Trustist Franchise

Build a business that earns long-term recurring monthly income

Leverage your business development experience and networks to sell proven online services and grow a customer base that can keep paying you month after month.

With Trustist, you’ll help businesses improve their online reviews, take payments and reduce payment processing costs.

There’s no shop, no stock and no large team to manage. Instead, you can work flexibly, meet local business owners and create a reliable base of recurring monthly income.

You can run the business from home or an office, with three established services to sell and the systems, technology and support already in place.

Three services, one customer relationship.

As a Trustist franchisee, you’ll have three established services to offer businesses in your area.

Trustist Reviews

Help businesses manage their online reputation from one place.

Trustist Reviews brings reviews from different platforms into a single dashboard, helps clients generate more customer feedback and gives them tools to showcase their reputation on their own website.

It can also help businesses display review stars in search results, making them stand out from competitors and potentially driving more traffic to their website.

TrustistTransfer

Give businesses a simpler and cheaper way to take bank transfer payments.

TrustistTransfer combines Open Banking with QR codes, allowing customers to make secure payments directly from their bank account using their smartphone.

There are no card processing fees and no risk of chargebacks, while transaction costs can be up to 90% lower than taking card payments.

TrustistEcommerce

Help online businesses take payments directly from customers’ bank accounts.

TrustistEcommerce uses Open Banking to provide a simple alternative to traditional card payments. Customers don’t need to enter card details or personal payment information - they simply authorise the payment through their bank.

With competitive transaction fees and protection from card-related fraud and chargebacks, it gives ecommerce businesses another way to reduce payment costs and protect their margins.

The three services work well together, giving you more than one reason to speak to a business and more opportunities to grow the value of each customer relationship.

What does running a Trustist franchise look like?

This is a business built around people and relationships.

You’ll spend your time speaking to business owners, introducing the Trustist services, attending local networking events, following up on opportunities and developing relationships with your existing customers.

There’s no shop to open every morning, no stock to manage and no workforce required.

You can operate from home or an office and organise your working week around the way you want to build the business.

Some days might involve local meetings and networking. Others might be spent following up enquiries, demonstrating the Trustist platform or speaking with existing customers.

The technology is already there. Your role is to develop the relationships and grow the customer base.

Could you be a good fit for Trustist?

You don’t need to be a technology or fintech expert. Successful Trustist franchisees have come from all kinds of backgrounds and skill sets.

What matters more is that you’re comfortable talking to business owners, developing relationships and following opportunities through.

Trustist could be a particularly good fit if you have experience in sales, account management, marketing, consulting, management or running a business of your own.

You’ll need to be comfortable getting out into your local business community, making connections and developing a customer base over time.

Most importantly, you should want to start something.

The Trustist model rewards franchisees who keep adding customers, retain them and develop a valuable long-term business rather than simply creating another job for themselves.

Everything you need to get started

You’re building your own business, but you won’t be starting from scratch.

Trustist provides the technology, systems, sales tools, training and ongoing support you need to get your franchise up and running.

Sales and marketing

You’ll have access to proven presentations, scripts, marketing materials and sales tools to help you introduce Trustist to prospective customers.

Technology and systems

You’ll receive access to the Trustist platforms, CRM and operating systems used to manage and grow the business.

Training and coaching

Training starts before launch and continues as your business develops, with ongoing support and personal coaching from the Trustist team, including the founder and CEO.

Business networking

Your franchise package also includes paid BNI and Federation of Small Businesses membership, together with access to Trustist’s wider relationships with organisations including ActionCOACH and EWiF.

The aim is to give you the tools and support to spend less time figuring out how to establish the business and more time actually growing it.

What could you achieve?

Trustist has been designed to offer significantly more than a small lifestyle business.

Because customers generate recurring revenue, the value of the business can grow considerably as the customer base develops.

Based on Trustist's franchise model, a successful franchise has the potential to generate more than £50,000 in annual revenue during its first year, growing to more than £230,000 by year three*.

These figures aren't about making one enormous sale. They're based on consistently adding customers and building recurring revenue over time.

With low overheads and three services available to sell, the opportunity is to create a substantial and increasingly valuable B2B business.

*Financial projections are provided as a guide to illustrate the potential performance of a Trustist franchise at different levels of business activity.

They are not a guarantee of income or profit and exclude items such as finance costs, interest, tax and depreciation.

Prospective franchisees should carry out their own due diligence and prepare independent business plans and financial forecasts based on their individual circumstances.

Why launch your business with Trustist?

The core benefits that our existing franchisees quote as being so valuable to their businesses include:

• Recurring monthly revenue – benefit from ongoing income from an increasing base of retained customers.
• Three distinct services to sell - Reviews, Ecommerce and Transfer give you multiple opportunities with each business you engage with.
• Low overheads - no retail premises, stock or large team required.
• Flexible working - operate from home or an office and operate the business around your working style.
• Established technology - the platforms and systems are already built and operating.
• Ongoing support - training, coaching, sales materials and support from the Trustist team.
• Established business relationships - benefit from Trustist's connections throughout the UK business community.

What does it cost to get started?

The total franchise fee is £29,950 plus VAT for the complete Trustist suite of services.

Unlike many franchise businesses, there are no premises to fit out, vehicles to buy or significant stock requirements, helping to keep the additional working capital requirement relatively low.

Pre-agreed bank funding is available to qualifying franchisees, which means you may be able to start your Trustist business with a personal investment from £10,000.

Your franchise package includes the Trustist technology and systems, initial and ongoing training, sales and marketing resources, coaching and support, together with BNI and FSB membership.

The initial franchise agreement is for five years.

Interested in building a Trustist business?

If the idea of establishing a low-overhead business with recurring monthly income appeals to you, we'd like to tell you more.

Complete your details below, and we'll send you the full Trustist Franchise Prospectus, including more information about the business model, support, investment and opportunity.

There's no obligation - it's simply the next step in finding out whether Trustist could be right for you.