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Car Dealer HR And Payroll Software

HR, payroll & workforce for dealerships: Recruiting, onboarding, time, payroll, compensation and performance.

Dealership pay is unusual enough that general payroll software often fails on it: salespeople on commission with a draw, technicians on flat-rate hours, F&I managers on splits and chargebacks, and bonus plans that change every month.

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How to choose car dealer HR and payroll software

The first test is the calculation. Give the vendor last month's real pay plans and real deal and repair-order data and compare its results to your payroll to the dollar. Ask how flat-rate hours come in from the DMS (import or entry by advisors), how a deal unwound after payment is clawed back, and how the system handles overtime rules for hourly technicians and advisors, which vary by state.

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The second test is the connection. Employees, technician time, commissions and draws should sync with the DMS.

General ledger entries should post back without an export step, for each rooftop. Check how multi-store groups keep separate legal entities, and how a rehire or a transfer between stores is handled.

Get an answer on what the system provides for wage-and-hour compliance and benefits. Who calculates and files payroll taxes?

Who answers a payroll error at four o'clock on payday? And what can you export if you leave?

Examine the employee experience. Ask how a technician or salesperson sees a pay statement, how they query a commission calculation and how fast an error is corrected, since pay disputes damage morale and cost management time, and a system that explains each number and lets an employee see the deals behind a commission reduces both. Check that the system keeps the records required for wage-and-hour audits.