WageTime is payroll for independently owned Weed Man territories, where canvassers and phone-room reps are paid to close and owed for every hour either way. The sales floor and the route run on one payroll, each territory under its own EIN.
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The route puts product on lawns. The sale is a separate machine: a canvasser walking a street and a rep working a call list, both paid to close, both owed for every hour whether the close comes or not. Generic payroll knows how to pay the truck and has never met the phone room.
A canvasser knocks a full neighborhood for the free quote and books three programs on a good afternoon and none on a bad one. Paid per sale, that bad afternoon is still hours worked, and under federal rules commission earnings have to clear minimum wage for every one of them. The productivity deal is real; the wage floor underneath it does not go away.
The inside team works a call list, some of them from a spare bedroom two states away. A slow day of dialing is a full day of pay, a heavy-close week raises the overtime the commission is part of, and the rep in another state is taxed to their kitchen table, not your office. A commission run that skips those three facts is writing a back-pay check it hasn't found yet.
Weed Man's sub-franchisor structure sells territories in pieces, and owners rarely stop at one. Run five territories and you run five legal employers: five sets of filings, five state accounts, and, in a typical payroll setup, five separate logins to keep straight on payday. The person doing it is usually one office manager with a very long Friday.
Reported FDD terms for the system describe a tiered royalty, 6.5% of net sales up to a million and 5.5% above it, plus a marketing contribution. That stack is fixed and anchored to the truck and its route. Labor is the one big cost you steer week to week, and the office that can't read it per route and per truck is steering the controllable line blind.
The techs putting down fertilizer and weed control carry a state applicator or registered-technician credential, and it lapses on a date nobody circled. When the license lives in a folder and the paycheck lives somewhere else, an expired card becomes an unlicensed application, which is a fine, not a footnote.
Hours land in the routing software the office already runs, measured lawns, density-planned stops, GPS and all. Then somebody exports the week, cleans it, and re-keys it into a payroll system that never heard of a route or a territory. The codes fall off on the way, and labor per truck is a guess by the time the invoice prints.
WageTime pays the sale and protects the hour in the same run: the per-sale commission settles as its own earning, total pay is checked against minimum wage for every hour actually walked, and a slow street gets topped up to the floor.
Replaces the canvasser run that paid the sales and forgot the wage floor and the overtime under them.
The phone room runs like the payroll it is: dialing hours paid whether the call closes or not, commission folded into blended overtime, and the rep working from a spare bedroom two states away withheld to their home state, not your office.
| Rep | Hours | Commission |
|---|---|---|
| Dana R.Office (OH) | 40.0 | $360.00 |
| Priya S.WFH (KY) · rooftop-geolocated | 38.5 | $305.00 |
| Marcus L.WFH (MI) · rooftop-geolocated | 41.0 | $412.00 |
| Tori B.Office (OH) | 40.0 | $288.00 |
Replaces the out-of-state phone rep withheld to the wrong state, and the commission week that skipped its overtime.
Yes: WageTime keeps each territory its own legal employer with its own EIN and filings, and you move between all of them under a single login instead of signing in and out of five accounts on payday.
| Territory | People | Filings |
|---|---|---|
| Weed Man of Elmore CountyEIN **-4471 | 14 | Filed |
| Weed Man of RidgeviewEIN **-8820 | 11 | Filed |
| Weed Man of North ValeEIN **-2093 | 9 | Filed |
| Weed Man of Cedar FallsEIN **-5567 | 12 | Filed |
| Weed Man of Harper LineEIN **-3318 | 7 | Filed |
Replaces five logins, five spreadsheets, and the Friday spent proving which territory a paycheck belonged to.
Every hour and wage dollar codes to the truck and the density route it runs: WageTime reads labor by the route and truck numbers your schedule already uses, so the tight route that still burns drive time shows up before you re-price it.
| Truck | Hours | Labor cost |
|---|---|---|
| Truck 1East density route · 812 stops | 168.0 | $3,528.00 |
| Truck 2North density · 744 stops | 152.5 | $3,202.50 |
| Truck 3Mosquito/perimeter · 388 stops | 96.0 | $2,208.00 |
| Truck 4Aeration & seeding · 205 stops | 61.5 | $1,414.50 |
Replaces bidding next season's routes off a hunch, and the box of receipts you rebuild when the comp auditor asks what each truck earned.
One number, no quote call: WageTime is $50 a month per company plus $10 for each person actually paid that month, unlimited runs included, so the off-season roster that's home until the spring rounds costs you nothing.
| Who got paid | People |
|---|---|
| Techs | 9 |
| Canvassers | 4 |
| Phone reps | 3 |
Replaces the payroll bill you couldn't read without a sales call, and the off-season invoice for a roster that's home until the spring rounds.
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 demoYes, and WageTime handles it in the run. Commission and per-sale earnings settle inside payroll, then total pay is checked against minimum wage for every hour actually worked, at federal, state, and local levels, with a top-up when a slow day leaves the commission short. A day spent knocking doors or working a call list is paid time whether or not it closes.
Commission is part of the regular rate under federal rules, so a week over 40 hours earns overtime on the weighted-average rate with the commission counted in, not on a base the rep may not even have. WageTime runs that blend automatically for canvassers and phone reps alike, on the same paystub as the commission, so a heavy-close week doesn't quietly build a back-pay balance.
Yes. Each territory stays its own legal employer with its own EIN and its own federal, state, and local filings, and you run them all under one login instead of five separate accounts. Reporting comes per territory when a sub-franchisor or partner needs one territory's numbers, or combined across the whole operation, and role-based access lets a shared office manager run each one without co-mingling the books.
We import clock hours so there's no double entry. Tell us your routing or scheduling app on the demo and we'll confirm the exact flow for your setup, including how canvasser, phone-room, and tech hours land against your route and truck codes. No app yet? Field crews punch on WageTime's own GPS-stamped, geofenced mobile clock, so every stop books proof of the visit.
Applying fertilizer, weed control, and insect products is a regulated chemical application, and most states require a commercial applicator certification, with registered-technician status for those working under a certified applicator; the category varies by state. WageTime stores each credential on the employee record with 30, 60, and 90-day expiration alerts, so a recert deadline surfaces before it becomes an unlicensed application.
$50 per month per company plus $10 per person actually paid that month covers it, with unlimited payroll runs, weekly pay at no extra cost, and off-cycle and final checks included. Every federal, state, and local tax files automatically with year-end W-2s and 1099s. Against the tiered royalty and marketing contribution the FDD summaries describe, payroll stays the line that doesn't surprise you.
One canvasser, one inside-sales rep, and a truck's route, plus how many territories you run. Twenty minutes with a payroll specialist on a live demo company: you'll see the commission clear minimum wage and overtime, the out-of-state rep withheld right, the labor cost by truck, and every territory under one login.
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