Can the prices for Ledgers' Central Processing Services vary from time to time?
Ledgers Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
Note 3: Ledgers' Central Processing Services is a centralized support system offered by us to enhance efficiency and service quality across the franchise network. Through this program, we offer to provide certain personal and business tax preparation, bookkeeping, and business planning services directly to clients on your behalf utilizing a joint engagement form. We publish an annual price list for the then-current services offered by us, which may vary from time to time. Each service offered by us includes a recommended fee for you to charge your clients (the "Recommended Fee") and includes the fee we charge for the services (the "Central Processing Services Fee"). We do not currently require you to utilize our Central Processing Services, but we reserve the right to do so.
Source: Item 6 — OTHER FEES (FDD pages 17–20)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to Ledgers' 2025 Franchise Disclosure Document, the prices for Ledgers' Central Processing Services can vary over time. Note 3 in Item 6 states that Ledgers publishes an annual price list for the services offered, which "may vary from time to time." This service is a centralized support system that Ledgers offers to enhance efficiency and service quality across its franchise network.
Ledgers offers personal and business tax preparation, bookkeeping, and business planning services directly to clients on the franchisee's behalf, utilizing a joint engagement form. For each service, Ledgers provides a Recommended Fee for the franchisee to charge their clients and specifies the Central Processing Services Fee, which is the fee Ledgers charges for providing the service.
While franchisees are not currently required to use Ledgers' Central Processing Services, Ledgers retains the right to mandate its use in the future. The Central Processing Services Fee is also listed in the table in Item 6, and is described as the "then current rate based on the service requested (up to 40% of our-then current Recommended Fee (Note 3)." This fee is paid by the franchisee to Ledgers for any central processing services provided to the franchisee's clients on their behalf.