Array Skin Therapy Franchise Cost, Revenue & Review 2026
- Investment
- $186K – $259K
- Disclosed sales
- $335K
- gross sales, not profit
- SBA charge-off
- Not SBA-matched
Data from FDD filing
Analysis by FranchiseVerdict Research · Methodology
ARRAY Skin Therapy is a skincare franchise offering professional facials, medical-grade skin treatments, and skincare products. Franchisees run the studios, managing licensed estheticians, appointments, and retail.
FranchiseVerdict summary · 2026
A ARRAY SKIN THERAPY franchise requires a total initial investment of $186K – $259K, including a $55K franchise fee. Per the 2026 FDD, average unit revenue was $335K[2]. FranchiseVerdict grade: B (Above average), an editorial assessment, not investment advice. Run a live ROI scan →
Sources, dates and evidence
FDD issued: 2026 filing · Data extracted: · Last cited check: · Staleness risk: low - the current year's filing
Evidence: strong✓ Investment (Item 7)✓ Item 19 status✓ Units and owners (Item 20)✗ SBA loan coverage✓ Litigation (Item 3)✓ Financial statements (Item 21)✓ Franchisor identityhow this is scored6 of 6 headline figures on this page cite a page of the filing.
Overview
- Investment
- $186K – $259K
- 20th pct Personal Care…
- Avg gross sales
- $335K
- 6th pct Personal Care…
- Royalty
- Set by a formula
- Units
- 8
- 14th pct Personal Care…
- SBA charge-off
- N/A
Quick verdict · Personal Care & Beauty · color = vs category peers
Green = favorable by >10% vs Personal Care & Beauty median · No shading = within ±10% · Red = unfavorable by >10% · Source: FDD filings + SBA 7(a)
Data from public FDD filings and SBA records. Not financial advice. Methodology
Bottom line
- COSTTotal investment $186K – $259K including a $55K franchise fee.
- RETURNSAverage unit revenue of $335K/year (median $323K).
- RISKVerdict B (Above average), verdict score 54/100 (higher is better).
- GROWTHNegative: net -1 franchised outlets in the latest year (0 opened, 1 closed); 1 signed but not yet open (Item 20).
Item 1 · who you're contracting with
The Franchisor
Corporate structure & franchisor financials
- Legal entity
- The Array Group, Inc.
- Ultimate parent
- Array Management, LLC
- FDD Item 1, page 8 of the 2026 FDD
- CEO title
- Chief Executive Officer
- Kristen Miller
- CEO experience
- 14 yrs
- Years in role or industry
- Founder active
- Yes
- Original founder still leading the business
- Incorporated in
- CA
- HQ
- 26932 Oso Parkway, Suite 270, Mission Viejo, CA 92691
- Auditor
- Metwally CPA PLLC
- Audited financials
- Franchisor revenue
- $59K
- vs $88K prior year
Overview
About
- CEO
- Kristen Miller
- Headquarters
- CA
- Founded
- 2021
- FDD year
- 2026
- States available
- 3
Can you afford it, and what does the money buy?
Entry cost runs 45% below the typical personal care & beauty franchise.
Source: FDD 2026 · Items 5–7
Full Item 7 breakdown14 line items
Initial investment breakdown
| Line item | Low | High | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Initial Franchise Feenot refundable | $55K | $55K | |
| Interior Design / Improvement | $6K | $20K | |
| Utility and Security Deposits | $2K | $6K | |
| Rent - 3 Months | $8K | $10K | |
| Signage | $1K | $2K | |
| Furniture and Fixtures | $2K | $4K | |
| Medical Equipment | $62K | $70K | |
| Office Equipment, Computers, and Office Supplies | $3K | $5K | |
| Business Software - 3 Months | $800 | $1K | |
| Business Licenses and Permits | $200 | $500 | |
| Professional Fees | $5K | $10K | |
| Business Insurance | $8K | $10K | |
| Travel and Living Expenses While Training | $4K | $6K | |
| Additional Funds - 3 Months | $30K | $60K | |
| Total initial investment | $186K | $259K |
Line items extracted from FDD Item 7. Ranges reflect the franchisor's stated low and high per line. Total is the sum of line-item lows / highs — actual costs may fall outside this range depending on market and build-out scope.
