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Franchise recruitment capacity planner for franchisors

Start with the agreements you want to sign, work back through your own conversion rates, and see how many qualified candidates and first conversations that takes, whether your team has the capacity, and roughly what the media costs.

Your plan

Target

Your own conversion rates

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Your result

First conversations needed a month

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Discovery meetings needed–
First conversations needed–
Qualified candidates needed–
Media at your cost per Qualified–
Enter your target, capacity and conversion rates.

Each step rounds up. Use rates from the same matured inquiry cohorts. This is steady-state throughput, not a promise of signings within 12 months from a standing start; candidates who inquire late in the year may sign the next.

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How does the planner work?

Signings ÷ discovery rate → ÷ conversation rate → ÷ qualified rate = candidates needed

Each step divides by your own rate and rounds up, because you can't hold part of a conversation. The monthly figure is first conversations needed divided by 12, checked against what your team can hold properly.

Which rates should I use?

Use one population: the same matured inquiry cohorts, counting each candidate's furthest stage by a stated cutoff. Don't mix stage dates and inquiry dates partway down the funnel.

What if the plan is over capacity?

Then budget isn't the constraint. Adding a rep, improving a conversion rate or lowering the target changes the result; buying more inquiries mostly lengthens the queue for a first call.

Cost per Qualified candidate can rise or fall as spend changes. Price the plan at both ends of a range you can defend.

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Questions franchisors ask

Franchise Recruitment Capacity Planner FAQ

Where do I get my conversion rates?

From your CRM: take inquiry cohorts old enough to have moved through each stage and count the furthest stage each candidate reached by a cutoff date.

Does more ad spend fix an over-capacity plan?

Not under the planner's assumptions. More Qualified candidates than the team can call just wait longer for a first conversation.

Do you store what I type?

No. The planner runs in your browser; nothing is sent anywhere.

Can you build this from our real data?

Yes. Stage tracking from inquiry to signed agreement is part of the system build. See pricing.

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