For Multi-Location Operators
One dashboard for every location. Roll up jobs, revenue, and crew utilization across every territory you operate — without paying $125 per technician per month. Built for franchisees running 2-20 territories, multi-unit operators, and master franchise holders.
Free forever for solo operators · $29/month per active territory · Unlimited users per location
Most franchise systems either lock you into a proprietary CRM that hasn't been updated since 2018, or push you onto a generic field-service platform priced for enterprises. Neither serves the way territory operators actually run their day-to-day. Here's what we hear from franchisees who switch:
A 4-territory operator with 12 crew members on Jobber's Connect plan pays $588/month before add-ons. The same operation on ServiceTitan starts at $1,500+/month. CrewNest is $116/month total ($29 × 4 territories) for the same headcount — your software cost stays flat as crews grow.
Generic CRMs treat each franchisee account as a separate tenant. You log in 4 times to see 4 territories. Royalty calculations require manual spreadsheet exports every month. CrewNest treats territories as nested business units under a parent operator — one login, one dashboard.
When a lead comes in via your franchise's central site, it should auto-route to the correct territory based on the customer's ZIP. Most CRMs require you to manually triage every inquiry, which is fine for one territory but breaks at four. CrewNest auto-assigns leads by ZIP and tracks cross-territory referrals.
Every territory's estimate template, invoice format, and customer email gets slightly different over time. Then customers in territory 2 see a different brand presentation than territory 1, and corporate brand standards erode. CrewNest enforces shared templates at the operator level — edit once, every territory pulls the latest.
We built CrewNest's multi-location features after talking to franchisees running 2-20 pressure washing territories under three different franchise systems. The recurring asks weren't features generic CRMs add for show — they were operational needs that decide whether a territory hits its monthly numbers.
Switch between territories in a dropdown. See revenue, open invoices, jobs completed this week, crew utilization, and pipeline value rolled up across all territories or drilled into a single one. The metrics that matter for the operator-of-operators (you) are different from the metrics each territory manager needs daily — CrewNest separates both views without creating two systems to maintain.
Every territory you operate has a defined ZIP code coverage list. When a lead comes in — through your shared website, a Google Business profile, or an inbound call — CrewNest looks up the customer's ZIP and auto-assigns the lead to the right territory. Cross-territory referrals (when your territory 5 customer asks for service in a territory 7 ZIP) are tracked separately so you can settle inter-territory commissions cleanly.
Most franchise agreements require monthly royalty payments calculated as a percentage of gross revenue, plus contributions to a shared marketing fund. CrewNest's reporting engine generates the exact royalty calculation per territory each month — gross revenue, refunds, write-offs, taxable subtotals, your royalty rate, and the resulting amount due to franchisor. Export as PDF or CSV for your monthly franchisor report; the math is already done.
The technician you hire for territory 3 should only see territory 3 customers and jobs. The territory manager you hire for that territory should see jobs and invoices but not your franchise-wide P&L. CrewNest's role-based permissions are scoped per territory — you assign each user to one or more territories at the role level (owner, manager, technician), and the system enforces what they can see and edit.
Estimate templates, invoice formats, customer email sequences, SMS templates, and service agreement boilerplate live at the operator (parent) level. Every territory pulls the latest version automatically. Update your service agreement once for a regulatory change in California — every territory in California sees the new version on the next estimate they send. The brand presentation stays consistent without anyone re-uploading PDFs.
On top of the multi-location infrastructure, CrewNest has the trade-specific tools your crews use every day. Generic CRMs don't have these because they serve every home service trade with one interface.
Draw driveways, roofs, and house exteriors on satellite imagery to get accurate square footage without sending a crew to measure. For franchise operators bidding on commercial property management portfolios across multiple territories, this collapses pre-bid site visits to zero.
Built-in SH, surfactant, and water-ratio calculations for house wash, roof cleaning, and concrete. Templated per territory so your Atlanta crew uses a different default than your Phoenix crew. Prevents the "junior crew mixed it wrong" callbacks that hurt franchise brand reputation.
For territory managers running 8-15 jobs per crew per day, CrewNest sorts the day's stops into the lowest-drive-time route. Tracked drive time between jobs feeds straight back into your territory's labor cost reports, so franchisor-required efficiency reporting writes itself.
Per Active Territory
$29/month
Unlimited users per territory. Free upgrade to multi-location dashboards above 2 territories.
Real cost comparison for a 5-territory operator with 15 total crew members:
It depends on your franchise agreement. Some pressure washing franchise systems mandate a specific CRM; many don't, and the operator can choose. Most franchisees we work with run CrewNest as their primary operational system and export royalty reports monthly into whatever the franchisor requires. We can also export your data via API into the franchisor's reporting tool if needed.
Yes. New territories are added in the operator dashboard in under 2 minutes and billed pro-rata for the partial month. Setup time per new territory is roughly 30 minutes — import the territory's existing customer list, configure ZIP coverage, assign the territory manager, and they can start scheduling jobs same day.
Territories can be archived (read-only for historical reporting) or transferred to a new operator. Archived territories don't count against your monthly bill but the data stays accessible. Transfers are a clean hand-off — the new operator gets their own login while you retain an audit trail of every job billed before transfer date.
Marketing fund contributions (typically 2-4% of gross territory revenue) roll up automatically in the operator dashboard. You can see the running contribution per territory month-to-date and year-to-date for franchisor reporting. If you run your own ad spend on top of franchise marketing fees, CrewNest tracks both separately so you can compute true marketing ROI per territory.
Yes. Operators above 10 active territories get a volume discount that drops the per-territory rate to $19/month, plus dedicated onboarding for each new territory. Contact us to discuss your specific setup — we typically respond same-day for multi-location inquiries.
Free forever for your first territory. Add more as you grow.