Item 7 · what it costs to open + operate
The Vitals
- Total investment
- $186K – $259K
- Top 40% of category vs category
- Liquid capital req'd
- $30K – $60K
- Middle of category vs category
- Franchise fee
- $55K – $55K
- Middle of category vs category
- Royalty
- Lesser of: Year 1 $2,000/mo or 10% of Gross Revenues; Yea…
- Ad fund
- $500 per month flat fee (Brand Fund Contribution); franch…
- Total fee load
- 10.0%
- vs 9–13% typical
Ongoing fees · Item 6
| Fee | Amount |
|---|---|
| Royalty (flat) | Year 1: lesser of $2,000/month or 10%; Year 2: lesser of $2,500/month or 10%; Year 3: lesser of $3,000/month or 10%; Year 4: lesser of $3,500/month or 10%; Year 5+: lesser of $4,000/month or 10% |
| Technology fee | $250 |
| Transfer fee | $2K |
| Renewal fee | $6K |
| Total fee load | 10.0% of rev |
What do units actually make?
Average unit sales run 36% below the personal care & beauty norm.
Source: FDD 2026 · Item 19
Single-unit · not modelled
Returns at a glance
An FDD discloses gross sales, not profit, and the operating costs that turn one into the other are in no filing. We publish no modelled return for ARRAY SKIN THERAPY until someone supplies them — yours, in the models below.
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Not modelled yet
An FDD discloses gross sales, not profit. We hold no sourced figure for royalty rate, ad fund rate, COGS, labour, rent / occupancy and other operating costs, and will not substitute an assumed one. Enter your own and the model runs on your assumptions.
Total invested capital · disclosed
$268K
Item 7 initial investment plus working capital, as filed — the one figure here that needs no assumption.
ROI & LBO modelsSingle-unit · 25-unit portfolio · editable
What one unit earns on your invested capital
Model A · Single-Unit Return
Computes unlevered return on invested capital (ROIC) for a single franchise unit, read against the 30–60% reference band · Yale SOM, Post-MBA Path Exhibit 2 (2023). Below that band a passive index fund likely outperforms; above it the franchisor has pricing power you're subsidizing.
Note: Item 19 revenue is what the franchisor discloses, and it is the top line only — gross sales are not profit. No FDD discloses the operating costs that turn one into the other, so those fields start empty and nothing is modelled until you supply them from your own lease quote, labor market and build-out budget.
Returns model · single-unit ROIC
What would one ARRAY SKIN THERAPY unit return on the cash you put in?
Illustrative category typicals — not sourced to any filing, survey or sample. Replace them with figures from franchisee validation calls before you rely on the output.
Unlevered ROIC · per unit
Your modelled return on total invested capital, before any debt financing.
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An FDD discloses gross sales, not profit. We hold no sourced figure for royalty rate, ad fund rate, COGS, labour, rent / occupancy and other operating costs, and will not substitute an assumed one. Enter your own and the model runs on your assumptions.
What 25 units return when you use SBA financing
Model B · Return on Equity: Debt-Financed Acquisition
Models a 25-unit portfolio acquisition financed with an SBA 7(a) loan. Shows equity IRR (your return on cash invested), DSCR (how safely the cash flow covers debt service), and the capital stack (SBA + seller + equity breakdown).
This is the “search fund” or “entrepreneurship through acquisition” scenario: you buy an existing multi-unit operator, use leverage to amplify returns, and either operate or hire management. The 25-unit size is the typical minimum for an SBA-backed franchise portfolio acquisition to pencil as a full-time income.
