What it takesto open.
What an investment covers, described honestly — and why the figures on this page are illustrative rather than quoted.
Why these numbers are illustrative
Nothing here is a representation about revenue, profit, earnings or the performance of any location. We make no financial performance representation of any kind. Results depend on pricing, market, property and rent, staffing, materials, taxes, demand and how the business is run, among other things — and those vary. Any financial information we provide in future will be given in Item 19 of a Franchise Disclosure Document, with a written basis behind it, and clearly identified as such.
What your investment covers
The categories are settled even though the figures are not. This is what a location needs to exist and hold the standard.
What each category covers
The facility
An enclosed, climate-controlled bay with room to work around a vehicle, proper lighting, a separate preparation area and secure overnight storage.
Equipment and tools
The installation equipment and hand tools the method depends on, to the specification the standard requires.
Training
Installation, materials, intake, running the shop and the inspection — technical, business and operations tracks.
Technology
Booking and deposits, the project ledger, lead capture, documentation and the standards library.
Opening inventory
Initial film and installation supplies, from approved sources.
Working capital
What the business needs to run before it is carrying itself. Every honest estimate includes it.
Ongoing costs and fees
A franchised business has ongoing obligations — royalty, marketing and technology among them. Their existence is not in doubt; their amounts are not decided, and they are material terms that belong in a Franchise Disclosure Document rather than on a web page.
How revenue works
Most vehicle service businesses need volume, which means staff, a waiting room, and a phone that has to keep ringing. This model is built the other way: a small number of high-value projects, booked in advance at a published price, with material ordered against a paid deposit. That is a deliberate design choice about how the economics are shaped — how it performs in any particular location depends on that location.
Nothing here is a representation about revenue, profit, earnings or the performance of any location. We make no financial performance representation of any kind. Results depend on pricing, market, property and rent, staffing, materials, taxes, demand and how the business is run, among other things — and those vary. Any financial information we provide in future will be given in Item 19 of a Franchise Disclosure Document, with a written basis behind it, and clearly identified as such.
The numbers people ask for first
These come up in every first conversation, so here they are rather than making anyone ask. Read the line under each one: they are figures used for discussion, not a fee schedule, and no Franchise Disclosure Document exists yet to make any of them binding.
Illustrative example only. Any figure shown here is a number used for discussion, not a fee schedule, not a quotation, and not a representation of what a location costs, returns or earns. Fees, investment and any financial information are set in a Franchise Disclosure Document. No Franchise Disclosure Document has been prepared, so no figure on this site is final.
The illustrative figures, each with its caveat
- Total investment
- $250,000Illustrative
- An illustrative total for opening one location — property, build-out, equipment, materials and working capital. It is not a quotation and not a range we have validated across markets, because we have opened one location, in one city, once.
- Franchise fee
- $50,000Illustrative
- An illustrative one-time fee. No franchise is being offered or sold at this stage, and nothing can be collected until an FDD exists and, where a state requires it, has been filed.
- Royalty
- 6% of revenueIllustrative
- An illustrative ongoing rate. What it would actually cover, how it would be calculated and when it would be charged are all things the FDD would define and none of them are settled.
- Technology fee
- $500–1,500 per monthIllustrative
- An illustrative range for the shared systems. Note that most of those systems are marked Planned elsewhere on this site — a fee for software that does not exist yet is a fee for an intention, and it is listed here on the same footing as the rest of these numbers.
If you are trying to work out whether this is affordable, treat every number above as the start of a conversation. Anyone who gives you a firm franchise cost before an FDD exists is telling you something they cannot yet know.
Getting the actual numbers
Investment details, fees and any financial information are provided during the franchise qualification process, through a Franchise Disclosure Document — the document federal law requires before anything is signed or paid.
This information is not an offer to sell, or the solicitation of an offer to buy, a franchise. A franchise may only be offered by a Franchise Disclosure Document, and in registration states only after filing. No financial performance representation is made anywhere on this site.