Highlights
- Every week, 6.0% of gross sales goes to the franchisor before rent, food or labor: royalty 5% of total Net Revenues on all products and services, advertising 1% of total Net Revenues.p.17
- Opening one unit is estimated at $284,786 to $536,636, including a $49,500 initial fee.p.25
- Batteries Plus discloses unit performance in Item 19.p.52
- The system went from 721 outlets at the start of 2023 to 734 at the end of 2025, a net gain of 13.p.71
- In 2025, closures of all kinds equalled 5.5% of the outlets open at the start of the year.
- Item 3 discloses 2 matters, including 1 action the franchisor brought against franchisees last year.p.15
Tools, from this filing's numbers
What Batteries Plus takes off the top
Royalty 5% of total Net Revenues on all products and services plus advertising 1% of total Net Revenues, applied to your own sales estimate. The rates are the filing's; the sales are yours.
Batteries Plus discloses no unit revenue, so start from a number you believe.
Cash you would need to open
The filing's Item 7 range, $284,786 to $536,636, is an estimate for one unit including only its first months. Slide between the low and high cases and add the months of runway you want beyond that.
Monthly operating cash is taken as one-twelfth of your weekly-sales figure above times 52, a placeholder for rent, labor and food until you have your own budget.
Where the units went in 2025
Every outlet that opened, and every one that left, drawn from Item 20 Table 3 to scale.p.78
Total outlets, 2022 to 2025
Compare Batteries Plus with another brand
Side by side, every figure cited.
Fees (Items 5 and 6)
| Initial franchise fee, standard | $49,500 | p.16 |
| Royalty | 5% of total Net Revenues on all products and services | p.17 |
| Advertising fund | 1% of total Net Revenues | p.18 |
| Technology fee | held for review |
The filing lists every recurring and conditional fee in Item 6.
Estimated initial investment (Item 7)
| Expenditure | Low | High | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Initial Franchise Fee | $15,000 | $49,500 | p.24 |
| Travel and Living Expenses during Training | $500 | $2,900 | p.24 |
| New Store Commercial Support -- 3 months | $0 | $3,450 | p.24 |
| Retail Management System | $43,986 | $43,986 | p.24 |
| Omni-Channel Access Fee | $10,000 | $10,000 | p.24 |
| Miscellaneous Pre-opening Expenses | $1,800 | $5,000 | p.24 |
| Insurance Premiums (3 months) | $1,200 | $5,000 | p.24 |
| Commercial Hardware Kit | $1,100 | $1,900 | p.24 |
| Delivery Vehicle | $4,500 | $24,000 | p.24 |
| New Store Opening Hardware Kit | $7,100 | $10,100 | p.25 |
| New Store Marketing Campaign Contribution | $5,000 | $7,000 | p.25 |
| Minimum Store Promotion Requirement | $20,000 | $20,000 | p.25 |
| Rent – Security Deposit and 3 months' rent | $8,000 | $19,000 | p.25 |
| Leasehold Improvements | $13,000 | $131,000 | p.25 |
| Equipment and Fixtures | $35,000 | $43,000 | p.25 |
| Signage | $5,800 | $17,000 | p.25 |
| Inventory | $57,500 | $77,000 | p.25 |
| Miscellaneous Supplies | $4,300 | $4,800 | p.25 |
| Additional Funds - 3 months (Store Build Out and Opening) | $40,000 | $45,000 | p.25 |
| Total | $284,786 | $536,636 | p.25 |
Revenue (Item 19)
Batteries Plus reports average net revenue across 490 outlets.p.52 What the figure measures, which units were excluded and what it leaves out are in the report.
Units (Item 20)
| Type | Year | Start | End | Net | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| franchised | 2023 | 609 | 606 | -3 | p.71 |
| company owned | 2023 | 112 | 116 | 4 | p.71 |
| total | 2023 | 721 | 722 | 1 | p.71 |
| franchised | 2024 | 606 | 604 | -2 | p.71 |
| company owned | 2024 | 116 | 133 | 17 | p.71 |
| total | 2024 | 722 | 737 | 15 | p.71 |
| franchised | 2025 | 604 | 601 | -3 | p.71 |
| company owned | 2025 | 133 | 133 | 0 | p.71 |
| total | 2025 | 737 | 734 | -3 | p.71 |
Openings and closures, system totals (Table 3)
| Year | Start | Opened | Terminated | Non-renewed | Reacquired | Ceased, other | End | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 609 | 30 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 22 | 606 | p.77 |
| 2025 | 604 | 30 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 32 | 601 | p.78 |
Arithmetic checks flagged: item7: low lines sum to 273786, total says 284786; item7: high lines sum to 519636, total says 536636. The figures shown are as filed.
Litigation (Item 3)
1 pending case described.p.15 1 action filed by the franchisor against franchisees in the last fiscal year.p.15 1 case brought by franchisees or former franchisees.p.15 Counts are of distinct matters as the filing describes them; the report carries each one in plain words.
Scorecard
Rank among the brands on this site that report the figure, on each list's own direction. No blended grade. How the lists work.
| Cost to open | $284,786 | 26 of 74 |
| Royalty plus ad fund | 6.0% | 13 of 59 |
| Three-year unit growth | 1.8% | 49 of 75 |
| Closure rate, 2025 | 5.5% | 21 of 71, 1 = most |
| Discloses unit revenue | yes | |
| Litigation disclosed | 2 | 13 of 68, 1 = most |
Source
Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions franchise filing 640529, effective 3/28/2026, expires 3/28/2027. Extracted 2026-09-06 by two independent readers; only figures both agreed on, whose quoted words appear on the cited page, are shown. 7 fields held for review. How this works.