First, the head office should be required to show the service logo registration certificate. Because the so-called joining means that the head office authorizes the brand to the franchise stores. In other words, the head office must own the brand before it can authorize the franchise stores. In other words, the headquarters must first obtain the service label registration certificate issued by the Central Bureau of Standards. A while ago, there was a dispute over a Chinese restaurant chain system. The old and new systems entered the Fair Trade Commission. Later, the losing party was forced to change the brand name, and even the franchisees who had joined the system were forced to change their names. How innocent! Therefore, before joining, franchisees must first confirm that the headquarters does own this brand before they can join with confidence. Second, the payment method of royalties Generally speaking, the head office will charge franchisees three kinds of fees, namely, franchise fee, royalty fee and deposit. The so-called franchise fee refers to the fees charged by the headquarters for helping franchisees to make overall store opening planning and education and training before opening a store. The royalty refers to the fees that franchisees need to pay for using the trademark of the headquarters and enjoying the goodwill. This is a continuous charge. As long as franchisees continue to use the trademark of the headquarters, they must pay regularly. The payment period may be once a year, quarterly or monthly. As for the deposit, it is the fee charged by the headquarters to ensure that the franchisees will actually perform the contract and pay the payment on time. Among them, due to the continuous charging of royalties, some franchise headquarters will require franchisees to write a check for the full amount of royalties within the contract period at the time of signing the contract. For example, if the contract period is five years and the royalties are paid annually, some headquarters will require franchisees to pay the royalties for five years in five checks at a time. Later, there was such a case. A franchisee of a certain system opened a shop for two years and closed down because of poor business, but as early as the signing of the contract, a check for the five-year royalty was paid to the headquarters. It stands to reason that in the next three years, since the store has stopped using the trademark and goodwill of the head office, there is no need to pay royalties. However, the head office still rolls the checks it has received into the bank for withdrawal, which has caused the franchisee not only to lose business for two years, but also to pay the amount of these cheques that have been drawn! Therefore, franchisees must remember to add a note to the contract when they meet the requirements of the head office to open all the check denominations of royalties within the contract period at one time. When franchisees close stores and no longer open stores, the head office must return the unexpired royalties to protect their own rights and interests. Third, the price of supply from headquarters. In the general franchise contract, the headquarters will require franchisees to purchase goods from the headquarters, and it is often the most controversial part between the headquarters and franchise stores. Because franchisees often think that the supply price of the headquarters is high, they have purchased from abroad on their own. However, based on the consistency of the quality of the chain system, the headquarters had to ask the franchise stores to purchase from the headquarters in a unified way, so the dispute arose. A more reasonable way is for franchisees to ask in advance that the price supplied by the headquarters should not be higher than the market, or that it is acceptable to be higher than the market, so as to avoid disputes between the two sides over the price afterwards. This information comes from 138jm China Beauty Makeup Franchise Network-