FranchiseBlast: Collaboration Software for Franchisors & Franchisees

• Franchise Blog

  • Franchisor posts new events
  • Better than email!
  • These also appear directly in the POS allowing even cashiers to comment!

• Franchise Forum

  • Franchisees discuss strategies, issues, and priorities
  • Collaborative problem solving
  • Priority management with franchise-wide consensus

• Document dissemination

  • Franchisor can limit access to documents to a single store or stores in a particular country.
  • No time lost re-sending emails

 

Click here for a video explaining franchise collaboration

FranchiseBlast: Centralized Product Management

• Create products only one for the all stores via a centralized solution
• Integrated with the other software elements produced by LavaBlast: Point of Sale, Kiosk, Website
• Multi-lingual product line support
• Support for multiple vendors, each having only access to their individual product lines.
• Complex grouping capabilities
  • A product can go into multiple categories or departments
  • Similar products can be grouped (same item with different sizes, colors, motifs, etc)
  • Support for item kits (an item must be picked from each group)

FranchiseBlast: Centralized Store Management

• Franchisor can manage all stores, franchisee sees only his own
  • Manage a set of stores  from the comfort of your home
  • Price changes and comparisons
  • View all support requests sent by the store's cashiers
  • View Store Webcams
  • Point of Sale Configuration
• Manage franchisee orders
  • Franchisees order from their POS or FranchiseBlast
  • You dispatch the orders to the appropriate supplier / warehouse
• Data warehouse
  • Various sale and frequent buyer reporting
  • Best-sellers; compare different stores or regions
  • Geographical mapping of frequent buyers and stores /resellers
• Track royalty payments and perform corrective action
• E-commerce
  • Manage the website in the same way you would a normal store!
  • Integration with your credit card processor
  • Support for multiple languages, multiple currencies

FranchiseBlast: Easy to use

• Export lists to Microsoft Excel for downstream processing
• Standardized search & filter functionality
• Branded for the franchise.
  • We theme all our applications to be branded for the franchise. The POS, the kiosk, the website and the franchisee collaboration portal re-use the same graphical elements thus offering a uniform experience.

FranchiseBlast: Data Security

• Fine-grained access control
  • Read-only access for auditors or accountants
• Off-site data backups
  • POS are backed up in the off-site data warehouse
  • Data warehouse is backed up nightly
  • Easy restore after theft/fire
• Detailed electronic journal tracking changes for auditing purposes.

FranchiseBlast: Integration and Expansion

• Want us to integrate with your accounting software, warehouse, or existing POS?
  
  • No problem.
• Need something special in your POS or online website such as party bookings?
  
  • No problem.

FranchiseBlast Integrates the software required to manage your franchise operations