From the filings
Software purchasing authority at Nationwide Lifts is not disclosed in the most recent FDD, and no HQ executives are on file. The franchisor has not published a mandated technology stack, and our corpus contains no mapped operator locations. This means the addressable market size and decision-maker level remain unconfirmed for vendors evaluating a pitch to this home-services brand.
For software vendors selling into US franchise brands.
Live signals
Ongoing fee load
The recurring percentage of gross sales named in this filing. It is a floor, not a total — the filing discloses one of the two headline fees.
2%+of gross sales (FY2026)
15% reference
Franchisor behaviours
9 requirements the franchisor states in this filing, each in its own words; 7 explicit no's; 18 questions the text does not settle, which is not a no.
How the franchisor buys
Is there a franchisee advisory council, association or committee?
YesItem 20
The Franchisor’s staff and a Committee of Franchise Owners will manage the Ad Fund whose sole duty will be to budget and spend monies in the Advertising Fund in ways that it deems appropriate.
Franchise management
Does the franchisor conduct periodic inspections, audits or evaluations of the franchised business?
YesItem 20
All records, ledgers and other documents of the franchised business shall be made available for audit or inspection by Franchisor (or its designee) during normal business hours upon reasonable notice by Franchisor or its designee.
Can the franchisor change the operations manual and brand standards unilaterally?
YesItem 20
Franchisee agrees to conduct its franchise in accordance with Franchisor's Confidential Operating Manuals as the same may be revised from time to time.
Marketing
Is the franchisee prohibited from operating its own website or social media accounts, or required to use pages the franchisor provides?
YesItem 6
At the present time, only Nationwide Lifts is permitted to maintain a website promoting the franchise system.
Is the franchisee required to spend a minimum amount on local advertising or marketing, as a percentage of sales or a fixed amount?
YesItem 6
Your franchise agreement requires that you spend at least 2% of your franchise unit’s sales in local marketing.
Operations
Must the franchisee buy products from a designated distributor?
YesItem 6
We require you to offer and sell only those products and services that we have approved (see Item 9) and that you only utilize products approved by us.
People
Does the franchisor require minimum staffing levels or specific roles?
YesItem 6
The business must be directly supervised, on a day to day basis, by a manager who has successfully completed our training program.
Point of sale
Does the franchisor have independent access to the data in the franchisee's POS or computer system?
YesItem 6
We do not have independent access to the financial information in your computer, but can access information in your CRM software.
Training
Can the franchisor charge the franchisee for additional, refresher or remedial training?
YesItem 20
Franchisor may offer additional training and establish prerequisites or qualifications for those seeking to enroll in any such additional training course.
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 franchisor's owner/CEO decides; an ops or franchise-development lead may evaluate.
Nationwide Lifts operates in the home-services segment, but the 2026 Franchise Disclosure Document does not disclose total unit counts, franchised versus company-owned splits, or year-over-year growth. Without a confirmed operator footprint, software vendors cannot yet size the addressable market. Average unit volume and royalty rates are also absent from the filing, so unit-level economics remain opaque. This lack of public data means any vendor evaluating Nationwide Lifts as a sales target must rely on direct outreach to establish the scale of the opportunity.
The FDD’s Item 1 does not list any HQ executives in our database, and no organizational chart is provided. As a result, the software buying center—whether centralized at a headquarters level, distributed to multi-unit operators, or handled independently by franchisees—is unknown. Vendors should not assume a CIO, VP of Technology, or Operations lead exists in a form that mirrors other home-services franchisors. The absence of named decision-makers means the first sales motion must include discovery of the actual purchasing authority.
Item 11 of the 2026 FDD contains no mandated or recommended technology systems in our extracts. There is no named POS provider, no field-service management platform, no CRM, and no back-office software specified as required or preferred. This does not mean the brand operates without technology; it means the franchisor has not disclosed a standardized stack to regulators. For a vendor, this creates both a challenge—no incumbent to unseat is publicly known—and an opening, because the brand may still be assembling its tech requirements.
Procurement signals from Item 8 are not captured in our data, so it is unclear whether Nationwide Lifts uses a designated-supplier model, an approved-supplier list, or an open procurement process. Similarly, Item 17 renewal terms and the initial franchise term length are not disclosed. Without these data points, vendors cannot map contract windows or anticipate when franchisees might be free to evaluate new software. Any timing assumptions should be validated through primary research rather than inferred from the FDD.
The 2026 FDD is embedded below for your review. It was filed with state franchise regulators and contains the franchisor’s representations on fees, obligations, and system standards as of the filing year. Because key items—unit counts, executive names, tech mandates, and procurement rules—are absent from the public extracts, the document itself is the best starting point for filling those gaps. Pay particular attention to Items 1, 8, 11, and 17 if they appear in the full filing, as those sections typically house the details most relevant to software vendors.
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Questions vendors ask
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FDD alert
We’ll email you the moment Nationwide Lifts files a new annual FDD, usually the freshest signal of a vendor change.
Operator footprint
7 operators run 7 mapped locations. 0 of them are multi-unit. Aggregate counts from the filing; no names.
Operators by units owned
Top states by locations
| TX | 1 |
|---|---|
| MA | 1 |
| IL | 1 |
| MI | 1 |
| WI | 1 |
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Primary franchise filings · updated June 2026. Every figure is source-traceable and QA-checked.