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Zambrero

A self-serve franchise portal that gave Zambrero back 1,000+ hours every month

Hospitality & Tourism · First 30 days
Web DesignCustom DevelopmentOperations Tooling

Whitehat Agency understood exactly what we needed. The platform they delivered has saved us thousands of hours and helped us scale without compromising brand quality.

Head of Operations
Zambrero
Zambrero — custom franchisee web portal case study by Whitehat Agency
01
1,000+
Hours saved monthly
Across the franchise network
02
200+
Locations on-brand
Across Australia
03
100%
Manager adoption
Within 30 days
01 · Challenge

Hundreds of franchises, one design bottleneck.

Zambrero is one of Australia's biggest QSR franchises, with hundreds of stores running local promotions every week. Each one needed posters and in-store collateral — and every one had to be on-brand. The result was a constant queue at head office for design help.

Franchisees were stuck waiting on the in-house designers. Head office was stuck approving every variation. And small marketing moments were being missed because the production process was too slow to keep up with local campaigns.

Pre-engagement baseline
Franchise operations · AU
Network
200+
Stores running local promos
Process
Manual
Bottlenecked at head office
Brand control
Patchy
Hard to enforce at scale
Turnaround
Slow
Missing local moments
02 · Approach

A custom self-serve portal, with brand control built in.

We designed and built a purpose-built web portal for Zambrero franchisees — a centralised platform where store managers can build approved promotional posters in a few clicks and download print-ready files instantly.

The brief was simple: make it fast for franchisees, safe for head office and intuitive enough that nobody needed training to use it.

The Zambrero playbook
4 workstreams · custom build

On-demand poster builder

A real-time design tool with approved templates, fonts, imagery and layouts — so franchisees can build their own promo in minutes, not days.

Brand integrity at scale

Automated brand checks lock every asset to Zambrero's visual identity. Head office no longer has to approve every variant manually.

Lightning-fast workflow

What used to take a designer days now takes a store manager under five minutes — eliminating the design back-and-forth across the network.

Training-free UI

Built to be so intuitive that store staff can jump in and produce a compliant poster with zero onboarding required.

03 · The result

Faster local marketing, without losing the brand.

The portal landed across the network and was immediately adopted by 100% of store managers inside the first 30 days. Manual design requests to head office stopped almost overnight.

Across the network the team is now saving more than 1,000 hours every month — time reinvested into trading, service and local growth. And every poster going up in every store still looks like Zambrero.

Network rollout · franchisee portal
Adoption + operations data
Zambrero franchisee web portal — Whitehat Agency
Results

The numbers that scaled the brand.

A national QSR franchise stuck on a manual design process. Here's what a custom self-serve portal delivered in the first 30 days.

01
1,000+
Hours saved per month
Across the network — by removing the manual design bottleneck at head office.
02
200+
Locations on-brand
Every store now produces consistent, compliant marketing collateral on demand.
03
100%
Store manager adoption
Full network rollout achieved inside the first 30 days post-launch.
04
0
Hours of training needed
Built to be intuitive enough that no onboarding was required to use it.
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