5 Must-Have Features in a Vending Machine

Five Must-Have Features of Your Vending Machine 

Are you in the market for a vending solution?

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Vending machines wear multiple hats – they are a great source of extra income and a way for products and retail brands to improve the customer experience. If you are in the market for a vending solution, the ideal starting point is to check out our profit calculator or contact us directly at Vending.com.

What are the features or capabilities that your vending solution must possess? 

There are certain features that are required when considering the purchase of any vending machine for sale so that the machine is able to accommodate a variety of requirements for users. Entrepreneurs, retail businesses, facility management agencies, the list goes on. Your business is unique and requires solutions aligned to your business goals and your target vending audiences. Some areas will need your attention before investing in a vending solution. This blog post outlines five of these areas.

Accessibility – Are your vending machines ADA compliant?

The Americans with Disabilities Act is comprehensive in its scope, as well as scientific and compassionate in its stipulations. Though there are multiple aspects that the act covers, accessibility is an feature that should apply to the vending machines you choose.

Vending.com’s offerings are all ADA compliant or ADA ready. Our solutions comply with the ADA by its design, ergonomic access to the user interfaces, intuitiveness, and its ability to be accessible to all. Contact us to know more about our ADA-compliant machines.

Customizability

Just as your vending partner needs to cater to your business’s unique identity and operations, you also need someone well-versed with your industry’s demands. Custom-developed solutions, wherever applicable, will help drive more sales and ensure a richer user experience that delights users.

Vending.com has custom vending solutions with machines that have been designed and redesigned with features for specific industries, domains, and applications, like PPE kit vending, gym and fitness centers, self-service laundry businesses, and more. Our partners and affiliates add to our vending solutions’ customizability.

In addition to providing the custom vendor, Vending.com also helps in catching the attention of your customers with eye-popping designs. Our custom graphics offering helps in decking out your vending machine to attract more audiences – right from the factory. Our marketing team helps you serve the right look for your audience. 

Effectiveness Of Technology And Application Used

Technology has raised the bar with end-user expectations regarding features and experiences. It is essential to choose the appropriate features that are relevant for your target vending audience. 

Vending.com has constantly developed products and solutions filled to the brim with features, and we have done this for all stakeholders – our customers and the end-user audience. We have everything from easy item loading to handling multiple form factors. For the end-user, we have easy item selection, cashless transactions, sanitization, and more.

Contact us now to understand the multiple vending machine features and options that would work for your audiences.

Alternative Methods of Monetization

We are all looking to maximize the returns from our assets and investments. Complementary or supplementary income avenues are a way to do that. In this connected and digital world, there are multiple ways to augment the principal revenue source. For instance, any surface that demands the public’s attention is ideal for placing advertisements. When it comes to vending machines with digital displays and an internet connection, the possibilities are endless.

Vending.com’s vending machine solutions have feature-rich interfaces. Our in-house engineering is laser-focused on incorporating cutting-edge technology that helps our customers recognize tangible results. Check out our Express Combo Vending Machine to see for yourself. 

Sustainability

In this day and age, machines have to be energy-efficient as much as possible. Multiple technologies are applicable across design, ergonomics, hardware, software, customer behavior, etc., for reducing the energy consumption of vending machines and their carbon footprint. 

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For example, Vending.com’s MarketOne 5W Cold Food & Drink Vending Machine is a combo machine that includes cooling solutions, digital displays, touch interface, cashless payment, and much more. It has Energy Star compliant technology, LED lighting, and the latest in energy usage optimization from our in-house innovators.  

Why choose Vending.com for your Vending Solutions?

Our 90 years of proven vending industry legacy and leadership focus on long-term innovation and planning. We offer everything required for your success. Our end-to-end ecosystem for vending solutions covers everything from usage-specific machines and new technology-driven features to financing and hassle-free maintenance.

Equipping your vending machine with the latest technology is a sure-fire way to ensure that you are setting your vending business up for complete success. eVending provides vendors with standard and optional features to do just that. Below are our top five vending machine features that are a must-have for any vending business.

Greenlite

Greenlite Cashless Payment System is an optional feature that will take your vending business to a whole new level. Greenlite offers cashless vending for your machine, meaning that it will accept credit, debit and mobile payments. With less and less people carrying cash around, installing Greenlite is a must in order to increase your profit. In fact, those who have installed Greenlite have reported an increase in machine sales by an average of 35%. Additionally, Greenlite gives you the capability to track your sales and inventory from wherever you are. 

iVend

A standard feature on eVending’s machines, the iVend Delivery Sensor System ensures your customers are receiving their product 100% of the time. This feature uses infrared technology, so if your items are not vending correctly, your customers will receive their money back. They will also have the option to try and vend a different item. iVend increases your customer’s satisfaction by virtually eliminating misvends from your machine.  

ADA Compliant

Did you know that eVending’s most popular vending machine models comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) regulations?  Standard ADA Compliant models include, but are not limited to the Futura Snack and Drink Combo, CB500 Cold Drink, 29 Selection Combo Elevator, and Coffee Express Hot Beverage, as well as our new Elite Series Snack 5W and 6W machines. This means that the usability components of a vending machine must be between 15” and 48” from the floor.  In addition, most of our other equipment models are standard ADA-ready, meaning they have the option to include an ADA delivery box in order to make the unit fully ADA Compliant. This option includes a lift mechanism, so that the product can be delivered at 15”. It also only takes one hand to operate this feature. 

Flexible Product Capability

Product packages are always changing, so what good is your machine if it does not change with them? eVending’s vending machines come standard with adjustable snack and drink selections. This feature allows you to easily configure the machine to fit the product packaging that you are selling. Now, you can forget about trying to find products that fit your machine perfectly. Instead, you can adjust the machine to your products.

Easy Vending

Our machines come equipped with features that make vending easy for everyone. For one, our machines include LED lights to properly showcase your products. It allows your customers to see your products clearly in your machine. Our machines also have customer-friendly controls with large selection buttons and Braille identification. These features make vending easy for everyone.

Give us a call at 888-568- for more information about any of these vending machine features and how they can work for your machine.