From cashless fee generation to self-service kiosks to marketplace build-outs and extra, Cantaloupe has all the time been dedicated to offering its consumers with end-to-end answers.
With its fresh acquisition – or partnership, as Cantaloupe CEO Ravi Venkatesan references it – of SB Software, Cantaloupe is now in a position to take that dedication to the following stage. SB Software’s Vendmanager and Coffeemanager platforms seamlessly combine into Cantaloupe’s cashless fee units and self-service kiosks. These VMS answers permit operators to make knowledgeable choices for his or her companies in accordance with optimum information and reporting and automate particular duties.
Through this partnership, Cantaloupe and SB Software are interested by the chance to fortify operators having a look both to combine with third-party units or are in search of a one-stop-shop for his or her merchandising answers.
What is Vendmanager?
“Vendmanager manages stock, route operating, service, wholesale, and invoicing,” says SB Software’s Robin Turver. “It also creates the best reports that you can have to manage your entire business all-in-one integrated system.”
“When you combine Vendmanager with telemetry information, coming seamlessly into the system, and then Datakey to cross-check it and make sure the stock is absolutely accurate for every time the machines are filled, you get access to features such as single walk, visit-on-demand, pre-packing and the newest one, ultra-fleet routing. That then delivers a minimum of 10% savings on operations, and an increase on snack and bottle business by 20% through use of better planogram and fill quantities. And all of this is backed up by the best support from the Cantaloupe team.”
Turver explains that SB Software will nonetheless combine with present and new suppliers however can be offering a one-stop-shop with Cantaloupe for operators who need that.
How will Vendmanager combine with Cantaloupe’s fee units?
Together, each Cantaloupe and SB Software wish to simplify the relationship for merchandising operators up to imaginable. Burger explains how that can paintings.
“The Cantaloupe payment device incorporates telemetry data,” Burger says. “We take the telemetry data that comes off the vending machine that records sales data, as well as inventory movement from the physical device, and feed that seamlessly into Vendmanager. That allows for us to track inventory from every single device that’s out in the field and to understand how that then feeds into the warehouse application. Operators can then manage inventory for their warehousing and route planning.”
How does this integration give a contribution to an end-to-end answers manner?
Burger explains that how simply this integration will assist operators perceive their information.
“We are growing an interface the place an operator can cross into Vendmanager, go browsing to the portal and perceive precisely what every certainly one of their merchandising machines have finished from a gross sales procedure viewpoint.
You can see what they have got recorded in income, as a result of all of the ones information issues are fed into Vendmanager, after which use that for correct making plans: when do they purchase inventory, what do they purchase, what do they wish to focal point on setting up their merchandising machines, and the way incessantly do they wish to get drivers in the market to restock their merchandising machines.”
Cantaloupe and SB Software proportion the similar objective: give you the best possible customer support.
Cantaloupe and SB Software are dedicated to placing their consumers first and serving to them perceive their units and their information so they are able to optimise efficiencies inside their companies.
“The key focus is to make that end-to-end process as seamless as possible,” says Burger. “For operators, it is a case of implementing Cantaloupe’s payment device and implementing Vendmanager behind the scenes. We will take care of the complexity associated with that integration.”
Says SB Software COO Dan Varney, “We are excited about the ability to offer a one-stop-shop solution, as well as remaining agnostic to a vend-operators’ preferences on third-party solutions. Ultimately, it’s about driving as much value for each of those product sets, regardless of what those product sets might be, so that it is the best-in-class and a bargain.”
