Highlights
- Every week, 12.0% of gross sales goes to the franchisor before rent, food or labor: royalty 6% of Gross Revenues or $500 weekly, whichever is greater, advertising Up to 6% of Gross Revenues or $1,000 weekly, whichever is greater.p.18
- Opening one unit is estimated at $249,950 to $479,950, including a $49,950 initial fee.p.24
- Tint World discloses unit performance in Item 19.p.57
- In 2025, closures of all kinds equalled 5.1% of the outlets open at the start of the year.
- Item 3 discloses 0 matters.p.14
Tools, from this filing's numbers
What Tint World takes off the top
Royalty 6% of Gross Revenues or $500 weekly, whichever is greater plus advertising Up to 6% of Gross Revenues or $1,000 weekly, whichever is greater, applied to your own sales estimate. The rates are the filing's; the sales are yours.
Preset to the filing's Item 19 figure, $812,267 a year.p.59
Cash you would need to open
The filing's Item 7 range, $249,950 to $479,950, 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.67
Compare Tint World with another brand
Side by side, every figure cited.
Fees (Items 5 and 6)
| Initial franchise fee, standard | $49,950 | p.16 |
| Royalty | 6% of Gross Revenues or $500 weekly, whichever is greater | p.18 |
| Advertising fund | Up to 6% of Gross Revenues or $1,000 weekly, whichever is greater | 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 | $49,950 | $49,950 | p.23 |
| Lease Rent, Deposits, Leasehold Improvements | $70,000 | $210,000 | p.23 |
| Showroom Displays, Furniture Package | $29,900 | $44,900 | p.23 |
| Signage Brand Package | $7,000 | $18,000 | p.23 |
| Equipment, Tools Package | $11,000 | $18,000 | p.23 |
| Administrative Merchandise, Window Graphics Package | $4,000 | $7,000 | p.23 |
| Freight, Delivery Package | $2,000 | $5,000 | p.23 |
| Software Technology Package | $5,000 | $5,000 | p.23 |
| Computer Hardware, Phones Package | $4,000 | $5,000 | p.23 |
| Initial Inventory, Supplies Package | $20,000 | $35,000 | p.23 |
| Grand Opening Event Promotion Package | $10,000 | $10,000 | p.23 |
| Travel, Living, Training Expenses | $3,000 | $5,000 | p.24 |
| Miscellaneous Expense | $1,000 | $2,000 | p.24 |
| Additional Funds, Three Months | $30,000 | $60,000 | p.24 |
| Total | $249,950 | $479,950 | p.24 |
Revenue (Item 19)
Tint World reports a financial performance figure of $812,267.p.59 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| company owned | 2023 | 0 | 0 | 0 | p.63 |
| company owned | 2024 | 0 | 0 | 0 | p.63 |
| company owned | 2025 | 0 | 0 | 0 | p.63 |
Openings and closures, system totals (Table 3)
| Year | Start | Opened | Terminated | Non-renewed | Reacquired | Ceased, other | End | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 101 | 25 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 124 | p.67 |
| 2024 | 124 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 138 | p.67 |
| 2025 | 138 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 142 | p.67 |
Arithmetic checks flagged: item7: low lines sum to 246850, total says 249950; item7: high lines sum to 474850, total says 479950. The figures shown are as filed.
Litigation (Item 3)
0 pending cases described.p.14 0 cases brought by franchisees or former franchisees.p.14 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 | $249,950 | 15 of 51 |
| Royalty plus ad fund | 12.0% | 39 of 43 |
| Three-year unit growth | held | held |
| Closure rate, 2025 | 5.1% | 14 of 51, 1 = most |
| Discloses unit revenue | yes | |
| Litigation disclosed | 0 | 23 of 26, 1 = most |
Source
Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions franchise filing 641132, effective 4/21/2026, expires 4/21/2027. Extracted 2026-09-04 by two independent readers; only figures both agreed on, whose quoted words appear on the cited page, are shown. 14 fields held for review. How this works.