What “return on equity” means here: if you put in $500K of your own cash and the business generates enough EBITDA to pay down debt and grow, your equity IRR is the annual return on that $500K, including the value created when you eventually sell. Target IRR for a search fund is typically 25–35%.
Not modelled yet
An FDD discloses gross sales, not profit. We hold no sourced figure for royalty rate, ad fund rate, COGS, labour, rent / occupancy and other operating costs, and will not substitute an assumed one. Enter your own and the model runs on your assumptions.
A 25-unit return is built on a per-unit EBITDA. Fill in the operating costs in Model A above and this model runs on that figure, or take the whole scenario to the full ROI workbench, where the portfolio and LBO models accept your own per-unit economics directly.
These models are for research and scenario planning only. Not investment advice. Actual results depend on your specific location, management, and market conditions. Consult a franchise attorney and accountant before signing any franchise agreement.
Item 19 · Source: 2026 FDD
Financial Performance
- Avg gross sales
- $335K
- Per unit/yr · from the Item 19 franchised-cohort breakdown (no single system-wide average disclosed)
- Median gross sales
- $323K
Gross sales are revenue before expenses — not profit. Actual owner earnings depend on rent, labor, royalties, marketing fees, and debt service.
- Item 19 type
- gross revenues
- Sample size
- 3 outlets
- vs category median 38 · small
- Range (low → high)
- $196K→$487KCited, not corroborated — printed on page 46 of the 2026 FDD. Nothing else in our record independently restates or re-derives it.
- Cohort dispersion (min → max)
- Reporting year
- 2025
- Fiscal year the figures cover
- Source filing
- FDD 2026
- Disclosed in the 2026 filing, covering 2025
- Transparency
- 3 / 10
- vs category median 4 / 10 · below
Compared against 177 Personal Care & Beauty brands
Operator outlook
What the numbers say
Data-driven interpretation of this brand's financial disclosures, fee structure, and system trajectory.
Unit economics
Average unit generates $335K/year in gross sales. Revenue-to-investment ratio: 1.5x.
Fee burden
Total ongoing fee load of 10.0% — above the Personal Care & Beauty median of 7.9%.
Disclosure
Transparency score 3/10 — moderate disclosure depth. Average and range data are available but detailed cohort breakdowns may be limited. Sample size of 3 outlets — treat as directional only.
Operator retention
Net unit growth of +50.0% over 3 years (0 opened, 1 closed).
Multi-unit rate
Only 1% of franchisees own multiple units. Could indicate challenging economics or a young system where operators haven't had time to expand.
Source: FDD Item 19 financial performance representations and publicly filed FDD data. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Verify all figures with the franchisor and current franchisees before making any investment decision.
vs Personal Care & Beauty medians
How Array Skin Therapy Compares
Category median of published Personal Care & Beauty brands that report the figure; the middle half spans the 25th to 75th percentile and n counts the brands behind it. Medians are used because a few very large systems pull an average far from the typical brand. Revenue is disclosed gross sales, not profit.
Is the system healthy?
Source: FDD 2026 · Item 20
Unit growth
Item 20 · unit dynamics
The Growth Chart
- Total units
- 8
- Opened
- 0
- Last reporting year
- Closed
- 1
- Terminated
- 0
- Franchisor ended the franchise (per Item 20)
- Non-renewed
- 0
- Term expired, not renewed (per Item 20)
- Turnover rate
- 12.5%
- Company-owned
- 5
- Corporate units in the system
- % franchised
- 38%
- vs corporate-owned
- Multi-unit owners
- 1.0%
- Net growth (3-yr)
- +50.0%
- Net unit change over 3 years
- 3-yr CAGR
- +50.0%
- Compounded over last 3 years
Last fiscal year · Item 20 exits and transfers
- Terminated
- 0
- Not renewed
- 0
- Transferred
- 0
- Reacquired
- 0
- Franchisor bought back
- Signed, not yet open
- 1
- 0.13 per open outlet · Item 20 Table 5
- Projected new
- 1
- Franchisor's next-year forecast
- Continuity rate
- 75.0%
- Units that stayed open
- Ceased ops
- 12.5%
- Units that stopped operating
Year-over-year franchised unit counts and net change. Source: FDD Item 20.
