Frequently Asked Questions regarding maXzie

Variable compensation software like maXzie automatically calculates, manages, and visualizes performance-based salary components on a daily basis—rather than manually in Excel spreadsheets—and makes target achievement and bonus status transparent to employees and managers at all times.

We have large international corporations with hundreds of licenses as customers, but also smaller retail companies that use licenses in the single-digit range. maXzie can be optimally used in every company size and in every industry: e.g. consulting companies, banks and insurance companies, retail, pharmaceutical companies, fast-moving consumer goods, manufacturers of goods in the B2B and B2C sectors, manufacturing industry, heavy industry, automotive industry, solar industry, vehicle manufacturers, logistics industry, construction industry, medicine, public service, municipalities, hospitals, care facilities, manufacturers of industrial machinery, service companies, publishing industry and many more.

maXzie supports you and your employees in all types of variable salary components such as variable bonuses, bonuses, commissions, performance allowances, performance pay, incentives or other compensation incentives. Regardless of whether these are monetary or immaterial, i.e. non-monetary. In maXzie, different types of variable compensation can be combined as desired. Variable salary components with commission. Commissions with bonuses, performance allowances with bonuses, variable salaries with incentives and so on.

With maXzie you can make almost all types of goals visible, compensate and above all combine: Quantitative goals, Qualitative goals, Performance allowances, Performance bonuses, Performance pay, Action goals, Activity goals, Diligence goals, Personal performance appraisal goals, Project goals, Individual goals, Team goals, Company goals and Strategic goals. Alternative terms for this are also: Performance-oriented goals, success-oriented goals, performance-oriented goals, results-oriented goals, value-oriented goals, competence-oriented goals.

The maXzie software calculates all types of variable compensation components such as bonuses, commissions, and performance allowances comfortably, efficiently, and extremely flexibly. The corresponding values are immediately available to your payroll system and your employees.

A premium is a component of salary that depends on the degree to which a defined goal is achieved. A bonus is usually an additional, often one-time payment “on top” of the fixed salary. A commission is calculated directly based on sales or revenue performance. A performance allowance typically rewards short-term, visible performance, often in the service, healthcare, or public sectors. maXzie supports all four types of compensation and allows them to be combined in any way.

Yes. In addition to classic quantitative goals such as revenue or contribution margin, maXzie also makes qualitative goals like competencies, reliability, or soft skills measurable and compensable through its own forms and input options – according to News Innovativ, a unique selling point in the market.

Yes, maXzie combines individual goals, team goals, collective goals, and company goals in any combination, weighted differently for each employee – e.g. 40% individual goal, 25% team goal, 20% customer satisfaction as a group goal, 15% personal performance review.

The built-in bonus calculator shows employees at any time how much more performance they need to reach the maximum bonus, and lets managers simulate different goal scenarios in advance – even before the end of the payroll period.

Yes. Goals, salaries, bonus guarantees, and bonus curves can be adjusted in maXzie at any time during the year and are immediately billable on a day-to-day basis – without support from your own IT. All adjustments flow directly into the goal agreement.

In the area of “variable and performance-oriented salary components”, maXzie supports all processes that are necessary to achieve and exceed goals to a high degree. maXzie provides daily target achievement levels and the associated daily premium levels across all types of goals - also on the smartphone and even before the end of the respective sub-goal period. maXzie answers the most important question for performance-oriented compensated employees and their managers: “Where do I/we stand, what is still missing, to achieve the goal?”, “How high is my bonus?”. An integrated bonus calculator answers the question: “How much performance do I still need to receive the maximum bonus?”. This motivates and focuses on exceeding the set goals. But also in areas where it is “only” about a performance allowance, a bonus or an on-top bonus, the high transparency of maXzie ensures that the employees are more motivated. A monetary compensation incentive, but also a non-monetary appreciation, contributes to a higher satisfaction of the employees.

With daily updated bonus levels, goal achievements, forecasts, and overviews of performance pay, maXzie ensures the highest level of transparency, acceptance, and focus at all times - even on your smartphone. This ensures that your employees achieve their goals as best as possible, feel financially better appreciated, and are sustainably more satisfied and motivated. This is confirmed by numerous customers.

A good compensation system is as lively as the market. Here maXzie provides you with everything you need: Adjustments of goals, salaries, premium guarantees, etc. during the year are possible at any time and can be billed on a daily basis.

We recommend always keeping a little budget in reserve. If a new opportunity or necessity arises on the market, you can set up suitable short-term bonus-on-top goals in maXzie with just a few clicks to focus your employees exactly where there is the most to gain - so everyone wins! You can fully rely on the strengths of maXzie when sudden events in the market or with competitors require quick action and readjustment of your compensation system. Without support or assistance from the in-house IT, any additional incentives can be created that can be tracked immediately on the surface, on smartphones and in the billing reports.

maXzie maintains an employment history for every employee, with statuses such as employed, not employed, or unpaid leave/parental leave. Goal achievement and bonus are automatically pro-rated based on these time segments, with no manual rework required.

If a KPI value changes retroactively (e.g. due to a cancellation), maXzie automatically corrects the affected bonus and adjusts any advance payments already made accordingly, instead of requiring manual recalculation.

Historical actual and target values can be imported via the standard CSV interface; existing Excel-based systems are mapped into maXzie 1:1 or in an optimized form as part of the rollout, instead of starting from scratch.

We have many customers who have involved executives and responsible members of the works council in the selection of the software program for variable compensation. We have only received very positive feedback so far. The enormous transparency that maXzie offers to performance-oriented compensated employees is appreciated. It is of enormous advantage to involve all parties very early in such a project.

