Everyone,

Well Bass Vending Services is about a month into the game and things are coming along pretty good. Im not quite sure the actual profit that we are making yet but the revenue per week has been pretty consistant. I have 3 machines. One DN756P one AMS Sense it Snack Machine and one AMS Food and Bottle Machine. All 3 machines are located in a factory where I am a suupervisor. The factory has 3 shifts and a total of around 115 workers. The average revenue for the first month has been right at 1500.00 a week. The Food and Bottle Machine has been my biggest seller. I service this machine 6 days a week. The factory runs 7 days a week. I am selling 16.9 oz bottles along with 20oz gatorade, water, redbull and Monster Energy drinks. The problem I have is capacity with this machine. It only holds around 120 bottles. 60 of which a mountain dew. I really need something that holds more. Oh well for the time being I will just be serviceing this machine on a daily basis. In this maching I am also doing cold food. Sandwhichs from Landshire and also Sam's. This machine has MEI Coin Mech and Bill Val. I am using the CF series Coin mech that Dispenses dollar coins. This has gone over very well. My bill val accepts 1,5,10, and 20's which is great until someone thinks its a bank and puts in 200 worht of 20's and empties out all my change. Happened this morning that why I said that. Ok now for the Can machine. Very slow sales! The factory is a saw mill and the saw dust gets in the cans and I understand that but I thought that it would still have better sales than what it does. We have only serviced this machine 2 or 3 times in a month. The snack machine does good. I mean we have a large variaty of products from nutri grain bars to salami and cheese sticks. We are also doing 3 sizes of gloves and safty glasses in this machine. I dont have any hostess products in this machine everything including pastries I have been getitng from sam's. Also I have nothing in this machine over .65 which everyone likes. Anyways just wanted to let everyone know how its coming along. Anyone else want to post their revenue per location that would be awesome. Thanks again for all the help!!

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Does anyone know of a forum devoted to only Full Line Guys? They is Vendiscuss.com but they are devoted mostly to the bulk guys. Anyone know of anymore vending forums??

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Hey guys ive been visiting Vendiscuss.com and they are mostly a bulk vending forum. But they have this really neat section called revenue report. You have to be a plus memeber in order to view or post in this section but its really neat. In order to be a plus memeber you have to have 10 or more posts. Anyways the members of this forum post ther revenue in this section and break it down into product and which type of environment their machine is in. I thought that this was a really neat idea and would be cook to see what some of the people come up with in here. I know as soon as I get my machines going which will be Jan 8th by the way I will give everyone a weekly update on how everything is going and let everyone know whats selling the best and things like that. I think that would be pretty cool if we could compair how everyone is doing. What do you guys think? Let me know.

Thanks,

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Hello,

Just wondering if anyone has or uses a free vending managment software package? I am in the process of trying to build my own database with Microsoft Access. Does anyone use one of these or know where I can get one? Im wanting it to keep track of sales, costs, inventory, and profit and loss. I would like to be able to enter in products under categorys such as can soda or candy or sandwhich and be able to see what the percent of my sales are each category. I would also like to be able to keep track of inventory by automaticly taking the product out of inventory when I say it was sold and same go with buying new product. I would like for it to keep track of how many I buy and add it to the inventory. Does anyone have anything like this with access? Anyone with any ideas about this please let me know.

Thanks,

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Hello everyone. I have a pretty easy question what does everyone use for their helix sizes?? I am unsure on chips,candy.pasteries, and sandwiches. I want to be able to hold the most amount of product in my machines but make sure everything fits. Here are the helic sizes....

Snack

5 Pitch - 3 1/4"
7 Pitch - 2 1/2"
9 Pitch - 2"
10 Pitch - 1 3/4"
12 Pitch - 1 1/2"
15 Pitch - 1 1/4"

Candy

7 Pitch - 2 7/8"
10 Pitch - 2"
12 Pitch - 1 5/8"
15 Pitch - 1 1/4"
18 Pitch - 1"
24 Pitch - 3/4"

If anyone could just tell me what they put in what helix and what fits in what helix I would very much appreciate it!!

Thanks,

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