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Franchise cloud hosting

Moved off the old server and run for you.

A franchise system's portal and ordering run every day in every location. When they live on one old server, every franchisee feels an outage. We move them to managed cloud hosting set up as code, watch them and keep them patched, so head office does not have to.

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// what matters here

What is different in this industry.

Infrastructure as code

Your hosting is described in Terraform, so it can be rebuilt and reviewed, and you are not tied to us.

Backups that are tested

Backups are restored on a schedule to prove they work, not just taken.

Monitoring that warns early

Errors, slow pages and failed orders alert your team and ours before franchisees call.

Updates applied

Security updates and dependency upgrades applied on a regular schedule.

// example projects

Priced examples for this service.

Each one is hypothetical, labelled as such, and priced live from our rate card. Open any of them in the estimator and make it yours.

Example projectWeb app

Supplier ordering, rescued

Hypothetical. Not a client, not a result.

// The problem

A franchisor's ordering intranet, built by a vendor that has since closed, takes franchisee orders for approved supplies and sends them to its distributor, runs on one ageing server, and nobody on staff can change it.

// What we would build

We start with an architecture review of the old system: what it does, where the data is, what is at risk. Then we rebuild ordering as a supported web system, connect it to your distributor by EDI, and move it to managed cloud hosting with monitoring, backups and updates. The review is a fixed first step; the build follows from what it finds.

// What is in it

An architecture review of the old intranet, written for your leadership team
Ordering from your approved supplier list, with par levels per location
Orders sent to your distributor by EDI, with acknowledgements back
Order history and spend by location and category
Managed hosting with monitoring, backups and updates
The old server retired once the new system is proven

// Stack

Next.js
PostgreSQL
EDI 850/855
Terraform
AWS Canada

// estimate

Build: ≈ US$79,100 to US$121,000, delivered within 18 weeksCAD 112,700 to 172,400
Hosting: ≈ US$492 a monthCAD 700 a month
Support: ≈ US$5,010 a monthCAD 7,135 a month

Prices in your currency are estimates from today's Bank of Canada rate. All invoicing is in CAD or USD.

Timeline by milestone

Discovery: 2.9 to 3.4 weeks
Design approved: 3.4 to 5.9 weeks
Core features: 2.4 to 4.4 weeks
Full build: 1.4 to 2.9 weeks
Testing and fixes: 0.9 to 1.4 weeks
Launch: 0.9 to 1.4 weeks

Outside our hands, and added to the calendar

EDI testing with your distributor: 2 to 6 weeks

How it is paid

Deposit 20%: CAD 22,540 to 34,480
Discovery 7.7%: CAD 8,677.90 to 13,274.80
Design approved 7.7%: CAD 8,677.90 to 13,274.80
Core features 23.3%: CAD 26,259.10 to 40,169.20
Full build 15.5%: CAD 17,468.50 to 26,722.00
Testing and fixes 7.7%: CAD 8,677.90 to 13,274.80
Launch 8.1%: CAD 9,128.70 to 13,964.40
Holdback, 30 days after launch (10%): CAD 11,270 to 17,240

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// questions

Questions we get about this.

Can our franchise systems stay in Canada?

Yes. We host in Canadian regions of AWS or DigitalOcean if you need the data kept here.

Who owns the cloud account for the franchise systems?

You do. The account and the infrastructure code are yours, and we work in it with access you control.

Can you take over hosting for a franchise system you did not build?

Yes, after a short review of how it runs today. The review says what we would change first.

Back to the industry: Franchise businesses About the service: Cloud, DevOps and operations

// next

Not quite your project?

Tell us what you have in mind. We will come back to you with a range and the questions that would narrow it. Or book a call and talk it through.

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