Pricing
$350
per location per month. An agentic software platform and a named accounting lead.
Every capability on the platform, every entity, one login — and the same rate at four locations or four hundred. No add-ons.
- Per month
- $8,400
- Per year
- $100,800
$350 per operating location, at every size. A location in development or closed is not counted.
Start with 24 locationsThe team behind your lead
At twenty locations the team becomes yours. The rate does not move.
Every tiered competitor charges more for a closer team, and holds something back until you pay it — royalty reconciliation, franchisor submission, consolidation. Here the rate is $350 at four locations and $350 at four hundred, every capability on the platform is included at any size, and the only thing that changes at 20 locations is that the qualified team working your books works on nobody else’s.
1–19 locations
A named lead, on a shared team
You, or the one person you hired, are the back office today.
A named accounting lead owns your books, working with a qualified team shared across a small number of operators. Every capability is included from your first location.
20 locations and up
A qualified team of your own
A portfolio with a controller, lenders and a franchisor to answer to.
Your lead and their team work your books and nobody else’s — they learn your brands, your entities and your franchisor’s reporting calendar. The rate is the same $350; the team simply stops being shared.
No menu
The quote is $399. The invoice is $499.
One franchise bookkeeping firm’s published package, and the two add-ons it lists beside it that Kite includes. The arithmetic is theirs.
Their published package, with the two add-ons
$499
Kite, per location, with both inside it
$350
Lease accounting under ASC 842 and delivery-payout reconciliation are not on their list at all; both are inside Kite’s rate. Their base does include 1099 filing and a general-ledger license. Kite files no 1099s, and your current ledger is yours to keep or drop. Kite does not do catch-up of months nobody booked, sales tax filing, payroll processing, income tax returns or 1099 filing; your payroll provider and your CPA keep those, on clean books.
Read from one provider’s own pricing page, September 2026. We do not name them; an operator who has been quoted will know the shape.
How locations are counted
Operating locations only. A pilot costs the same.
Start on a subset of stores, on your real data, at the same rate. A location in development or closed costs nothing, and a pilot store gets the same night as the four hundredth. No minimum, no term.
Questions
About the price.
Is the rate really everything?
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.
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. Your payroll provider and your CPA keep the rest.
Does Kite pay our vendors?
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.
Why does the rate hold when a firm’s climbs?
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.
Is lease management extra?
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.
What if we leave?
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.
Start with a few stores.
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