SMART CARD VENDING

Smart cards are electronic devices which resembles a great deal with the credit cards. However smart cards replace the magnetic storage unit of the credit card with an embedded microprocessor to store information. A typical smart card has three separate memory banks, two of which are ROMs (read only memory) and one is RAM (random access memory) - 8 kilobytes of RAM, 346 kilobytes of ROM and an additional programmable ROM with 256 kilobytes of memory, controlled through a 16-bit microprocessor. There are two general categories, contact and contact less.

The usage of smart cards has been widely popularized in the vending industry. Their use can be found in corporate campuses, colleges and universities, correctional facilities, hospitals, hotels, cruise ships and laundry facilities. They have revolutionized the vending industry by making cashless vending possible. If your establishment already uses ID cards, then you can easily convert to a single smart card, personnel, students and indeed authorized visitors can access and pay with the smart card for a wide variety of services typically found on educational and corporate sites.

Smart card in Planet Antares has lot of advantages. Vandalism has been controlled with their usage. Now cash is no longer required to be carried by the route people. In addition to this there will be no more jams, sales can be tracked by site, there would be no coin counting room and no more shortages. Use of smart cards has made it easier for working people and people who are on a tour. They generally don’t carry cash and in need they can just make use of the smart cards and get whatever they want. The cost of the card equipment for your Planet Antares vending machines is about the same as for coin and bill changers.

Almost all vending card systems in use today provide an interface between several different economic streams—such as between debit card and vending account; bank or institutional account and vending card; or even cash and card account.

Honor Box Vending

Honor vending boxes are simply pre designed and colorful cardboard boxes that contain snack food items like candy bars, gums and chips for sale on the honor system. There is a coin box built to the vending box that doesn't lock, and customers are expected to pay for their purchases on the honor system. This vending system has become a sphere of influence for few specialists.

Planet Antares honor box vending provides an opportunity to those entrepreneurs who want to start the vending business with very limited investment. Honor boxes are an inexpensive option as compared to big and expensive vending machines. Place your honor boxes from small to mid size companies. Honor boxes offer you more locations than the traditional vending machines. They are small and easy to carry and place and for many prove to be more viable business option.

Cash accountability in honor boxes are mostly at stake. As it becomes difficult to keep the track of the exact money earned. Any shortage of money can be impugned even on the honest employees as there is no record of anything. If the employees themselves are engaged in the embezzlement, then tracking of even a small scale business becomes hard. Hiring trust worthy employees serves as the only reliable solution to this.

In order to ensure high sales and profitability filling the honor boxes with branded products prove to be appropriate. For persuading the buyers to buy the items from such boxes, the products should be identifiable.

The vending boxes can be put in the lunch rooms or reception areas and can be weekly restocked. Be cautious while stocking the boxes with the choice of products and brands. Customer satisfaction is again the key element in this vending. It becomes difficult to pull sales if customers are not pleased with the quality of your honor box services.

Even though it is a small scale vending business with very limited investment, you need to remain focused to make it productive.