Is it profitable to open a visa application center on a franchise basis. How to open a visa center. What does the franchisor provide?

Getting into the tourism business today has become quite difficult. To work successfully, you need a well-known brand, good service and affordable prices. But, even with all these components, no one will give you a guarantee of a quick payback for the business.

However, there is a niche in the tourism sector that does not require large investments, pays off quickly and does not yet suffer from high competition - visa centers. Read on to find out how to open a visa center and whether you need to buy a franchise for this.

Demand for business

Since the beginning of the year 16.4 million Russians went abroad. The most popular countries for Russian tourists are Turkey, Egypt, Spain, Cyprus and Germany. To visit the same Turkey or Egypt, it is enough to book a hotel and a seat on the plane, but to visit most other countries you will need to apply for a visa.

From different countries different requirements to documents for obtaining a visa and various procedures for registration. If, in order to obtain a visa to Greece, it is enough to provide only a passport, a copy of an internal passport and a few photographs, then for a US visa you will also have to fill out a special form in English in compliance with all transliteration rules and pass an in-person interview at the embassy or consulate USA.

Of course, in both cases, obtaining a visa can be quite a hassle. Most people find it difficult to fill out all the necessary paperwork correctly, yes, then, and not everyone has the time to go to the embassy or the consulate, especially if there are none in your city.

Therefore, many today prefer to issue visas through intermediaries. In most cases, a travel agency helps to make a tourist visa. But Russians are increasingly striving to organize their travels on their own. And not always for a trip abroad you need a tourist visa. Therefore, the popularity of such a phenomenon as visa centers is growing every year.

The first visa centers appeared in Russia at the embassies of various countries

Such intermediaries issue a visa to only one country and charge a service fee from each applicant.

Wishing overpay a little, just not to take a queue at the embassy from the night, it turned out to be enough, and soon the idea with visa centers was picked up by private business. Today, commercial visa centers can process documents for several dozen countries at once. Friendly employees of the centers suggest how to draw up papers correctly, accept documents from their clients, and after a while they issue a finished document.

The algorithm of work at such centers is not particularly complicated - employees only need to know how to draw up documents for each specific country and transfer them to the embassy. The centers cannot give guarantees that the client will certainly receive a visa, because they only intermediaries. But from each applicant they take a commission, which allows you to make good money. And small investments and quick payback make visa centers quite an interesting and profitable business.

Visa center as a business

The Visa Application Center as a business will primarily be of interest to those who I dreamed of trying myself in the field of tourism. If it is rather difficult to develop a travel agency business today - not only has demand fallen by 40-50% due to the dollar and euro exchange rates, but also the number of tourists who seek to organize travel on their own is increasing, and competition in the market is extremely high, then a visa the center could be a much better option. Although, of course, the decline in demand for tourism affects them.

And yet, the niche of visa services is not as busy as the tourist destination in general, and therefore direct competition here is not so great. All over Russia today there are about 60 consulates and 350 visa centers of different countries, and there are even fewer commercial visa centers.

Separately, it is worth talking about who exactly will have to compete with those who decide to enter this area. Of course, the first and main rival is other commercial visa centers. Despite the fact that there are not so many of them yet, there are already quite well-known and strong players on the market. You can defeat them due to the prices offered and the level of service. These words are confirmed by the head of the network of visa centers Denis Shipkov:

“A visa as a product is universal and does not have a large number of quality indicators, so the level of service and customer loyalty are of fundamental importance”

The official visa centers of the countries can be called competitors only conditionally. Firstly, if you do not open in the city where they are, then you will not have to compete with them. Secondly, commercial visa centers often work with them: prepare documents for submission, record their clients for interviews.

Visa centers have special relations with travel agencies. The latter can compete with visa centers if they take over the issuance of visas for their clients or work with large tour operators. However, travel agencies themselves can be clients of visa centers. It is much easier for many of them to outsource visa processing than to deal with this issue on their own.

But main clients of visa centers- these are still private and legal entities. After all, we remember that visas need to be issued only for tourist trips, but also for business purposes. Although the percentage of such applications is still less than on tourist visas - out of 16.4 million Russians, only 387 thousand left for official purposes.

It is characteristic that the business of the visa center is very profitable. With one issued visa, you can get the same commission percentage as with one tour sold by a travel agency. According to Denis Shipkov, head of the network of visa centers Visa Travel, the average margin from visa services is about 200 thousand rubles per month.

