Breakdown

Archadeck Outdoor Living franchise unit economics

Q: How much does a Archadeck Outdoor Living franchise make?

The average Archadeck Outdoor Living unit reported $1,673,607 of revenue in the 2026 FDD, and the median reported $1,121,450. The filing puts the profit line at 2.2% of revenue. Fees come off the top first, at about 8% of sales across royalty, brand fund and the rest of the stack. Revenue is not income. Rent, wages, cost of goods and the franchise fees all come out before an owner is paid,

Q: What does the brand take?

Royalty runs in marginal tiers on calendar-year gross sales: 6.5% on the first $1,000,000, 5.5% to $2,000,000, 4.5% to $3,000,000 and 3.5% above, reset each January, reported by the 10th and paid by the 20th. From the second full calendar year a minimum royalty of $2,000 a month applies from March through November, abatable at the franchisor's discretion for winter weather. The national branding and marketing fee is 1.5% of gross sales capped at $30,000 a calendar year, raisable to 2.5% on 90 days' notice. Individual advertising must reach at least $50,000 per territory each year, paid to third parties. If the national guarantee company stops providing its completion guarantee or post-completion warranty, each royalty rate may rise by up to 0.50%.

Q: Who does bookkeeping for an Archadeck franchise?

Three mechanics decide how much the close is worth here. Gross revenue for reporting counts completed projects only, excluding work sold and still in progress, so a business with a strong pipeline and a slow build schedule looks weaker than it is unless work in progress is tracked separately, and on 37 projects a year one delayed job moves a month materially. Royalty runs on marginal calendar-year tiers that reset every January, which means the effective rate falls through the year and the accrual is a moving figure; the national fund stops at $30,000, a second threshold on the same calendar. And with an average business earning $44,892 after the owner is paid against $1,210,459 of cost of goods, job-level costing is the only thing standing between a profitable year and a flat one, particularly the other-construction-costs line, which runs 3.0% to 18.6% across the system and covers permits, dumpsters and the ancillary trades most easily left out of an estimate. Averan provides bookkeeping, controller, and fractional CFO support for franchise owners and has Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisors on the team.

Archadeck Outdoor Living franchisees design and build decks, porches, sunrooms and hardscape patios from an office, selling projects into a territory of up to 600,000 people. Across 40 of them the profit line ends at $44,892, or 2.2% of revenue, before $159,667 of owner compensation is added back. Nine project types come priced, which turns mix into arithmetic an owner can act on.

By Scott Engler · Averan Advisors · Source: Archadeck Franchisor, LLC, 2026 Franchise Disclosure Document (FDD) · Updated 22 September 2026

Where these figures come from

Primary source: Archadeck Franchisor, LLC, 2026 Franchise Disclosure Document
Items read: Items 5 and 6 for fees; Item 7 for cost to open; Item 19 for sales and any profit figure; Item 20 for the location count
Population: 55 of 113 locations
Our calculations: Marked on the page with an asterisk. Method
Last reviewed: 26 September 2026

Disclosure-based. Not a forecast, not an offer to sell a franchise, and not advice.

Key idea

An independent benchmarking firm built a full profit and loss for 40 franchisees, and it ends at $44,892 on revenue of $2,024,296, 2.2%. The familiar 10.1% figure arrives only after $159,667 of owner compensation is added back. Both numbers are true; they answer different questions, and this page separates them.

Owners reporting55 across 93 territories

Average gross sales$1,673,607

Average project value$45,484

Total investment$215,400–$239,300

After every cost including the owner's own pay, the average business earned $44,892.2.2% of $2,024,296. Adding back $159,667 of owner expense gives the 10.1% figure.
Royalty and the national fund come to $151,093, 3.4 times what the business earned after the owner.$121,093 and $30,000 against $44,892 *.
The average project is $45,484, so the average business builds about 37 a year.Moving one deck to a deck and porch combination adds $45,477, a whole extra average project *.
Gross profit runs 27.6% to 49.4% across the thirds, with a low of a negative 4.8%.Materials run 22.2% to 37.2% and construction labor 13.1% to 30.4%.
Required advertising is $50,000 a year per territory.The 40 benchmarked franchisees hold 1.7 territories each and spent $89,749 against a requirement near $86,250 *.

