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Franchises are a special use of the system that is of interest for many businesses - there are some key concepts that you need to consider
Persons who regularly work in multiple entities may benefit from using different logos in the navigator for each entity - so you can see at a glance which entity you are currently logged into. See Host Company (your business/s)#Logointhenavigator
Which company is your Franchisor?
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In this way the franchisor can have globally usable templates for the group
See Email Templates#FranchiseNetworks for details
Chart of Accounts In a Franchise Group
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Control who can modify the chart of accounts by limiting Secure FeaturesFeatures#CanMaintainChartOfAccounts.
Hide GL Accounts that are not required by Franchisees using the hide feature
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Franchisees can rename the accounts in their own chart - but cannot add new accounts (without Secure FeaturesFeatures#CanMaintainChartOfAccounts. )
This is required for example in the Bank GL accounts - to rename them to be the bank account that they use
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Default Buy Price = Agreed Purchase Price with my Supplier. This is only a default and can be changed on the purchase order if the user has Secure FeaturesFeatures#CanChangePurchaseOrderUnitCost
Default Sell Price = Sell price to my Franchisee
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- All invoiced amounts that are in the past that are subject to the franchise commission process
- Invoices that were made to a different entity than the one the completed the job or fulfilled the booking
- Create inter company transactions between the Franchisor and the Franchisee for all transactions affected
- Collecting money from those that collected money but did not do the job or booking
- Paying money to those that did the job or booking
- Removing franchise commission during this process
- Journals created
- The journal on the Franchisee side will link directly to the Job or Booking that was involved (either a Debtor or Creditor invoice depending on the balance)
- The journal on the Franchisor side will have buckets for
- Franchise Commissions
- Delegate amounts (if the work came from or was passed to an external party - see above)
- Funds for doing the work
See Shuttle Franchise Reconciliation Process/wiki/spaces/MYSF/pages/33055263