and Morten Ditmer, with Anders Goosmann as chief executive.
  2. 2023The employee app ships for iOS and Android with live pay tracking, sale notifications, and the approval flow that requires sellers to confirm their own sales before payout.
  3. 2024Direct payroll integrations with Danlon and Zenegy arrive, alongside statutory handling of vacation and sick leave in the commission calculation.
  4. 2025CRM coverage broadens from HubSpot and Pipedrive to Salesforce and Microsoft Dynamics 365, with an open API published for the Business plan.
  5. 2026Prices are published at 269 and 349 DKK per user per month with onboarding fees stated openly, and a Prowi+ tier adds Corrections for historical sales and multi-currency payout.

Integrations

  • HubSpot
  • Pipedrive
  • Salesforce
  • Microsoft Dynamics 365
  • e-conomic
  • Danlon payroll
  • Zenegy payroll
  • Open API (Business plan)

Frequently asked questions

11 questions

What is Prowi?

Prowi is Danish sales commission and bonus software. It calculates variable pay in real time from CRM data, shows each seller their earnings in an iOS or Android app, requires sellers to approve their own sales before payout, applies Danish rules for vacation and sick leave automatically, and runs the approved result into payroll systems such as Danlon and Zenegy.

How much does Prowi cost?

Starter is 269 DKK per user per month, roughly $40, with onboarding from 5,500 DKK. Business is 349 DKK per user per month, roughly $51, with onboarding from 10,500 DKK. Both are billed annually. Prowi+ is quoted individually and is aimed at companies with more than 50 people on performance pay. There is no free trial and no free plan.

Can a five-person sales team buy Prowi?

Yes. There is no published seat minimum and no platform fee, so five sellers on Starter costs 1,345 DKK a month plus the one-time onboarding fee from 5,500 DKK. A self-serve signup path exists rather than a demo gate. Whether Starter is enough depends on your plan: if you split deals between sellers, you need the Business tier.

Which CRMs and payroll systems does it read and write?

HubSpot and Pipedrive are included from Starter. Salesforce and Microsoft Dynamics 365 unlock on Business, along with the Danish accounting system e-conomic. On the payroll side, Danlon and Zenegy integrate directly on Business, and Starter produces a file-based payroll run. An open API is available on Business for anything else.

How does Prowi handle corrections and amendments?

Two ways, on two tiers. Prowi Adjustments on the Business plan records a change to a calculated commission rather than applying it invisibly. Prowi Corrections on the Prowi+ tier recalculates historical sales so pay that was already issued incorrectly can be put right, which is the mechanism you want when a rate error surfaces two quarters late. Clawbacks are not marketed as a distinct headline feature, so test that specific behaviour if your plan needs one.

Do sellers get their own statement and can they dispute a number?

Yes, and the design is better than the usual dispute queue. Each seller sees their pay accumulating live in the mobile app, is notified when a sale closes, and must approve their own sales through the approval flow before any salary is paid. Commission statements document every period and model. The effect is that errors are caught before payment rather than argued about afterwards.

Does Prowi handle Danish holiday and sick leave rules?

Yes, and this is the main reason a Danish company would choose it over an American competitor. Commission is calculated in accordance with applicable law during vacation and sickness automatically, rather than requiring a manual adjustment each time someone takes leave. No other vendor in this category builds that in.

Does it support ASC 606 or IFRS 15?

No published support for either. Prowi is built to calculate variable pay correctly and get it into Danish payroll, not to produce commission capitalisation and amortisation schedules for a revenue recognition audit. If your finance function needs that, look at QuotaPath or Sales Cookie instead.

How long does implementation take and is onboarding paid?

Onboarding is paid and the fee is published, from 5,500 DKK on Starter and 10,500 DKK on Business, which is unusually transparent for this category where setup costs are normally scoped privately. Expect weeks rather than months, helped by the ten pre-configured commission models included on Starter.

When is a spreadsheet still the right tool instead of Prowi?

When you have two or three sellers on one flat rate, nobody takes much leave, and you are comfortable typing the numbers into payroll yourself. The specific thing that breaks a Danish commission spreadsheet is not usually the arithmetic, it is holiday pay on variable earnings and the manual payroll transfer. Once either of those has caused a wrong payslip, the spreadsheet has already failed.

How stable is the company?

Prowi ApS was registered on 5 May 2022 in Åbyhøj near Aarhus, and public Danish filings show roughly three to five employees and a loss reported for the 2025 financial year. That is normal for an early-stage Nordic SaaS company, but it is a small vendor with no announced venture round, so weigh it accordingly and keep your commission data exportable.

Editorial verdict

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.

Written by the SaaSTracker editorial team. Awards, when shown, are judged against the published criteria in our methodology.