Item 12 · 3 states reported
The Territory Map
FDD Item 12 reports the state count, but the specific list isn't in our current data. The map will appear once we re-extract from the FDD or enough franchisee contacts are available.
3
states with franchisees (per FDD Item 12)
Where the owners are · Item 20 owner list
1 current owner across 1 state.
- OR 1
Counts only, from the list the franchisor prints in Item 20; 16 entries carry no state. Names and phone numbers are for your own due diligence and are not shown here.
Fast growth in a small system. Newer franchisors expanding quickly may not yet have the support infrastructure of larger systems.
SBA loan performance
Government records
SBA Loan Data
Aggregated from SBA 7(a) and 504 loan disclosures, public data unique to FranchiseVerdict.
No SBA loan data available for this brand.
What could kill this investment?
Source: SBA 7(a) FOIA · FDD Items 3, 21
Risk analysis
FranchiseVerdict rating + FDD Items 3, 4, 8, 16, 21
Risk & Legal
Contracting 8-unit skincare franchise with high relative investment costs, non-transparent profitability metrics, and aggressive royalty structure creates significant unit economics and scalability risk.
Litigation (Item 3)
Subject: officers or affiliates. The franchisor is not a named party in these cases.
No litigation required to be disclosed in Item 3
Bankruptcy (Item 4)
None disclosed
Audited financials (Item 21)
Yes · Metwally CPA PLLC
Franchisor revenue (Item 21)
Franchisor entity revenue (not unit-level)
Item 21 states audited financial statements (FY 2025/2024/2023) are in Exhibit I, but Exhibit I (the financial statements) is not present in the OCR text provided (the document ends at Exhibit M Receipts with no balance sheet or income statement OCR'd). No Item 21 figures could be extracted. Franchisor is The Array Group, Inc., a newly converted CA corporation (converted from LLC Dec 31, 2025); first FDD issued March 13, 2026.
Supplier relationship · Items 8 & 16
- Franchisor sells you products: No
- Kickbacks from required suppliers: No
- Must buy proprietary products: Yes
- Restricted to system-approved products: Yes
- Can negotiate own supplier terms: No
Score breakdown · what drove the 54 / 100 verdict
- 01MEDUnit count declined 25% YoY (8 units down from ~10-11), indicating system contraction and potential franchisee struggles
- 02MEDAverage net income not disclosed in Item 19, preventing ROI validation and raising transparency concerns
- 03MINORHigh initial investment ($186k-$259k) relative to average revenue ($789k) means 23-33% of annual revenue consumed just to break even on franchise fee amortization
- 04MINORRelatively young/small franchise system (8 units) lacks scale, brand recognition, and operational maturity to support franchisees
- 05MEDNo disclosed litigation but declining units suggest performance or relationship issues not yet formalized as legal disputes
Severity inferred from the FDD text · not a regulatory classification
What are you signing up for?
Ongoing fees run about 10.0% of sales (royalty + ad fund), before rent and labor.
