For how many Accounting Periods must an All County franchisee participate in the Reconciliation Assistance Program?
All_County Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
g and maintenance fee ("Ongoing Website Hosting and Maintenance Fee") for use and maintenance of our website and online systems. The Ongoing Website Hosting and Maintenance Fee presently is Sixty Five Dollars ($65) per Accounting Period. We may increase the Ongoing Website Hosting and Maintenance Fee periodically during the Term of the Agreement, upon thirty (30) days prior written notice from us to you, provided however that any such increase shall not occur more than one (1) time in any period of twelve (12) consecutive Accounting Periods. The Software License Fee shall be payable at the same time and in the same manner as the Royalty.
- 3.5. Reconciliation Assistance Program Fee. You acknowledge and agree that you must participate in our mandatory Reconciliation Assistance Program. As a condition of your participation in the Reconciliation Assistance Program, you must execute Appendix E to this Agreement. You acknowledge and agree that that you shall pay us any applicable fees for our administration of the Reconciliation Assistance Program (the "Reconciliation Assistance Program Fee"). We shall provide the Reconciliation Program services to you with no Reconciliation Assistance Program Fee payable from you to us for the initial six (6) full Accounting Periods during the Term of the Agreement, as measured from the Effective Date. Thereafter, the Reconciliation Assistance Program Fee shall be Four Hundred Twenty Five Dollars ($425) each Accounting period, plus Forty Five Dollars ($45) per hour for any work we provide to you relating to your failure to comply with our required Methods of Operation concerning reconciling your client accounts. You acknowledge and agree that you must participate in the Reconciliation Assistance Program for not less than the initial eighteen (18) full Accounting Periods during the Term of the Agreement, as measured from the Effective Date. Thereafter at any time during the Term of the Agreement you may request in writing to us for the Franchised Business to be released from mandatory participation in the Reconciliation Assistance Program. At any time during the Term of the
Agreement, in our sole business judgment we elect or reject your request to be released from mandatory participation in the Reconciliation Assistance Program. In our sole business judgment we may require at any time during the Term of the Agreement that the Franchised Business's participation in the Reconciliation Assistance Program is mandatory, notwithstanding whether or not we previously accepted its request for release from participation in the Reconciliation Assistance Program.
Source: Item 23 — Receipts (FDD pages 43–157)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to All County's 2025 Franchise Disclosure Document, franchisees are required to participate in the Reconciliation Assistance Program for a minimum of eighteen full Accounting Periods. This period is measured from the franchise agreement's effective date. After these initial 18 accounting periods, an All County franchisee can request in writing to be released from mandatory participation in the program. However, All County retains the right to either accept or reject this request at its sole discretion.
Even if a franchisee's request for release is initially accepted, All County can later mandate participation in the Reconciliation Assistance Program again at any point during the term of the agreement. Furthermore, if the All County franchise utilizes the services of a Broker of Record who is not an owner of the franchised business, participation in the Reconciliation Assistance Program is mandatory until an owner becomes a duly qualified Broker of Record.
During the first six full Accounting Periods, All County provides the Reconciliation Program services without charging the Reconciliation Assistance Program Fee. After this initial period, the Reconciliation Assistance Program Fee is $425 per Accounting Period. Additionally, a franchisee may incur a charge of $45 per hour for any work required from All County due to the franchisee's failure to comply with the required Methods of Operation concerning reconciling client accounts.
All County may increase the Reconciliation Assistance Program Fee and the hourly fee, but not more than once in any 12 consecutive Accounting Periods, with 30 days prior written notice. This mandatory program and associated fees should be carefully considered by prospective franchisees as part of their financial planning and operational compliance.