Franchises · 2026 FDD · Wisconsin DFI filing 640529
Batteries Plus franchise cost, unit revenue and closures
Opening a Batteries Plus cost $284,786 to $536,636 in the 2026 FDD; the franchisor's revenue disclosure has no single unit figure; 12.6% of franchised units closed over three years.
Franchisor: Batteries Plus, L.L.C.. FDD issued 2026-03-26. Fiscal year end 2025-12-31. Figures re-found on the cited page 2026-11-03.
What a unit costs to open
What a unit pays the franchisor
| Initial franchise fee | $49,500 | Item 5, p. 8 |
|---|---|---|
| Royalty | Royalty and Service Fee 5% of total Net Revenues, monthly | Item 6, p. 9 |
| Advertising fund | not read in this pass | Item 6, p. 9 |
second and later stores under a multiple-unit agreement step down from $44,500.
What a unit sells
Item 19 is optional and is the franchisor's own representation. It is shown here as filed, with the franchisor's measure, sample and period, and nothing is estimated where it is missing.
Item 19 present, no single unit figure. average merchandise margin, revenue mix and average Net Revenue by store group for the 490 franchised Same Stores in fiscal 2025; no all-store median (Item 19, p. 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49).
Sample: the 490 franchised Same Stores (open through the fiscal year). Table F-2: the 282 Commercial Sales Focused Stores average Net Revenue $1,053,373 (top quartile average $1,793,046, bottom quartile $558,604); the remaining 208 stores average $820,961. Other tables give margin percentages and ticket sizes. Period: 2025-01-01 to 2025-12-31.
Revenue to investment
Undefined: Item 19 gives group averages and margins, no all-store median.
How many units open and close
| Franchised units | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Start of year | 609 | 606 | 604 |
| Opened | 30 | 30 | 30 |
| Terminated | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Not renewed | 5 | 2 | 1 |
| Reacquired by franchisor | 4 | 17 | 0 |
| Ceased, other reasons | 22 | 11 | 32 |
| End of year | 606 | 604 | 601 |
| Company-owned, end of year | 116 | 133 | 133 |
Item 20, Table 1 p. 63; Table 3 totals p. 69.
Closures are the franchisor's Item 20 counts of units terminated, not renewed, or ceased for other reasons, summed over 2023–2025 and divided by franchised units at the start of 2023. Units the franchisor reacquired are not closures. This is an Item 20 count, not a failure rate.
all three rows sum; the 2024 and 2025 totals rows print on the following page (70).
Source and method
Every figure above comes from the Batteries Plus Franchise Disclosure Document issued 2026-03-26, as filed with the Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions (filing 640529, registry record). The PDF is the franchisor's and is not hosted here; the item and page beside each figure is where to check it. Item 7 and Item 20 tables were read cell by cell; Item 19 was read by hand; each Item 20 year was checked to sum (start + opened − exits = end) before it was recorded.
Informational only, not professional, legal or investment advice. Unitnomics computes from the filing and does not advise on, rank, or refer to any franchise. Last reviewed: November 2026.