FranchiseBlast Wins Bootstrap Award

Feb 27

We’re proud to announce that 2012 is off to a great start! We’ve recently received lots of local recognition and thought we’d share this great news with you. First, we’ve been listed as a Startup To Watch for 2012 by the Ottawa Business Journal. Past nominees (Chide.it, FaveQuest, Select Start Studios and PatientWay to name [...]

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FranchiseBlast Now Member of the CFA and CQF

Feb 17

LavaBlast Software Inc. (creator of FranchiseBlast) is proud to announce that it is now a member of both the CFA (Canadian Franchise Association) and the CQF (Conseil Québécois de la Franchise / Quebec Franchise Association). Over the past five years, we’ve helped numerous franchises grow thanks to improved operational software and we feel the time [...]

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New Grant for Canadian Franchises to Adopt Tech

Nov 15

Yesterday, the Minister of Industry announced a new grant program offering up to $99,999 in financial support to Canadian small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to facilitate the adoption of digital technologies.

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LavaBlast and Boomerang Kids

Nov 14

LavaBlast, a leading provider of cloud-based franchise management solutions, announced today the deployment of its flagship product, FranchiseBlast, to the first of four Boomerang Kids locations. This state of the art software solution enables Boomerang Kids to grow their consignment franchise nationwide while allowing local families to shop smarter.

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LavaBlast POS v4.0.0

Sep 6

We’re just about to release the version 4.0.0 of our franchise point of sale system. One of the most noteworthy change is the fact we’ve given the look & feel a major overhaul, thanks to jQuery Mobile.

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FranchiseBlast demo instance is now ready

Jun 22

We’ve just released a demo version of FranchiseBlast on our web servers. When a franchise requests an online demo, we give out one-on-one online demonstrations using desktop sharing software. Thanks to today’s release, franchisors will be able to login to our version of system after our initial conversation and play with a live instance of [...]

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FranchiseBlast on the iPad!

Mar 25

With the release of the iPad 2 here in Canada, we thought it would be nice to let you know that we confirm that FranchiseBlast works great on the new iPad, via the Safari web browser. This enables franchisees in the field to access their data without having to carry around a heavy laptop. The [...]

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Welcome to the new FranchiseBlast website

Nov 7

As with any company, things change. And that’s definitely true today as we launch our new website. FranchiseBlast.com focuses exclusively on our franchise software solution. It was important to separate this out from our original LavaBlast site, and make sure we do a better job of highlighting the value proposition behind FranchiseBlast. FranchiseBlast is franchise [...]

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FranchiseBlast News Coming Soon!

Oct 28

We’ll start publishing news about FranchiseBlast in the near future!

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