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CertaPro Painters

Partial FDD data
Home Improvement · Audubon, Pennsylvania · Founded 1971 · Franchising since 1992
Moderate confidence · 0.75Unclaimed profile
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Total to open · Item 7
$171K–$321K
Franchise fee · Item 5
$65,000
Included in the total above
Owner turnover
Awaiting Item 20 extraction
Factbook Score
Pending
Brand has 0 year(s) of Item 20 history in our current extraction
✓ No bankruptcy disclosures2 litigation disclosures · Item 3No Item 19 earnings dataWhy these flags?

Beyond the filing

Everything else on this page is quoted from CertaPro Painters's franchise disclosure document. This is not — it is measured off the open web, it is not verified by the franchisor, and it never affects the Factbook Score.

Customer rating
4.8 / 5
7,051 Google reviews across 20 locations
Website health
10 / 10
Basic checks: HTTPS, mobile viewport, speed, metadata. Most sites clear them
Store locator
Yes
Their site has a finder that sends customers to their nearest branch — how walk-in trade reaches a franchisee
Android app
None found
No Play Store link on their site — an app they don't link from their homepage would read the same way
Google returns at most twenty locations for a search, so the rating is a sample of CertaPro Painters's outlets rather than all of them. The App Store lookup for CertaPro Painters was inconclusive, so no iPhone result is shown either way. Measured Sep 11, 2026.

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Every figure on this page comes from CertaPro Painters's own disclosure filings, source linked. Compare it against its category before any discovery call — and read the FDD with an attorney before signing anything.

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Opening a CertaPro Painters: $171K–$321K
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Figures below were extracted with limited confidence (0.75 of 1.00)

They have not cleared our 0.85 QA bar, usually because no primary regulator-hosted filing was reachable and the figures come from a secondary source. Treat them as indicative and check the linked source before relying on them. We publish the score rather than hiding it — see the methodology.

Royalty
Tiered: 6% on first $2.5M sales; 5% on $2.5M-$5M; 4% over $5M
General Advertising Fund: 3% of sales if annual gross <=$2.5M, 2% if over; plus Local Advertising 12% year 1 / 8% thereafter (includes GAF)
Franchised units
3-yr unit growth
CAGR from Item 20

What it really costs

Every cost figure this brand's filing discloses — not just the headline range

Total initial investment · Item 7$171K–$321K
$0$500K
ExpenseLowHigh
Initial franchise fee$65,000$65,000
Total initial investment$171,000$320,500

Item 7 reports a total range, not a full line-item breakdown, in this brand's filing excerpt — the franchise fee is the only cost we can show separately today.

Costs more to open than 71% of home services franchises on this site with a disclosed Item 7 range (203 compared). Computed from total investment, not a figure from the filing itself.

Earnings disclosure

Does the franchisor share performance data? No

This brand's filing does not include an Item 19 financial performance representation. That's common — a large share of franchisors disclose nothing here — but it means you should ask for unit-level economics directly during discovery calls. Compare against home services brands that do disclose one.

Legal history

CLEAR
No bankruptcy disclosures for the franchisor or its officers.
2 CASES
2021 arbitration against former franchisee for restrictive covenant breach, settled 2022; 2024 federal court action against former franchisee for damages and covenant enforcement (pending).
PROTECTED
Item 12 grants a protected territory.
NOTED
Non-compete: 2 year(s) / ? mile(s) after leaving the system.

Tell me when CertaPro Painters files something new

Franchisors refile every year, and fees, investment ranges and closure counts move between filings. We'll email you when this brand's figures change — nothing else, and never a sales sequence.

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Common questions

Answered from this brand's own FDD filing. Where the filing is silent, the question is left out rather than answered with a guess.

How much does a CertaPro Painters franchise cost?

CertaPro Painters' most recent Franchise Disclosure Document puts the total estimated initial investment at $171K–$321K. That is Item 7, which covers everything needed to open — the franchise fee, build-out, equipment, opening inventory and initial working capital. The initial franchise fee itself is $65,000, and is included in that range.

What royalty does CertaPro Painters charge?

CertaPro Painters charges a continuing royalty of Tiered: 6% on first $2.5M sales; 5% on $2.5M-$5M; 4% over $5M, disclosed in Item 6. Royalties are charged on revenue, not profit, so they are owed whether or not the outlet is profitable.

Does CertaPro Painters disclose earnings (Item 19)?

No. CertaPro Painters makes no financial performance representation in its FDD. Item 19 is the only optional item under the FTC Franchise Rule, so omitting it is lawful and common — but it means the franchisor publishes no revenue or profit figures for its outlets, and any figure quoted elsewhere is not from the filing.

Does CertaPro Painters give a protected territory?

CertaPro Painters' FDD describes a protected territory in Item 12. Protection varies in what it actually excludes — franchisors commonly reserve online sales and alternative channels inside it — so the wording in the filing matters more than the yes.

Facts on this page are sourced from CertaPro Painters' Franchise Disclosure Document.

Item 7 range combines two investment models disclosed in the FDD: subcontractor model $171,000-$246,000 and employee model $203,250-$320,500; low/high here span the full combined range across both models. Item 12 territory protection has a carve-out: other CertaPro franchisees authorized for Commercial Services may sell into your territory but may not compete for Residential Services sales; Program Services participants may also deliver in-territory. Item 20 outlet table could not be retrieved because the fetched document content was truncated before that section; a second attempt was not made due to session search-budget exhaustion, so item20_by_year is left empty rather than guessed.