Garage Force franchise unit economics
Garage Force franchisees run garage and concrete floor coating businesses from a branded trailer, billing customers by the project.
Garage Force franchise at a glance
Every one of the 69 qualifying businesses has its revenue, product cost, invoice count, average ticket and profit per invoice, so the whole distribution is reconstructible.
Garage Force franchisees averaged $422,998 of sales in 2025, with a median of $318,744, according to Item 19 of Garage Force’s 2026 FDD, issued 20 May 2026. The 69 in that group are 23%* of Garage Force’s 301 locations. Fees paid to Garage Force come to about 6.12%* of sales. A Garage Force franchise costs $132,900 to $200,600 to open.
- A Garage Force franchise costs $132,900 to $200,600 to open, including a $49,500 initial franchise fee, according to the brand's 2026 FDD.
- Garage Force charges a royalty of 5% of sales, a 1% brand fund contribution and a $42 monthly technology fee.
- Garage Force reported 301 franchised locations in its 2026 FDD.
- 38% of reporting Garage Force locations reached the average.
- At the average Garage Force location, cost of goods took 30% of sales.
- Work out Garage Force's fees at your own sales with the minimum fee calculator.
These figures come from Garage Force's 2026 Franchise Disclosure Document, as the brand reported them, and were read by Averan Advisors.
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Talk to Averan → Move your books and accounting to Averan →- The average business writes 97 invoices a year. 1.9 a week at the average and 1.4 at the median; 43 of the 69 businesses wrote fewer than 100 *.
- Revenue follows job count more than price. The correlation is 0.87 against invoice count and 0.22 against ticket, across all 69 businesses *.
- The published profit per invoice leaves out the fees its own definition subtracts. All 69 rows equal revenue less product cost divided by invoices; applying the 5% continuing and 1% branding fees as stated gives $2,891 against $3,152 *.
- Product cost runs from 17.7% to 56.4% of revenue on identical work. A 38.7-point range *; moving the average business from 30.0% to 20.0% is worth $42,300 a year.
- $124,500 of the $132,900 low-end build goes to the franchisor. That is 93.7% *, the $49,500 fee, a $65,000 equipment package and $10,000 of coating products.
How much does a Garage Force franchise make?
The average Garage Force unit reported $422,998 of revenue in the 2026 FDD, and the median reported $318,744. Item 19 of the Garage Force FDD publishes revenue, invoices and profit per invoice after fees and product cost for its franchised businesses, and what an owner keeps depends on the costs set out below. Fees come off the top first, at about 6.1% 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.
Top performers
What separates the top Garage Force performers
Garage Force lists each reporting business instead of grouped averages. The highest-selling of the 69 Garage Force single-territory businesses billed $1,301,965 in 2025. The lowest-selling Garage Force business in that group billed $125,096. Both run the same brand, on the same agreement, paying the same fees. The middle location sold $318,744. The average was $422,998. More than half the system is below the number the brand quotes.
Decided before you open
- Site and trade area.The highest-selling Garage Force business sells 10.4× the lowest-selling one. Catchment, daytime population and neighboring businesses affect where a location falls.
- Capacity.Capacity is the number of vans, times the hours they run, times how full their schedules are. The build sets how much you can sell.
- Territory.This model sells from a territory quoted at 200,000 people, with no storefront. Population density sets how much driving sits between jobs.
- Opening cost range.Opening costs $132,900 to $200,600, a 1.5× range inside one brand.
Live operating levers
- Products and materials.Products and materials take 30.0% of sales. The levers are buying terms, price discipline and waste.
- Jobs.Each job is won separately. Track how many quotes turn into work and the average job value.
- Fees.Garage Force’s fees run about 6.1% of sales, and Garage Force sets no minimum royalty.
Context you underwrite around
- Locations included.These figures cover 69 of 301 locations. Locations open less than the full year, brand-owned, or not meeting the reporting criteria are excluded.
