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[Agee Vending]

Is anyone using any software to manage their inventory, trips, collections, etc? I have about 40 locations and 100 machines...

[snack dude]

Is anyone using any software to manage their inventory, trips, collections, etc? I have about 40 locations and 100 machines...

Hi Agee
we are close to the same size 38 locations, 96 machines. I was wondering that myself. There is one called Seed I am in the process of looking at. I will keep you updated. do you have any experience with cashless systems?.....

[satai]

Is anyone using any software to manage their inventory, trips, collections, etc? I have about 40 locations and 100 machines...

Don't know if links are allowed but try to google for a company called " tensing "
and a product called " fieldvision "

Many european companies use it.

Maybe it's usable for your situation.

[VendingGuyNYC]

CompuVend is another good one. Dex system and all..

R-

[ronnie]

Hi agee vending and snack dude,

That is a large route you two guys have. Thank you for all your inputs here in these forum

regards,
Ronnie.

[kevin]

Hi Agee
we are close to the same size 38 locations, 96 machines. I was wondering that myself. There is one called Seed I am in the process of looking at. I will keep you updated. do you have any experience with cashless systems?.....

I am using seed here. I have 78 units with seed in them right now. I can attest that since we have been in business for so long and have a wide verity of machines, it was very hard to get every machine dex capable and was more expensive then the actual seed system. I spent over $30,000 in a year updating machines software, boards, or the equipment itself. The benifit was that we took a route and a little over part time route and made one truck and one driver capable of servicing the same area. This driver also services about 30 machines without seed that are alot smaller(usually once a monthers)

As far as cashless, that has been hell. Cantaloupe isnt there yet even though I have been told soon for over a year. Just last week I bought an MEI remote data port that works with seeds system to install cashless on a Studio SL with a slave frozen. We are setting it in a very big account on monday and are hopping for the best. If all goes well it will be going in 18 machines within a hospital in my area. If you would like I can give you contacts to make it easier. It took me almost 3 weeks of phone calls getting everything to work with what I already had. When cantaloupe gets there cashless going I already have about 10 combo bezeles from MEI to install immediately.

Cashless is expensive and I dont recomened it for most accounts, in fact out of over 150 accounts, I can only constitute it for 10 so far. Our company hopes it will get cheaper soom day but right now Im only going to attempt to slowly install it on accounts we service at least twice a week.

[snack dude]

I am using seed here. I have 78 units with seed in them right now. I can attest that since we have been in business for so long and have a wide verity of machines, it was very hard to get every machine dex capable and was more expensive then the actual seed system. I spent over $30,000 in a year updating machines software, boards, or the equipment itself. The benifit was that we took a route and a little over part time route and made one truck and one driver capable of servicing the same area. This driver also services about 30 machines without seed that are alot smaller(usually once a monthers)

As far as cashless, that has been hell. Cantaloupe isnt there yet even though I have been told soon for over a year. Just last week I bought an MEI remote data port that works with seeds system to install cashless on a Studio SL with a slave frozen. We are setting it in a very big account on monday and are hopping for the best. If all goes well it will be going in 18 machines within a hospital in my area. If you would like I can give you contacts to make it easier. It took me almost 3 weeks of phone calls getting everything to work with what I already had. When cantaloupe gets there cashless going I already have about 10 combo bezeles from MEI to install immediately.

Cashless is expensive and I dont recomened it for most accounts, in fact out of over 150 accounts, I can only constitute it for 10 so far. Our company hopes it will get cheaper soom day but right now Im only going to attempt to slowly install it on accounts we service at least twice a week.

HI Kevin
Thanks for the info. I keep going back and forth on both Cantalope and the cashless. I do not think I am large enough yet to justify the outlay to implement the seed system. I only have five accounts that I service more than once a week and only one of those I think would do well with cashless plus some of my machines are getting long in the tooth. I do appreciate the information.
Thanks again
Snack Dude

[kevin]

HI Kevin
Thanks for the info. I keep going back and forth on both Cantalope and the cashless. I do not think I am large enough yet to justify the outlay to implement the seed system. I only have five accounts that I service more than once a week and only one of those I think would do well with cashless plus some of my machines are getting long in the tooth. I do appreciate the information.
Thanks again
Snack Dude

well like I said, cantaloupe dosnt offer cashless yet. There are alot of rules around cashless as far as how its processed and the are working to get everything approved from what I was told. I used MEI RDP and USA tech to get hte cashless but everything is suppose to get forwarded to cantaloupes online system.