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Commercial Laundry Equipment
Laundry Smart-Card systems have revolutionized the Coin Laundry industry.
The laundry card system eliminates quarters and all associated hassles from the modern Laundromat. The smart card system is a private issue debit card system where you, the Laundromat owner, issue your own Laundry Smart Cards to your laundry customers. The Laundry cards are debit cards because customers place money on the card before the card is issued and used.
There are several advantages of the Laundry Card to your Customers:
- Laundry cards are fun & hi-tech - forget the quarters, just swipe the smart card and the washer or dryer starts - by magic!
- No more fumbling with quarters - Laundry Cards eliminate the need for any quarters!
- Manage laundry expenses - on the 1st and 15th of the month, customers place money on their laundry cards and not worry about having to find the money to do laundry.
For the Laundromat owner smart cards offer additional advantages:
- Satisfied customers - once customers learn the routine, they all love the ease and convenience of the Laundry Card.
- Penny Increment Pricing - Washer and dryer vend prices can now be set in penny increments. This allows the owner to tweak prices according to increases in utility costs, (just like gas stations do).
- No More Quarters - a huge amount of time can be saved if you don't have to process quarters. We all take it for granted but quarters cost a lot if time to: collect from each machine, count, place in changers and then deal with the surplus or the deficit. Laundromats on busy bus routes have to buy quarters to keep their changers filled.
- 100% Audit-ability - how can any business run in today's competitive marketplace unless you know your true business numbers? Smart Card systems have today's metrics at your fingertips.
- Laundry Smart Card systems are "brother-in-law proof" - ever want to go on vacation? Worried about your cash business? With a smart card system, you have created an automated control system for your cash business.
- Unlimited number of stores - with quarter based Laundromats there are only so many hours in the day to collect and process quarters. With a smart card operated Laundromat you can have 1 or 100 card-operated stores and still be able to control your business. It's just not that simple with quarters.
- Washer Money Boxes are a finite size - If you miss your collection on a busy weekend, the quarters will fill up to the point where the washers will just not accept any more money and they will fail to operate. Too many quarters is not a problem unless you don't get there in time. No customer enjoys losing their money-even just a quarter or two. This creates bad will and eventually will lose customers.
- Customer Loyalty - Your Laundromats Card system will only work with your Laundromat. This creates customer loyalty and keeps your customers coming back again and again.
- Card systems allow for many types of promotions - all card systems allow the owner to set-up time-of-day specials, big bill bonuses and other promotion programs. Several card companies allow for Wash & Win programs or Free Dry programs where the wash customer get credits for each wash load to be used in the dryers. The Laundromat promotion possibilities are only limited by your imagination and don't work with quarters.
- Less repairs - with a card system we eliminate the coin mechanism which can be one of the most common problem areas of washer and dryer repairs. Generally, card systems are more reliable then quarter operated stores.
- Remote monitoring - card Laundromats have the ability to be monitored remotely by dial-up modem or high-speed internet connection. This is another huge step toward the "automated Laundromat".
Card systems are the tools of the present and the future that will allow the Laundromat owner to leverage their time and efforts in operating successful Laundromats. Please contact HK to see if a Card System will work in your future.