How Automation Can Elevate Your Franchise Business

Efficiency and consistency are the most important factors in achieving growth and success in the franchise industry. With multiple locations, problems in ensuring compliance, integration of processes, maintaining brand consistency, etc., creep in. It is essential to introduce and maintain standardisation in processes to ensure that the business is sustained. Streamlining repetitive tasks and processes helps in reducing costs and errors significantly. Automation can be the key to achieving all this and ensuring the expansion of the franchise.

Why Automation Matters for the Franchise Industry

Franchise businesses often face similar operational challenges across different stores — managing payroll, bookkeeping, financial reporting, tax filings and compliance requirements. Automation can help navigate these problems by:

1. Having consistency across outlets or centres

Different centres of a franchise operate along the same lines when it comes to billings, vendor management, procurement, staff requirements, etc. In such cases, it is easier to make these processes automated with the latest tools so that human intervention is minimal reducing errors and improving consistency.

2. Increasing efficiency

Automation greatly reduces the time taken to complete tasks such that the overall efficiency is enhanced. This frees up valuable time and resources for focus on core business growth.

3. Reducing errors and improving compliance

Automation tools have a very high rate of accuracy, helping improve compliance and data accuracy. This ensures that financial data is accurate and costly penalties can be avoided.

4. Making it easier to scale

With the power of automation, it is way easier to add more stores to the franchise. New franchisees can be onboarded without a proportional increase in costs and administrative workload. This again helps the franchise to grow its footprint faster and more efficiently.

Revenue Impact of Automation on the Franchise Business

Franchisors today are taking advantage of automation to boost their business. Automation not only reduces costs and improves productivity across locations, but also has a direct impact on the revenue of the business.

For example, a major food chain in Australia was able to significantly reduce the time and cost spent and improve accuracy by a huge margin. High transaction volumes and multiple third-party integrations made manual processing slow and error-prone. befree’s automation solutions were able to:

Reduce manual effort by 60%, saving 30 hours per week
Achieve 90% time savings, reducing workload by 15 hours per week
Achieve a whopping 99.9% accuracy in AP and AR processing, minimising errors and reconciliation issues

Discover how optimising Accounts Payable and Receivable processes can drive efficiency, reduce costs, and benefit your business. Read the full case study here.

befree leverages the power of automation to deliver impactful results across key processes. Our advanced automation solutions not only save time but also significantly reduce costs, enabling the franchisor to channel those savings into expanding their franchise and enhancing their services.

Franchising Expo Sydney 2025: Connect with befree at Stand #B31

If you wish to know more about how befree can help your franchise grow with automation, visit our stand. Don’t miss out on this chance to up your franchise game with the power of automation.

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