In principle, it is advantageous to work out an individual compensation concept with a specialist, if your budget allows. As a rule, professionally created compensation concepts can be implemented 1:1 with maXzie. We are also happy to exchange ideas with your compensation consultant on this. On request, we can also arrange an expert for your individual requirements.

This essentially depends on the circumstances of our customers. Normally, a project takes between two to four weeks. But we have also brought companies to the start within 7 days. Through our standard interfaces, your IT can easily ensure the regular transfer of actual data.

After an initial call to clarify the concept, maXzie is connected to your existing systems via the standard CSV interface, and goals and bonus curves are set up and tested against actual data. A rollout typically takes two to four weeks; in a record case, a customer was live within 7 days.

IT support on the customer side is needed for the initial connection (configuring DNS/URL, and firewall/VPN/SSL if applicable). Ongoing operation, including software and system maintenance, is then handled by News Innovativ. New KPIs can usually be added later without significant IT effort.

Both. maXzie is used by international corporations with hundreds of licenses as well as smaller companies with a single-digit number of licenses, and scales across group hierarchies down to the site, country, or EMEA level.

maXzie is used across industries, including automotive dealerships and workshops, pharma, manufacturing, retail, logistics, the public sector, care and healthcare, and the publishing industry.

According to News Innovativ, maXzie is used in more than 20 countries across the EMEA region and is available in German and English; the system can be evaluated per site or country group (e.g. EMEA/DACH) independent of language or location.

Yes. In addition to superusers with unrestricted access, regular employees only see their own data; permissions and groups let you selectively grant managers reporting access for their teams, sites, or countries.

Our maXzie team is professional, service-oriented, and also available at short notice. Not only in technical matters. We also offer competent advice on the concrete implementation of variable compensation systems thanks to our many years of experience. If necessary, we are also happy to arrange a competent and suitable partner.

Absolutely. Regardless of whether you use maXzie in your company (on premises) or in the cloud. We are ISO/IEC 27001 certified and audited annually. In the cloud, we work with Microsoft AZURE. Microsoft Azure is one of the safest cloud computing services worldwide. The data of our customers are hosted securely, exclusively in compliance with the GDPR and in Germany.

Every bonus calculation is based on clearly documented KPI values, goal templates, and bonus curves that can be reviewed at any time; the underlying calculation logic is also continuously validated through automated tests. This provides the traceability that auditors and internal audit teams expect.

maXzie is a product of News Innovativ GmbH in Miltenberg. The company is privately owned. The two managing directors Stefan Rüttiger and Charles Henri Rüttiger are the owners of the company founded in 2015. Within their group of companies, which has existed for almost 40 years, they have been using self-developed software for variable compensation for years. maXzie was developed exclusively in Germany with numerous customers as development partners - large and small companies.

maXzie is designed in such a way that many components lead to an increase in acceptance of performance-oriented compensation among employees and managers, a focus on goals and a high level of motivation. This greatly supports goal achievement and leads to goals being more easily exceeded. In addition, there is an extremely time-saving and efficient calculation and billing of your premiums and variable salaries. Where in some companies weeks of billing runs and premium calculations are necessary, maXzie customers are pleased to do everything with 3 mouse clicks. maXzie therefore pays off very quickly, as our customers attest. (see testimonials).

Both are possible. maXzie runs either as a cloud/SaaS solution, hosted on Microsoft Azure in German data centers, or on premises in the customer's own data center.

maXzie has a standard CSV interface and an import API, so it can be connected regardless of which CRM, ERP or payroll system you use. According to customer reports, connecting new performance indicators often takes only 30 to 60 minutes of IT work.

maXzie is a web application that runs in the browser over HTTPS, including on smartphones and tablets, with no separate app to install. Employees can check their current bonus and goal achievement levels on the go, updated daily.

Yes, News Innovativ GmbH is ISO/IEC 27001 certified. ISO/IEC 27001 is the international standard for the systematic protection of company data. The certification is audited annually by an independent auditor. Additionally, all data is hosted exclusively in Germany in ISO27001 certified data centers. The certification is proof that News Innovativ GmbH takes the security of company data very seriously and implements all necessary measures to protect it.

Yes. maXzie is developed in Germany and hosted in German, ISO/IEC 27001 certified data centers (via Microsoft Azure when used in the cloud). News Innovativ GmbH is itself ISO/IEC 27001 certified and audited annually.

There is a free, no-obligation initial meeting of 30 minutes with a compensation and software expert, bookable directly on the maXzie website. We show you the software based on your own compensation concept.

The ROI calculator on maxzie.de estimates the annual time and cost of manual billing (for example in Excel) from your number of employees and hourly rate, and compares it with the time saved by maXzie. The sample calculations assume savings of up to 70 percent.

The price depends on the number of employees, the selected licensing model (Basic, Standard, Premium, Customized), and the integration effort. The ROI calculator provides an initial estimate based on the number of employees and payroll processing effort; a specific quote is provided during the free 30-minute initial consultation.

Excel-based solutions usually only show bonuses at payroll time, are maintenance-heavy, and lack transparency for employees. maXzie provides day-to-day, mobile-accessible goal achievement and bonus status already before payroll, and can be adjusted in just a few clicks instead of being maintained manually.

A ready-made solution like maXzie avoids the high initial error risk and development effort of building your own system: maXzie is built on more than 10 years of continuous development, is secured by test-driven development with currently several thousand automated tests, and is ready to use immediately instead of having to be built up over years.