- What the filing does not include.Item 19 of the Garage Force FDD publishes revenue, invoices and profit per invoice after fees and product cost for its franchised businesses. Ask the franchisor or current owners for any cost line the filing leaves out.
Top performers
How far apart the locations are
Garage Force reports its locations in performance groups, from the highest-selling to the lowest. The group-by-group figures are in the tables on the Model and Finance tabs.
The 69 businesses
Results by quartile, 2025
| quartile | Businesses | Average revenue | Median | Range | Invoices a year | Invoices a week | Ticket | Product cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First | 17 | $823,359 | $733,925 | $555,568 – $1,301,965 | 185 | 3.6 | $4,455 | 26.7% |
| All 69 | 69 | $422,998 | $318,744 | $125,096 – $1,301,965 | 97 | 1.9 | $4,498 | 30.0% |
| Second | 18 | $415,176 | $401,076 | $318,744 – $546,190 | 92 | 1.8 | $4,529 | 29.7% |
| Third | 17 | $271,719 | $282,206 | $222,365 – $312,520 | 66 | 1.3 | $4,106 | 31.8% |
| Fourth | 17 | $182,196 | $188,096 | $125,096 – $219,613 | 46 | 0.9 | $3,951 | 30.9% |
We built every figure here by ranking the 69 individually published businesses.
The top quartile averages $823,359 and the bottom $182,196. Four and a half times, and the single highest-selling business billed $1,301,965 against the lowest-selling at $125,096. Seventeen businesses take 48.0% of the system's revenue and the bottom seventeen take 10.6% *.
Ticket price moves 14.6% across the quartiles while job count moves four times. That is $3,951 to $4,529 against 46 to 185 invoices *. The second quartile actually charges the most per job of any group and still bills half what the first does. That settles where the operating attention belongs.
Forty-three of the 69 businesses wrote fewer than 100 invoices. Fourteen wrote fewer than 52, under one a week *. At the average ticket of $4,498, one additional job a week is worth $233,896 a year. That exceeds the entire revenue of the lowest-selling business in the system.
The median business bills $318,744 against an average of $422,998. That is 75% of it, with 26 of 69 reaching the average. That gap is created by five businesses above $1,000,000 in a system where 22 sit below $250,000.
Only 69 of 301 open businesses appear here. Ninety-five had traded under a year and 137 run seasonally, part-time, absentee or across several territories. So this table describes the full-time single-territory model the brand currently sells, and the other 137 are trading on a basis it has stopped offering.
Invoices and job value
Published measures across reporting businesses
| Measure | Average | Median | Highest | Lowest | Reaching the average |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Annual sales | $422,998 | $318,744 | $1,301,965 | $125,096 | 26 of 69 |
| Annual invoices | 97 | 72 | 460 | 22 | 26 of 69 |
| Average invoice | $4,498 | $4,446 | $8,608 | $2,577 | 32 of 69 |
| Annual product cost | $121,541 | $98,676 | $344,264 | $31,732 | 28 of 69 |
| Published profit per invoice | $3,152 | $3,066 | $6,229 | $1,542 | 32 of 69 |
| Profit per invoice after the fees * | $2,891 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Correlation of revenue with invoice count * | 0.87 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Correlation of revenue with ticket * | 0.22 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
Published rows are as the brand reported it and every one of them reproduces exactly from the 69 individually named businesses.
Revenue correlates with invoice count at 0.87 and with ticket at 0.22. * That holds across all 69 businesses. Twenty-one businesses charge $5,000 or more a job and average $505,018 on 89 invoices; thirteen charge under $3,500 and average $365,778 on 125 invoices. The higher ticket is worth 38% more revenue on 29% fewer jobs.
The published profit per invoice is $261 higher than its own definition produces *. Read as printed, the average business clears $3,152 of contribution a job; read as defined, $2,891. Across 97 invoices that is $25,380 a year, the exact value of the 6% in fees.
