WageTime runs payroll for independently owned SYNERGY HomeCare franchise businesses, where one caregiver pool serves several zip-code territories. A caregiver who works two of them gets one correct check, and an owner holding several LLCs runs the whole group from one login.
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SYNERGY HomeCare owners buy zip codes and grow by adding more of them. Payroll doesn’t care about the map: it cares about who worked where, at what rate, for which entity, and every added territory multiplies the ways a Friday can go wrong.
Multi-territory operators ran 478 of the network’s 626 territories through 2025. That’s the SYNERGY norm: one caregiver pool serving several zip-code fences. When Dana covers a Memory Care client in your first territory and a post-surgical client in your second at a different rate, her overtime comes off the blend of both. Payroll that only sees one list of hours picks a rate and gets it wrong.
In May 2024 the franchisor designated AxisCare as the network’s software vendor. Scheduling, EVV, care plans: sorted. But AxisCare doesn’t file your 941s or your state unemployment returns. Somebody still exports the week, walks the exceptions, and carries approved visits by hand into whatever runs the taxes.
Veterans Care is a real revenue line at SYNERGY offices, and VA-funded hours arrive pre-authorized: so many hours, this veteran, this window. Blow past the cap and the excess is unbillable; lose track of who worked the authorization and the reconciliation eats an afternoon. The client pays differently, but the caregiver’s paycheck rules never change.
A Mini territory can open with two employees, and the franchise agreement runs five years with performance quotas guarding your territory protection. That means payroll compliance from day one at tiny headcount, and reporting good enough to defend a renewal, on a budget that hasn’t earned an office manager yet.
From one WageTime login: each LLC files under its own EIN, reported per entity or combined, and job codes split hours by territory inside one entity. The norm is the map: 141 multi-territory businesses ran 478 of SYNERGY’s 626 territories through 2025.
| Entity | People paid | Gross payroll |
|---|---|---|
| Sonoran Care East LLCTempe-Mesa territory | 24 | $31,240.00 |
| Sonoran Care West LLCGlendale territory | 17 | $22,615.00 |
| Sonoran Care North LLCScottsdale territory | 11 | $14,890.00 |
Replaces three payroll logins, three invoices, and a spreadsheet that stitched the group together every quarter.
Through a WageTime import, not a retype: visits land against the caregiver, territory fence, and rate that earned them, and anything off waits for a look before it’s paid. Tell us your setup on the demo and we’ll confirm the exact flow for your office.
| Caregiver | Hours | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Dana R.Memory Care | 32.0 | Approved |
| Miguel S.Hospital-to-Home | 26.5 | Approved |
| Priya K.Companion care | 28.0 | Approved |
| Walt B.Overnight care | 36.0 | Missed clock-out |
| June T.Disability care | 22.0 | Rate missing |
Replaces the Thursday export-and-retype ritual, and the visit that got paid twice because two files disagreed.
A WageTime pay code per service line: Memory Care at its rate, Hospital-to-Home at its rate, differentials and on-call layered where they apply. When one caregiver works three lines in a week, overtime computes on the weighted average of everything earned, automatically.
| Pay code | Rate | This week |
|---|---|---|
| Memory CareHourly | $18.50 | 412 hrs |
| Companion careHourly | $16.75 | 388 hrs |
| Hospital-to-HomeHourly | $19.25 | 176 hrs |
| Overnight differentialPremium | +$2.50 | 96 hrs |
| Travel between clientsHourly, paid as wages | varies | 41 hrs |
| MileageReimbursement, non-taxable | $0.725/mi | 512 mi |
Replaces the rate the spreadsheet guessed when Monday and Thursday paid differently.
Nothing about the paycheck, everything about the tracking: VA Community Care Network hours carry authorization caps, so WageTime codes them to the authorization and reports hours against the ceiling, while pay runs through the same rates and overtime as any other week.
Replaces the binder where VA authorizations went to be forgotten until the remittance came up short.
A Mini territory can open with two employees, and the pricing meets it there: $50 a month for the company plus $10 per person actually paid, so a two-person September costs $70. Weekly pay day costs nothing extra because runs are unlimited.
| Period | People paid | Invoice |
|---|---|---|
| Month 14 weekly runs | 2 | $70.00 |
| Month 65 weekly runs | 9 | $140.00 |
| Month 144 weekly runs | 19 | $240.00 |
| Month 305 weekly runs | 34 | $390.00 |
Replaces the payroll bill that punished weekly pay, and the minimum that made a two-person launch pay for twenty.
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 demoLevine Leichtman Capital Partners and company management acquired SYNERGY HomeCare from NexPhase Capital in a deal announced January 21, 2025. Founder Peter Tourian serves as executive chairman and Charlie Young has been CEO since April 2020. The network ended 2025 at 626 territories in 44 states across more than 250 franchisees.
For the local office. Each SYNERGY HomeCare franchise business is independently owned and operated, so the franchisee hires and employs the caregivers, runs payroll under its own EIN, and files its own employment taxes. WageTime serves the franchisee directly: it is your payroll, your filings, your records.
No. AxisCare is the scheduling and operations platform the franchisor designated as the network’s software vendor in May 2024: visits, EVV, care plans. Payroll taxes, W-2s, and filings still need a payroll system. WageTime imports clock and visit hours from AxisCare so nothing is retyped; we’ll confirm the exact flow for your office on the demo.
Yes. Multi-entity is built in: each company runs under its own EIN with its own filings, one login covers the whole group, and reporting comes per entity or combined. Within one entity, job codes split hours and labor cost by territory, so the quota math per fence is a report, not a project.
The 2025 FDD reports average annual gross sales of $985,921 across the 167 franchise businesses open at least a year at the end of 2024, and $2,116,737 for multi-territory operations through 2025. Those are Item 19 averages, not promises: results vary widely and your own FDD review is the real answer.
Mostly no. The Total Well-Being Care program SYNERGY launched in February 2025 gives staff 30 days of complimentary BetterHelp access and a discount after, brokered by the franchisor rather than deducted from pay. The HR side of WageTime helps you put it in front of caregivers: onboarding documents and surveys live where every caregiver already checks paystubs.
$50 a month per company plus $10 per person paid that month, whether you run payroll weekly or biweekly: runs are unlimited and off-cycle checks are free. Every federal, state, and local tax is filed automatically, with year-end W-2s and 1099s included. Onboarding and migration are full-service and paid, scoped on the demo. No long-term contracts.
Twenty minutes with a payroll specialist on a live demo company. Bring your territory list, one caregiver’s multi-line week, and your AxisCare export: you’ll watch the entities, the weighted-average overtime, the VA authorization report, and your first invoice come out the other side.
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