More than one business? Start with one.
Sky5 Toolkit runs several companies under one owner, and franchises where the other owners aren't you. But we'd rather you didn't move everything at once — and the rest of this page explains why, and exactly what you get.
How we'd do it
Put one company on it. Move the others when you're sure.
This product is young. It is used every day by a real business and it does what this site says it does — but you have several companies, and betting all of them on software you've had for a week is a risk we're not going to encourage you to take. Pick the one where a bad month would hurt least. Run it properly for a season. Then decide.
Nothing about starting small closes a door. A company that signs up on its own can be linked into a group later — that's a switch we throw for you, not a migration, and nothing in the first company has to be rebuilt.
- One business signs up normally Same as any other customer. Free while it has ten customers or fewer.
- You run it for a season Real schedules, real crew hours, real invoices, a real month-end. Long enough to know whether it fits how you actually work.
- You tell us to add the others Each additional company is set up as its own complete business.
- We link them into a group The owner's account gains a comparison view across all of them. The companies themselves don't change.
The shape of it
Each business stays a whole business
A company in a group is not a department, a location or a tag. It is a complete, separate Sky5 Toolkit — and that is the point, because the companies in a group usually don't share staff, customers or even a trade.
Its own everything
Customers, properties, crew, schedule, checklists, invoices, expenses and books. Nothing is pooled and nothing is shared by accident.
Its own trade
A landscaping company and a pool company in the same group each get the setup for their own work — their own service types and their own vocabulary.
Its own people
A manager at one company is a manager at that company. Being in a group gives nobody a login anywhere else.
What the owner sees
All of them, side by side, one month at a time
One screen, one column per company. Pick the month, tick the companies you want in the comparison, and read across.
| July 2026 | Northside | Westlake | Harbor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $18,400 | $11,250 | $26,900 |
| Collected | $16,900 | $11,250 | $21,400 |
| Outstanding | $1,500 | — | $5,500 |
| Labor | $7,900 | $5,100 | $12,300 |
| Materials | $1,120 | $640 | $2,050 |
| Gross profit | $9,380 | $5,510 | $12,550 |
| Operating expenses | $3,200 | $2,400 | $4,850 |
| Net income | $6,180 | $3,110 | $7,700 |
| Customers | 34 | 19 | 51 |
| Crew | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| Jobs completed | 148 | 81 | 223 |
An illustration of the comparison view, with fictional companies and figures. Jobs are counted when they're finished, not when they're booked.
There is no single combined total, and that's deliberate
You'll notice the table has no "group" column. We could add one. It would be wrong.
In a franchise, a fee is a cost on the franchisee's books and income on yours. Add the two together and you've counted the same dollar twice — the group looks bigger than it is, and the number gets worse the more fees you charge. Any figure you'd want to take to a bank or a buyer has to be built deliberately, not by summing a column.
So we show you the companies, honestly, side by side. Where a total is sound — revenue billed to real outside customers, with internal fees taken out — that's the figure we give you.
If you franchise
Fees that land on both sets of books
Raise the monthly fee against a franchisee and it appears where an accountant would expect it: an expense on theirs, income on yours. Draft it, post it, mark it paid.
Both sides agree
One record, two views. Nobody is reconciling a spreadsheet against a bank statement at the end of the quarter to work out what was actually charged.
It survives the franchisee
The record keeps the company's name on it, so a franchisee who leaves the group doesn't take your fee history with them.
Why a franchisee will agree to it
You see the numbers. You don't see their people.
This is the part that makes a franchise sellable. A franchisee handing their books to the franchisor wants to know exactly where the line is — so the line is drawn in the code, not in a policy document, and it's tested.
- Pay rates never cross. Not per person, not by name, not anywhere in the response.
- Employee names never cross. You see how many crew they have, not who they are.
- Customer lists never cross. You see the count. You cannot see the names, the addresses or the invoices.
- Schedules and documents never cross. Their day is theirs.
- Franchisees can't see each other. Being in the same group gives one franchisee no visibility into another.
- It only goes one way. A franchisee has no group view at all — they see their own business, exactly as any other customer does.
One honest exception, and you should tell your franchisees about it
If a franchisee is a one-person business, their total labor cost is that person's pay. No amount of care in the software changes that arithmetic. The app flags it when it happens rather than quietly letting you work it out, but you should know it up front — and so should they.
What it costs
Your first two franchisees, then ten dollars each
The comparison view is an add-on on your account. Everything else is priced exactly as it would be if the companies had nothing to do with each other.
The group view — on your account
$19.95/month
Covers your first two franchisees. $9.95 a month for each one after that. So five is $49.80, and ten is $99.55.
Each business — on its own
Every company pays for its own plan, the same as any other customer, and picks only the parts it uses.
A franchisee with ten customers or fewer pays nothing. A new one starting out costs you and them nothing at all — they begin paying when they grow, not when they sign.
You pay for the group view; your franchisees don't. Most franchisors recover it in the first fee they raise. See the full price list for what a single business costs.
Plain speaking
What this doesn't do yet
Better you read it here than find it in week two.
Each business has its own sign-in
If you own three companies, you sign in to each one. There is no single login that switches between them yet. We're not going to dress that up — it's on the list. In practice it stings less than it sounds, because the comparison view lives in the parent company and that's where an owner spends their time.
We link the companies for you
There's no button in your account that adds a company to a group. You ring us or email us and we set it up. For a group of three that's the right trade; if you're signing franchisees every month, tell us and we'll talk about what self-service needs to look like.
There's no single bill for the group
Each company is billed on its own, to whoever set it up — so a group of four gets four invoices from us, plus yours for the group view. If you're paying for all of them yourself, that's four card charges rather than one line, and there's no consolidated statement to hand your accountant.
We'd rather tell you that now than have you find it in the first month. If it's a real problem for how you run the group, say so — you'd be the first to ask, and that's exactly the kind of thing that moves up the list.
The comparison is monthly, and it's a comparison
It shows one month at a time across the companies you tick. It is not a consolidated financial statement, and we'd rather you didn't hand it to a bank as one. Each company's own books produce the statements — those are per company, and they are the real thing.