How much does a Archadeck Outdoor Living franchise make?

The average Archadeck Outdoor Living unit reported $1,673,607 of revenue in the 2026 FDD, and the median reported $1,121,450. The brand’s disclosure document puts the profit line at 2.2% of revenue. Fees come off the top first, at about 8% of sales across royalty, brand fund and the rest of the stack. Revenue is not income. Rent, wages, cost of goods and the franchise fees all come out before an owner is paid. The figures for the highest-selling and lowest-selling businesses are below.

Revenue and territory

Where the revenue lands.

Gross sales for the 12 months to 30 September 2025, by group, as the brand reported it
Band	Franchisees	Average	Median	Range	Reaching the group average	Average years in business
Above $2.4m	13	$4,067,716	$3,474,975	$2,418,601 – $8,796,480	5 (38%)	13.7
$1.2m to $2.4m	14	$1,474,146	$1,411,116	$1,207,957 – $2,013,841	5 (36%)	7.6
$600k to $1.2m	15	$859,168	$845,366	$616,377 – $1,121,450	8 (53%)	7.4
Below $600k	13	$434,041	$529,077	$79,873 – $595,840	9 (69%)	8.1
All 55	55	$1,673,607	$1,121,450	$79,873 – $8,796,480	28 (49%)	9.1

As the brand reported it.

Single-territory franchisees bill $1,230,148 and multi-territory ones bill $869,577 per territory. *, from the filed totals. Holding more ground raises total sales by 83% while multiplying the ground held. So the second territory is worth roughly two thirds of the first, measured per piece of ground.

Years in business accounts for the top group and very little else. 13.7 years above $2.4m, then 7.6, 7.4 and 8.1. The bottom group has more years open than the two above it. Longevity earns the largest businesses their position; below that the ranking sits almost entirely apart from time served.

The top group averages 9.4 times the bottom group. $4,067,716 against $434,041. And the bottom group's own range runs from $79,873 to $595,840, 7.5 times inside one group, with a median above its own average. Means several businesses sit far below the rest.

System sales grew 129.8% in nine years, from $41,595,669 to $95,585,008. *. Growth of 6.8% in the most recent year after a dip in 2023. Across the same period the franchised territory count rose from 70 at the start of 2023 to 112 at the end of 2025, on 59 openings against 17 terminations.

Top performers

What separates the top Archadeck Outdoor Living performers

Archadeck Outdoor Living splits its locations into groups instead of publishing one average. The best group averaged $4,067,716 a year. The worst averaged $434,041. Both run the same brand, on the same agreement, paying the same fees. The middle location sold $1,121,450. The average was $1,673,607. More than half the system is below the number the brand quotes.

Decided before you open

Trade area and site.A 9.4× gap between bands is not an operating gap. Catchment, daytime population and what sits next door set the ceiling before the first customer arrives.
Territory, and how much of it is real.This model sells from a territory rather than a building, quoted at 600,000 people. Two owners with the same brand and different ground are running different businesses, and density decides how much driving sits between jobs.
What you spend to open.Opening costs $215,400 to $239,300, a 1.1× range inside one brand. The high end usually buys more capacity, so the cheapest build is not always the cheapest route to the top band.
Lease economics.Occupancy cost ran 0.9% of sales in this filing. The rent does not fall when sales do, so the same lease is a far heavier line at the bottom of the system than at the top. That is how a weak site compounds into a weak profit line.

Live operating levers

Cost of what you sell.Products and materials take 59.8% of sales, against 2.2% kept at the end. Buying terms, price discipline and waste are where this is won, and each of them compounds at volume. Small movements here move the result more than anything else, because nothing else in the structure is that large.
Occupancy, the line that does not flex.Rent and building costs take 0.9% of sales here. Sales per square foot and the hours the space is earning are the only two ways to move it, because the rent itself is fixed at signing.
Jobs, the operating driver.This model bills on jobs. Every job is won again, so the owner works on how many quotes turn into work and what the average job is worth when it does. It is worth watching every week, because by the time it turns up in a monthly close the quarter is half gone.
Fees, and where the minimum bites.Fees run about 8.0% of sales. A minimum sits underneath the percentage, so the low-volume location pays the higher effective rate. The brand charges the weakest locations the most. Work out the sales level where the percentage overtakes the minimum and know which side of it you are on, because the answer changes what an extra dollar of sales is worth.

