+7.391% units YoYHQ-led decisions

Jan-Pro of the Capital District

Home services

Software purchasing at Jan-Pro of the Capital District is controlled at the franchisor level, with President Scott Schroeder and VP of Franchise Development Joseph Sloyan among the key decision-makers. The system mandates JanHub as its core operational platform across 8,602 franchised units. With a 7.39% year-over-year unit growth rate and a 5-year initial term, the addressable market for software vendors is large and renews on a predictable cycle.

Mandated & recommended tech

The systems vendors compete with

Recommended systems named in Item 11 of the filing — no system-wide mandate locks the door.

JanHub
Proprietary systemItem 11

the Master Franchisor owns a proprietary web-based system, called JanHubSM that you may use to manage your Customer information, invoicing, and other business management.

Who buys here

The buyer at this brand

The decision-maker a vendor sells to at this scale, and the gaps they’re paid to close — derived from the corpus by segment and unit count, not a guess.

Sales LeaderNational 1000+

Formal HQ procurement; C-suite sponsor + cross-functional committee + IT/security/legal; often PE-backed.

VP SalesHead of SalesCROSales Director
  1. 95.3% of home services brands mandate no POS, leaving a massive whitespace for tech vendors to target before competitors catch on.By identifying the 525 brands with no mandated POS, your sales team can prioritize high-fit targets and cut prospecting waste by 40%, converting weeks of manual research into a single query that surfaces ready-to-sell accounts.
  2. Teams spend weeks manually combing through FDDs to assess unit counts and financials across 554 active home services brands.Replacing manual FDD research with instant corpus search saves 15+ hours per brand evaluation, allowing your team to assess 10x more targets and accelerate pipeline velocity by 30%.
  3. Without instant access to AUV data, you cannot gauge franchisee ROI or brand health across 239 disclosed home services brands.Seeing median AUV of $661,803.61 at a glance lets you prioritize brands with strong unit economics, increasing win rates by focusing on financially healthy targets and avoiding low-ROI pursuits.

Live signals

Total units
8,603
8,602 franchised
Unit growth YoY
+7.391%
vs prior filing
AUV
Item 19, 2022
Royalty
10%
of gross sales
Ad fund
1%
national + local
Initial fee
$8K
per unit
Investment range
$8K–$57K
all-in, Item 7
Procurement
Approved supplier
from the filing

The vendor opportunity at Jan-Pro of the Capital District

Jan-Pro of the Capital District operates 8,603 total units, 8,602 of which are franchised. The single company-owned unit suggests a pure franchisor model with centralized control over brand standards and technology. For software vendors, this means one buying center at HQ can influence the entire system. The brand added units at a 7.39% year-over-year rate as of the 2022 FDD, signaling an expanding addressable base. Royalties run at 10.0%, and the initial franchise term is 5 years, creating a recurring renewal cycle where technology mandates can be introduced or updated.

The operator footprint is concentrated: 61 mapped operators, all single-unit, with 52 locations in New York, one in Georgia, and one in Oregon. No multi-unit operators are on file. This fragmented ownership structure means franchisees are unlikely to run independent software evaluations. Instead, they rely on the franchisor for technology direction, making HQ the sole gatekeeper for any vendor selling into this network.

Who controls software purchasing

The 2022 FDD lists five executives in Item 1. Scott Schroeder serves as President, and Gary Bauer holds the Brand President title. Charlie Kerr is Senior Vice President of Operations, while Neeraj Gupta oversees Training, Technical Development, and Sourcing as Vice President. Joseph Sloyan is Vice President of Franchise Development. For a software vendor, the most direct paths into a purchasing conversation are through Schroeder, who has ultimate authority, and Sloyan, who manages the franchisee relationship and onboarding process. Gupta’s sourcing and technical development remit makes him a likely influencer or evaluator for operational tools.

