Can each franchise have its own admin in Skie?

Skie for Enterprise · Updated

Short answer

Yes. Make each franchise a branch under your organisation and give its owner a branch admin role. They manage their own groups and devices and see only their own area, while head office sees every franchise and the breach centre across all of them. Rules set at the top flow down to every branch.

Franchise networks have two opposing needs: head office wants consistency, and each franchisee wants to run their own site. Skie handles both through its structure of organisation, school or branch, group and device.

Put the franchisor at the organisation level and each franchise as a branch. Set the baseline policy once at the top: always-on hardening, the web filter and the core app list. Rules flow down and the most specific level applies last, so a branch can add or tighten rules for itself without undoing the baseline. If head office wants to stop a franchise changing something, keep that setting at the level the franchise cannot edit.

Roles control access. A branch admin can invite and disable users, move people between their own groups and see their own devices. A section head or class admin, depending on how you name them, sees a smaller slice. Page access can be switched per role, which is useful if you do not want franchisees to see location, for example.

Seats are licensed per device and granted by the Skie owner. Head office can see how many seats each branch uses, and a new franchise can be provisioned with its own group and token flow. The dashboard flags devices that fall behind on the latest policy or app, and the breach centre works at branch and organisation level.

White-label dashboards, with your franchise brand and logo, are not available yet. If each franchisee needs their own look, that is something the team is working on.