Run more locations.
Not more back office.

Yes. No setup fee, no onboarding fee, no per-user charge, no cap on transactions or documents, and no add-on for payables, a faster close or franchisor reporting. Your bill changes only when a location opens or closes.

Catch-up of months that were never booked, payroll processing, income tax returns, sales tax filing and 1099 filing. Kite brings across the history your books already hold at no charge; months nobody recorded need your bookkeeper or CPA first. Your payroll provider and your CPA keep the rest.

Kite does not move the money. It reads the bill, codes it, queues it for approval and shows what is due this week; the payment leaves from your bank or payment tool, and Kite matches it back from the bank feed.

No. It is $350 per operating location whether you run four or four hundred, with no minimum and no term. What does change at twenty locations is the team: below that your named lead works with a qualified team shared across a small number of operators, and at twenty and above that team is yours alone — at the same rate, not a higher one.

Operating locations only, in either direction: a store starts billing when it opens and stops the moment it closes. Development and closed locations cost nothing, and they do not count toward the twenty that bring you a team of your own. No minimum, no term.

Because of who does the work. A firm prices per location because a person works each location by hand, so its price follows the hours, and the published tiers climb as a portfolio grows and the work gets harder. Kite’s agents read the documents, follow every dollar from register to bank and draft the entries at any volume, so the twenty-first location does not cost us what a twenty-first set of hands would. Nothing has to be recovered from you for it.

No. Reading your leases and franchise agreements, keeping them current and accounting for them under ASC 842 is inside the $350 — not a separate subscription the way lease software usually is. It is also sold on its own at $1 per lease per month, for locations not yet on Kite.

A named accounting lead, the same person all month. Under twenty locations your lead works with a qualified team shared across a few operators; from twenty, that team works only on your books, so they learn your brands, your entities and your franchisor’s reporting calendar rather than switching between groups. The lead is the same person all month: the bank on Monday, the bills daily, the close the week after period end.

A bookkeeper enters what already happened. Kite reads your contracts with a citation for every number, follows every dollar from the register to the bank overnight, and raises what needs you the next morning instead of at month-end — on top of the entries, not instead of them.

Kite keeps the books, and your ERP can stay where it is. With QuickBooks Online the two run in step both ways: history, chart and vendors come across, and the entries Kite authors are pushed back, so your CPA keeps reading QuickBooks. NetSuite, QuickBooks Desktop, Sage and Xero come across from a general ledger or trial balance export, read and proved against its own totals.

Books, payables, banking, contracts, compliance and reports work for any location-based franchise, and hotels, fitness studios and spas each have their own page in their own words. Tell us your trade and we will say what runs on day one.

No. Start with two to five stores through one full month-end close, beside your current bookkeeper, at the same price. The pilot has proved itself when that close ties to your bookkeeper’s to the dollar, with every difference explained. Then move the rest.

You decide who holds which role. Your accounting lead approves the routine as your accountant, in their own name, and nothing the model drafts posts until a person approves it. Turn on separate approval and nobody can approve an entry they prepared. Every entry records who prepared it — a person, a rule or the model — and who approved it.

There is no term, so there is nothing to buy out; stop at the end of any month. If you run QuickBooks Online, every entry Kite authored has been pushed back to it the whole time, so your books are already where you would take them. Otherwise we hand over the general ledger, the trial balance and the documents we hold, and delete them on request.

You sign in through your own identity provider — Kite never sees a password — and every credential Kite holds is encrypted. Every posting stays traceable to the rule and the document that produced it.