At the same time, opening a visa center is not as expensive as most other businesses. Head of development of the network of visa centers "Let's go" Asya Kitaichik thinks:

"In general, this business is suitable for those who do not have large savings - the initial investment is minimal."

To open a visa center, you only need to rent an office space, furnish it with office equipment and hire employees. Investments in such a business range from 200 to 500 thousand rubles.

High margins and relatively small investments provide a fairly quick payback for visa centers. The average time to expect is 6 to 9 months. However, the business can pay off much faster.

One of important conditions, influencing competition, the flow of customers and the payback of business is the city in which the visa center is open. On the one hand, the larger the population in the city, the more potential customers the visa application center has, which means more income. On the other hand, in the majority of millionaires, the competition is higher.

Medium and small towns, where there is a high demand for tourist services and few direct competitors, can become the most attractive for a visa center as a business. Although not all industry representatives agree that the city where the visa application center is located is of great importance. Director "Visaturservice" in Novosibirsk Maria Strashnova shares his experience:

“Not much depends on the size of the city, for example, we have offices in the small towns of Prokopievsk and Tver. Naturally, there are differences in the schemes of working with clients. But it is also interesting to work in big cities.”

In order to better understand whether a visa application center in your city will “shoot out”, you need to analyze the market: how high is the demand and for which directions, are there too many competitors around, will the business be able to grow. Of course, it will be difficult for a novice businessman to conduct such an analysis. Therefore, it makes sense to buy a visa center franchise.

Visa Application Center Franchise

Visa Application Centers selling a franchise, before discussing its conditions with a potential franchisee, first of all find out where they plan to open. Often, if your city already has a branch of the network of visa centers, you will not be able to open a franchise in it. Maria Strashnova, director of the Vizaturservice company in Novosibirsk, explains: “Our contract provides for the exclusive right to open a visa application center within one city. Naturally, in some large cities there may be several offices. All this is calculated by our specialists individually.

In especially large cities, such as Moscow and St. Petersburg, they see the point in opening several branches and other networks, for example, "International Visa Application Center". Here, the competition is, of course, high, but there are also a sufficient number of potential customers who do not want to travel from one area of ​​the city to another in order to apply for a visa.

The franchisor visa center not only assesses how suitable a particular city is for the franchisee's business, it also transfers business processes that a beginner often does not have time to establish. Network Head Visa Travel Denis Shipkov explains:

“Every day we have to deal with new changes in terms of legislation, procedures and nuances of issuing visa documents. Sometimes there is simply no time left to rethink business processes.”

For example, from September 1, 2015 the rules for obtaining Schengen visas have changed for the Russians. Now, in order to obtain permission to enter the Schengen zone, it is necessary to take fingerprints, which automatically does not allow you to apply for a visa without a personal visit to the consulate and the visa center with it. A commercial visa center will not be able to accept fingerprinting, it will only be able to sign up a client for this procedure.

Head of travel agency "Global Voyage" and potential franchisee from Kazan Ekaterina Khramkova believes that this practice will have a very negative impact on the work of commercial visa centers: “Private centers do not have the right to do fingerprinting. Therefore, in any case, a person will have to go to the official visa center at the consulate, and there he will face the same polite treatment and willingness to help. Plus, he will see that the service fee is lower. Next time, to apply for a visa, he will prefer to go directly to the center at the consulate.” According to Ekaterina, one can compete in such conditions only by providing some new services that are in demand on the market.

We also note that Schengen visas are the most popular in Russia. In 2014, the Russians received 5.76 million such visas. Therefore, refusal to process Schengen visas through commercial visa centers can hit their revenue hard.

Those who are not afraid of difficulties should know that

Business processes and components of the franchise package - what you need to pay attention to first of all when buying a visa application center franchise

Most of these tasks can be handled on your own. The most valuable acquisitions that you get with the franchise are a special CRM system that will allow you to track the work with each client, partnership with travel agencies and a guaranteed flow of customers in the first month of work.

In addition, working on a franchise gives such an advantage as the opportunity to organize the provision of expensive additional services.

Additional services

In addition to the fact that the mark-up for each issued visa can be up to 40%, visa centers also earn on additional services.

Some of the services overlap with those offered by travel agencies. The visa centers realized in time that even those who decided to go abroad on their own still need to fly to the place, get from the airport to the hotel and check in. Therefore, visa centers offer the client who applied to book plane tickets, a place in a hotel, order a transfer, rent a car abroad and take out insurance. All these services help to get additional income and do not require special competencies.

