CompXL alternatives
CompXL alternatives for NZ and Australian businesses
CompXL: Quoted privately, with Annual Planning sold on annual contract terms
- check_circleYour data in a database you own
- check_circleOpen source, no lock-in
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The options
What people compare CompXL with
CompXL Max is quoted privately through Salary.com. You may be looking for an alternative if you want your pay review records held in a database your business owns and a system built around your own review rules.
Yours to own
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The open-source pay review desk that is just a database and Claude Code. Built around your business, with your CompXL data brought across.
See how it worksHow to choose
How to choose a CompXL alternative
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What your bill covers
Check your CompXL renewal, including the functions your team uses and whether market information matters to your reviews. Enterprise DNA charges one setup fee followed by a monthly retainer for a version it builds and runs. There is also a free version an owner can run themselves.
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Who owns your records
Decide where your review records will live and who controls them. With an owned version, your records sit in a database your business owns. Configured planning worksheets can be brought across, while attachments, formulas, historic access controls and other records need separately agreed migration work.
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How well it fits your rules
List the fields and checks your review cycle relies on, such as salary baselines, budgets, pay bands and approval evidence. A version built around your business can reflect how you run reviews. Your authorised people still make the pay decisions and provide the supporting evidence.
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What switching involves
A configured planning worksheet can be saved as CSV for import. Your administrator maps the headings, checks the annual salary basis and tests it first. Imported approval status stays as history until reconciled. Plan separately for attachments, formulas, historic access controls and other records.
The option that fits
A version built around your business
Enterprise DNA builds your pay review system around how your business runs, with your records held in a database you own. You can work with it in plain language, without per-seat plans. Enterprise DNA brings across agreed CompXL data and runs the system for you, for one setup fee followed by a monthly retainer. If you prefer to manage it yourself, a free version is available.
- check Your records in a database your business owns
- check Built around your review rules and fields
- check One setup fee, then a monthly retainer
Make it yours
Design your own CompXL replacement
Everything starts from the open-source base. Then it gets your name, the parts you run, your rules and your data from CompXL. Try it here, and we build the real one.
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3. Make it fit
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We build it from the open-source base, bring your CompXL data across and run it for you.
Questions
CompXL alternatives, answered
How much does CompXL Max cost? expand_more
CompXL Max is quoted privately through Salary.com, so there is no public price to compare here. Check your edition, employee allowance and renewal terms. Compare the annual renewal with the parts your team uses, such as worksheets, approval routing, group budgets and market information.
Can you bring our CompXL records across? expand_more
A configured planning worksheet can be saved as CSV for import. Your administrator maps the headings, checks the annual salary basis and tests it first. Imported approval status stays as history until reconciled. Attachments, formulas, historic access controls and other records need separately agreed migration work.
Would a pay review system replace payroll? expand_more
No. The free version records salary-review decisions and fixed bonus proposals, and produces internal working papers. It does not calculate tax, pay wages or issue employment agreements. Your managers decide the amounts, your advisers check employment requirements and your payroll team continues to run payroll.
Can we try a free version before choosing? expand_more
Yes. The free version is for a trusted operator using a protected database. Enterprise DNA can also build team screens, authenticated access and permissions into an agreed setup, bring across agreed CompXL data and run your version. That option has one setup fee followed by a monthly retainer.
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30 minutes with Sam. Bring what CompXL costs you a year and how you run. We show you what your own version looks like, and if it is a fit, we build it and bring your data across.
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