A network that reports like one business

Yes — a franchisee portal gives each outlet its own view.

Franchise is in the Cloud Suite only. It is not part of the Desktop Suite, and we mark that plainly on every card and page rather than leaving it to be discovered after purchase. If Franchise is why you are here, the Cloud Suite is the edition to choose.

Network, territories, royalty billing and brand audits. In practice that means royalty that computes and brand audits — each of which is a working screen rather than a line on a roadmap. The full breakdown, with what every one of them does, is on this page above.

It is not a separate product and there is nothing to integrate. Franchise reads and writes the same database as the ledger, stock and customer master, so a figure it shows is the figure the books hold — not a copy synced overnight, and not a number you have to reconcile against another screen before you trust it.

Franchise sits in the Industry group of the catalogue, alongside Pharma, Real Estate, Distribution, Retail Chains and Logistics & Fleet and 7 more. They are separate applications with their own screens, not modules of each other — but they share one database, so what you enter in any of them is immediately real to the rest.

Franchise is a Cloud Suite application, so it needs a connection — it runs in the browser against your tenant rather than a local file. If working with the internet off is a hard requirement for your business, the Desktop edition is the one to look at, and it does not include Franchise.

Not as a feature of this application, and we would rather say so than claim it. The AI surfaces in LekhaPro — Copilot, the CFO, the deterministic insight engines — read the data Franchise produces, so its records inform them, but Franchise itself is deliberately a plain, fast, keyboard-first application.

Any business running LekhaPro. Franchise is part of the horizontal suite rather than a trade-specific pack, so it behaves the same whether you are a retailer, a distributor, a manufacturer or a services firm — the industry packs change the screens around it, not the application itself.

Yes. Access is by role rather than all-or-nothing, so a billing clerk can reach Franchise without reaching the books behind it, and an approver can see what needs a decision without editing anything else. On the Cloud edition every change also carries who made it and when.

Franchise is part of the suite, not a paid add-on billed per use. What your plan tier decides is reach and depth — how many devices connect, multi-branch and multi-warehouse reporting, and whether the conversational AI copilots are switched on. The full accounting core is in every plan, including the entry tier.