Context you underwrite around

The reporting screen.55 of 113 locations are behind these figures. Locations open less than the full year, brand-owned, or not meeting the reporting criteria are excluded, so the numbers describe locations that cleared that screen, not the system as a whole.

Top performers

How far apart the locations are

$4,067,716, top band average

This filing does not split its locations into performance bands, so the gap between the highest and lowest Archadeck Outdoor Living location is not disclosed. What it does publish is on the Model and Finance tabs.

Fees and what it costs to open

A royalty that steps down every million.

$4,067,716, top band average

$4,067,716

$1,474,146, second band average

$1,474,146

$859,168, third band average

$859,168

$434,041, bottom band average

$434,041

Royalty and national fund by annual gross sales, built from the published schedule *Averan calculation
Gross sales	Royalty	Effective royalty rate	National fund	Total	Share
$8,796,480, highest reported	$367,877	4.18%	$30,000	$397,877	4.52%
$4,067,716, top band average	$202,370	4.98%	$30,000	$232,370	5.71%
$1,673,607, system average	$102,048	6.10%	$25,104	$127,152	7.60%
$1,474,146, second band average	$91,078	6.18%	$22,112	$113,190	7.68%
$859,168, third band average	$55,846	6.50%	$12,888	$68,734	8.00%
$434,041, bottom band average	$28,213	6.50%	$6,511	$34,724	8.00%

Ours, built from the published schedule applied to filed revenue figures.

Franchise fees take 8.00% at $434,041 and 4.52% at $8,796,480. A 3.48-point swing *, from the royalty stepping down each million and the national fund stopping at $30,000. The $30,000 cap is reached at $2,000,000 of sales, which the average benchmarked franchisee had just passed.

Crossing $1,000,000 drops the marginal rate to 5.5% and $2,000,000 drops it to 4.5%. Because the tiers are marginal, there is zero cliff here, the effective rate glides down. Reaching $3,000,000 puts every further dollar at 3.5%, half the entry rate.

The minimum royalty is $2,000 a month for nine months of the year. $18,000, implying $276,923 of annual sales at the 6.5% rate *. The bottom group averages $434,041, so the minimum bites only at the very lowest-selling end, where the minimum reported figure is $79,873.

Advertising is required at $50,000 per territory each year. The 40 benchmarked franchisees hold 69 territories, implying $86,250 on average, against $89,749 actually spent *. So the average business is complying by $3,499, which makes this a minimum, and a second territory an extra $50,000 commitment before any revenue arrives.

What it costs to open a territory.

Estimated initial investment, as the brand reported it, Item 7 of the 2026 FDD
Item	Low	High
Start-up expenses and working capital, first year	$80,000	$85,000
Start-up advertising, first year	$60,000	$75,000
Franchise fee	$59,500	$59,500
Travel and living while training	$6,000	$7,500
Guarantee fund initial contribution	$5,000	$5,000
Computer hardware and software	$3,900	$4,800
Tools and equipment	$1,000	$2,500
Total	$215,400	$239,300

As the brand reported it, reordered here by size.

The build is 0.13 to 0.14 times the average franchisee's revenue. $215,400 to $239,300 against $1,673,607 *. Among the lightest in this library relative to revenue, because it has zero showroom, zero fleet and zero inventory. The money goes to fee, first-year advertising and working capital.

$60,000 to $75,000 of the build is first-year advertising. Above the $50,000 annual requirement that follows, so the opening year has the heavier spend. Combined with $80,000 to $85,000 of working capital, two thirds of the investment is money to be spent.

The territory costs 9.9 cents a head at the base price and 8.3 cents above 600,000. $59,500 for 600,000 people *. Against the single-territory average of $1,230,148, a full territory returns its own fee in about eighteen days of billing.

A guarantee fund sits behind every project. $5,000 on joining, supporting a third-party completion guarantee and post-completion warranty. If that cover ends, the franchisor may raise every royalty rate by up to half a point, worth $8,368 a year at the system average *, and a contingency worth pricing into a long-range plan.

Profit and loss

Where $2,024,296 goes.

