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What's this going to cost?

Nimble Compensation automates the commission calculation process, ensuring accurate and timely payments for auto dealership sales teams.

Great question! Our pricing is based on a monthly fee billed per rooftop. Our monthly fees vary depending on the number of employees under each rooftop. We do offer volume discounts for dealerships.

In addition to the monthly charge, we charge a one-time setup fee. As part of this setup fee, Nimble's implementation team will come to your dealership and work with your team on the initial setup. This setup fee is fully refundable if your dealership cancels within 90 days of the setup, but we are confident you will think that setup fee was the best money you ever spent when you see how much time and money you are saving with Nimble Compensation.

We don't believe in locking you into a long-term contract, so we have a month-to-month agreement that allows you to cancel at any time.

Learn more about how our pricing works: Pricing Page

Want to see it in action?

Nimble Compensation automates the commission calculation process, ensuring accurate and timely payments for auto dealership sales teams.

Awesome, we want you to see it in action!

If you are ready for a custom demo, we encourage you to Book A Demo. As part of the demo, we will use your actual data and pay plan information for your chosen department. This allows you to discover how Nimble Compensation can streamline your dealership's commission process and the specific benefits to you and your position.

If you aren't ready for a custom demo, you can check out a five-minute demo here so you have a better idea of what to expect.

If you have questions, you can call, email, or Schedule A Call with someone on our sales team. You can get our Contact Information here.

We are confident this will change your dealership for the better.

What does support look like?

Nimble Compensation automates the commission calculation process, ensuring accurate and timely payments for auto dealership sales teams.

Most of our customers find Nimble Compensation easy to use. But when questions do come up, we strive to answer as many of them as possible so that you can quickly find what you need in our updated Knowledge Base.

We believe it white glove support. We know you have plenty going on and we don't expect you to become an expert in our platform. So we offer two forms of support:

  • Email Support (typical response within a few minutes during business hours)
  • Phone Support

What will change in my operation?

Nimble Compensation automates the commission calculation process, ensuring accurate and timely payments for auto dealership sales teams.

How does more time, higher profits, less liability, and happier employees sound?

We aren't joking. These are all the benefits of moving from your Excel-based commission process to Nimble Compensation.

You can read more about the benefits on our Outcomes page.

In terms of the effort involved in getting our platform implemented, it is minimal; on average, a dealership has five hours of prep work. We believe in white-glove service, so your team doesn't have to spend weeks and months setting Nimble up.

You can read through our guide, What to Expect for an Implementation.

Will I have to sign a long-term contract?

Nimble Compensation automates the commission calculation process, ensuring accurate and timely payments for auto dealership sales teams.

No, we believe you should never feel stuck in a long-term contract, so we don't have them. We are confident once you start using us, you won't want to cancel. But just in case, all our subscriptions are month-to-month, so you can cancel anytime without paying a cancellation fee.

Pretty novel idea, don't you think?

How much time is this saving people?

Nimble Compensation automates the commission calculation process, ensuring accurate and timely payments for auto dealership sales teams.

While every dealership is different, on average, our dealership customers see an 80% reduction in process time.



To put this into real terms, if your commission process currently takes 10 hours every month, after implementing Nimble Compensation, we expect it would take roughly 2 hours to complete. That is 8 hours you get back during your busiest time of the month, month-end close! Imagine what your life would look like.



We regularly hear from our clients that they now get to eat dinner with their family during close or don't have to come into the dealership on Sundays because of the time-savings Nimble Compensation gave them.



We want this to be you, but we also have been doing this long enough that it is hard to believe this could be your story. We encourage you to Book A Demo so we can setup a custom demo and show you how different your life could be.

What is a commission management platform?

Nimble Compensation automates the commission calculation process, ensuring accurate and timely payments for auto dealership sales teams.

Great question!


A commission management platform helps businesses manage and track commissions.

It is important to note that a commission management platform does not replace your payroll provider. It sits between your DMS and Payroll provider to provide accurate commission and earning information for your payroll system to process.


While there are a few commission management platforms out there, Nimble Compensation is different. We are the only commission management platform built for dealerships. We only work with dealerships, which means we live and breathe in your world every day. 


This matters to you for a few reasons:

  1. We are built to work with every department in a dealership. Other commission management platforms are made for sales departments, which is different from the reality of a dealership. We know and understand nearly every employee in a dealership is on some flavor of a commission plan.  
  2. We work and integrate with the tools you use every day. This includes your Dealer Management System.
  3. We don't need to tell you this, but the dealership world differs from other industries. Start throwing out terms like retro, front gross, back gross, and most companies ' heads are spinning. That is our every day. 


We encourage you to check out our full article for a more in-depth explanation. 

Do you work with my Dealer Management System?

Nimble Compensation automates the commission calculation process, ensuring accurate and timely payments for auto dealership sales teams.

We work with all the major Dealer Management Systems: CDK Global, Reynolds & Reynolds, Automate, Dealertrack, Tekion, and many more.

