Start your business for $9,500. That’s it.

The startup fee isn’t a franchise buy-in — it’s the real cost of getting you ready to sell and install. It covers your sales samples and sales aids, the few specialized tools built for our track-and-curtain system, and our expenses to train you in person, hands-on, until you’re confident measuring, quoting and installing. You also get set up on the POD business console and given the marketing tools and checklists you’ll use from day one. In other words, you’re not paying for a name — you’re paying to be genuinely ready to do the work.

Because you buy the custom product at wholesale and keep what you make on each installation, the startup comes back quickly. We expect a new distributor to earn the full $9,500 back within their first four sales — a potential two-to-four-month return on investment — and everything after that is your business to grow. There are no royalties taking a cut of those sales and no monthly franchise dues, so the money you make on a job stays with you.

Compare that to the franchises above: most charge tens of thousands just to open the door, and then take a percentage of everything you sell for the life of the business. With Privacy On Demand there is one payment, and then you’re running your own company — buying product at wholesale, setting your own prices, and keeping your profit. Contact us and we’ll walk through the numbers for your situation, including how to get started.

The economics are simple, which is part of the appeal. After your one-time startup, you buy each custom curtain or shade system from us at wholesale, only when you’ve sold a job — so you’re never sitting on inventory. You set your own retail price with the homeowner, install it, and keep the difference between wholesale and retail, minus your own costs. There’s no royalty taken off the top and no franchise due every month, so the profit on a job is yours. Because the product is patented and looks custom, you’re not competing on price against an identical item at the big-box store, which helps protect what you can charge.

When you request information, we’ll talk through the opportunity, answer your questions, and go over the numbers for your situation. If it’s a fit, you’ll come learn the craft in person, get set up with your samples, specialized tools and the POD console, and start marketing and selling in your area under your own business name. Most distributors are up and taking jobs quickly, with a clear path to earning the $9,500 back inside their first handful of sales. It’s a real investment in a real business — priced so that the barrier to owning one is genuinely low.

The number to focus on isn’t just the $9,500 — it’s what stands behind it. You’re buying the right to sell a patented product no local competitor can offer, custom-made from marine-grade Sunbrella and SolaMesh with 10-year warranties. You’re buying in-person training that gets you installing correctly from the first job. You’re buying the POD console, the same software we use to run manufacturing, so your business is organized from day one. And you’re buying a manufacturer’s ongoing support. Compared to a franchise that costs five to eight times as much and then takes a cut of every sale forever, a one-time $9,500 for all of that is a genuinely low-risk way to own a business. And with a potential two-to-four-month return, it’s an investment designed to pay for itself quickly and then keep working for you.