Source: FDD 2026 · Items 11, 12, 17
FDD Items 12, 15, 17 · continued from Risk & Legal
Contract & Territory Detail
| Initial term | 10 years |
|---|---|
| Renewal term | 5 years |
| Allowed renewalsℹ | 2 |
| Territory type | Exclusive territory |
| Protected territory | Yes |
| Exclusive territoryℹ | Yes |
| Territory radius | 3 mi |
| Territory population | 100,000 |
| Online sales rightsℹ | Restricted |
| Franchisor can compete | Yes |
| Hire a manager? | Allowed |
| Owner-operator | Required |
| Non-compete (years)ℹ | 2 years |
| Non-compete (miles)ℹ | 15 mi |
| Right of first refusalℹ | Yes |
| RoFR response window | 30 days |
| Transfer requires consent | Yes |
| Termination notice | 30 days |
| Curable defaultsℹ | 10 |
| Mandatory arbitration | Yes |
| Arbitration location | Orange County, California |
| Jury trial waiver | Yes |
| Governing law | CA |
| Litigation count | 0 |
View Item 3 litigation summary
No litigation required to be disclosed in Item 3
Items 10, 11
Training & Operations
- Classroom training
- 17 hrs
- On-the-job training
- 23 hrs
- Training location
- Affiliate clinic in Los Angeles County or Orange County, California
- Ongoing training
- Required
- Field support
- 16 hrs/yr
- On-site visits per year
- Time to open
- 6 mo
- From signing to launch
- Site selection
- franchisee with franchisor approval
- Franchisor financing
- Not offered
- Item 10
- POS system
- practice management system software
- Operating tech stack
Items 5 & 11
Franchisor Support
Technology: practice management system software
Item 20 · call current owners
Franchisee Contacts
17 owners to call
Name · phone · city · state. Extracted from FDD Item 20
Frequently asked questions
Frequently Asked Questions
How much does it cost to open a ARRAY SKIN THERAPY franchise?
The total investment to open a ARRAY SKIN THERAPY franchise ranges from $186K – $259K, with an initial franchise fee of $55K. This includes real estate, equipment, inventory, and working capital as disclosed in their Franchise Disclosure Document (FDD).
What do ARRAY SKIN THERAPY franchise owners earn?
According to Item 19 of the ARRAY SKIN THERAPY FDD, the average gross sales per unit is $335K. The median is $323K. Note: this is gross revenue, not profit. Actual owner earnings vary based on location, operating costs, and management.
Who owns ARRAY SKIN THERAPY?
ARRAY SKIN THERAPY is franchised by The Array Group, Inc.. The ultimate parent named in the FDD is Array Management, LLC. Source: FDD Item 1, 2026 filing.
What is Item 19 in the ARRAY SKIN THERAPY FDD?
The FDD section where a franchisor may disclose financial performance of its outlets. Disclosure is optional and formats vary; figures are typically gross sales, which is revenue before expenses, not profit. FranchiseVerdict extracts these figures directly from the ARRAY SKIN THERAPY FDD and qualifies whose outlets they describe.
What is ARRAY SKIN THERAPY's franchise failure rate?
SBA 7(a) loan charge-off data is not available for ARRAY SKIN THERAPY (fewer than 10 loans on file). Charge-off rates are one way to gauge franchise risk, but not all franchise loans go through the SBA program. We recommend reviewing turnover and closure data in the FDD and speaking with current franchisees.
How many ARRAY SKIN THERAPY franchise locations are there?
As of their most recent FDD filing, ARRAY SKIN THERAPY has 8 total units in the United States, including 3 franchised units and 5 company-owned units.
Is ARRAY SKIN THERAPY a good franchise to buy?
FranchiseVerdict rates ARRAY SKIN THERAPY as a B-grade franchise with a verdict score of 54 out of 100 (higher is better). The grade is a deterministic score built from six weighted dimensions — financial health, unit economics, unit growth, scale, legal, and transparency — then calibrated against SBA loan charge-off rates and FDD age. Transparency is one of the six, so a filing that discloses less scores lower on that dimension than one that discloses more. Our rating is based solely on publicly available FDD and government data; we recommend speaking with current franchisees before making any investment decision. This is not investment advice.
Data sourced from public FDD filings and SBA 7(a) FOIA records. Not financial advice.
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Data extracted from public FDD filings and SBA 7(a) loan disclosures (FOIA). This information is provided for research purposes only and does not constitute financial, legal, or investment advice. Verify all figures with the franchisor's current Franchise Disclosure Document before making any investment decision.