Change a price once, from the office
Changing prices used to mean a visit to every machine. Now it's one change, sent to the whole fleet. Try sending one yourself.
In short
- Prices are set once, centrally, and sent out to the machines — no site visit needed.
- Every machine ends up with the same price for the same product, unless you decide otherwise.
- You always know which price was live where, and when it changed.
Here's a job nobody enjoys: the supplier puts up the price of canned drinks, and now every machine in the fleet needs a new price for every can. Traditionally that means a technician with a key and a list, visiting site after site, pressing buttons on a service panel. It takes weeks. In the meantime, half the fleet sells at the old price and half at the new one.
And if somebody mistypes a price on machine 47? You'll find out when the sales report looks odd — or when a customer complains that the same drink costs more on the second floor.
One change, every machine
With CleaVend, prices live in one place: the product catalogue. You change the price there, and it's sent out to the connected machines that sell that product. Pick a product below, change its price, and send it.
Send a new price to the fleet
Example products, prices and sites. Real machines confirm the change when they receive it.
Every machine gets the same price at practically the same time, and each one confirms it. No site visits, no list of buttons to press, and no machine left behind at the old price because it was at the bottom of the technician's list.
Why it matters
It's fair to your customers. The same drink should cost the same on every floor of the same building. When prices are set centrally, it does.
It's fast enough to be useful. If changing a price takes three weeks, you only do it when you have to. When it takes a minute, you can react: a supplier price rise, a new product launch, a summer offer on cold drinks.
It leaves a record. Every change is stored with who made it and when. When the accountant asks why March revenue per can went up, the answer is in the history, not in someone's memory.
Prices, products and slots stay in step. The same catalogue that holds the price also decides which product sits in which slot. Change a product in the planogram and the right price comes with it.
A few things people ask
Can different sites have different prices?
Yes. A railway station and a staff canteen rarely charge the same, and that's fine. The point isn't that every machine has to be identical — it's that every price is a decision you made, not an accident.
What about machines that aren't online right now?
A machine that's offline simply picks up the change when it reconnects. In the meantime you can see which machines have confirmed the new price and which are still waiting, so nothing slips through.
Do card and QR payments follow the new price?
They charge what the machine asks for. Once the machine has the new price, every way of paying uses it.
If changing a price takes three weeks, you only do it when you're forced to. If it takes a minute, you can run your business.
Price changes are one small part of keeping the catalogue in order. Together with sales by product and by site, they're how you find out what each location really wants — and what it's prepared to pay for it.