Cash flow · networks and franchises
Stop chasing your royalties. Collect first, redistribute after.
Platform payouts land in the network's account. Food'Up calculates each franchisee's royalty, works out the balance owed to them, produces the bank file and issues the invoices. You control the flow, from the first euro to the last.
Platforms
Payouts from every restaurant
Network account
The money stays with you
Food'Up
Reconciliation, royalties, SEPA file, invoices
Your bank
Executes the transfers
Franchisees
Each receives their exact balance
Funds move through your own bank account. Food'Up calculates the amounts, prepares the transfer file and issues the invoices — your bank executes the payments.
The problem it solves
What network heads live with
In the usual model, each franchisee collects their own delivery sales and then owes you a royalty. You sit at the end of the chain: you invoice, you chase, you wait. Across a hundred locations that occupies a full-time role and corrodes the commercial relationship.
- Royalties claimed after the fact, sometimes never paid
- Chasing that damages the franchisee relationship
- Cash flow that depends on everyone else's
- Manual reconciliation between statements and invoices
Reverse the direction of the flow and the problem disappears: what you are owed is deducted before redistribution, not claimed after it.
How it works
Seven steps, one action on your side
- 01
Platforms pay the network
The franchisor registers its own bank details on each franchisee's Uber Eats and Deliveroo account. Every weekly payout across the network then lands in a single account instead of dozens.
- 02
We pull the payment dataFood'Up
Every payout is matched to the restaurant that generated it, with its full detail: sales, commission, promotions, refunds, meal vouchers. Across an unlimited number of locations.
- 03
We calculate the royaltiesFood'Up
Brand royalty, marketing fund contribution, rebills, adjustments: every deduction is applied under your franchise agreement, restaurant by restaurant.
- 04
What to keep, what to pay outFood'Up
On one side what the network is owed, on the other the exact balance due to each franchisee. The totals reconcile to the cent with the payouts received.
- 05
We produce the bank fileFood'Up
Every week, a SEPA credit transfer file in XML, ready for your finance team to upload to the bank. One file, however many franchisees there are.
- 06
Your bank executes the transfers
Each franchisee automatically receives the right amount, in the right account, on the right date. No manual entry, no re-typed IBAN.
- 07
We issue the invoicesFood'Up
Royalty invoices and the rebilling of everything the platforms deducted are generated automatically and pushed into your own invoicing software, whichever one you use. The audit trail is complete.
The calculation, restaurant by restaurant
128 locations over one period
Every line reconciles: what was collected, what is deducted under your franchise agreement, what is paid out. The file total matches the payouts received from the platforms exactly.
Collected from platforms
€4,210,000
Royalty 5.0%
€210,500
Marketing fund 2.0%
€84,200
To redistribute
€3,915,300
| Restaurant | Collected | Royalty | Mkt fund | To pay |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Restaurant - Lyon | €42,800 | €−2,140 | €−856 | €39,804 |
| Restaurant - Paris | €38,900 | €−1,945 | €−778 | €36,177 |
| Restaurant - Bordeaux | €31,200 | €−1,560 | €−624 | €29,016 |
| Restaurant - Lille | €24,600 | €−1,230 | €−492 | €22,878 |
| …and 124 more | same calculation, applied across the network | |||
Restaurant - Lyon
€42,800€39,804Restaurant - Paris
€38,900€36,177Restaurant - Bordeaux
€31,200€29,016Restaurant - Lille
€24,600€22,878
What it changes in practice
Depending on who you are in the network
For network management
The royalty is secured at source
It is deducted before redistribution, not claimed afterwards. Late payment stops being a problem you have to manage.
No more chasing franchisees
No letters, no formal notices, and no commercial relationship soured by a conversation about money.
Predictable cash flow
You know what is coming in and when, without depending on each franchisee's goodwill or working capital.
A stronger negotiating position
Your network's volume becomes a single documented figure you can put in front of a platform.
The same workload at 10 or 500 locations
The work does not grow with the network: onboarding a franchisee means adding a line.
For finance
One file instead of hundreds of transfers
The SEPA file goes to the bank, which executes the whole batch. Time spent no longer scales with the number of locations.
No data entry errors
No re-typed IBAN, no transposed amount, no missed payment. Across a network, payment errors are expensive twice over — in money and in trust.
Reconciliation is already done
Platform payouts are tied to the restaurant, the period and the invoice. There are no statements left to cross-check by hand.
Faster closes
Entries are prepared and documented, which shortens the monthly close and the annual audit.
A complete audit trail
Every euro is traceable from the platform payout to the franchisee transfer.
For the franchisee
A clear, itemised payment
They receive an amount with the calculation attached: what was sold, what was deducted, and what is theirs.
No argument about the numbers
The calculation is identical across the network, applied the same way, on the same date.
Less admin
No more tracking payouts platform by platform, and no more royalty paperwork to produce.
A compliant invoice
Invoices are issued in the right format and pushed into both parties' accounting tools.
E-invoicing
The French reform is here. Your royalty invoices are already compliant.
Invoices covering platform amounts and royalties are generated automatically and pushed into your invoicing software. Most franchisors fall into the mid-cap category, which means the issuing obligation applies to them from the first deadline.
Structured formats — Factur-X, UBL or CII — transmitted through an accredited platform.
1 September 2026
All VAT-registered businesses in France must be able to receive electronic invoices, and large companies and mid-caps must issue them.
1 September 2027
Issuing becomes mandatory for small and medium businesses and micro-enterprises.
- Calendar checked in August 2026. The reform has already been postponed twice, so confirm these dates with your accountant.
Restaurants running on Food'Up
FAQ
Questions about cash flow management
Does Food'Up hold my network's money?
Never. The funds move through your own bank account. We calculate the amounts, produce the transfer file and issue the invoices; your bank executes the payments, on your finance team's instruction.
How many restaurants can you handle?
An unlimited number. The transfer file is a single file whatever the network size, and processing time doesn't depend on it.
What bank file format do you provide?
A SEPA credit transfer in pain.001.001.03 XML — the ISO 20022 standard every French bank accepts. All transfers are grouped into a single batch, each franchisee carrying an end-to-end identifier and a remittance label that reads clearly on their statement. You upload the file to your bank as it is.
Which invoicing software do you integrate with?
With yours. We automate invoice issuing inside the invoicing tool the franchise already uses, without asking you to switch. It is also what keeps you compliant with the French e-invoicing rules, whichever vendor you have chosen.
How are royalties calculated?
Exactly as set out in your franchise agreement: the usual percentage, the marketing fund contribution, and the rebilling of what the platforms deducted. Rules are configured once, then applied every week. Your existing agreements don't change.
What if a platform payout is missing?
The gap shows up at reconciliation, because we compare what was sold against what was paid. The missing amount is identified before redistribution, not discovered three months later.
Take back control of your network's cash flow.
We'll walk you through the calculation, the bank file and the invoices on your own organisation.