A Mercedes-Benz store that holds the Vans franchise is two businesses under one roof: a luxury floor paid on front-end gross, and a commercial desk paid per van. WageTime runs the whole store as one pay run, every EIN, one Friday.
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The badge reads like one business. The pay run doesn’t: a fleet desk on unit money, a retail floor on gross, AMG certification cash on a quarterly clock, and a service drive flagging in units that aren’t hours. Each one below is office time nobody budgeted or a liability quietly aging.
The Sprinter retail network has counted 140-plus Mercedes-Benz rooftops holding the Vans franchise. The fleet salesperson closes twenty Sprinters at a flat per unit with a volume tier on top; the retail floor earns a slice of front-end gross. Same store, same Friday, two comp designs, and generic payroll models exactly one of them.
A Sprinter fleet order can sit months between the signed deal and the upfitted delivery, so the commission belongs to a period that closed long ago. Somebody keeps that ledger by hand, and eats the argument when the payout month is wrong.
AMG Performance Center program materials have required 85% of sales staff to hold current AMG certification on a quarterly cadence. That’s a recert lapse risk four times a year, tied to who should be selling the halo car, and the office finds out at the close.
A Mercedes-Benz tech’s flag rate follows the MBUSA ladder, and the store employs the DRIVE trainee before the program even starts. Graduation, Systems Technician status, the CDT program, Master: each lands on its own date, and each is a repricing the whiteboard remembers late.
Mercedes-Benz publishes labor operations in work units off XENTRY Operation Time, not clock hours. Somebody has to do the unit math before the flat-rate wage-floor check means anything. And while it waits, the true-up that check should have produced is aging into a claim.
Two comp designs, one run: WageTime prices the retail floor on front-end gross with F&I and chargeback netting, the Sprinter fleet desk on per-unit flats with volume tiers, both paid on the same Friday under one approval.
Replaces the two commission workbooks (retail and fleet) that closed on different days and never agreed with the deal log.
A compliance clock and a money event every 90 days: WageTime tracks AMG certification per person with effective dates and pays the quarter’s AMG Performance Bonus as an off-cycle run the day the number clears.
| Person | AMG cert | Status |
|---|---|---|
| E. MarchettiSales · recert Nov 15 | Current | Bonus eligible |
| T. AdeyemiSales · recert Sep 22 | Current | Recert due |
| K. BrandtF&I · recert Oct 30 | Current | Bonus eligible |
| L. OseiSales · recert overdue | Lapsed Jun 30 | Off AMG floor |
| M. FerroService front-of-house, Sep 28 | Current | Recert due |
Replaces the AMG cert list in a desk drawer, and the bonus that paid a person who’d been off the program for a quarter.
A Mercedes-Benz technician climbs the ladder as dated rate events in WageTime: hourly through MB DRIVE, a flag rate at Systems Technician, a diagnostic premium at CDT, the top figure at Master, each starting on its effective date, never as a retro fix.
| Tech | Rate rule | Status |
|---|---|---|
| A. Kovač #02Master Tech · recert current | $47.00/flag hr | Current |
| N. Iwu #06CDT · diag premium, van codes | $41.00/flag hr | Current |
| S. Marek #10Systems Tech · review passed | $31.00 → $34.00 | Queued Aug 1 |
| J. Pruitt #14DRIVE trainee · wk 9 of 16 | $19.00/hr | On hourly |
Replaces the whiteboard ladder and the retro checks that follow it, three pay periods after the promotion was real.
WageTime does the unit math for you: imported warranty flag time converts from work units to clock hours, and the wage-floor test runs on the result every period, so the conversion spreadsheet and the wage claim both disappear.
Replaces the unit-conversion spreadsheet only one person understands, and the floor check that waited for them to have time.
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 demoMostly yes: dealer techs flag hours, and Mercedes-Benz publishes labor operations in work units through XENTRY Operation Time, commonly reckoned at five minutes each. WageTime imports the flag time, converts the units to hours against the real clock, and runs the wage-floor test on the result every period.
Yes. MBUSA requires a DRIVE applicant to hold current employment or a signed employment agreement with an authorized dealership before applying, so the trainee is your employee through the 16-week program. WageTime runs them hourly during DRIVE and queues the flag rate to start on a date when they come out.
Each rung is a rate event with an effective date. WageTime keys the flag rate to the rung (Systems Technician after graduation plus six months of employment, the Centralized Diagnostic Technician premium, the Master figure) and starts the new rate on the day it’s earned, with the per-period dollar swing visible before it lands.
AMG Performance Bonus money pays as an off-cycle run at no extra cost, with correct tax treatment on supplemental pay. Quarterly AMG bonus money goes out the day the number clears rather than waiting for the next scheduled Friday, and a Best of the Best award (dealer announcements put it at roughly the top 22% of the network) pays the same way.
A Sprinter LLC is a second company, not a second payroll vendor. Each entity files under its own EIN with every federal, state, and local tax handled automatically, deposits included, while the group runs under one login with one approval. Reporting comes per company or combined, and 1099 contractors run alongside W-2 employees.
$50 per month per company plus $10 per month per person paid that month: no long-term contracts, cancel anytime. A store running the retail floor and a Sprinter LLC with 85 people paid comes to $950 for the month: $100 in company bases plus $850 per person. Runs are unlimited, so quarterly AMG bonus runs cost nothing extra.
Last month’s retail gross sheets, the Sprinter deals still waiting on the upfitter, the AMG recert dates, a DRIVE trainee due to flip to flags, and a warranty-heavy fortnight in work units. Twenty minutes with a payroll specialist on a live demo store. If WageTime can’t carry a Mercedes month, you’ll know before the meeting ends.
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