Averan The Little Gym Opening Package Offer
Averan Advisors gets the books and financial systems for a new location of The Little Gym ready before opening day, so your first month closes on time. The setup follows The Little Gym’s 2026 FDD and your franchise agreement.
The Little Gym opening package
The Little Gym’s 2026 FDD puts the cost to open one location at $420,324 to $722,773, so getting the finances right from the start matters.
Averan helps The Little Gym franchisees get their books and financial systems ready before opening, with a dedicated childcare and education specialist.
- QuickBooks set up for The Little Gym’s reporting requirements.
- Build-out spending tracked against The Little Gym’s Item 7.
- Loan draw packages prepared for your lender.
- Point of sale, payroll and other systems connected and tested before opening.
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Already open with another bookkeeper? See The Little Gym conversion package.
What The Little Gym opening package includes
QuickBooks file
We build a QuickBooks file for your location of The Little Gym and connect every bank account and card to it.
Reporting format
We set up the chart of accounts so the books produce the monthly report The Little Gym asks its owners for.
Analytics package
Each month we compare your results with the figures in The Little Gym’s 2026 FDD.
Budget tracker
We turn The Little Gym’s Item 7 estimate into your opening budget and record every opening cost against its line.
Loan draw packages
We prepare a file for each loan draw your lender asks for, including SBA loan draws.
Systems connected
We connect the point-of-sale system The Little Gym requires, its enrollment and tuition billing system and your payroll to the books.
Tested before opening
Before your location of The Little Gym opens, we run one test day of sales and one test payroll through the books.
Handoff to monthly
The Little Gym royalty, brand fund and report due dates for your location go on one calendar for the monthly close.
Timeline
- 1Kickoff5 business days
We hold a kickoff call and send the list of documents we need.
- 2Setup10 business days
We build the QuickBooks file and connect your accounts.
- 3Build-outEach month
We tag every payment to a line of The Little Gym’s Item 7 and prepare each loan draw.
- 4Systems45 days before opening
We test the point of sale, the other systems and payroll.
- 5Opening dayYour opening date
We match each day of sales to the deposits that follow it.
The Little Gym figures from the FDD
The Little Gym franchisees averaged $658,446 of sales in 2025, according to Item 19 of The Little Gym’s 2026 FDD, issued 24 April 2026. The 166 in that group are 65%* of The Little Gym’s 255 locations. Fees paid to The Little Gym come to about 9%* of sales. The Little Gym franchise costs $420,324 to $722,773 to open.
The Little Gym initial franchise fee is $59,500, which is part of The Little Gym Item 7 estimate, according to The Little Gym’s 2026 FDD.
At The Little Gym average of $658,446 of sales a year, the 8% royalty comes to about $4,390* a month and the 1% brand fund to about $549* a month.
43 The Little Gym locations opened in the last year that Item 20 of The Little Gym’s 2026 FDD reports.
At the end of the last year that Item 20 reports, The Little Gym had 93 franchise agreements signed for locations not yet open.
Send us to start
- Your signed franchise agreement with The Little Gym.
- The Little Gym’s current FDD.
- The Little Gym monthly report format and the software it uses.
- Your entity documents and EIN letter.
- Your lease, contractor bid and loan agreements.
Access we need
- Your payroll processor.
- The point-of-sale system The Little Gym requires.
- The enrollment and tuition billing system.
- The Little Gym reporting portal.
- Your invoice and expense software.
- View access to your bank accounts and credit cards, with no power to move money.
- How you want inventory tracked.
Questions from The Little Gym owners
Does Averan Advisors work with The Little Gym owners?
Averan Advisors sets up and keeps the books for The Little Gym owners, and the Averan franchise library has a breakdown of The Little Gym’s 2026 FDD with its fees, cost to open and Item 19 figures.
How does The Little Gym royalty show up in the books?
The Little Gym royalty is 8% of sales, according to The Little Gym’s 2026 FDD. We record it on its own line, so each month’s charge can be checked against your sales. At The Little Gym average of $658,446 a year, it comes to about $4,390 a month, by Averan’s calculation.
What does it cost to open a location of The Little Gym?
The Little Gym’s 2026 FDD estimates in Item 7 that opening one location of The Little Gym costs $420,324 to $722,773. We turn those Item 7 lines into your opening budget and track each payment against them.
What happens after my location of The Little Gym opens?
The books for your location of The Little Gym move to the Monthly Close, which closes each month and sends a profit and loss, a balance sheet and the royalty reconciliation. The QuickBooks file stays yours.
* Averan Advisors calculation from the figures in The Little Gym’s 2026 FDD.
Where to next
Talk to us about opening your location of The Little Gym
Send the short form for The Little Gym opening package, or book a 30-minute call about your location of The Little Gym and your opening date.
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