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Card My Yard franchise — is it worth it?

Medium risk Shrinking network Item 19 disclosed

Card My Yard offers a unique, low-investment franchise opportunity in the 'Other' category.

Everything below is free, read straight off Card My Yard's registered filing, with where the numbers land against other peers. Weighing Card My Yard against other options? Get a free shortlist of franchises that fit your budget.

Figures above are as disclosed in Card My Yard's most recent FDD (registered 2026). Source: Wisconsin Dept. of Financial Institutions — Franchise Registration · filing 640874 — check it yourself. See every other Wisconsin-registered franchise.

How much does a Card My Yard franchise make?

Card My Yard is one of the franchisors that answers this on the record: its most recent FDD makes an Item 19 financial performance representation — actual unit earnings figures, disclosed by the franchisor itself. The headline figure is $21,286 in average unit revenue — read it alongside what Item 19 says about which units it covers (often only mature or top-performing locations). See every other brand that discloses earnings in the Other franchises with disclosed Item 19 earnings ranking.

Card My Yard franchise profit vs. revenue

Revenue is not profit. An Item 19 almost always reports sales — what a location takes in — not what an owner keeps. Out of that number come Card My Yard's 25% royalty, the ad fund, rent, payroll, supplies and debt service. No FDD tells you a Card My Yard franchise's profit, because profit depends on your site, your rent and how you run it — so treat any "Card My Yard franchise profit" figure quoted elsewhere as someone's estimate, not a disclosure. On $21,286 of revenue, a 25% royalty alone is about $5,322 a year before any other cost.

Card My Yard lawsuits & legal history (FDD Item 3)

Card My Yard's most recently filed Franchise Disclosure Document (2026) discloses no litigation in Item 3. That is a real signal rather than a gap: the FTC Franchise Rule requires a franchisor to disclose material litigation involving itself, its predecessors, parents, affiliates and management, so an empty Item 3 in a current filing means there was nothing it was required to report. It is worth reading alongside the churn numbers — a system can have a clean Item 3 and still be losing franchisees, which is what Item 20 shows.

Card My Yard closures & failure rate

Before you sign, Card My Yard will hand you a list of current owners to call as references — and they choose who's on that list. It won't include the owners who quit, got bought out, or were forced out last year. The FDD does report that number, even though the reference list leaves those people off. Below is what Card My Yard's most recent filing shows, and whether it's normal for a other of this kind.

The closest thing an FDD has to a failure rate is Item 20 — outlet openings, closures, terminations and non-renewals, reported by the franchisor. Card My Yard's latest tables show a shrinking franchised network — more units left than opened. Net franchised outlets moved -53 to 490 in the latest reported year.

Who owns Card My Yard?

Card My Yard's franchise is offered by CMY Franchising, LLC — the franchisor named on the cover of its most recently filed Franchise Disclosure Document (2026), and the entity a franchisee actually signs with. That name comes straight off the filing at WI DFI; it identifies the franchisor, not necessarily the ultimate parent company behind it.

Franchises at a similar investment level at a similar investment level

Anyone weighing Card My Yard is really weighing it against the other brands their money could go into. These are the closest by total initial investment (FDD Item 7), each with its own FDD-based page.

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