2024 profit and loss for 40 franchisees, compiled by an independent benchmarking firm, as the brand reported it, Item 20 of the 2026 FDD
Line	Average	Share of revenue	Median	Reaching the average
Sales	$2,024,296	100.0%	$1,398,994	13 (33%)
Cost of material	$607,210	30.0%	$412,550	12 (30%)
Construction labor	$404,371	20.0%	$275,359	10 (25%)
Other construction costs	$198,879	9.8%	$108,137	12 (30%)
Total cost of goods sold	$1,210,459	59.8%	n/a	n/a
Gross profit	$813,837	40.2%	n/a	n/a
Salaries, wages, payroll taxes and benefits	$262,415	13.0%	$179,300	16 (40%)
Royalty fees	$121,093	6.0%	$86,945	12 (30%)
All other operating expenses	$115,658	5.7%	$67,323	13 (33%)
Advertising and marketing	$89,749	4.4%	$64,991	15 (38%)
Sales salaries and commissions	$64,472	3.2%	$13,148	14 (35%)
National brand marketing fund	$30,000	1.5%	$20,985	15 (38%)
Vehicle expenses	$30,086	1.5%	$14,624	10 (25%)
Insurance	$22,322	1.1%	$9,886	8 (20%)
Rent, utilities, repairs and maintenance	$18,859	0.9%	$7,125	16 (40%)
Telephone and communications	$8,781	0.4%	$4,261	9 (23%)
Warranty expenses	$5,510	0.3%	$3,248	14 (35%)
Total operating expenses	$768,945	38.0%	n/a	n/a
Earnings before interest, depreciation and amortization	$44,892	2.2%	n/a	n/a
Total owner expense, added back	$159,667	7.9%	$84,333	10 (25%)
Adjusted for owner-related expenses	$204,559	10.1%	n/a	n/a

As the brand reported it, reordered here by size within each block.

The business earned $44,892 after paying the owner. 2.2% of $2,024,296. The 10.1% figure is that residual plus $159,667 of owner salary, commission, wages tax and benefits added back. Is the right number for valuing an owner-operator's job. The wrong one for judging whether the business stands on its own.

Royalty and the national fund come to $151,093, 3.4 times the $44,892 residual. *. The fees take more than three times what the business keeps after its owner is paid. That is a statement about how thin the margin is here, which at 6.0% effective is mid-pack in this library.

Cost of goods takes 59.8% and operating expenses take 38.0%. Leaving 2.2%. Materials at 30.0%, construction labor at 20.0% and other construction costs at 9.8% are the whole of the first block. Office and production wages at 13.0% is the largest line in the second. One point of gross profit is worth $20,243, 45% of the entire residual *.

Other construction costs are $198,879, 9.8% of revenue. Permits, fees, dumpsters, rental and ancillary subcontractors for plumbing, electrical, masonry and concrete. Larger than advertising, vehicles and insurance combined, and the line most likely to be estimated loosely on a proposal.

The median business bills $1,398,994 against an average of $2,024,296. Only 13 of the 40 reach the average, and the range runs from $402,451 to $7,727,027. So the benchmark table describes the upper third of a wide distribution, and a median business should read every line proportionally downward.

Sales salaries average $64,472 against a median of $13,148. A five-fold gap between mean and median on one line says a minority of these businesses employ dedicated salespeople and most have the owner selling. Read alongside $159,667 of owner expense, the structural question is who sells when the owner stops.

Where the thirds separate.

2024 cost ratios by third, 44 franchisees, as the brand reported it
Measure	Top third average	Middle third average	Bottom third average	Full range
Gross share of sales kept	49.4%	40.6%	27.6%	−4.8% – 63.1%
Cost of materials	22.2%	29.8%	37.2%	11.8% – 51.7%
Construction labor	13.1%	20.0%	30.4%	5.8% – 56.2%
Other construction costs	3.0%	8.2%	18.6%	0.0% – 38.5%
Salaries, wages and benefits	4.1%	11.3%	22.2%	0.0% – 36.5%
Advertising and marketing	1.7%	4.8%	7.6%	0.0% – 12.1%

As the brand reported it.

21.8 points of gross profit separate the top and bottom thirds. 49.4% against 27.6%. On the average business that is $441,296 *, nearly ten times the entire residual profit line. Every other comparison on this page is smaller than this one.