Owning a business is the dream of many people, but in order to start your own business, you need to carefully study the situation on the market and weigh all the risks. One of the most interesting areas in this regard is tourism, in particular, you can open a visa center in Russia. In this way, you can help thousands of people get permission to enter another country and make good money at the same time.

Many citizens of the Russian Federation often face the problem of obtaining visas - independent applications to various authorities take a lot of time, effort and nerves. Therefore, travelers will gladly agree to transfer some of the responsibility for organizing the trip to professionals.

Competition in the field of visa support

Visa centers have become a real salvation for those people who simply do not have the time and opportunity to travel to the embassy on their own. This is especially true for Russian citizens living far from metropolitan areas.

Visa centers are intermediaries between tourists and embassies, whose work gives an almost complete guarantee that you will be able to obtain permits. In such an organization, the traveler will be helped to collect a complete package of necessary papers and fill out an application without errors.

Assessing the market, you can immediately note that your main competitors will be travel agencies that also help their clients to apply for visas. However, it is worth remembering that many travel agencies often do not have time to resolve all issues on their own and they often also turn to the Visa Application Centers for help. Therefore, it is in your interest to establish constructive cooperation with agents.

Other Visa Application Centers may also become your competitors, but this problem can be solved. In fact, not all organizations can provide a full range of services; as a rule, they specialize in issuing visas only to a certain country or region. Indeed, it is very difficult to cover all states, so if centers specializing in issuing documents for entry into China or the USA already operate in your city, then you can safely open your own company and apply for visas to Europe.

Visa center opening costs

Starting any business requires serious financial investments, but opening a Visa Application Center will not cause you any particular difficulties. The fact is that such organizations are engaged in the provision of intermediary services, which means that you do not need any licenses or special permits. The only thing you need to get started is registration as a business entity.

The main costs of opening an organization include the costs of:

• office space;
• hiring employees;
• start-up capital (according to experts, it is estimated at 60 rubles).

Among the additional costs, it is worth highlighting the organization of logistics and, possibly, the opening of your own website and call center. Also, special attention should be paid to the training of employees: they must perfectly know the peculiarities of paperwork, because the reputation of the entire organization directly depends on this.

This type of entrepreneurial activity can provide a fairly high level of income in the first months after opening. To increase the level of income, many Visa Application Centers provide additional services such as selling tickets for planes or trains, urgent photos and much more.

EVC franchise terms and conditions

Of course, you can open your own business almost from scratch, but it is much easier and cheaper to use a franchise. Thanks to it, you get not only the right to use the famous brand, but also the opportunity to work according to already approved technologies and business plans. Thus, buying a franchise is a great choice for aspiring entrepreneurs.

The EVC franchise is the best opportunity to open your business in the field of visa processing and the sale of additional services without any hassle - you will become a partner of the largest federal network. We fully control the launch of the project and help our partners in difficult situations. You will be able to study the successful experience of the main office and build your own business based on a well-thought-out model. Flexible conditions for purchasing a franchise and the opportunity to receive the most complete package of services make cooperation with the United Visa Application Center the best choice for those who dream of starting their own business. You can count on comprehensive legal support and participation in profitable affiliate programs.

Do not be afraid to start something new, especially since Visa Application Centers are what a huge number of people need. Such a business will always be in demand, regardless of the economic situation in the country. Traveling is the cherished dream of millions, and you have a great chance to help people turn their plans into reality.

Getting into the tourism business today has become quite difficult. To work successfully, you need a well-known brand, good service and affordable prices. But, even with all these components, no one will give you a guarantee of a quick payback for the business.

However, there is a niche in the tourism sector that does not require large investments, pays off quickly and does not yet suffer from high competition - visa centers. Read on to find out how to open a visa center and whether you need to buy a franchise for this.

Demand for business

Since the beginning of the year 16.4 million Russians went abroad. The most popular countries for Russian tourists are Turkey, Egypt, Spain, Cyprus and Germany. To visit the same Turkey or Egypt, it is enough to book a hotel and a seat on the plane, but to visit most other countries you will need to apply for a visa.

From different countries different requirements to documents for obtaining a visa and various procedures for registration. If, in order to obtain a visa to Greece, it is enough to provide only a passport, a copy of an internal passport and a few photographs, then for a US visa you will also have to fill out a special form in English in compliance with all transliteration rules and pass an in-person interview at the embassy or consulate USA.

