What happens when one of the world’s largest franchise organizations (with over 27000 locations in the US and over 42000 locations worldwide) wants to implement QuickBooks across all its franchisees?

• • • They call MENDELSON CONSULTING. We created a standard chart of accounts and standard set of reports to be deployed across all franchisees; we produced a manual with detailed instructions for those franchise operators wanted to convert their QuickBooks chart of accounts on their own; we perform the conversion of QuickBooks chart of accounts for those franchise operators that want to outsource it; we worked with a 3^rd-party developer to design software integration between the franchise custom point-of-sale system and QuickBooks; we produced and delivered several QuickBooks training courses for franchise operators.

For franchise organizations, we provide:

• • • Project management
      • • • Manage deployment of QuickBooks across franchise organization
      • • • Manage integration of QuickBooks with franchisor systems such as POS

• • • Accounting software services
      • • • Develop standard chart of accounts and provide support to convert franchisees existing systems to franchisor’s standard chart of accounts

• • • Training services
      • • • Develop custom QuickBooks training for franchisor and franchisees
      • • • Deliver live and recorded training

• • • QuickBooks integration
      • • • Consult with franchisor development organization to create appropriate interfaces between QuickBooks and franchise point-of-sale or other proprietary systems

• • • Reporting
      • • • Design standard reporting for franchisee sales, purchasing, and financial management
      • • • Develop consolidated reports for franchisor and franchisees

• • • Help desk support
      • • • Provide multi-tier level QuickBooks support to franchisor for supporting franchisees or directly to franchisees