SkieCan a coaching franchise treat each centre as a branch with its own admin?
Yes. Each franchise centre can be a branch with its own branch admin, who sees only that centre. Head office keeps the baseline and can lock settings the franchise must not change. Each centre can have its own batches as groups and its own app list within what head office allows.
A coaching brand that grows by franchise has a particular problem: each centre is run by someone else, but the brand and the student experience have to stay consistent. The Skie structure fits this. Head office is the organisation, each centre is a branch, and each batch is a group.
Each branch gets its own admin. That person invites teachers, creates batches, provisions tablets and sees the dashboard for their centre only. They cannot see another franchise's students or devices. Head office sees everything and can compare centres through Insights without asking for reports.
Control stays with head office where it matters. The baseline policy, the web filter and the hardening switches can be locked, so a franchise owner cannot loosen them. Apps work through approval. If a centre wants an extra app, it adds the Play link in its store and the request waits for Skie approval, unless the owner has turned approval off for a trusted organisation.
Licences are seat based, one per device. Think about who pays: head office can hold the seats and recharge centres, or each franchise can be its own arrangement. Pricing is on request.
If a franchise leaves the brand, the devices need a clean end. Disable its admins, then use Remove Skie on each device, or move the students to another branch if the tablets stay in the network.
A practical tip: put the rules a franchise cannot change in the franchise agreement itself, with the same list that is locked in the dashboard. That way the contract and the software say the same thing.