Co-ops & Franchises
One brand, many businesses, one tidy back office.
Franchises and co-operatives share a brand, a domain and usually a head office — but every location is its own business with its own books. We run the IT across all of it, keep it consistent site to site, and make the shared-but-separate problems simple. Including split-tenant billing, which nobody else does.
A franchise or co-op is an awkward shape for IT. Everyone's under one brand and usually one Microsoft domain, but each site is a separate business that needs its own invoice, its own staff and its own books. Most providers handle that with either a tangle of separate tenants or a billing spreadsheet nobody fully trusts.
We've spent years in this vertical and built for it directly. One shared domain, consistent IT at every location, a clean separate invoice per business, and a way to bring a new franchisee online without reinventing it each time. We run exactly this for national brands you'd recognise.
Billing nobody can reconcile
One Microsoft bill for the whole network, then someone at head office spends days carving it up by location. The numbers never quite agree, and the month-end is a chore everyone dreads.
Every site set up differently
Each franchisee bought their own gear, their own internet, their own apps. Nothing is consistent, so nothing is easy to support and every problem is a fresh investigation.
Onboarding a location is a project
Every new franchisee means rebuilding the same setup from scratch — accounts, security, devices, branding — and it takes weeks that nobody has.
Shared domain, separate obligations
Everyone's on one domain, but the data, the security and the liability are split across independent businesses. Get the boundaries wrong and it's a mess that's hard to unpick.
Run: Consistent IT across every site
One standard for managed IT, networks and devices across the whole network, so every location runs the same way and support stops being a fresh investigation each time.
Protect: Security across the network
Identity, email and endpoint protection applied consistently across every business on the shared domain — with the boundaries between them kept clean.
Improve: Licensing & advisory at scale
Licensing reviewed across the whole network, where the savings add up fast, plus advisory for head office on getting the structure right.
Build: Split-tenant billing
Our own split-tenant billing — one shared Microsoft domain, a separate clean invoice per business. Unique to us, and live for national brands.
Software we made for the job
Not side projects. Software we built for a real client problem in this sector, run in production, and offered to anyone with the same problem.
Straight answers
Can each franchisee get their own invoice on a shared domain?
Yes — this is the thing we're known for. Our split-tenant billing keeps everyone on one Microsoft domain while each business gets a separate, clean invoice. No more carving up one bill by hand at head office every month.
We're a co-operative, not a franchise. Does it still apply?
Yes. The shape is the same: independent members sharing infrastructure and a brand while keeping their own books. Co-ops are exactly who split-tenant billing was built for.
Is this only for big national chains?
No. A handful of locations feels the billing and consistency pain just as sharply. The system scales down as happily as it scales up — we run it for both.
Can you keep every location's IT consistent?
That's the other half of the job. We set one standard for managed IT, security and devices across the network, so every site runs the same way — which makes support faster and onboarding a new location quick instead of a project.