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Solutions & Areas of Impact
Seven connected areas, following the piece from plan to delivery
Royalty & Franchise-Fee Management
Royalty & Franchise-Fee Management
POS & Channel Integration
Inventory & Supply Chain to Franchisees
Compliance & Franchise Disclosure Reporting
Labor, Commissions & Marketing Fund Accounting
Delivery & Service
Royalty & Franchise-Fee Management
Every fee in the catalog, billed on the cadence it requires and recognized the way the agreement says.
Full franchise-fee catalog automated end to end: initial and area-development fees, royalties, technology fees, brand/marketing fund contributions, transfer, renewal and ad hoc pass-through fees
Royalty billing driven by point-of-sale or member-billing sales data — weekly, twice-monthly or monthly depending on the brand — with summarized AR per franchisee
A long tail of contractual fees (transfer, renewal, late-development, non-compliance, audit, equipment), each with its own trigger and treatment
Revenue deferred at signing and recognized ratably from unit opening, with true-ups for open-date changes, transfers and terminations
One periodic draft or EFT draw settling several revenue streams with different recognition rules, split correctly across accounts
Multi-Unit & Multi-Entity Consolidation
One structure for the franchising company, corporate-unit operator, ad fund and subsidiaries, consolidating and eliminating cleanly.
OneWorld multi-entity structure for the franchising company, corporate-unit operator, ad fund, equipment and real estate subsidiaries
Unit-level chart of accounts and segment design so every location rolls up to franchisee group, region and brand segment for four-wall P&Ls
Designed to scale to new units, new markets and new brands without re-implementation
Automated intercompany journal entries and elimination subsidiaries for consolidated reporting
Consolidated balance sheet, income statement and cash flow at both the subsidiary and consolidated level
POS & Channel Integration
Sales data and agreement events from every location, summarized into the ledger with the detail kept for audit and analytics.
Point-of-sale and member-billing sales data from every location summarized into journal entries, with full transaction detail retained for audit and analytics
E-commerce and drop-ship order flows for franchisee- and customer-facing online sales
Franchise-management-platform integration for customer, contact, agreement and lifecycle events, triggering customers, invoices and revenue schedules in NetSuite
An integration framework built for self-healing reprocessing, balance-and-control validation and end-to-end observability across the many applications a franchise system runs on
Inventory & Supply Chain to Franchisees
For franchisors that also supply product and equipment, from the warehouse to the franchise location.
Corporate-to-franchisee distribution: e-commerce ordering, third-party-logistics fulfillment and transportation management integrated end to end where the franchisor also supplies product
Equipment and build-out tracking for new-unit construction, equipment sales and capital projects from site selection to opening
In-transit inventory visibility from warehouse through delivery and ownership transfer at the franchise location
Intercompany transfer orders and eliminations between company-owned and franchised locations
Compliance & Franchise Disclosure Reporting
Revenue recognition mapped to Franchise Disclosure Document fee terms and agreement lifecycles, not generic ERP defaults.
Revenue-recognition design mapped directly to Franchise Disclosure Document fee terms and agreement lifecycles, not generic ERP defaults
Role-based approval routing for journal entries and franchise-fee adjustments
Deferred-revenue schedules for initial, area-development and successor franchise fees, tracked per contract and re-pointed on transfer or termination
Audit-ready, one-up one-back traceability from a royalty invoice back to the underlying location-level sales detail
Labor, Commissions & Marketing Fund Accounting
Restricted fund accounting, co-op credits and commission structures that sit outside a standard ERP.
National and local advertising/marketing fund contributions segregated into restricted, auditable fund accounting distinct from operating cash
Commission structures for franchise-development and sales staff, including cases that fall outside a standard ERP commissions module
Co-op and local marketing fund credits and shortfalls tracked separately from the core royalty calculation
Payroll and intercompany payroll-allocation flows for shared staff working across franchising and corporate-unit entities
Delivery & Service
Schedule the fleet, track every stop, and handle installation, repairs and warranty work on the same system.
NS Field Service Management for service and installation, where applicable
Track worker and contractor time
Set up onsite services and repairs
Charge for and consume inventory as needed
Warranty tracking
MHI Shipments — track and schedule fleet deliveries
Create batches, pick sheets and BOLs
Delivery and stop tracking
Weight, size and cube tracking
Third-party "best of breed" TMS options already integrated with NetSuite, beyond MHI TMS Lite — Descartes, Dlvry, RFS Freight Management and several others, adding GPS tracking, real-time delivery notifications and third-party freight scheduling
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