The Tanning Shop Franchise – Selecting the very best site to suit you

Our franchise support staff will advise you on one of your most important decisions – where your salon will be located. Throughout that process we will help you with the following:

• Assist you with identifying locations that fit the proven profile of other successful tanning shop retail outlets.
• Provide competitive market analysis for your proposed trade areas that not only assists you with the Tanning Shop locations, but also serves to isolate existing salon acquisition opportunities.

A unique Franchise support system

Our franchise support staff will help you prepare your salon for opening day by:

• Guiding you through the design and construction process.
• Providing you access to our proven team of The Tanning Shop vendors including; architects, contractors, construction consultants, electrical and HVAC experts and more. These vendors’ experience with the Tanning Shop may result in substantial build-out savings including a quicker timeline to opening your salon. Throughout the process nothing is left to chance. Our team-approach ensures that you’ll get all the support you need.
• Assisting you with your purchases of everything from our approved point-of-sale systems and operating software, to our state-of-the-art sunbed and sunless tanning equipment, insurance, phone systems, and full line of professional tanning and skin products and accessories.
• Sharing our nationwide list of suppliers so you can equip your salon with the highest quality products and equipment at negotiated rates.
• Providing you with an online opening rollout checklist that will guide you through the construction and pre-opening phase of your project in a timely and efficient manner. In addition to this resource, our staff will be right there with you at every step to make sure your construction process is rewarding, educational and free of headaches and cost overruns.

A tanning franchise with state of the art tanning equipment

Our state-of-the-art equipment is a major component to the success of the Tanning Shop. To help you with this critical aspect of the business we provide you with the following:

• Assistance in designing the proper tanning bed mix for your particular salon.
• Introductions to leasing and financing companies well-suited for your financial needs.
• Pre-negotiated group discounts on tanning beds and lamps via our supply network.

Your tanning franchise, our help with recruitment and training

We’ll advise you on how to recruit staff including utilising our on-line recruitment tools on our website. In addition we will teach you how to conduct interviews for hiring high potential employees. Finally, we provide you with thorough training, including:

Ongoing franchisor training on tap, whenever you need it

Taught by seasoned professionals – to help you become an efficient and effective owner/manager. Topics include industry background, tanning procedures, employee recruitment and management, software tools and use, payroll, customer service, pricing strategies, marketing and advertising strategies, sales, facility and equipment maintenance and more.