What costs are Expense Reduction Analysts franchisees responsible for when attending Additional Training?
Expense_Reduction_Analysts Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
Your Practice Model Consultants must also undergo and complete the Franchisor's coaching and mentoring program, if offered by Franchisor, as specified in the ERA Manuals.
12.2 Further Training
- (1) From time to time, the Franchisor may provide training sessions and/or seminars for members of the ERA Network. Where external trainers are used, the Franchisor may charge a fee for providing such training sessions and seminars. You must attend, unless prevented by circumstances beyond Your reasonable control, those training sessions and seminars that the Franchisor deems are relevant to Your Business, and You must pay Your own costs in attending such training sessions and seminars.
- (2) The Franchisor may, as it deems appropriate in its discretion, develop Additional Training, and require You and Your Practice Model Consultants to attend such courses. The Franchisor will not require You to pay its applicable Training Fee in connection with any Additional Training that the Franchisor requires under this Section 12.2, or if such services are being provided to You remotely or online, or for meetings that You are required to attend at the Franchisor's support center, but You will be responsible for the costs and expenses incurred in connection with You and Your designated personnel attending such training, which may take place at a training facility that the Franchisor designates.
- (3) The Franchisor may also provide Additional Training or other on-site assistance at Your reasonable written request, subject to: (i) the schedule and availability of the Franchisor's training personnel; and (ii) Your payment to Franchisor of the applicable Training Fee for each trainer that is provided in connection with the requested Additional Training, as well as You covering the costs and expenses that such personnel incur in providing such training. The Franchisor will provide Additional Training under this Section 12.2 as it deems appropriate in its discretion.
- (4) The Franchisor may require You to attend Remedial Training that the Franchisor reasonably determines.
Source: Item 23 — RECEIPTS (FDD pages 58–215)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to Expense Reduction Analysts' 2025 Franchise Disclosure Document, franchisees are generally responsible for the costs and expenses associated with attending Additional Training. While Expense Reduction Analysts will not charge a training fee for required Additional Training, franchisees must cover expenses for themselves and their designated personnel. These expenses can include travel and accommodation costs to attend training at a designated facility.
Expense Reduction Analysts may also require franchisees and their personnel to attend Third-Party Training. In this case, the franchisee is responsible for paying the applicable training fee and covering all associated costs and expenses for themselves and any required trainees.
Franchisees are also responsible for all expenses incurred in attending the annual conference, including employee wages, travel, hotel costs, and food. Expense Reduction Analysts may require franchisees to pay a conference fee, which shall not exceed $1,500 per attendee, subject to CPI adjustment. However, for new franchisees attending a conference in their first 12 months, Expense Reduction Analysts will cover the fee for one person attending the conference.