Of course, in both cases, obtaining a visa can be quite a hassle. Most people find it difficult to fill out all the necessary paperwork correctly, yes, then, and not everyone has the time to go to the embassy or the consulate, especially if there are none in your city.

Therefore, many today prefer to issue visas through intermediaries. In most cases, a travel agency helps to make a tourist visa. But Russians are increasingly striving to organize their travels on their own. And not always for a trip abroad you need a tourist visa. Therefore, the popularity of such a phenomenon as visa centers is growing every year.

The first visa centers appeared in Russia at the embassies of various countries

Such intermediaries issue a visa to only one country and charge a service fee from each applicant.

Wishing overpay a little, just not to take a queue at the embassy from the night, it turned out to be enough, and soon the idea with visa centers was picked up by private business. Today, commercial visa centers can process documents for several dozen countries at once. Friendly employees of the centers suggest how to draw up papers correctly, accept documents from their clients, and after a while they issue a finished document.

The algorithm of work at such centers is not particularly complicated - employees only need to know how to draw up documents for each specific country and transfer them to the embassy. The centers cannot give guarantees that the client will certainly receive a visa, because they only intermediaries. But from each applicant they take a commission, which allows you to make good money. And small investments and quick payback make visa centers quite an interesting and profitable business.

Visa center as a business

The Visa Application Center as a business will primarily be of interest to those who I dreamed of trying myself in the field of tourism. If it is rather difficult to develop a travel agency business today - not only has demand fallen by 40-50% due to the dollar and euro exchange rates, but also the number of tourists who seek to organize travel on their own is increasing, and competition in the market is extremely high, then a visa the center could be a much better option. Although, of course, the decline in demand for tourism affects them.

And yet, the niche of visa services is not as busy as the tourist destination in general, and therefore direct competition here is not so great. All over Russia today there are about 60 consulates and 350 visa centers of different countries, and there are even fewer commercial visa centers.

Separately, it is worth talking about who exactly will have to compete with those who decide to enter this area. Of course, the first and main rival is other commercial visa centers. Despite the fact that there are not so many of them yet, there are already quite well-known and strong players on the market. You can defeat them due to the prices offered and the level of service. These words are confirmed by the head of the network of visa centers Denis Shipkov:

“A visa as a product is universal and does not have a large number of quality indicators, so the level of service and customer loyalty are of fundamental importance”

The official visa centers of the countries can be called competitors only conditionally. Firstly, if you do not open in the city where they are, then you will not have to compete with them. Secondly, commercial visa centers often work with them: prepare documents for submission, record their clients for interviews.

Visa centers have special relations with travel agencies. The latter can compete with visa centers if they take over the issuance of visas for their clients or work with large tour operators. However, travel agencies themselves can be clients of visa centers. It is much easier for many of them to outsource visa processing than to deal with this issue on their own.

But main clients of visa centers- these are still private and legal entities. After all, we remember that visas need to be issued only for tourist trips, but also for business purposes. Although the percentage of such applications is still less than on tourist visas - out of 16.4 million Russians, only 387 thousand left for official purposes.

It is characteristic that the business of the visa center is very profitable. With one issued visa, you can get the same commission percentage as with one tour sold by a travel agency. According to Denis Shipkov, head of the network of visa centers Visa Travel, the average margin from visa services is about 200 thousand rubles per month.

At the same time, opening a visa center is not as expensive as most other businesses. Head of development of the network of visa centers "Let's go" Asya Kitaichik thinks:

"In general, this business is suitable for those who do not have large savings - the initial investment is minimal."

To open a visa center, you only need to rent an office space, furnish it with office equipment and hire employees. Investments in such a business range from 200 to 500 thousand rubles.

High margins and relatively small investments provide a fairly quick payback for visa centers. The average time to expect is 6 to 9 months. However, the business can pay off much faster.

One of important conditions, influencing competition, the flow of customers and the payback of business is the city in which the visa center is open. On the one hand, the larger the population in the city, the more potential customers the visa application center has, which means more income. On the other hand, in the majority of millionaires, the competition is higher.

Medium and small towns, where there is a high demand for tourist services and few direct competitors, can become the most attractive for a visa center as a business. Although not all industry representatives agree that the city where the visa application center is located is of great importance. Director "Visaturservice" in Novosibirsk Maria Strashnova shares his experience:

“Not much depends on the size of the city, for example, we have offices in the small towns of Prokopievsk and Tver. Naturally, there are differences in the schemes of working with clients. But it is also interesting to work in big cities.”

