Franchise accounting pricing $350 per location per month.
An agentic software platform and a named accounting lead.
The same rate at four locations or four hundred. Every entity on one login. No add-ons, no term.
Per month
$3,500
10 × $350 · $42,000 a year
A named accounting lead, the whole platform, every entity on one login.
Only operating locations count. One in development or closed costs nothing.
Start a pilotWhat $350 a location buys.
- Bills read, coded and paid by ACH once you approve
- Every sale followed from register to bank, overnight
- Delivery payouts reconciled, every fee booked
- Bank and card accounts reconciled every week
- Royalty and ad fund computed from your agreements
- Lease accounting under ASC 842
- Month-end close, the week after period end
- Store, entity and consolidated statements
- Franchisor reporting in the format they ask for
- QuickBooks Online kept in step both ways
At 20 locations the team becomes yours. The rate does not move.
- 1–19 locations
A named accounting lead
Your lead owns your books, with a qualified team shared across a few operators.
- 20 and up
A dedicated team
Your lead and a team that work only on your books, and learn your brands, entities and franchisor’s calendar.
Questions
About the price.
Is anything charged on top?
No. No setup fee, no per-user or per-entity charge, no cap on transactions or documents, and no add-on for bill payment, a faster close or franchisor reporting. Your bill changes only when a location opens or closes.
What is not included?
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.
Does Kite pay our vendors?
Yes. Kite reads and codes each bill; once you or your accounting lead approve it, Kite pays the vendor by ACH from your own bank account through its payments partner and matches the payment to the bank feed. Nothing is paid without a person’s approval, and there is no per-payment fee.
Why is the rate flat?
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. Kite’s agents read the documents, follow every dollar from register to bank and draft the entries at any volume, so your twenty-first location does not need a twenty-first set of hands.
Do we have to move every location at once?
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.
What if we leave?
Stop at the end of any month; there is no term to buy out. On QuickBooks Online, every entry Kite made is already there, because it has been pushed back all along. Otherwise we hand over the general ledger, the trial balance and the documents we hold, and delete them on request.
Start with a few stores.
Two to five stores through one month-end close, beside your current bookkeeper, at the same rate. A person replies within one business day.