A Valvoline Instant Oil Change development agreement is a build schedule: at least three centers, each staffed and trained before it takes a car. That makes payroll a new-store problem before it is a weekly one, and WageTime treats it that way.
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The network has grown by 858 stores since 2017 to more than 2,000, and franchisees are the build engine: a development agreement commits you to at least three centers, opened by construction or conversion. Every opening is a crew hired, onboarded, and paid before the first car, a new EIN on the books, and a promotion ladder that keeps stepping rates behind you. Right now the new-store crew, the pay steps, and the per-center labor all live in a spreadsheet you rebuild from scratch each time you open a location.
You hire and train a full crew weeks before a new store opens: pre-open training, a dry run, a soft open, all of it paid, none of it against a single ticket yet. That first payroll runs before the register does. Generic products treat a new location as a project for next quarter, not a crew that has to be paid this Friday.
Convert an existing shop here, build a new one there, and the entity list grows with the territory. Each center wants its own EIN, its own filings, and its own labor line, but one owner still needs a single view across all of them. A pile of logins, one per store, is how a filing gets missed.
A Valvoline crew promotes fast: a lube tech can reach Certified Technician in about two months and Senior Technician inside ten, and more than nine in ten managers started entry level. Every step raises the rate, often mid-pay-period, and a rate that changed on Wednesday still has to be paid right for the whole week. The step math is where a check quietly comes up short.
SuperPro runs the bay and logs every clocked hour and every service by tech, one center at a time. Payroll sees none of it until someone exports each store and re-types the week. The center where a digit transposes is the one whose new hire’s first check is wrong, and the counter knows before payroll does.
The promise is a 15-minute service with the customer in the car, so the work arrives in waves: the lunch rush, the Saturday line, the after-work push. Staff flat and you are overstaffed at 10am and buried at noon. The schedule that matches the crew to the car count is the one nobody has time to build by hand.
WageTime treats a store opening as the recurring payroll event it is for a Valvoline franchisee: a whole crew hired, onboarded in one bulk wave, and paid before the center takes its first car.
| New hire | Role | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Marcus D.Self-onboarding · I-9 captured | Lube tech | Verify pending |
| Renata O.Transfer · rehire, restored | Certified tech | Ready to pay |
| Tyler B.Offer e-signed, I-9 complete | Lube tech | Pre-open |
| Sasha P.Offer e-signed | Asst manager | Docs 2 of 3 |
Replaces the opening-crew onboarding stack the manager did by hand, one hire at a time, before every new store.
A growing footprint gets one view under WageTime: each new center carries its own EIN and labor line from its first pre-open payroll, so another location is a report line, not another payroll system.
| Center | EIN | Labor MTD |
|---|---|---|
| Center 03Tempe AZ · 10 paid | **-2261 | $24,180.00 |
| Center 05Mesa AZ · 11 paid | **-2261 | $27,540.00 |
| Center 06Henderson NV · 9 paid | **-7738 | $21,960.00 |
| Center 07Reno NV · 6 paid · opens Aug 4 | **-7738 | $8,420.00 |
Replaces the pile of one-store logins, and the pooled labor figure that hid which new center was still ramping.
A rate change takes effect the same day a certification does, not on a retro spreadsheet: a tech who reaches Certified Technician on Wednesday gets the new rate from Wednesday, calculated automatically by WageTime.
Replaces the base-rate-only overtime that shorts a promotion week, and the rate step nobody dated.
The clock hours the SuperPro operating system already logs get imported by WageTime one center at a time, then rolled into a single run for the group: no per-center export, no double entry, no retype.
| Tech | Clock hrs | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Marcus D.Center 03 · lube tech | 41.5 | Ready |
| Renata O.Center 03 · certified tech | 44.0 | Ready |
| Tyler B.Center 03 · lube tech | 32.0 | Ready |
| Sasha P.Center 03 · asst manager | 40.0 | I-9 open |
Replaces the per-center export-reformat-retype ritual between SuperPro and the check.
A full-service oil change taking about 15 minutes, with an 18-point check and the customer in the car, arrives in waves, not a flat shift: WageTime sizes the crew and the schedule to those peaks.
| Crew | This week | Schedule check |
|---|---|---|
| Renata O.Certified · upper bay | 44.0 hrs | Clear |
| Marcus D.Lube · lower bay | 41.5 hrs | Rest gap flag |
| Tyler B.Lube · greeter, courtesy check | 32.0 hrs | Clear |
| Sasha P.Asst mgr · peak cover, close | 40.0 hrs | Overnight flag |
Replaces the flat schedule that was overstaffed at open and buried at noon, and the labor nobody costed against the car count.
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 demoA new Valvoline center is staffed and trained before it takes a car, so WageTime bulk-onboards the whole opening crew with self-service e-signatures, runs electronic I-9 and E-Verify, and pays pre-open training on an hourly code that lands on the check. Whether a given hour is compensable is a question for you and your counsel.
Yes, and a new center joins the group the day it opens: its own EIN, its own filings, its own labor line, all reachable from the same login. As the development agreement fills in, WageTime files each entity’s taxes automatically and scopes access by role, so a developer adds a location without standing up another payroll system.
A Valvoline crew promotes fast, so WageTime applies the new rate on its effective date instead of a retro spreadsheet. When a promotion lands mid-week, two rates fall in one workweek, so overtime computes on the weighted-average regular rate across both automatically, with any nondiscretionary premium-service commission folded into that rate too.
In the way that matters: WageTime imports the clock hours SuperPro already logs so there is no double entry. Tell us your setup on the demo and we will confirm the exact flow. WageTime does not claim a direct integration with SuperPro or any point-of-sale system, and your service commissions run as pay codes inside payroll.
Yes. WageTime’s shift scheduling builds the week around car-count peaks rather than flat shifts, with conflict safeguards that flag double-booking, rest-period gaps, and overnight shifts before you publish. Each shift carries its job cost, and approved hours flow straight into payroll with no re-entry.
$50 a month per company plus $10 per person actually paid that month, with unlimited runs, so a weekly cadence and a pre-open payroll before a store opens cost nothing extra. Filings, W-2s, and 1099s are included. Run four centers as separate LLCs? Each keeps its own EIN, with one login and combined reporting.
The crew you’re hiring for the next opening, where each tech sits on the certification ladder, and the two or three centers already running. Twenty minutes with a payroll specialist on a live demo group: you’ll watch a pre-open crew onboard in a bulk wave, see a mid-week promotion compute its own weighted-average overtime, and get a straight answer on running every EIN from one login.
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