Other construction costs run 3.0% to 18.6%, a 15.6-point range. The widest proportional gap of any line here. Permits, dumpsters and ancillary trades are the costs a proposal absorbs quietly, and some businesses absorb six times as much of them as others.

Office and production wages runs 4.1% to 22.2%. With a top-third minimum of 0.0%, meaning some businesses run with the owner answering the phone. The bottom third's 22.2% on the average revenue would be $449,394 *, ten times the residual, which is why staffing decisions are the second-largest lever after estimating.

Advertising runs 1.7% to 7.6% while the requirement is $50,000 per territory. On the average revenue, 1.7% is $34,413 and would fall short of the minimum for a single territory *. So the top third on this measure is spending less than the current agreement asks, which older agreement terms may account for.

Projects and mix

Nine products, priced.

Average and median contract price by project type, 12 months to 30 September 2025, as the brand reported it
Project type	Average sales price	Median sales price	Projects	Share of classified projects *
Deck and sunroom combination	$96,857	$78,690	18	1.0%
Deck and porch combination	$82,593	$78,426	150	8.5%
Sunroom	$78,901	$73,494	52	2.9%
Hardscape patio with other design elements	$76,906	$61,335	209	11.8%
Screened porch	$50,817	$48,400	131	7.4%
Open porch	$49,120	$40,118	112	6.3%
Deck	$37,116	$30,925	906	51.1%
Hardscape patio	$35,259	$26,850	143	8.1%
Pergola	$18,194	$15,703	52	2.9%
All residential projects	$45,484	$36,317	1,946	n/a

Prices and project counts are as the brand reported it, reordered here by average price; the share column is marked *, against the 1,773 classified projects.

Decks are 51.1% of classified projects at $37,116, the second-cheapest type on the list. *. Half the system's work is its lowest-value product apart from pergolas, while the four types above $75,000 together account for 24.2% of projects.

Moving one deck to a deck and porch combination adds $45,477. $82,593 against $37,116, as much as an entire average project *. At roughly 37 projects a year, converting three deck sales to combinations adds $136,431 of revenue with zero extra leads.

Adding design elements to a hardscape patio more than doubles the ticket. $76,906 against $35,259, a difference of $41,647 *. And the higher-value version is the more common of the two, at 209 projects against 143, so the system already knows how to sell it.

The average business builds about 37 projects a year. $1,673,607 of average gross sales divided by $45,484 *. At the benchmark study's larger $2,024,296 that is 45. Either way, this is a business running fewer than one project a week, which is what makes ticket size.

39% of projects reach the average price. With a median of $36,317 against a mean of $45,484, a $9,167 gap that the large combination and sunroom jobs create. A business whose median project sits at $30,925, the deck median, is running the system's cheapest mix.

Questions we get asked

Questions owners ask.

What should an Archadeck business be billing?

The 55 franchisees operating across 93 territories for the whole 12 months to 30 September 2025 averaged $1,673,607 of gross sales with a median of $1,121,450, ranging from $79,873 to $8,796,480. 28 of the 55, 49%, reached the average. By group: 13 above $2.4m averaging $4,067,716, 14 between $1.2m and $2.4m averaging $1,474,146, 15 between $600k and $1.2m averaging $859,168, and 13 below $600k averaging $434,041. The 31 single-territory franchisees averaged $1,230,148 and the 24 multi-territory ones $2,246,410. System gross sales were $95,585,008 in that year.

What does an Archadeck profit and loss look like?

An independent benchmarking firm compiled one for 40 franchisees operating at least 24 months at 31 December 2024. On average revenue of $2,024,296: materials $607,210 (30.0%), construction labor $404,371 (20.0%) and other construction costs $198,879 (9.8%) give a gross profit of $813,837 (40.2%). Operating expenses of $768,945 (38.0%) leave $44,892, or 2.2%. Adding back $159,667 of total owner expense gives $204,559, or 10.1%. The largest operating lines are office and production wages at $262,415, royalty at $121,093, other operating expenses at $115,658 and advertising at $89,749. Median revenue was $1,398,994.

How big is a project?

