Card My Yard franchise: cost, fees & unit track record
Opening a Card My Yard franchise takes $10,350 – $18,550 all-in, per its franchise disclosure filings (data as of 2026-05). The initial franchise fee is $8,500. Anything the filings do not state is marked "Not disclosed" below — never estimated. The ledger below itemizes every figure we can source for Card My Yard, each one dated, so you can check the numbers before anyone gets your contact details.
Card My Yard franchise costs and fees
| Verification mark | Cost item | Low | High | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Initial franchise feeOne-time, paid to the franchisor at signing | $8,500 | $8,500 | $8,500 | |
| Initial investment (all-in)FDD Item 7-derived range: build-out, equipment, opening costs | $10,350 | $18,550 | $10,350 to $18,550 | |
| Net worth requiredFranchisor's stated qualification minimum | Not disclosed1 | Not disclosed1 | ||
| Liquid cash requiredFranchisor's stated qualification minimum | Not disclosed1 | Not disclosed1 | ||
| Cash to open (all-in range) | $10,350 | $18,550 | $10,350 to $18,550 | |
- 1 "Not disclosed" means Card My Yard's filings do not state this figure. We publish the gap instead of estimating it.
| RoyaltyOngoing, % of sales | Not disclosed |
|---|---|
| Ad fundOngoing, % of sales | Up to 100% |
| Initial termLength of the first franchise agreement | 5 years |
See the full Card My Yard cost breakdown — what's in that number and what isn't
How Card My Yard's cost compares
A dollar figure means more with a yardstick. Here is where Card My Yard's disclosed cost sits against the Event Services category:
- Minimum startup cost of $10,350 — about 71% below the Event Services median of $35,563.
- Initial franchise fee of $8,500 — about 53% below the Event Services median of $18,150.
Category medians are computed from the Event Services brands in our data that disclosed each figure — a benchmark for scale, not a quality judgment. See all Event Services franchises
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How Card My Yard's units have held up
Openings and closures from FDD Item 20-style unit history, 2017–2022: began the window at 0 units; 495 units opened, 14 closed, ending at 508 units. (partial records: 2018 is not in the source data — totals span the reported years only.)
What about earnings?
We don't publish per-brand earnings figures — for Card My Yard or anyone else. The only primary source is Item 19 of the brand's own franchise disclosure document (FDD), and no law requires a franchisor to publish one, so the "average owner income" numbers circulating elsewhere are usually unsourced or survivorship-biased. Ask Card My Yard for its current FDD and read Item 19 yourself — and if there is no Item 19, that silence is information too.
What this data can't tell you
Everything on this page comes from disclosure filings — fees, ranges, and unit counts. Four questions that matter just as much are not in any filing we can source, so we say so instead of guessing:
- The hours and the labor
- No dataset field says whether Card My Yard is a manage-from-a-laptop business or a 60-hour week in disguise. Item 15 of the FDD states whether you're obligated to run the business personally, and Item 11 lists what the franchisor actually does for you — then ask current owners what their week looks like (validation calls), not the sales team.
- How hands-on the ownership really is
- "Semi-absentee" is a pitch, not a filing field. Treat any hands-off claim as unverified until it's consistent with Item 15 and with what multiple current franchisees tell you — what absentee ownership actually means.
- Your territory — whether it's protected, and whether it's open
- Two territory questions sit outside our data. Whether Card My Yard grants a protected or exclusive area is set in Item 12 of the FDD and varies brand to brand — some grant none, and the carve-outs (online sales, national accounts) matter as much as the map. And filing data can't say what's open in your market this month; only Card My Yard can confirm current availability. Ask both before you inquire, and get the answer in writing.
- What owners earn
- Covered honestly above: our dataset has no earnings fields, the only primary source is the brand's own Item 19, and here is how to read that evidence.
About the Card My Yard franchise
Card My Yard is an event services franchisor with 508 units at the end of 2022 (FDD Item 20-style unit history). Between 2017 and 2022, it began the window at 0 units; its filings record 495 unit openings and 14 closures, ending at 508 units (partial records: 2018 is not in the source data — totals span the reported years only). Its parent company is CMY Holdco, LLC.
No franchise-related lawsuits reported in the disclosure data we hold (FDD Item 3, as of 2026-05) — an absence in our sources, not a guarantee; confirm against the brand's current FDD.
From the franchisor's materials
The franchise described in this Disclosure Document is for a yard greeting business utilizing the "Card My Yard" concept and our business operating system to provide yard greeting services and related products.
Card My Yard franchise: quick answers
- How much does a Card My Yard franchise cost?
- $10,350 – $18,550 all-in to open, per Card My Yard's franchise disclosure filings (data as of 2026-05).
- How many Card My Yard units are there?
- 508 units at the end of 2022 (FDD Item 20-style unit history).
- How have Card My Yard's units held up?
- 97.9% of units at risk between 2020 and 2022 did not close, per our metric recomputed from FDD Item 20-style unit history (methodology published on our verification page).