Electronic Payment System - what is it?

Any vending machine is equipped with a payment system. What it is, what it consists of, what is required of her? Payment system - this is one of the most important parts in the vending machine. Payment system is not working, always glitches, cheats buyer is insufficient to service the buyer - as a consequence of falling revenues and, consequently, your income.

So when you buy a vending machine, you should pay careful attention to the choice of payment system.

The payment system is designed to receive cash and non-payment for goods or services offered by your ATM. The following are its possible components in various combinations:

1. Coin

2. Banknote

3. Reader electronic keys and cards.

Of course, well, when the vending machine is equipped with the maximum possible payment system, but then increases the cost and time to value, respectively. On the other hand, the more options in the vending machine payment, the lower the likelihood of downtime due to inability of customers to pay for the goods (no coins, small bills, etc.) or failure of the failure of one system - rejected banknote - there is a coin, it does not work - there are loans on the keys. Completion of the payment system is selected depending on the volume of sales, prices, range of potential customers, etc.

When you install a vending machine to the point, it is natural that you are primarily interested in is the sales statistics. Therefore, payment systems are used to determine the denomination of payment accepted, and thus communicate with an ATM on the number of sales.

Payment systems can work in various communication protocols to the vending machine, but the most common - is MDB and Executive. What are the differences? The protocol MDB payment system accepts payment determines its denomination and the machine gives a signal about the fees. Vending machine provides product delivery and then captures and summarizes all sales. The protocol Executiveplatezhnaya system also accepts payments, determines their face value, commodity and delivery issues, but overall sales with fixes and adds no ATM and payment system.

Thus, the protocol MDB payment system serves only to determine the amount of payment accepted, and all sales statistics captures automaton, and in the minutes of Executive payment system is used not only to determine the amount, but also to record all sales of the vending machine.

Lack of protocol MDB that the sales statistics you can only get the one laid down in the vending machine manufacturer, ie If you have machines from different manufacturers or different generations of the parameters themselves and removed statistics may be different. The minutes of the Executive sales statistics is removed directly from the payment system. If you have a payment system of one manufacturer, on what would be an automaton that support the Executive, you did not install it, the settings will be removed statistics are the same. Later in the computer program accounting of cash flows for all of your vending machines to combine the same data will be much easier than the data from different machines.

So when we started out and consulted with many foreign vending operators, they unanimously said that you need to work only in the minutes of Executive. Therefore, we chose this protocol and advise all our clients to work in it. Sales statistics can be removed manually with buttons and vending machine coin or electronically using a computer or a special reading devices.

When manually removing statistics present the "human factor" - not looked back, not recorded - and whether intentional or not is unknown, eventually corrupted data. Therefore, while you yourself serving a vending machine, the statistics can be removed by hand - do not fool yourself, but just take the work of employees who will service your vending machines with increasing park machines, and control over their work becomes more complex task. Here without removing statistics in electronic form is not enough - the number of employees, number of machines and models, and to control all this by hand is impossible. Therefore, when choosing the payment system should always be interested in this artwork, whether the manufacturer of these systems, equipment and computer programs to get statistics in electronic form.

Thus, the choice of payment system, choose a modern, reliable system, proven by the seller, and remember that it is intended not only to receive the money, but also to manage electronic records of sales, which greatly facilitates the control of the owner of the vending machines staff, tracking money and sold goods.