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Case Study

Franchise operations,
finally unified.

How we helped Rise.Life replace a fragmented patchwork of tools with a single, automated Monday.com operating system built for national franchise scale.

Health & Social Care UK Franchise Network Monday.com CRM Workflow Automation Make.com Integrations
70%
Reduction in admin time
100+
Care homes tracked in real time
41
Systems replaced by one platform
Scalable for national expansion
01
The Challenge

Growing fast, held together with spreadsheets

Rise.Life is one of the UK's fastest-growing wellbeing franchises, delivering movement-based activities to older adults across care homes and community settings. As the network expanded, the operational cracks began to show.

Revenue data lived across multiple platforms and was slow to compile. Scheduling and attendance had no real-time oversight. Each franchisee operated differently, with no consistent source of truth across the network.

The tools in use (Franchise360, Connecteam, Xero, and countless spreadsheets) had each solved individual problems in isolation but created a fragmented ecosystem that required constant manual effort to hold together.

Rise needed a custom-built system that could accurately track revenue across the entire franchise network while remaining data-compliant, highly scalable, and simple enough for franchisees and activity leads to use day-to-day.

Before Inflowstructure
📁 Franchise360
📅 Connecteam
📊 Xero
🗂️ Spreadsheets
📧 Email trails
📆 Calendars
💬 WhatsApp
7 disconnected tools. No single source of truth.
Replaced with
Monday.com Operating System
One platform. Full visibility. Complete control.
Our Approach

Understand before we build.

We don't configure software until we understand the operation. Every system starts with two foundational phases that no remote call can replace.

Phase 01
🎧
Strategic Discovery
An in-depth conversation with Trevor Brocklebank, Co-Founder of Rise.Life, established the strategic direction. We listened before we advised, mapping the business challenges before suggesting a single tool.
Revenue visibility gaps across the franchise network
Need for a single source of truth for clients, packages, and billing
Strict data protection requirements between franchisees
Goal to reduce per-user licensing costs significantly
Platform needed to scale to dozens of additional territories
Phase 02
🗂️
Full-Day Systems & Workflows Workshop
A full-day, in-person session at Rise.Life's head office. We sat with franchisees, activity leads, and head office staff to map how the business truly operated, not how anyone thought it did.
In-person shadowing to capture real behavioural operations
Mapping informal "side processes" never found in documentation
End-to-end mapping: sales, onboarding, scheduling, billing, compliance
Identified bottlenecks, duplication, and data-entry pain points
Developed the unified future-state operational model
What the workshop revealed
Franchise360 and Connecteam created parallel but disconnected processes
Revenue data was slow to compile and prone to manual error
Scheduling and attendance lacked any real-time oversight
Data lived in inconsistent formats across multiple platforms
Franchisees had vastly different levels of digital skill
Paid tools had unused features that duplicated manual work
What We Built

A modular, franchise-ready operating system

Six interconnected components built inside Monday.com's Enterprise CRM, combined with custom automations and Make.com integrations, all designed from the workshop blueprint up.

🎯

CRM & Sales Pipeline

Custom lead management tracking every prospect from networking to conversion, with care homes linked to parent group organisations.

  • Networking to taster to conversion pipeline
  • Care home to group organisation linking
  • Automated outreach and follow-up templates
  • Franchise-wide communication and dashboards
🏢

Franchise Management

One dedicated workspace per franchise with enterprise-level permission controls, ensuring franchisees can never see each other's data.

  • Isolated workspace per franchise
  • SLA, compliance & safeguarding automations
  • Head Office full cross-franchise visibility
  • Structured franchisee onboarding workflows
💰

Packages & Billing

Automated package price calculation handling complex monthly and 4-weekly billing variations, feeding directly into Xero.

  • Monthly vs 4-weekly billing logic
  • Automated renewal reminders
  • Cancellation workflows
  • Export-ready invoicing data for Xero
🔗

Scheduling Integration

Connecteam was retained for scheduling and integrated via API, automatically feeding delivery and attendance data into Monday.com for revenue forecasting.

  • API integration with Connecteam
  • Automated KPI data flow daily into Monday
  • Real attendance-based revenue forecasting
  • Connecteam to Xero payroll integration
🏠

The Rise Hub

A unified knowledge base accessible to all franchisees, creating a digital home for the network with version-controlled materials from Head Office.

  • SOPs, safeguarding & branding materials
  • Onboarding checklists & video tutorials
  • Policy updates controlled by Head Office
  • Shared communication channel network-wide
📊

Reporting & Insights

Head Office and franchisee dashboards surfacing the right data to the right people, with no ability to see beyond their own territory.

  • Franchise performance benchmarking
  • Care home engagement tracking
  • Pipeline conversion metrics
  • Franchisee-scoped data visibility only
Beyond the build

The Franchise Launch Engine

We didn't just deliver software. We built a repeatable internal system for onboarding new franchisees at scale, and mentored Becky, Rise's Business Support Manager, to run it independently. Every new territory can now be spun up with consistency and confidence, without Inflowstructure in the room.

🎓
1-to-1 coaching & mentoring Becky was trained to deliver thorough workspace walkthroughs, CRM fundamentals, and onboarding sessions independently.
📚
Full resource library Video tutorials, SOPs, troubleshooting guides, and franchisee starter kits built for every onboarding scenario.
🚀
Rapid, repeatable rollout New franchisee workspaces generated at speed with consistent quality, training delivered in a predictable format every time.
The Outcomes

Real results, real impact.

70%
Reduction in admin time for franchise owners
100+
Care homes tracked with real-time visibility
41
Disconnected systems replaced by one platform
We finally have everything in one place. The visibility we have now across the network is something we've never had before.
Head Office, Rise.Life
It feels like a professional system built around how we actually work, not the other way around.
Franchisee, Rise.Life
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