A Honda service department pays on machinery generic payroll never sees: a STEP rate gated on a PDC lab, an expiring high-voltage credential, recon hours that bill no customer, survey money off the calendar. WageTime carries every one of them.
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A STEP rate waits on a lab seat. An EV credential expires early. Recon hours pay nobody’s customer. Survey money lands off-calendar. Each one is tracked on a sticky note today, and each one is either unpaid office time or a quiet liability.
A tech finishes the HondaPro online courses, but the flat-rate bump doesn’t come until the hands-on instructor-led lab at a Honda Professional Development Center. Move the rate on the enrollment and you overpay; move it late and you owe retro. The trigger is the lab date, and it lives on a whiteboard.
Prologue and Acura ZDX work needs a current high-voltage safety certification, and that credential renews every two to three years, well ahead of the roughly five-year ASE cycle. Miss the date and the tech shouldn’t touch an electrified powertrain, yet the EV pay premium keeps paying until someone notices.
Certifying a HondaTrue used car means a 182-point reconditioning pass, and every flagged hour pays a tech at flat rate. There’s no customer to invoice and no warranty claim to file, so the hours get hand-coded to the used lot, or they get missed.
Customer-satisfaction scores and President’s Award criteria post after the period closes. The store still owes advisors and techs their spiff this week, taxed as a bonus, not folded into next month’s regular check where it’s already too late.
Honda’s basic coverage is 3 years / 36,000 miles, powertrain 5/60, so warranty work concentrates in a car’s first years. Warranty pays factory assembly-line times that run tighter than customer-pay, and a warranty-heavy fortnight quietly drags a flat-rate tech toward the wage floor.
A Honda tech’s flat rate binds to the STEP level with an effective date you set in WageTime to the PDC lab sign-off, not the online enrollment: the HondaPro coursework queues the change, the instructor-led lab date turns it on.
| Tech | Rate · flag hr | Status |
|---|---|---|
| A. Okonkwo · #05Tech → Master · ILT lab Aug 12 | $28.00 → $37.00 | Held at $28 |
| L. Byrd · #09Master Tech · recert current | $37.00 | Current |
| R. Cho · #12Express → Tech · lab Jul 2 | $21.00 → $28.00 | Eff. Jul 2 |
| D. Mensah · #17Tech · PACT grad · two labs | $26.00 | Current |
Replaces the whiteboard of who passed which lab, and the retro adjustment after a rate moved on the wrong date.
In WageTime each tech’s high-voltage safety certification is a rate rule with an expiry date: the EV premium turns off automatically the day the credential does, and the lapse is flagged thirty days out, in dollars.
| Tech | EV premium | Status |
|---|---|---|
| L. Byrd · #09HV current · renews Mar 2027 | +$6.00/flag hr | Active |
| A. Okonkwo · #05HV expires Aug 8 · 24 days out | +$6.00/flag hr | Renew now |
| R. Cho · #12Not held · HV class booked Sep | - | No EV pay |
| D. Mensah · #17HV current · renews Nov 2026 | +$6.00/flag hr | Active |
Replaces the calendar reminder nobody set, and an EV premium that paid on for weeks after the credential lapsed.
HondaTrue’s 182-point reconditioning pass pays the tech at flat rate and bills nobody, so WageTime posts those flag hours to the used-vehicle department in QuickBooks: no customer invoice, no warranty claim, no hand-coding.
| Unit / RO | Flag hrs | Flat pay |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 CR‑V · RO #61402L. Byrd #09 · to Used Vehicles | 3.4 | $125.80 |
| 2021 Accord · RO #61455D. Mensah #17 → Used Vehicles | 2.1 | $54.60 |
| 2023 Pilot · RO #61478A. Okonkwo #05 → Used Vehicles | 4.6 | $128.80 |
| 2020 Civic · RO #61503R. Cho #12 · to Used Vehicles | 1.8 | $37.80 |
Replaces the used-lot labor line the bookkeeper reconstructs by hand, and the recon hours that never made it onto a check.
CSI and President’s Award money goes out on an off-cycle WageTime run the week the scores land, instead of waiting for the next scheduled check, with every federal, state, and local tax filed automatically.
Replaces the bonus that waited a month for the next check, and the guess at how to tax it.
Warranty pays factory assembly-line times that run tighter than customer-pay, so WageTime divides each tech’s flat pay by actual clock hours every period, tests it against the wage floor, and writes any shortfall as a documented true-up on the run.
Replaces the by-hand floor check that only runs when there’s time, and the wage-and-hour exposure that builds while there isn’t.
Full-service payroll is $10 a month per person paid that month, plus $50 a month per company, with unlimited runs. No long-term contracts, no per-run charges.
Off-cycle runs and bonuses cost nothing extra. No long-term contracts; cancel anytime.
Example: 50 people paid × $10 + $50 company = $550 for the month
HR & hiring, onboarding, PTO, time tracking, benefits, and workers’ comp are optional add-ons, priced separately when you’re ready.
See a demoOn the lab date. WageTime queues the STEP rate change when the HondaPro coursework is done, but the higher flat rate turns on with an effective date set to the in-person Professional Development Center lab sign-off. No early overpay on the enrollment, no retro adjustment three checks later.
Yes. The EV pay premium is bound to a current HV safety certification with its own expiry date, so it stops automatically on that date. The lapse is flagged about thirty days out, in dollars, so the shop can reassign electrified work before any pay is exposed.
The recon flag hours import off the closed RO and pay the tech at flat rate, and the finished run posts that labor cost to the used-vehicle department in QuickBooks. No customer invoice, no warranty claim: the used-lot line reconciles on the same payroll instead of being hand-coded later.
Yes. Payroll runs are unlimited, so a CSI or President’s Award bonus run costs nothing extra and can go out the week the scores post. Each spiff is taxed as supplemental wages per person, with every federal, state, and local tax filed automatically.
We import clock and flag hours so there’s no double entry: closed-RO flag time and time-clock hours land together, matched to the pay period. The Honda Interactive Network stays your certification and warranty system; the hours that pay the tech come off the DMS ROs. Tell us your DMS on the demo and we’ll confirm the exact flow for your setup.
One login, one pay day. Each rooftop files under its own EIN, and the month-end commission close (minis, volume tiers, F&I with chargeback netting, draw offsets) runs in the same period. At $50 per company plus $10 per person, a 113-person Honda-Acura-used group is $1,280 a month.
A tech waiting on a PDC lab, an HV credential about to lapse, a stack of HondaTrue recon ROs, and last quarter’s CSI spiffs. Twenty minutes with a payroll specialist on a live demo store: if WageTime can’t carry the Honda pieces, you’ll know before the meeting ends.
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