The third-highest-selling Garage Force business wrote 460 invoices at $2,577 each. That is the lowest ticket in the entire system, on four and a half times the average job count, producing $1,185,248. The highest-selling wrote 282 at $4,617. Both routes to seven figures run through volume.
The highest ticket in the system is $8,608 across 144 invoices. That is $1,239,530 of revenue, and the highest published profit per invoice at $6,229. That business sits in the top quartile on both measures at once, which the correlation figures say is the rarer path.
Two businesses print identical revenue and invoice counts. That is $216,304 and 41 invoices each, with product costs of $75,725 and $75,752. Two more share a product cost of $84,752 on different revenue. Note this before treating any individual row as a distinct observation.
Product cost
Product cost as a share of revenue
| Business | Revenue | Product cost | Share | Fees at 6% | Digital and technology | Remaining |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Highest-selling | $1,301,965 | $344,264 | 26.4% | $78,118 | $12,500 | $867,083 |
| Top quartile average | $823,359 | $219,837 | 26.7% | $49,402 | $12,500 | $541,620 |
| System average | $422,998 | $126,984 | 30.0% | $25,380 | $12,500 | $258,134 |
| System median | $318,744 | $95,687 | 30.0% | $19,125 | $12,500 | $191,432 |
| Fourth quartile average | $182,196 | $56,299 | 30.9% | $10,932 | $12,500 | $102,465 |
| Lowest-selling | $125,096 | $52,383 | 41.9% | $7,506 | $12,500 | $52,707 |
| Highest product cost share | $243,384 | $137,156 | 56.4% | $14,603 | $12,500 | $79,125 |
| Lowest product cost share | $733,925 | $129,581 | 17.7% | $44,036 | $12,500 | $547,808 |
Revenue and product cost are as the brand reported it for each named business; shares, fees and the remaining column are marked *.
Product cost runs from 17.7% to 56.4% of revenue. That is a 38.7-point range on the same coatings from the same exclusive supplier *. Moving the average business from 30.0% to 20.0% is worth $42,300 a year, more than the entire fee bill.
The business with the highest product cost share bills $243,384 and spends $137,156 on materials. That is 56.4%. After fees and the fixed digital and technology charges it has $79,125 left to cover labor, the vehicle, premises, insurance and its own pay *, against $547,808 at the business with the lowest share.
The fixed digital and technology charges are $12,500 a year. That is 3.9% of the median business's revenue and 10.0% of the lowest-selling one's *. At the top quartile it is 1.5%. That single line is the sharpest compression in the fee structure.
The franchisor’s own location reported 60.75% of revenue across nine named expenses. That was on $601,117 of revenue and 100 invoices, with product cost at 29% and labor at 14% before the owner’s salary. That figure sits before professional fees, licensing, rent, utilities and depreciation, so the real total is higher.
The top quartile buys materials at 26.7% of revenue and the third quartile at 31.8%. That is five points of difference between groups doing the same work *. On the third quartile's $271,719 of revenue, that is $13,860 a year. It arrives through job specification and waste.
Fees and what it costs to open
Franchisor charges at each sales level
| Business | Revenue | Continuing fee | Branding fee | Digital marketing | Technology | Paid to the brand | Share paid to the brand |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Highest-selling | $1,301,965 | $65,098 | $13,020 | $12,000 | $500 | $78,618 | 6.0% |
| Top quartile average | $823,359 | $41,168 | $8,234 | $12,000 | $500 | $49,902 | 6.1% |
| System average | $422,998 | $21,150 | $4,230 | $12,000 | $500 | $25,880 | 6.1% |
| System median | $318,744 | $15,937 | $3,187 | $12,000 | $500 | $19,624 | 6.2% |
| Fourth quartile average | $182,196 | $9,110 | $1,822 | $12,000 | $500 | $11,432 | 6.3% |
| Lowest-selling | $125,096 | $6,255 | $1,251 | $12,000 | $500 | $8,006 | 6.4% |
We applied the published rates to the filed revenue. The digital marketing is paid to a designated vendor, so it is not in the paid-to-the-brand columns.
