For franchises
Franchise social media marketing that holds the brand line without micromanaging. Head office sets the guardrails, each franchisee posts for their own territory.
Results from a franchise customer
Franchise social media management software holds the brand line across every location, through shared asset libraries, opt-in content templates and per-franchisee approvals.
Where franchise social actually happens
A shared library of approved, ready-to-post content. Offered, not mandated, which is why it gets used.
Review before publish, switched on per franchisee or territory. Tight where you need it, hands-off where you don't.
See which locations are posting and which have gone quiet, before a franchisee's feed goes three months cold.
Franchisees who feel managed stop posting, and a silent location hurts the brand more than an imperfect one. Make the on-brand post the easy one, and compliance follows.
Built for franchise networks
The pain
Franchisees own their business, so brand guidelines are a request, not an instruction. Locked templates get ignored, unmanaged posting dilutes the brand, and head office ends up chasing individual locations over individual posts.
The shift
Pre-approved posts land in each franchisee's workspace with local details already merged. They add a photo, they publish. Brand-locked elements stay locked, and approvals switch on only where a territory needs them.
Swap the first slide for the product shot?
Perfect. Approving.
The outcome
When staying on brand takes less effort than going off it, compliance stops being a conversation. Head office spends its time on campaigns instead of corrections, and the network's feeds start looking like one brand again.
Head office ships templates with editable copy and locked brand elements. Franchisees localise; the brand survives.
Each location's hours, address and current offers drop into templates automatically. No copy-paste, no typos.
Every franchisee gets their own workspace. They see theirs, head office sees the network.
Turn review on for a new franchisee, off for one who's earned it. Set per location, not network-wide.
Network performance at a glance, any single territory one click deeper.
Per-location keyword insights so each franchisee shows up in their own local search, not just the brand's.
Approvals that respect ownership
Every location's pending posts on one board. Drag across to approve, comment to send back. No inbox, no spreadsheet, no chasing.
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Some news: from next month, our counter coffee comes from Cooper Lane Roasters, a small-batch roastery 11 streets away. We tried nine local roasters before picking. Their medium roast plus one of our morning buns is the best $9 breakfast in the neighbourhood. Retail bags hit our shelf the same week, $19. #localcoffee #shoplocal
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This weekend's specials: cardamom knots, pear and frangipane tart, and the breakfast pie is back. The pie sells out every single week, usually before 10am. Want a sure thing? Pre-order at the counter by Friday close. Doors at 7, Saturday and Sunday. #weekendbaking #breakfastpie #bakerylife
Saturday: Riverside Market, stall 14, 8am until sold out. New this week: rye crackers made from offcuts of the seeded loaf, $6 a bag, great with the cheddar from the dairy stall next to us. Zero waste, very good snack. Come tell us what you think.
Winter menu lands Wednesday. New: braised leek and gruyere danish, a darker city loaf, and hot honey butter for the morning buns. Full list goes up on the board and here at 9am, and we'll be sampling the danish at the counter all morning. The favourites aren't going anywhere. We're just adding.
Approvals board, filtered to one territory
Franchise software, not a plain scheduler
In short
Sked Social is franchise social media management software built for the franchisor and franchisee split. Head office ships shared brand asset libraries and opt-in templates, and each franchisee posts for their own territory. Approvals switch on per location, and reporting rolls up across the network or drills into any single location.
Common questions
It adds the franchisor-franchisee layer: multi-level permissions, an approval step before publishing, and reporting rolled up per location.
Yes. Franchisees publish content for their local market inside brand guardrails, while head office keeps visibility and approval control.
Yes. Approval is set per location, so a new franchisee posts through review while an established one publishes directly.
Both models are common: head office buys centrally and rolls locations in, or franchisees subscribe individually against a corporate standard.
Yes. Reporting rolls up across every location for network performance and drills down to any single territory. Reports auto-send weekly.
Schedule, publish, listen and report in one place, with login-free approvals for every stakeholder and client. Try Sked free for 14 days, no credit card required.
Can we swap the second photo? Otherwise good to go.