Reports due, books behind
The franchisor wants sales reports on their calendar, not yours. When books lag, reporting becomes guesswork, and repeated lateness strains the relationship that owns your brand.
Their format, their calendar, every month
QSR · food service · retail · service brands
One clean system, every store.
A franchise location's books have a fixed shape: mandated POS, royalty and ad-fund charges, franchisor reports on a deadline, and payroll that never stops. We build that shape once for your brand, run it flawlessly, and replicate it exactly when you add store two and store five. You get per-store truth and one consolidated view.
Royalty accountingAd-fund chargesFranchisor reportsPer-store P&LMulti-store rollup
Where franchise books go wrong
Three problems every multi-store owner knows.
The brand gives you the playbook for operations. Nobody hands you one for the books.
Fees booked on autopilot
Royalties, ad fund, technology fees and the amortized initial fee all lumped as "franchise costs." Nobody verifies the draft against the agreement, or notices when it's wrong.
Every charge reconciled to the agreement
Stores blended together
Two locations, one bank account, one pile of transactions. You can't see that store two out-earns store one by 2 points, so you can't ask why, or fix it.
Per-store books, one rollup
The monthly reality
A franchise month, itemized.
Franchise economics run on percentages of sales, so the sales number has to be exact and every percentage verified against it. We reconcile what the franchisor actually drafted from your account against what the agreement says, every month.
And because the chart of accounts is standardized to your brand, store five costs less to keep than store one did.
Running a food-service brand? →June · one location
Gross sales · per mandated POS$96,400
Royalty · 5.5% per agreement-$5,302
Ad fund · 4% per agreement-$3,856
Technology & platform fees-$740
After franchise costs · before food, labour, rent$86,502
Also on the books: the initial franchise fee amortizing over the agreement term, and the loan that financed it, both set up properly from day one.
What we handle
The full franchisee back office.
Priced per store, decreasing as you add locations, because the system replicates.
Royalty & ad-fund accounting
Every percentage computed on the agreement's sales base, every franchisor draft reconciled to it, HST treatment verified per charge.
Franchisor reporting
Sales and royalty reports in their required format, on their calendar, built from reconciled POS numbers instead of estimates.
Per-store books + rollup
Each location a clean entity or class with its own P&L, plus a consolidated view, so stores can be compared line by line.
Multi-location payroll
Staff by store, tips where they apply, remittances on one schedule, T4s at year-end, without three shoeboxes of timesheets.
HST across locations
One registrant, several stores: returns built from each location's reconciled sales, filed on time with ITCs captured everywhere.
Setup that replicates
Initial fee amortization, loan schedules and the brand chart of accounts built once, then cloned for every new location you open or buy.
What it costs
Food-service locations typically run $700 to $1,100 per store, per month, flat, with the per-store price decreasing as locations are added. Quoted in writing after a free review of one store's books.
Franchisee FAQ
Asked by every multi-store owner we meet.
Almost certainly. We work for you, the franchisee, so no franchisor approval is needed, and franchise books follow the same shape regardless of brand: mandated POS, percentage fees, franchisor reporting, payroll. Once the chart of accounts is built for your brand, new locations replicate it exactly.
As separate expense lines computed on the sales base your agreement defines, with HST treatment verified per charge. We also reconcile what the franchisor actually drafted from your account against what the agreement says they should have.
It's not a day-one expense: it's an intangible asset amortized over the agreement term, with a proper loan schedule if it was financed. Set up right, your first year isn't artificially terrible and your balance sheet holds up for lenders.
Priced per store, typically $700 to $1,100 monthly for food service, decreasing as locations are added since the setup replicates. Per-store books plus the consolidated view are included.
Keep reading
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Bring one store's books.
We'll show you the system.
The free 30-minute review checks royalty math, franchisor reporting readiness and per-store visibility. Findings in writing, yours either way.
On a call or in person · no passwords · findings are yours either way