We have dealership clients across the United States using almost every Dealer Management System (DMS) available. We have built Nimble Compensation to be extremely flexible. This allows you to use nearly any report you can extract from your DMS.

We also have direct integrations with some DMSs, which allows us to pull commission data directly from your DMS.

Check out our article about Dealer Management Systems we work with for more information.

Do you work with my payroll system?

Nimble Compensation automates the commission calculation process, ensuring accurate and timely payments for auto dealership sales teams.

Over the years, we have seen and worked with quite a few payroll companies. We work with many of the native DMS payroll solutions as well as many of the most popular standalone payroll companies like: ADP, Paylocity, Netchex, Paychex, Paycom and many more.

We have built Nimble Compensation to be extremely flexible and therefore it works with virtually all payroll solutions. But if you want to confirm your specific payroll solution you can email our support team at support@nimblecompensation.com.

Changing is hard, is it worth it?

Nimble Compensation automates the commission calculation process, ensuring accurate and timely payments for auto dealership sales teams.

There is an inaccurate assumption in this question: that moving to Nimble Compensation is hard. We take a white-glove approach to service, which means moving to Nimble Compensation is easy on your team. We do 95% of the work to make the transition. All we need from your team are the old commission worksheets and data sources. On average, our clients say the preparation takes about five hours. 


It is absolutely worth it! We exist to transform your dealership's commission process:

  • Your managers and back office team reduce the commission processing time by 80%
  • Your employees love the visibility and transparency of commissions, which often boost performance


To learn more about the benefits of implementing Nimble Compensation, check out our Outcomes page.

What is the process to get Nimble Compensation setup?

Nimble Compensation automates the commission calculation process, ensuring accurate and timely payments for auto dealership sales teams.

We have found the best way to setup Nimble Compensation for your dealership is to come out for two to three days.

During this time, we work to setup, test, and train with your team. Although we will be on-site, we typically only need an hour or two from your managers, so it is not a significant time commitment for you or your team.

The goal is that by the time we leave, your dealership is completely setup and ready to use our platform.

Can I speak with another dealership?

Nimble Compensation automates the commission calculation process, ensuring accurate and timely payments for auto dealership sales teams.

We used to provide dealership referrals, but as we have grown, we realized two things:

  1. With our growth, our dealerships were overwhelmed by the number of referrals they were providing.
  2. Most importantly, we realized speaking with another dealership just wasn't that helpful because hearing about the impact of Nimble Compensation didn't compare to actually seeing your commission process improved.

As a result, we no longer provide dealership referrals; instead, we set up your most complex department for free and provide a custom demo. The custom demo is a much more powerful referral for you and your team since you can compare how long your current process takes to the process in Nimble.

We can almost guarantee your jaw will hit the floor when you see a process that usually takes you hours to complete in a few minutes.

Our commission process is unique, would Nimble Compensation work for my dealership?

Nimble Compensation automates the commission calculation process, ensuring accurate and timely payments for auto dealership sales teams.

The short answer is yes!

Over years of working with dealerships across the country, if there is anything we have learned, every dealership is different.

With this in mind, we have built Nimble Compensation to accommodate any pay plan or bonus structure your dealership can dream of. We have seen standard things like split deals, minis, volume bonuses, retro, and penetration commissions, to name a few. But we also have some pretty wild things. Anything related to commissions in California would count.

We customize our platform to your existing process and pay plans. If you want to learn more, check out our article about 100% Customizable.

How secure is our data in Nimble Compensation?

Nimble Compensation automates the commission calculation process, ensuring accurate and timely payments for auto dealership sales teams.

We take security extremely seriously at Nimble Compensation.

We understand that security is vital for your business and our business. Your data is always encrypted, whether it is accessed from your desktop or mobile devices. We store all your data using cutting-edge security technology and Amazon data centers.

Our security team keeps up with all the latest security so you can have total peace of mind.

What payment methods do you accept?

Nimble Compensation automates the commission calculation process, ensuring accurate and timely payments for auto dealership sales teams.

Nimble Compensation currently accepts all major credit cards as well as checks and ACH transfers. All subscriptions are setup on a recurring basis and billed the first of every month.

Does Nimble Compensation replace my payroll system?

Nimble Compensation automates the commission calculation process, ensuring accurate and timely payments for auto dealership sales teams.

No, we do not replace your payroll system.

We sit between your DMS and Payroll provider to provide accurate commission and earning information for your payroll system. You don't have to change your payroll provider to use Nimble Compensation.

We work with most Payroll providers. If you have specific questions about your payroll provider, email our support team at support@nimblecompensation.com.

Does Nimble Compensation handle commissions for employees working across multiple locations?

Nimble Compensation automates the commission calculation process, ensuring accurate and timely payments for auto dealership sales teams.

Yes, Nimble Compensation can manage commissions for employees selling or working out of multiple locations (rooftops). It allows for data aggregation and commission calculations across various departments and locations, providing a comprehensive view of employee earnings.

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