Fees paid to the brand run 6.0% of revenue at the highest-selling business and 6.4% at the lowest-selling business *. The difference is the fixed $500 a year of technology. The $12,000 of digital marketing, paid to a designated vendor, is a further 0.9% of the highest-selling business's revenue and 9.6% of the lowest-selling one's.
Fees are collected three days after the money lands. Most franchisors collect monthly in arrears. On a $4,498 job that is $270 leaving within 72 hours of the customer paying. That makes the fee obligation a cash-timing question as much as a cost one.
The branding fee is refundable against matching advertising spend. 1% of revenue, held until written evidence is produced. At the system average that is $4,230 a year recoverable by documenting matching advertising spend *.
Product cost is a payment to the franchisor as well. The exclusive supplier of coatings takes 30.0% of revenue on top of the 6.1% in fees at the system average *. Read together, the brand receives about 36 cents of every dollar this business collects.
What it costs to open a territory
| Item | Low | High |
|---|---|---|
| Initial equipment package | $65,000 | $65,000 |
| Initial fee | $49,500 | $49,500 |
| Vehicle | $1,500 | $41,500 |
| Additional funds, three months | $3,600 | $12,100 |
| Initial coating products | $10,000 | $10,000 |
| Wages, travel and living during training | $1,000 | $5,000 |
| Computer hardware and software | $600 | $5,000 |
| Office and storage space, three months | $0 | $3,000 |
| Opening assistance and travel | $0 | $2,500 |
| Office furniture, supplies and equipment | $0 | $2,500 |
| Insurance, three months | $300 | $2,100 |
| Professional services | $900 | $1,900 |
| Grand opening advertising | $500 | $500 |
| Total | $132,900 | $200,600 |
As the brand reported it, reordered here by size.
Discounts available
- Garage Force prices multiple territories below the single fee: $84,500 for two, $114,500 for three, $139,500 for four and $164,500 for five.
From Item 5 of the Garage Force 2026 FDD. The costs on this page use the full initial franchise fee for one unit, before any discount.
$124,500 of the $132,900 low column goes to the franchisor. That is 93.7% *, the fee, the equipment package and the coating products. Almost nothing at the low end of this build is bought from anyone else, which is unusual even among equipment-led models.
The vehicle has 59% of the difference between the two columns. That is $1,500 to $41,500 against a total range of $132,900 to $200,600 *. A franchisee already owning a truck with towing capacity builds at close to the minimum.
Working capital (cash to run the business day to day) of $3,600 to $12,100 covers three months. Fixed digital and technology charges alone come to $3,125 across the same quarter *. At the average business's rate of 1.9 invoices a week, the first quarter produces about 24 jobs. The low estimate leaves $475 for everything beyond those two fixed charges.
Ground is priced at 25 cents a head above the baseline. So a 300,000-person single territory costs $74,500 against $49,500 for a 200,000-person one. At the system's 97 invoices a year against a 200,000 baseline, that is 48.6 jobs per hundred thousand people *. The extra ground is cheap and almost entirely unworked.
Questions we get asked
Questions owners ask.
How much does a Garage Force franchise make?
Garage Force franchisees averaged $422,998 of sales in 2025, with a median of $318,744, according to Item 19 of Garage Force’s 2026 FDD, issued 20 May 2026. The 69 in that group are 23%* of Garage Force’s 301 locations. Fees paid to Garage Force come to about 6.12%* of sales. A Garage Force franchise costs $132,900 to $200,600 to open.
What should a Garage Force business be billing?