In order to better understand whether a visa application center in your city will “shoot out”, you need to analyze the market: how high is the demand and for which directions, are there too many competitors around, will the business be able to grow. Of course, it will be difficult for a novice businessman to conduct such an analysis. Therefore, it makes sense to buy a visa center franchise.

Visa Application Center Franchise

Visa Application Centers selling a franchise, before discussing its conditions with a potential franchisee, first of all find out where they plan to open. Often, if your city already has a branch of the network of visa centers, you will not be able to open a franchise in it. Maria Strashnova, director of the Vizaturservice company in Novosibirsk, explains: “Our contract provides for the exclusive right to open a visa application center within one city. Naturally, in some large cities there may be several offices. All this is calculated by our specialists individually.

In especially large cities, such as Moscow and St. Petersburg, they see the point in opening several branches and other networks, for example, "International Visa Application Center". Here, the competition is, of course, high, but there are also a sufficient number of potential customers who do not want to travel from one area of ​​the city to another in order to apply for a visa.

The franchisor visa center not only assesses how suitable a particular city is for the franchisee's business, it also transfers business processes that a beginner often does not have time to establish. Network Head Visa Travel Denis Shipkov explains:

“Every day we have to deal with new changes in terms of legislation, procedures and nuances of issuing visa documents. Sometimes there is simply no time left to rethink business processes.”

For example, from September 1, 2015 the rules for obtaining Schengen visas have changed for the Russians. Now, in order to obtain permission to enter the Schengen zone, it is necessary to take fingerprints, which automatically does not allow you to apply for a visa without a personal visit to the consulate and the visa center with it. A commercial visa center will not be able to accept fingerprinting, it will only be able to sign up a client for this procedure.

Head of travel agency "Global Voyage" and potential franchisee from Kazan Ekaterina Khramkova believes that this practice will have a very negative impact on the work of commercial visa centers: “Private centers do not have the right to do fingerprinting. Therefore, in any case, a person will have to go to the official visa center at the consulate, and there he will face the same polite treatment and willingness to help. Plus, he will see that the service fee is lower. Next time, to apply for a visa, he will prefer to go directly to the center at the consulate.” According to Ekaterina, one can compete in such conditions only by providing some new services that are in demand on the market.

We also note that Schengen visas are the most popular in Russia. In 2014, the Russians received 5.76 million such visas. Therefore, refusal to process Schengen visas through commercial visa centers can hit their revenue hard.

Those who are not afraid of difficulties should know that

Business processes and components of the franchise package - what you need to pay attention to first of all when buying a visa application center franchise

Most of these tasks can be handled on your own. The most valuable acquisitions that you get with the franchise are a special CRM system that will allow you to track the work with each client, partnership with travel agencies and a guaranteed flow of customers in the first month of work.

In addition, working on a franchise gives such an advantage as the opportunity to organize the provision of expensive additional services.

Additional services

In addition to the fact that the mark-up for each issued visa can be up to 40%, visa centers also earn on additional services.

Some of the services overlap with those offered by travel agencies. The visa centers realized in time that even those who decided to go abroad on their own still need to fly to the place, get from the airport to the hotel and check in. Therefore, visa centers offer the client who applied to book plane tickets, a place in a hotel, order a transfer, rent a car abroad and take out insurance. All these services help to get additional income and do not require special competencies.

A visa is a unique product that has no quality indicators. Its value is formed due to the level of service and customer loyalty. Opening your own visa center, in terms of investment, is not difficult. This requires no more than $ 10 thousand. More important when opening a business will be the size of the city, remoteness from the capital and the level of competition in the region ...

People will always use these services. There are reasons for that. The main reason is that many people (especially those who travel abroad for the first time) do not know the basic issues of obtaining a visa: how to fill out an application in a foreign language, what list of documents, where the consulate is located, etc. In addition, speed is important for people obtaining a visa, and most of them are aware that it will take much longer to process it on their own. Finally, not all cities have official representative offices of foreign countries (consulates), which are responsible for issuing visas. To be precise, such consulates are open only in the largest cities, such as Moscow and St. Petersburg. Therefore, it will be very problematic for a person living, for example, in Omsk, to collect documents and go to Moscow on his own. Therefore, the ideal option is to contact an intermediary.

