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FranConnect

FranConnect is a franchise and multi-location management platform used by 1,500+ brands across roughly one million locations, covering franchise development and sales, franchisee/unit information management, field operations and audits, financials and royalties, and CRM. Its FranConnect Sky product exposes a RESTful API - organized by module (Franchise Sales "fs", CRM "cm", Info Manager "fim", Finance "manage-finance", and Admin "admin") - that lets customers import and export data between FranConnect Sky and third-party applications. All API calls are made over HTTPS and authenticated with an Authorization-Token header. API access is not open/self-serve - it is gated behind a FranConnect Sky customer or partner account, with credentials provisioned by FranConnect, and the reference documentation portal (docs.franconnect.net) requires a signed-in account.

human only

More than an index entry, but the surface is still mostly links rather than artifacts — the cohort most likely to move a full band from modest, well-targeted work.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles FranConnect the way a machine reads it — 9 machine-readable artifacts across 5 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — FranConnect scores 17.5/100 (emerging), with a separate agent-readiness read of 0/100 (human only). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 17.5/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 1.7 / 20
Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 10.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile FranConnect

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for FranConnect. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 5

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

FranConnect Franchise Sales API

Franchise Sales / Development module (path segment "fs"). Import and export franchise development leads, prospects, and the franchise sales pipeline used to recruit and qualify ...

FranConnect CRM API

CRM module (path segment "cm"). Read and write contacts and relationship/communication records that support franchise and consumer engagement. Endpoint paths are modeled from th...

FranConnect Info Manager API

Info Manager module (path segment "fim"). The system of record for franchisee and unit/location profiles, plus document retrieval - recent releases added dedicated REST endpoint...

FranConnect Finance API

Finance module (path segment "manage-finance"). Import and export financial data - unit sales reporting, royalties, fees, and invoicing used to calculate and reconcile franchise...

FranConnect Admin API

Admin module (path segment "admin"). Administrative entities such as users, roles, and configuration that govern the FranConnect Sky tenant. Endpoint paths are modeled from the ...

Pricing Plans 1

Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Security Posture 3

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Franconnect Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Franconnect Vulnerability Disclosure

disclosure policy published

SECURITY

Franconnect Trust Center

SOC 2, ISO 27001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018, PCI DSS, HIPAA, FedRAMP, GDPR, CSA STAR

SECURITY

Resources

Every other property we hold for FranConnect — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 2

The organization behind the API

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