CHRGD vs Melp

CHRGD automates franchise royalty calculations and collections from sales data in franchisees’ point-of-sale systems. Franchisors can configure royalty and marketing fund rules, including percentages, caps, minimums, deferrals, and grace periods. Collection runs nightly by default, with weekly and monthly schedules also available. A franchisee ledger shows daily sales, royalty calculations, transfer amounts, and transfer status. Active integrations listed include Square, FareHarbor, Stripe Connect, Clover, QuickBooks, and Xero; Lightspeed Retail, Lightspeed Restaurant, Loyverse POS, and Toast are listed as coming soon. Stripe Connect supports ACH and card collection, transfers to franchisor accounts, and platform fee handling. CHRGD describes the product as a progressive web app that works across devices, and its developer portal documents an OAuth 2.0 with PKCE API for live sales, financial, and franchise data. The Free Forever plan has no monthly fees, but a small transaction fee applies to royalty payments processed through the platform. It includes unlimited franchisee locations, POS integrations, automated calculations, and email support.

Melp is a collaboration workspace that combines messaging, meetings, files and AI tools. Teams can use channels, direct messages and group discussions, then hold HD video meetings or voice calls with screen sharing and breakout rooms. Melp says meetings automatically produce a summary, full transcript and key action items. It offers real-time text, speech-to-text and speech-to-speech translation for multilingual collaboration. Melp Workspace supports collaborative documents, spreadsheets and presentations, while Secure Drive provides cloud file storage and sharing. Integrations include Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Jira, GitHub and Bitbucket; API capability is also listed. Melp Calendar syncs with Google Calendar and Microsoft Office 365, including bi-directional event sync. The Trust Center lists SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA, CREST and CERT-IN, plus a 99.9% uptime SLA and 24/7 security monitoring. A free plan and free trial are available. Standard costs $14/user/mo billed annually; Premium is $20 a month billed annually. Melp runs on Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, web and Windows.