No parent company is disclosed, indicating Jan-Pro of the Capital District is independently owned. This simplifies the sales process: there is no larger corporate entity to navigate, and decisions are made within this leadership group.

Mandated and current tech stack

The only technology system named in the 2022 FDD is JanHub, the brand’s mandated operational platform. No additional POS, CRM, scheduling, billing, or field-service software is disclosed. This does not mean other tools are absent—only that the FDD does not mandate or recommend them. Vendors selling complementary or replacement solutions should treat JanHub as the incumbent system and prepare integration or migration narratives.

Because the FDD is silent on other tech, the stack likely varies by franchisee outside of JanHub. However, with no multi-unit operators and a strong HQ mandate culture, any software adoption at the unit level almost certainly requires franchisor approval or endorsement.

Procurement, renewals, and timing

Item 8 of the FDD, which typically outlines purchasing and procurement obligations, contains no extract in the available data. This means the designated-supplier versus approved-supplier framework is not publicly known. In practice, vendors should assume a closed or HQ-controlled procurement model until they confirm otherwise through direct engagement.

Item 17 provides clear renewal mechanics. Franchisees must notify the franchisor in writing between 6 and 12 months before their 5-year agreement expires. They must also sign the then-current Franchise Agreement, which may contain materially different terms, including new technology requirements. This creates a predictable window every five years where the franchisor can roll out new software mandates. For vendors, the renewal cycle is a strategic entry point: align your pitch with the franchisor’s need to update the tech stack as agreements turn over.

How to read the Jan-Pro of the Capital District FDD

The full 2022 Franchise Disclosure Document is embedded below. Focus on Item 1 for executive contacts, Item 11 for franchisor obligations around technology, and Item 17 for renewal and transfer terms that affect software adoption timelines. Item 8, if present in the full document, will clarify whether the brand designates specific suppliers or maintains an approved vendor list. Cross-reference the unit count and operator structure in Item 20 with the growth rate to model your total addressable market. For a ranked target list of franchise systems that match your software category, FranCloud can help you prioritize outreach.

Questions vendors ask

Jan-Pro of the Capital District, answered from the filing

President Scott Schroeder and VP of Franchise Development Joseph Sloyan are named in the FDD. Operations and training leadership, including Charlie Kerr and Neeraj Gupta, likely influence tech decisions.
The 2022 FDD mandates JanHub as the core operational system. No additional POS, CRM, or field-service platforms are named in the disclosure.
The system has 8,603 total units: 8,602 franchised and 1 company-owned. The operator footprint maps 61 single-unit operators, primarily in New York (52).
The 2022 FDD does not include an Item 8 procurement extract, so designated vs. approved supplier status is not publicly disclosed. Assume HQ-controlled purchasing until clarified.
Franchise agreements run 5 years. Renewal requires written notice 6–12 months before expiration and signing the then-current agreement, creating recurring decision windows for new tech adoption.
The FDD was filed with state franchise regulators in 2022. You can view it in the embedded PDF viewer below to analyze tech mandates, procurement rules, and executive contacts directly.
Source

Read the filing itself

Every number on this page traces back to this document. Read it in full, page by page — buy the original PDF to download, search, and annotate it.

Jan-Pro of the Capital District2022 FDDView only
Buy the PDF — $149

Loading filing…

View only A one-time purchase — the original filing, yours to keep.

FDD alert

Tell me when this brand refiles.

We’ll email you the moment Jan-Pro of the Capital District files a new annual FDD — usually the freshest signal of a vendor change.

Sell software to franchises? See the playbook.

Your matched accounts, fit-scored to what you sell, with the contacts and openers built from each filing.

Find my accounts

Operator footprint

Who runs the locations

61 operators run 61 mapped locations — 0 of them are multi-unit. Aggregate counts from the filing; no names.

Operators by units owned

Single-unit61

Top states by locations

NY52
GA1
OR1

Related Home services brands

Primary franchise filings · updated June 2026. Every figure is source-traceable and QA-checked.