Franchises · 2026 FDD · Wisconsin DFI filing 641543
FASTSIGNS franchise cost, unit revenue and closures
Opening a FASTSIGNS cost $231,225 to $386,285 in the 2026 FDD; the median unit sold $823,726 in the franchisor's 2025 calendar year figures; 3.1% of franchised units closed over three years.
Franchisor: FASTSIGNS International, Inc.. FDD issued 2026-05-01. Fiscal year end 2025-12-31. Figures re-found on the cited page 2026-11-03.
What a unit costs to open
single new Full-Service Center.
What a unit pays the franchisor
| Initial franchise fee | $49,750 | Item 5, p. 5-1 |
|---|---|---|
| Royalty | Service Fee the greater of $1,250 or 6% of Gross Sales, monthly (3% for a Conversion or Co-Brand Franchised Business in its first twelve months) | Item 6, p. 6-1 |
| Advertising fund | Ad Fee 2% of Gross Sales, monthly, to the Ad Fund administered by the FASTSIGNS National Advertising Council | Item 6, p. 6-2 |
single FASTSIGNS Center; $24,875 for an additional Center.
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.
| Measure | Gross Sales, calendar 2025, All Centers row (690 US Centers in continuous operation all year) | |
|---|---|---|
| Sample | 690 units: 690 of the 710 US Centers open at 2025-12-31 that operated continuously all of 2025: 650 Full-Service (average $1,109,299, median $831,152), 9 Satellite and 31 Co-Brand (average $721,909, median $450,132); later tables give sales bands, quartiles and franchisee-principal tenure | |
| Period | 2025 calendar year | |
| High / low | $9,109,903 / $39,356 | |
Revenue to investment
Formula: Item 19 All Centers median / Item 7 total (midpoint, low, high). A ratio of 1.00 means one year of median unit revenue equals the investment; it says nothing about profit.
How many units open and close
| Franchised units | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Start of year | 677 | 689 | 705 |
| Opened | 17 | 20 | 17 |
| Terminated | 1 | 4 | 10 |
| Not renewed | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Reacquired by franchisor | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Ceased, other reasons | 4 | 0 | 1 |
| End of year | 689 | 705 | 710 |
| Company-owned, end of year | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Item 20, Table 1 p. 20-1; Table 3 totals p. 20-13.
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; Table 3 runs from page 20-7 to 20-13.
Source and method
Every figure above comes from the FASTSIGNS Franchise Disclosure Document issued 2026-05-01, as filed with the Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions (filing 641543, 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.
This FDD numbers its pages by item (page 7-2 is the second page of Item 7), and the citations below use that numbering..
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.