The visa market is still far from being saturated. Although it will not be easy for a beginner to unwind. Visas are issued not only by specialized centers, but also by the same travel agencies. True, not all. Only large agencies can afford to keep a staff member specializing in visas. Most small travel agencies prefer to apply for assistance to the same visa centers, i.е. work on outsourcing.

Why is it more profitable for people to apply to the visa center than to obtain a visa in other ways? The main reasons: getting a visa in a short time, the professional qualifications of the workers and the friendliness of the staff.

Organizational moments

The first thing to start with opening a business is to choose a favorable office location. The premises of the future center should be located as close as possible to the central part of the city, so that it would be easier for customers to find the organization. The presence of stops and metro stations is of great importance.

The size of the premises will depend on the format of the organization's activities. If the center will be engaged only in receiving, checking and sending documents by mail, then a small office for two workplaces will suffice for these purposes. A more serious format of work requires the opening of a full-fledged visa center, with several departments. In addition to the usual verification of documents, they provide advice on obtaining visas to different countries (and each country has its own specifics of entry), work with the database, and conduct legal verification of documents. Large organizations even have their own call centers.

Many difficulties can arise at the stage of recruitment. For successful work, good specialists will be required, of which there are not so many. The main requirements for candidates: literacy, communication skills and knowledge of the English language. The only good news is that it is not necessary to look for workers with experience. You can accept people who have just graduated from high school. All the basics of work can be taught to a person during a trial period.

Register visa centers as a limited liability company or as an individual business. The most suitable OKVED: 63.3 "Activities of travel agencies." The most optimal taxation system is the simplified tax system. In this case, the organization pays a tax of 6% of the revenue or 15% of the company's profit (optional).

Not a single visa application center can do without advertising its services. Otherwise, the first customers will have to wait a very long time, and salaries and rent will be accrued from the first days. You should take care in advance of placing advertising banners in passable and well-visible places. A significant flow of customers can provide cooperation with travel agencies. It is mandatory to declare the company on the Internet. Today it is difficult to imagine a normal company without its own website. This will not only speak of some solidity of the organization, but will also contribute to the influx of customers through search engines. To create and promote the site, you will need to invest at least 60,000 rubles.

Approximate investment for the opening of the visa center is 390,000 rubles:

• Deposit for renting a room for 2 months. - 40 000 rubles.
• Cosmetic repairs of the premises - 80,000 rubles.
• Purchase of furniture and office equipment - 200,000 rubles.
• Creation and promotion of the site - 60,000 rubles.
• Advertising expenses - 40,000 rubles.
• Business registration and other costs - 50,000 rubles.
• Reserve fund - 100,000 rubles.

How much do Visa Application Centers earn?

The price of the visa processing service depends on the country where the tourist is going to go. To date, the United States is considered the most expensive country. Only one consular fee costs 160 dollars. In second place is Australia. The consular fee to this country will cost a tourist $125. In third place is the United Kingdom, with $112. The cheapest way to get a visa to such countries as: Egypt, Turkey, China and Israel.

A tourist visa to Germany will cost the client from 6,500 to 12,000 rubles. depending on the urgency of registration (4-5 days or 7-12 days). And how much does the visa center earn from this amount? In most cases, when applying for a visa on your own, the tourist pays only the consular fee. In the same Germany, it costs 35 euros, which, translated into today's exchange rate, is about 2,500 rubles. By simple calculations, you can understand that from one client who wants to fly to Germany, the visa center earns from 4,000 to 9,500 rubles.

Visa Application Center Franchise

For start-up entrepreneurs, such an option as opening a visa center under a franchise agreement may be suitable. But this option has its drawbacks: you will have to pay additional funds for using the brand, and be constantly dependent on the main center. Yes, and joining the network costs a lot of money: from 300 to 700 thousand rubles, depending on the franchise format (full or standard package). So much, for example, is required by Visa Travel, a federal network of visa centers that is developing its own franchise network.

Franchise from Visa Travel

But the benefits of franchising are still greater. One of the main ones is investment security. Still, the probability of failing when opening under the wing of a well-known company is no more than 10%. While independently opened firms go bankrupt in 90% of cases, without having worked even a year. There are many reasons for this: ignorance of the market, lack of experience, improper planning, etc.

The franchisor will provide everything necessary for successful business development: provide a set of documents for the proper registration of the organization, set up a client flow, provide scripts for conversations with clients, help in developing an advertising campaign, select and train staff, connect to your own call center, develop a corporate identity for the company and etc.