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Payroll and commission

Revenue commission
is a slow leak.

A rebuild package at $1,100 with $380 of parts in it is not the same job as $1,100 of labour, and paying the same percentage on both costs you every single week. Nobody notices until the year is over. This was built by someone who noticed late.

No contracts. Ever. Month to month, cancel yourself in the app. No card to start, no demo call, no salesperson.

Profit
Not revenue — material comes off first
Weekly
Per-technician numbers, before payroll runs
$0
Per additional technician on the payroll
30 days
Free, no card, no contract
The basis

Set it once, and every run uses it.

Gross profit, not revenue

Material cost comes off before the percentage is applied, on every job, in every payroll run. On a trade that puts real parts on a ticket — springs, a condenser, a panel, a water heater — that is the difference between a pay plan that works and one that quietly overpays all year.

Per-technician pay types

Hourly, commission, or a base plus a percentage. A technician with no pay type set inherits the company default rather than silently being paid nothing.

Held pay is visible, not silent

When a job has no cost recorded on its parts, its commission is held rather than paid on a number nobody trusts — and the jobs holding it up are listed, so somebody can go fix the price book instead of guessing.

Timesheets behind it

A time clock and editable timesheets sit under payroll, so what you billed and what you paid reconcile at the end of the week.

Seeing it before you pay it

Weekly, per technician.

The point of a payroll report is not to record what happened. It is to let you notice something wrong while it is still this week’s problem.

Weekly per-tech breakdown

What each technician billed, what it cost, and what they earned — week by week, before the run rather than after it.

Job costing underneath

Per job: revenue, material, labour, what was left. Sorted by whatever is losing money.

Payroll report

The whole period in one place, so the conversation with the bookkeeper is short.

It matches the invoices

Commission is calculated from billed work, so a technician’s pay and the company’s revenue are describing the same jobs.

Straight answers

Can I pay commission on profit instead of revenue? And the rest.

Can I pay commission on profit instead of revenue?

Yes, and it is the default this was built around. Material cost comes off before the percentage. Set the basis once and every payroll run uses it. Paying a percentage of revenue on jobs with real parts in them is one of the most common and most expensive mistakes a growing shop makes.

What if a technician has no pay type set?

They inherit the company default rather than being calculated at zero. That sounds like a small detail; it is the difference between a payroll run that is slightly wrong and one that pays your entire crew nothing without saying so.

What happens when a job has no material cost recorded?

Its commission is held rather than paid on an unreliable number, and the jobs responsible are listed so you can go fix the price book. Held pay you can see is a task; commission silently calculated on a wrong cost is a loss.

Are timesheets included?

Yes — a time clock and editable timesheets, sitting underneath payroll so billed work and paid hours reconcile.

Does it cost more to put more technicians on payroll?

No. Both plans include unlimited technicians. Adding someone to the crew does not change the software bill.

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