From the filings
Software purchasing at Affordable Remediation Franchising flows through a tight leadership group at its New Jersey headquarters. The brand operates a single company-owned unit with no franchised locations on record, making the addressable market extremely small. No mandated technology systems are disclosed in the 2022 FDD, so vendors must uncover the current stack through direct discovery.
For software vendors selling into US franchise brands.
Live signals
Ongoing fee load
The recurring percentage of gross sales named in this filing, before rent, labour or any technology fee.
9%of gross sales (FY2022)
15% reference
Franchisor behaviours
24 requirements the franchisor states in this filing, each in its own words; 2 explicit no's; 8 questions the text does not settle, which is not a no.
Accounting
Does the franchisor have direct or independent electronic access to the franchisee's financial, sales or customer records?
YesFranchise agreement
At all times, Franchisee shall provide and permit Franchisor to maintain direct and independent access to the Business Management System and the Business Management System Data and to duplicate and evaluate the data;
Must the franchisee submit periodic financial statements (monthly, quarterly or annual) to the franchisor?
YesFranchise agreement
within 30 days of the end of each calendar month Franchisee shall submit to Franchisor monthly financial statements and other reports related to the operations of the Franchised business
How the franchisor buys
Does the franchisor reserve the right to change designated suppliers or systems at any time?
YesItem 8
We may designate a supplier (which may include us or our affiliates) as the exclusive supplier for the System.
Item 8 gives this proportion in one of two shapes: separate percentages for establishing the business and for operating it, or one figure covering "establishing and operating" together. Where they are separate, answer with the operating percentage; where the passage gives only the combined figure, answer with that. What percentage of the franchisee's purchases must come from designated or approved suppliers?
30Item 8
We estimate that your purchase of goods and services from suppliers according to our specifications, including your purchase of goods or services from our designated exclusive suppliers, to represent approximately 70% of your total purchases and leases in establishing the Franchised Business and approximately 30% of…
Does the franchisor charge a fee to evaluate a proposed supplier?
YesItem 8
We may charge you a supplier review and testing fee and we may request that you send us samples from the supplier for testing and documentation from the supplier for evaluation.
Can a franchisee propose a new supplier for the franchisor's approval?
YesItem 8
If you want to purchase or lease a source restricted item from a supplier that has not been previously approved or designated by us in writing, you must send us a written request for approval and submit additional information that we may request.
Communications
Does the franchisor own or control the business telephone numbers, or take them over when the agreement ends?
YesFranchise agreement
Franchisee agrees that in the event of the termination of this Agreement, for any reason, that the accounts related to all telephone numbers associated with the Franchised Business and all rights in and to the telephone numbers associated with the Franchised Business, shall at Franchisor’s election, be transferred to…
Franchise management
Must the franchisee participate in a customer-satisfaction or net-promoter survey program?
YesItem 6
You must subscribe to and participate in the customer review tracking and reputation management services and providers that we designate.
Does the franchisor conduct periodic inspections, audits or evaluations of the franchised business?
YesFranchise agreement
Franchisor has the right at any time during business hours, and without prior notice to Franchisee, to inspect Franchisee’s Operations Center, Service Vehicles and System Supplies.
Can the franchisor change the operations manual and brand standards unilaterally?
YesItem 11
At all times, we reserve the right to supplement, modify and update the Manuals.
Must the franchisor approve the franchisee's site or location before opening?
YesItem 11
You must obtain our approval of a site that you select for your Operations Center.
Marketing
Is the franchisee prohibited from operating its own website or social media accounts, or required to use pages the franchisor provides?
YesFranchise agreement
Franchisee’s use of Digital Media shall be subject to and require Franchisor’s express written consent which shall and may be withheld by Franchisor for any or no reason at all.
Is a minimum grand opening advertising spend required?
YesItem 7
You must spend a minimum of $5,000 prior to the opening your Affordable Remediation & Emergency Services Business to promote your grand opening.
Is the franchisee required to spend a minimum amount on local advertising or marketing, as a percentage of sales or a fixed amount?
YesItem 11
On an on-going monthly basis, you must spend not less than 2% of your monthly Gross Sales on the local marketing of your Affordable Remediation & Emergency Services Business within your operating territory and in accordance with our standards and specifications, subject to a minimum local marketing requirement of…
Must the franchisee participate in a regional advertising cooperative when one exists?
YesFranchise agreement
If Franchisee’s Affordable Remediation & Emergency Services Business or Operating Territory is located within the geographic area of an Advertising Cooperative, franchisee must participate in and contribute to the Advertising Cooperative.
Operations
Must the franchisee buy products from a designated distributor?
YesItem 8
You must purchase the System Supplies from us, our affiliates, or our designated suppliers.
Must equipment be purchased from designated or approved suppliers?
YesItem 8
You may only offer and sell the Approved Services and Products that we designate and you may only use those products, supplies, equipment, technology systems, and services that we authorize and designate in writing.
Payments
Must the franchisee use a payment processor or merchant-services provider designated or approved by the franchisor?
YesItem 8
Credit Card Processing – You must use our designated supplier and vendor for credit card processing which may be integrated with the business management system that we designate.
People
Must employees wear uniforms specified by the franchisor?
