Swarm did not start as a software idea. It started as a spreadsheet that kept getting commission day wrong.
“I was spending hours every pay period making sure my salespeople got paid right and on time. I tried everything. Excel was too simple for pest-control pay plans, where commissions pay out in pieces over months and rates change by season. Airtable could almost handle it, but the workarounds made it too complicated to trust. The big commission platforms could do the job, but they were built for other industries and priced like it. So I finally decided to build my own and get it exactly the way it should be. That’s Swarm.”
These are not marketing lines. They are hard rules in the engine, and breaking one fails our own tests before it ever reaches you.
Every amount is tracked in whole cents. No floating-point rounding, no "close enough." A plan that leaves even a penny unaccounted for cannot be saved.
When a sale becomes commissionable, its payout schedule is computed once and frozen. Later edits raise a review. They never quietly rewrite a check.
Splits, manual edits, exclusions, and paid statuses are system-owned. No CSV upload or sync can ever overwrite them. And a sale missing from a file means nothing.
Every manual change records what changed, the old and new values, and who did it, with a required note on anything that moves money. Six months later you will know exactly why that check was $150 higher.
Change something in one place and Swarm follows it everywhere it matters. Unpaid checks re-target, stale alerts clear themselves, new employees claim their waiting sales.
One click exports everything: sales, payouts, employees, history, in open formats. No exit fees, no hostage data, no dark patterns on the way out.
Because that's what a great sales season looks like.
A swarm is not chaos. It is a lot of individuals moving fast in the same direction, each one knowing its job. That is what a good summer looks like: reps selling, techs servicing, recruiters filling the pipeline, and nobody stopping to argue about a spreadsheet. Swarm handles the boring part in the middle, making sure the honey gets counted right.
Questions, edge cases, or a pay plan you think will stump it? support@swarmhq.app goes straight to the people who build Swarm.