What are Vending Machines?

Vending machine, English name (Vending Machine, VEM), is a machine that can automatically pay for goods based on the coins you put in. Vending machines are common equipment for commercial automation. They are not restricted by time and place, and can save manpower and facilitate transactions. It is a new form of commercial retail, also known as a 24-hour mini supermarket. There are four types of common vending machines: beverage vending machines, food vending machines, integrated vending machines, and cosmetic vending machines.

vending machine

English name: Vending Machine / Slot Machine

In the 1st century AD, the Greek-made Greek device for selling holy water was the earliest vending machine in the world.

The vending coffee machine is a coffee drink vending machine that can produce both hot and cold coffee and milk tea juice drinks at the same time, saving time and convenience. It can be used both as an investment and as an employee benefit.

Judging from the development trend of vending machines, its emergence is due to the transformation of labor-intensive industrial structures to technology-intensive societies. Large-scale production, large-scale consumption, and changes in consumption patterns and sales environments require new circulation channels; while new supermarkets, department stores, and other new circulation channels have been generated, labor costs have continued to rise; coupled with the limitations of the venue And the convenience of shopping and other factors, unmanned vending machines as a

Basic functions of vending machines

Credit card shopping

With the support of the network environment, it has a variety of electronic payment functions, such as credit cards,

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Credit card consumption such as stored value cards and mobile phone cards.

Currency identification

The electronic control system can cooperate with banknotes and coin identifiers to increase the voucher function, and can recognize paper and coin type vouchers.

Data download

Applying USB technology, using a USB flash drive, you can easily download the operation information of the vending machine, and then use the PC to process the downloaded data, which is convenient for operators to grasp the sales situation of different regions, different machines, and different products.

Vending machine special features

Network operation

The data of the current operation of the vending machine, including the system status, system failure, material channel failure, out-of-stock conditions, and sales data are wirelessly transmitted to the vending machine network server through the GPRS module installed on the vending machine.Operators can This computer holds information about the vending machine on a computer connected to the network, and realizes large-scale operation and network management of the vending machine.

Mobile shopping

The vending machine system and the mobile POS module system are docked to realize the reading and writing operation of the 2.4GHz RFSIM card launched by China Mobile and complete the mobile phone shopping function.

Multimedia display

Adopting LED display screen and multimedia display technology, the vending machine system is connected with the PC system, so that consumers can purchase the goods of the vending machine through the PC-controlled touch screen, which not only replaces the selection button, but also makes the vending machine have media functions.

Self-pay

The ATM machine system is embedded in the vending machine, so that the vending machine can be used as a mobile and financial terminal device to realize self-service payment services.