The cheapest on-machine payment system out there costs $10,000 — and it's a mobile app, period. Kiosk systems run $16,000–$30,000 for a 70-machine store. CleanerStart wires a typical 60-machine store for $10,000 ($2,500 base + $125/machine): every machine, the reload kiosk, the cards, the mobile app, the web app — installed, turnkey. Then 1% of volume. That's the whole deal.
Every card system makes you choose: pay $10K for an app with no kiosk, or $16K–30K for a kiosk with no app. Then the fees start. Here's our deal instead.
Value never lives on the card — cards are just IDs. Every dollar sits in a server-side ledger, so lost cards are a two-click reissue and cloned cards can't mint money.
A cryptographically-secure card (NTAG 424 DNA) hits the reader built into the board behind the machine's faceplate. Fakes and clones don't read as genuine.
The board asks your backend over signed HTTPS. Balance checked, ledger debited, approval signed. No approval, no start — the board fails closed, always.
The board fires start pulses into the machine's existing coin input — the exact signal a quarter makes. No control-board surgery. Works on the machines you already own.
Quarters? Still work. And now every coin drop is logged — so the coin box finally has to match the books.
CleanerStart isn't a pitch deck. It's the system running our own laundromat in Fredericksburg, VA — built because we refused to pay rent on our own machines.
$2,500 base — kiosk, cards, network, install — plus $125 per machine. The whole quote, right here, no sales call required.
// Every quote includes boards for every machine, kiosk, cards, mobile + web apps, install. POS integration + data API on the roadmap. Invoiced — card or ACH.
If your machine takes coins through a start-pulse input (Speed Queen with NetMaster is our home fleet), the board drives it with the same pulses a quarter produces. No control-board replacement, no proprietary harness.
Card taps fail closed: the board never starts a machine without a signed approval. Coins keep working the entire time, so the store never stops taking money.
There's nothing on the card to steal — value lives on the server. Cards authenticate with a one-time cryptographic signature on every tap, so a copied card doesn't read as genuine.
They don't need one — card or fob works app-free, loaded at the kiosk with cash or a bank card. But they get one anyway: the mobile and web apps are included, so customers who want to reload from the couch, can.
$2,500 base plus $125 per machine, 25-machine minimum — a typical 60-machine store lands at $10,000, everything included and installed. Then 1% of transaction volume, with card processing passed through at cost via our processing partner. No per-machine monthlies, no support contracts. You can put every number in a spreadsheet before you call us.
The machine goes back to being a coin machine — nothing bricks. Boards sit on eight screw terminals; we swap one in minutes, and it's on us to keep your floor live.
Tell us about your store — machine count, current system — and we'll put the whole thing in writing: $10K turnkey, 1% of volume, processing at cost. Try to find the catch.
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