1,946 residential projects were sold system-wide in the 12 months to 30 September 2025 at an average price of $45,484 and a median of $36,317, with 39% at or above the average. By type: deck and sunroom combination $96,857, deck and porch combination $82,593, sunroom $78,901, hardscape patio with other design elements $76,906, screened porch $50,817, open porch $49,120, deck $37,116, hardscape patio $35,259 and pergola $18,194. Decks were 906 of the 1,773 classified projects, over half the system's work at close to its lowest average price.

What does the brand take?

Royalty runs in marginal tiers on calendar-year gross sales. 6.5% on the first $1,000,000, 5.5% to $2,000,000, 4.5% to $3,000,000 and 3.5% above, reset each January, reported by the 10th and paid by the 20th. From the second full calendar year a minimum royalty of $2,000 a month applies from March through November, abatable at the franchisor's discretion for winter weather. The national branding and marketing fee is 1.5% of gross sales capped at $30,000 a calendar year, raisable to 2.5% on 90 days' notice. Individual advertising must reach at least $50,000 per territory each year, paid to third parties. If the national guarantee company stops providing its completion guarantee or post-completion warranty, each royalty rate may rise by up to 0.50%.

Who does bookkeeping for an Archadeck franchise?

Three mechanics decide how much the close is worth here. Sales for reporting counts completed projects only, excluding work sold and still in progress. So a business with a strong pipeline and a slow build schedule looks weaker than it is unless work in progress is tracked separately. On 37 projects a year one delayed job moves a month materially. Royalty runs on marginal calendar-year tiers that reset every January. Means the effective rate falls through the year and the accrual is a moving figure. The national fund stops at $30,000, a second threshold on the same calendar. And with an average business earning $44,892 after the owner is paid against $1,210,459 of cost of goods, job-level costing is the only thing standing between a profitable year and a flat one, particularly the other-construction-costs line. Runs 3.0% to 18.6% across the system and covers permits, dumpsters and the ancillary trades most easily left out of an estimate. Averan provides bookkeeping, controller, and fractional CFO support for franchise owners and has Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisors on the team.

Questions worth putting to Archadeck Outdoor Living

The filing answers what it answers. These are the gaps an owner or a buyer should close directly.

Is the profit figure in Item 19 before or after owner pay, and how many locations sit below it?
What separates the highest-selling locations from the lowest: trade area, years open, size, or the owner?
How long does a new location take to reach the average you publish, and what does the build-up look like month by month?
At what level of sales do the minimum charges stop applying and the percentage take over?
How many Archadeck Outdoor Living locations closed, were sold, or changed hands last year, and why?

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Where these figures come from.

Every figure here comes from Archadeck Franchisor, LLC’s 2026 FDD and is unaudited by us. We are unaffiliated with the brand. Calculations of our own are labeled where they appear, the figures describe past performance at other businesses and are not a projection of yours. This page is an educational summary. It is not an offer to sell a franchise, and it is not financial, legal or tax advice. Archadeck Outdoor Living® is a registered trademark of its owner. How Averan reads a Franchise Disclosure Document.

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Questions owners ask next

The figures above raise these, and each one is answered on its own page.

At what level of sales does a minimum fee stop costing me more than the percentage?How royalty, ad fund and minimums actually work on a monthly statement.
How much cash do I fund before a new location covers its own costs?A 13-week forecast for the months before break-even.
My payroll percentage keeps climbing. Is that a payroll problem?Usually it is a revenue problem wearing a payroll costume.
What should I be looking at every week?The handful of numbers that move before the P&L does.
Do I need a bookkeeper, a controller, or a CFO?What each one owns, and the point at which the next one pays for itself.

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The call, twenty minutesYou describe the business and where the numbers are letting you down. We tell you honestly whether we can help, and what we would start with. No pitch deck.
We look at the fileYou give us read access to the books as they are. We come back with what is wrong, what it will take to fix, and whether the answer is bookkeeping, controller work, or something else.
A written scope and a priceWhat we do each month, what you get, the date it lands, and the fee. Agreed before anything starts, and it does not move without you agreeing it.
Transition, then the first closeAccess, systems, and the opening balances. The first close lands on the date in the scope, and every one after it does too.

Start with the call →How an engagement runs

Averan is not a CPA firm and does not file taxes. Your CPA keeps that, and we keep the books they file from.