Every franchisee on one system. Each with their own.
Not one login with everybody's work in it. Each territory is its own business, with its own address, agents, invoicing and data, inside a network that finally behaves like one.
We sell to the network, not around it.
Priced on application rather than off the published bands.
Three things a network cannot do on software built for one van
Work that crosses a territory
A national agent instructs a property sixty miles outside the territory it landed in. Today that gets refused, or handed to somebody over the phone with nothing anywhere to record it. On Board Clever it is passed to the franchisee who covers that area, with the boards, the stock and the completion recorded on both sides. The work stays in the brand and the agent never sees a seam.
A view of the whole network
Every franchisee's system already counts what it does: orders raised, visits done, boards standing, money invoiced. Bringing those figures together into one head office view is part of a network agreement and we build it around how your territories are actually drawn, rather than handing you a report nobody asked for.
A franchisee running the same day
A new territory is set up in about a minute and the first round can be planned that afternoon. Nothing to install, no server, no visit, and no month of onboarding between signing somebody up and them earning.
The same machinery carries work between separate businesses across the country. Read about The Network .
A system is part of the franchise now, not an overhead
Somebody sitting in your discovery day has already been shown a system by whoever they saw last week. This is what they would be shown by you, carrying your brand rather than ours.
The day plans itself
Orders land and the round is worked out: the order to drive it in, the mileage and the time it takes. A new franchisee plans like an experienced one from the first morning, which is usually where a network loses its service standard.
The van is never out of touch
The day on the driver's phone, saved to the handset, so a dead signal does not stop them. Jobs tick off as they happen and the office sees it.
Their agents order it themselves
Every agent a franchisee works for gets a login and raises their own orders, so the job arrives typed up by the person who knows the property. Same screen in every territory you have.
The invoicing is already done
Every visit priced at the rate agreed with that agent, so the month's invoicing adds itself up. Fewer evenings with a spreadsheet is the single thing franchisees say first.
We sell to the network, not around it. If somebody in your network comes to us while we are talking to you, we will tell you.
How this actually gets decided
-
1
We look at your territories
How they are drawn, how work is attributed when it crosses a line, and what your franchisees run today. Half an hour tells us both whether there is anything here.
-
2
One territory first, on real work
We set up a single franchisee and leave them running for a month on their own agents and their own rounds. Nobody commits a network on the back of a demo, and we would not ask you to.
-
3
Then the network, at your pace
One agreement, one point of contact, and franchisees brought across in whatever order suits your calendar rather than ours. Nothing is switched off from under anybody.
What head office asks first
Do you sell to our franchisees directly?
Not behind you. If somebody in your network comes to us while we are talking to you, we will tell you. A network agreement is worth considerably more to us than one van, so there is no version of this where going round you is the better deal for us.
Who owns the data?
Each franchisee's work sits in its own database rather than in one shared pile filtered by a column. What head office may see is written into the agreement rather than assumed, because that question deserves a written answer and not a reassuring sentence on a web page.
Can it carry our brand?
Yes. Your own web address comes as standard, and your colours and logo throughout are the branding add-on, which for a network is part of what we agree rather than something each franchisee buys. A franchisee's agents look at your brand and not at ours.
Our franchisees already use something.
Most networks do, and a good deal of it is a spreadsheet, a round worked out on paper, or software written a decade ago that nobody can change any more. That is not an argument, it is a starting point. Put one territory on this for a month and compare the two on the same work.
What happens when a franchisee leaves?
Their system is theirs while they are in your network and it stops when the agreement says it stops. Their work stays exportable throughout, so nobody is holding anybody's history hostage in a negotiation.
How is it priced?
On application, and by the work the network actually does rather than by how many logins there are. Nobody is charged per driver: in this trade that always ended up charging the busiest operator the least per job. Each franchisee is still billed as their own business, because each one is.
Start with one territory
Pick a franchisee with a busy month coming and let them run it. If it does what we say it does, we will talk about the network. If it does not, you have lost a conversation and nothing else.
You will get somebody who knows the trade rather than an account manager.