Software built for a coworking franchise, not stretched to fit one
Floorplate360 puts a group above independently owned locations: the franchisor sets plans, sees consolidated numbers and bills licence fees, while each franchisee keeps their own brand, members, pricing and building owner. One membership works at every location. Pricing is per location, so filling your space never costs more.
Why most platforms struggle with this
Multiple locations under one owner is a different problem from multiple owners under one brand.
What most coworking software models. One company, one member list, one bank account, several addresses. Adding a building adds a row.
Separate legal entities, separate member lists, separate landlords and separate bank accounts — bound by a brand, a rate card and a licence agreement. The franchisor needs to see across them without being able to reach into them.
Five levels, and what lives at each
Members and companies belong to the operator, which is what makes a franchisee's list genuinely theirs.
Platform
Us. Never visible to a member, an owner or a franchisee's visitor.
Group
The franchise. Holds the licence terms, shared plan templates, network-access rules and consolidated reporting.
Operator
A franchisee's brand and legal entity. Owns its members, companies, pricing, Stripe account and staff.
Location
A building. Carries its own inventory, hours, building owner and lease formula.
Level five is the space itself — an office, a desk, a meeting room, a parking bay. A group is optional: a single independent operator runs on exactly the same core, which is why the franchise features are not a separate product.
- Consolidated occupancy and revenue across every location
- Plan templates pushed per location, with a diff before they apply
- Licence billing: per location, per member, or both
- Group-wide announcements to every location's members
- Network-access rules: notice period, day rate, per-location visitor caps
- Their own domain, logo, colours and member portal
- Their member and company records, isolated in the database
- Their own Stripe account and their own money
- Local rates where the market needs them
- Their building owner's read-only portal and percentage-rent statements
One membership, every location
The thing a franchise sells that a single space cannot.
Every member has a home location for their mailing address and daily access, and can see every other location in the group from the portal or the app.
A member picks a date at another location. The group sets how much notice is needed; where the host has capacity and the notice is met, the visit confirms itself.
Visiting members appear on the host's own front-desk screen with their name, company and home location — carried on the visit itself, so the host never reads another operator's member records.
Each location sets a daily cap on visitors, so a city-centre site cannot be swamped by a membership sold elsewhere, and every visit records a settlement value for the franchise to net off between operators.
Opening location eleven
A new location inherits the group's plans, rate card and entitlements rather than being configured from nothing.
Bulk import members, companies, plans, open invoices and bookings from CSV. Every record keeps its source system and original ID, so the import can be audited against where it came from.
Locations join when they are ready. There is no flag day, and a franchisee still on their old system does not hold up the rest.
Go deeper
Home locations, planned visits, notice periods, per-location visitor caps and how operators settle with each other.
Network access →Importing a franchisee from their current system, pushing plan templates with a diff, and billing the licence per location or per member.
How onboarding works →If your locations share an owner rather than a franchise agreement, the structure is simpler and the page is shorter.
Multi-location →Franchise questions
What is coworking franchise software?
Software that separates the franchisor from the franchisee. Each location is independently owned, with its own members, pricing, bank account and building owner, while the franchisor sets standards, sees consolidated numbers and bills licence fees. Most coworking platforms model several locations under one owner, which is a different thing.
How does Floorplate360 structure a franchise?
Five levels: the platform, a group for the franchise, an operator for each franchisee's brand, a location for each building, and spaces inside it. Members and companies belong to the operator, so a franchisee owns their member list outright and the franchisor never reads it — tenant isolation is enforced in the database, not in the application.
Can a franchisor push pricing and plans to every location?
Yes. Build a plan template at group level and push it to chosen locations. Each location gets a diff first showing exactly what would change, so a franchisee is never surprised by a price moving overnight, and a location can hold a local rate where the market demands it.
Can a member use any location in the franchise?
Yes. A member has a home location for their address and daily access, and can plan a visit to any sister location from the portal or the app. The host desk sees who is coming, daily visitor caps are enforced, notice periods are set by the group, and each visit is recorded against the member's home location for settlement.
How does a franchisor bill licence fees?
The group carries its licence terms — a monthly fee per location, a fee per member, or both — and invoices generate against each operator on that basis. The numbers come from the same data as the consolidated reporting, so what you bill and what you report cannot disagree.
Does each franchisee keep their own branding?
Yes, down to the domain. Each operator has its own logo, colours, favicon and hostname, and members sign in at their location's own address. A franchise can run one shared brand across every location or let each franchisee keep a local identity; both are the same configuration.
How do you onboard a franchise with locations that already exist?
Bulk import. Members, companies, plans, open invoices and bookings come in from CSV, and every record keeps a reference to its source system and original ID so the import can be checked against what it came from. Locations can be brought on one at a time rather than all at once.
What does it cost to run a franchise on Floorplate360?
Portfolio pricing is custom for three or more locations, and it is still per location rather than per member — so a franchise that fills its space does not pay more for having done so. Starter is $149 and Growth $349 per location per month for smaller operations.
Bring your franchise agreement
Thirty minutes. We set up a group with two of your locations during the call, push a plan template between them, and show you the consolidated view.