Bonara is a lightweight web app for designing, assigning, and tracking any kind of bonus — quarterly, annual, KPI-driven, or stretch. Owners get clarity. Employees get a live view of where they're tracking. Everyone sees the same number.
Variable comp goes wrong not in the calculation but in everything around it — the rebuild every quarter, the unanswered "where do I stand?", the surprise payout that erodes trust.
Most plans live somewhere only the boss can see. The team waits until quarter-close to learn their number — no projections, no what-ifs, no live view. The motivational point of a bonus dies in the lag.
Templates exist in theory. In practice, every new hire is a rebuild from scratch — new tier table, new currency, new quirks. Copies multiply, drift sets in, mistakes get baked into next year's file.
When a payout lands even slightly different from what someone expected, you're now spending an hour walking through the maths. Do that twice and people stop trusting the system.
From sign-up to your first employee viewing their live plan — without leaving the browser.
Build any structure you can think of — revenue, profit, KPI scorecard, multi-region, stretch & floor — with your own tier rules, currencies, and weighting. Edit the tier table inline and see payouts at every level update live.
Drop in your budgets by period (monthly, quarterly, or annual), pick the currency, define the tier rules (step-down, linear, with a floor and a cap). Assign the plan to one or more employees with effective dates.
Employees see their plan, current period, achievement vs. budget, projected payout, and a what-if slider — without ever asking. Every payout shows its workings.
Admins build and assign. Employees see and trust. Everything is powered by the same calculation engine.
Design your plan from scratch — set the structure, fill in the targets, and see how it pays out at 80%, 100%, and at the cap — before anyone signs anything.
Employees log in to see their plan, their quarter, their multiplier, and a projected payout. They can model "what if I land Q4 at 115%?" with a slider. No more waiting for the boss to send a number.
See payout liability YTD, projected end-of-year, who's tracking strong, and who needs a conversation. Lock quarters when you're ready and export a clean record to payroll.
Enterprise tools are overkill. Sales-rep commission tools miss the brief. Spreadsheets break.
Per-employee, per-month. Billed annually. Cancel anytime. Free forever for teams up to three.
Templates, free tools, and live sessions to help you design plans your team actually trusts.
A free monthly session for SMB owners and HR leads. Real plan teardowns, audience Q&A, and practical templates you can borrow.
A free, web-based calculator that handles step-down tiers, multi-currency, and any period weighting. No sign-up to try, share by link.
Open the calculator →Twenty real-world bonus plan structures — regional GM, sales lead, ops director, head of finance — with the maths laid out for each.
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