What services are offered through Ledgers' Central Processing Services?
Ledgers Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
See Schedule 2 to the Franchise Agreement.
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 Central Processing Services offered by Ledgers include personal and business tax preparation, bookkeeping, and business planning services. These services are provided directly to the franchisee's clients on the franchisee's behalf, utilizing a joint engagement form.
Ledgers offers this centralized support system to enhance efficiency and service quality across its franchise network. While franchisees are not currently required to use these Central Processing Services, Ledgers retains the right to mandate their use in the future.
For each service offered, Ledgers publishes an annual price list that includes a Recommended Fee for the franchisee to charge clients and the Central Processing Services Fee, which is the fee Ledgers charges for providing the service. The Central Processing Services Fee is up to 40% of the then-current Recommended Fee. Franchisees agree to pay this fee to Ledgers for any central processing services provided to their clients on their behalf.