YesItem 11
For the protection of the System you must ensure that all employees wear and maintain the proper uniforms with our approved System branded apparel and uniforms including, but not limited to, the apparel and uniforms comprising System Supplies.
Point of sale
Must the franchisee use a specific point-of-sale system designated or approved by the franchisor?
YesItem 8
Currently you are required to purchase, license and utilize a point of sale and business management system as designated in our Operations Manual that you must exclusively license and use in the day to day operations of your Affordable Remediation & Emergency Services Business.
Does the franchisor have independent access to the data in the franchisee's POS or computer system?
YesItem 11
We will have independent access to all of the information and data that is electronically collected and stored on your Business Management System and, as such, will have access to all data related to the sales, inventory and financial performance of your Franchised Business.
Sales and CRM
Must the franchisee use a CRM system designated or approved by the franchisor?
YesFranchise agreement
“Business Management System” refers to and means the software, internet, web based and/or cloud based system or systems, point of sale system or systems and customer relationship management system or systems as same may be individually or collectively designated by us, in our Reasonable Business Judgment, as being…
Training
Can the franchisor charge the franchisee for additional, refresher or remedial training?
YesItem 11
Supplemental Training – We may require that you and your Operating Manager participate in supplemental on- site training that we may designate and require in our discretion.
Is attendance at an annual convention or conference mandatory for the franchisee?
YesItem 6
If we offer a franchisee annual conference in a given year you will be required to attend the conference on the dates and at the location that we designate.
Who buys here
The decision-maker a vendor sells to at this scale, and the gaps they’re paid to close, derived from our data by segment and unit count, not a guess.
The franchisee/operator personally, or a small franchisor still owner-run. Wears every hat.
Affordable Remediation Franchising presents a single-unit addressable market for software vendors. The 2022 FDD reports exactly 1 location, and that unit is company-owned. No franchised outlets are on file, and year-over-year unit growth is not disclosed. For a SaaS seller, this means the total logo count is one—a micro-opportunity that demands a high-touch, account-based approach rather than a volume play.
The brand operates in home services and is headquartered in New Jersey. Its royalty rate is 8.0%, but average unit volume (AUV) is not published in the FDD. Without AUV data, vendors cannot model a location’s revenue or software budget from public filings alone. The initial franchise term is also not disclosed, which obscures any renewal-driven procurement cycle.
According to Item 1 of the 2022 FDD, the executive roster includes Dominick Defendis, Jr. (President), Dominick Defendis, Sr. (President), and Jason Lazarus (Chief Marketing Officer). With two presidents listed, decision-making authority likely sits with the Defendis family. The CMO title suggests marketing technology purchases may route through Jason Lazarus, but the dual-president structure means any significant software contract will almost certainly require sign-off from one or both Defendis executives.
No operator footprint is mapped in our corpus, so there are no multi-unit franchisees to influence purchasing. The entire buying center is concentrated at HQ. Vendors should prepare to engage directly with ownership-level contacts and frame their pitch around the needs of a single-location home-services business.
The 2022 FDD does not capture any mandated or recommended technology systems. There is no Item 11 signal naming a POS provider, CRM, scheduling platform, or any other operational software. This absence means the brand either does not mandate technology for its (currently nonexistent) franchisees or simply did not disclose those requirements in the filing.
For a vendor, the blank slate is both an opportunity and a research burden. You cannot assume they run a particular stack, and you cannot cite an incumbent to displace. Discovery calls must surface what the single location uses today for job management, customer communication, billing, and compliance. The home-services vertical often leans on field-service management platforms, but nothing in the FDD confirms that pattern here.
Procurement signals are thin. Item 8 of the FDD—which typically reveals whether franchisees must buy from designated suppliers or may choose from approved vendors—yielded no extract. The brand’s procurement model remains unknown. Similarly, Item 17, covering renewal terms, produced no data. Without a disclosed initial term length or renewal window, vendors cannot anticipate when a contract review might occur.
With only one company-owned unit, the procurement process is likely informal and relationship-driven. There is no franchisee network to mandate compliance, so the HQ team can adopt or drop software on their own timeline. Vendors should approach this as an enterprise-style sale to a small business owner, emphasizing ROI and ease of implementation rather than scalability across a franchise system.
The 2022 FDD is embedded below for full reference. It was filed with state franchise regulators and contains the legal and financial disclosures required under the FTC Franchise Rule. For software vendors, the most actionable sections are Item 1 (the executives listed above), Item 11 (which here is silent on tech mandates), and Item 8 (procurement restrictions, also silent). Because the document discloses no franchised units, the franchise-specific sections carry less weight than they would for a larger system.
When reading, focus on what is absent as much as what is present. The lack of mandated technology, the single-unit count, and the missing AUV and term data all tell a story: this is a nascent or tightly held operation where software decisions are made by a handful of people at the top. Use the FDD to confirm that story, then build your pitch around the specific individuals and the single location they run.
For a ranked target list of franchise systems that match your software category, FranCloud can help you prioritize outreach based on unit counts, tech mandates, and decision-maker access.
Questions vendors ask
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Operator footprint
1 operators run 1 mapped locations. 0 of them are multi-unit. Aggregate counts from the filing; no names.
Operators by units owned
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Primary franchise filings · updated June 2026. Every figure is source-traceable and QA-checked.