Industry
Laundromat management software for multi-site operators
Laundry portfolios grow by acquisition, which means they grow by inheriting other people's processes. A unified platform is how you get one operating standard across sites that were bought, built and franchised at different times — without flattening what each location does well.
In short
Laundromat management software for a multi-site operator consolidates takings from every location, publishes operating and safety standards as scheduled checks with photo evidence, gives each site a channel to raise equipment issues, and keeps licences and insurance filed centrally with their expiry dates. It coordinates a laundry portfolio like a franchise network, whether or not it is one.
What actually goes wrong
None of this is a crisis on any given Tuesday. It becomes one when you try to scale, sell, refinance or defend the business.
Acquisitions arrive with their own habits
Every site you buy comes with a different pricing structure, a different attendant rota, a different idea of what "clean" means, and a different way of recording takings. Standardising by memo does not survive contact with a busy site.
Machine downtime is discovered by customers
Nobody at head office knows a bank of dryers has been out for nine days until takings drop or a review appears. There is no channel where a site raises it and no record that it was raised.
Unattended sites are hard to hold to a standard
Much of the estate runs unattended for large parts of the day. Standards you cannot personally inspect need to produce evidence, or they are not standards.
Compliance paperwork lives at the site
Public liability certificates, gas and electrical safety certification, and council licences sit in a folder at each location — which is exactly where they are unavailable when an insurer asks about all of them at once.
How Stores360 handles it
One takings picture across the portfolio
Sales from each site's point-of-sale or payment system consolidated by trading date and location, with sites ranked against each other rather than against last year — so pricing tests and equipment investments can be judged.
Operating standards as scheduled checks
Cleanliness, safety, machine condition and stock-level checks issued as reusable checklists on a cadence, completed on a phone with photo evidence and a location stamp, with a corrective action raised on every failure.
A maintenance channel with a record
Sites raise maintenance requests in the system rather than by text message, so an equipment fault has a status, an owner and a history — and a pattern across sites becomes visible.
Pricing and promotion changes that land everywhere
Announce a price change or a promotion across the estate in minutes, with acknowledgement tracked per site, so you know which locations are running the old prices.
Licences and insurance that do not lapse quietly
Certificates and licences filed against the site that holds them, classified and expiry-aware, so head office can answer "is every location covered?" without contacting a single one.
What you should be able to do
- One comparable takings figure per site per day.
- An acquired site is running the portfolio's standards within its first month.
- Equipment faults have an age and an owner instead of a rumour.
- Renewals happen from a list, before the date.
Works with your POS
Sales are read from the point-of-sale each location already has — Clover and Toast today, through their APIs. Nothing changes at the till.
Every POS we read →The methods behind this
Written to be useful whether or not you ever buy anything from us.
How to manage multiple store locations
The full method for running a network you can no longer walk around — from one set of numbers to standards that hold.
How to run safety and brand-standard audits across locations
Make a standard enforceable: a checklist, a schedule, photo evidence, and a corrective action with a name on it.
How to track franchise agreement, insurance and licence expiry
Agreements, certificates and licences that expire quietly, made visible before the date rather than after.
Frequently asked questions
Is this suitable for unattended or part-attended laundromats?
Yes, and it matters more there. Standards you cannot personally inspect need to produce evidence — a scheduled check completed on a phone with a photo and a location stamp is how an unattended site stays accountable.
Can it handle a mix of owned and franchised sites?
Yes. Locations are assigned to operators, and each operator sees only the sites they hold. Royalty billing applies to the franchised sites and is simply unused for the owned ones.
Does it replace my payment or machine management system?
No. It sits above them, consolidating takings and giving you the operational layer — standards, communication, maintenance, documents and records — that a payment system does not try to cover.
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Tell us how many locations you run and what is currently held together by spreadsheets. From $87 per store, per month, with setup and onboarding included.