Across the 69 businesses open and trading full-time on a single territory for all of 2025, average sales was $422,998 with a median of $318,744. 26 of 69 reached the average. The highest billed $1,301,965 and the lowest $125,096. Grouped into quartiles the averages were $823,359, $415,176, $271,719 and $182,196, which is marked *. Five businesses billed over $1,000,000 and 22 billed under $250,000. There were 301 franchised businesses and five company-owned at 31 December 2025. The other 232 open franchises are outside these figures because they traded under a year or run seasonally, part-time, absentee or across several territories.
How many jobs is that at Garage Force?
The average business wrote 97 invoices a year at $4,498 each. A median of 72 and a range from 460 down to 22, 1.9 jobs a week at the average and 1.4 at the median, which is marked *. Forty-three of the 69 wrote fewer than 100 invoices and fourteen wrote fewer than 52. By quartile the counts were 185, 92, 66 and 46 a year. Revenue correlates with invoice count at 0.87 and with ticket size at 0.22, so job volume drives Garage Force revenue more than price does.
What does the published profit per invoice actually mean at Garage Force?
Average profit per invoice is defined as annual sales less continuing fees, branding fees and product costs, divided by invoices. Tested against all 69 rows, each printed figure actually equals revenue less product cost alone divided by invoices. On our reading, the printed figure leaves out the 5% continuing fee and the 1% branding fee *. Applying the fees as defined gives $2,891 an invoice at the system average instead of the printed $3,152, $261 a job, or $25,380 a year. The figure also sits before labor, the vehicle and fuel, premises, insurance, local advertising, professional fees and the owner’s own pay, so it is a contribution measure.
What fees does Garage Force charge?
Garage Force charges a 5% continuing fee and a 1% branding fee on gross revenues, both due within three days of the revenue being received. Branding fees are held by the franchisor until written evidence of matching advertising spend is supplied, then refunded. Digital marketing costs $1,000 a month per contiguous territory area and technology $500 a year, both of which may rise by up to 10% annually. The digital fee is credited against the local advertising requirement. Separately, the franchisor is the exclusive supplier of coating products, which took 30.0% of revenue on average across the 69 businesses. Fees paid to the brand run 6.0% of revenue at the highest-selling business and 6.4% at the lowest-selling business, which is marked *.
Who does bookkeeping for a Garage Force franchise?
Three mechanics shape the close. Fees are drawn three days after revenue is received. So the fee liability moves with collections and the cash forecast has to model it job by job. Second, the branding fee is refundable against documented advertising spend. That turns 1% of revenue into a recoverable balance that has to be tracked and evidenced, $4,230 a year at the system average, which is marked *. Third, product cost is the single largest controllable line at 30.0% of revenue with a published range from 17.7% to 56.4%. So track materials by job. A ten-point improvement is worth $42,300 at the average business. Underneath all of it, 97 invoices a year makes each job a material event, and a single lost quote changes the quarter. Averan provides bookkeeping, controller, and fractional CFO support for franchise owners and has Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisors on the team.
- Item 19 of the Garage Force FDD gives no profit after every cost. It publishes revenue, invoices and profit per invoice after fees and product cost for its franchised businesses, so what an owner keeps after all costs is not disclosed.
Questions worth putting to Garage Force
The filing answers what it answers. These are the gaps an owner or a buyer should close directly.
- How would wages and rent at a new Garage Force location compare with the figures in the filing? Item 19 of the Garage Force FDD publishes revenue, invoices and profit per invoice after fees and product cost for its franchised businesses.
- Which factors does Garage Force see in its highest-selling locations, such as trade area, years open and size?
- 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 Garage Force locations closed, were sold, or changed hands last year, and why?
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Talk to AveranWhere these figures come from.
Every figure here comes from Ilfrich Integrated Solutions, Inc.’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. Garage Force® is a registered trademark of its owner. How Averan reads a Franchise Disclosure Document.
These figures come from the brand's disclosure. They are not a forecast, an offer to sell a franchise or advice. Source: Ilfrich Integrated Solutions, Inc., 2026 Franchise Disclosure Document, issued 20 May 2026.
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