I wanted to share a quick update on franchises and where things stand right now.
I’ve enabled the first few franchises on the site and added a few users so they can claim and manage their franchise pages. I know there are already quite a few franchise requests waiting, and I’ll be going through those manually one by one to review and approve them. Thank you for your patience while I work through the list.
Franchises are still a little bit of a work in progress, but the general idea is that each franchise will have its own profile page on the site. From there, a franchise can have members, an admin, and a founder who can help manage the page and keep it updated. The page can be used to share news, create events, show off equipment and props, upload a logo, post fundraising information, and give people a better sense of what the franchise is doing.
One of the bigger pieces of this is fundraising. If your franchise collects for a charity, you can enter the charity you support and add fundraising totals for the year or by month. You can keep those numbers updated over time, or you can go back and fill in older information if you want to build out a history of what your group has raised.
There is also a map that shows franchises by area, which should make it easier for fans to find groups near them and connect with other members of the community.
Another feature I’m excited about, and one we are still testing, is the ability for franchises to share a link to the GBFans.com shop. When someone places an order through that franchise’s link, 5% of the order will be donated monthly to the charity of that franchise’s choice. The goal is to give franchises another way to support their fundraising efforts and help raise more money for the causes they care about.
This is all still early, and I already see a couple of fixes I want to make right away. I’ll keep improving things as requests come in and as more franchises start using the tools.
We’d love to get feedback. We’d love to know what features are the most important to you, what features you want to see, and what else we could do to improve franchise pages moving forward.
