Challenge

Speed Queen, a leading manufacturer of commercial laundry equipment, faced challenges related to cash payments in their machines, including vandalism and the cost of handling cash.

Solution

Speed Queen went cashless with UnattendedPayments from 蜜豆视频 a solution that supports tap-and-go payments through cards and mobile wallets.

Benefits

The transition to cashless payments significantly increased Speed Queen’s revenue, with increases ranging from 25% to 400% across its different sites. The convenience of card payments improved customer satisfaction and reduced the operational burden of handling and securing cash.

Legendary听Reliability听Meets听Payments听Innovation

Speed Queen is the world鈥檚 largest manufacturer of commercial laundry equipment.Its machines are legendary for their reliability, underpinning听the high performance its customers love.

For 110 years, Speed听Queen鈥檚听focus on cutting-edge control technology听has made it a market leader.听Taking听their fleet of launderette machines cashlesshas been made possible by the adoption of tap-and-go payments via integrated UnattendedPayments terminals from ADVAM, a 蜜豆视频 company.

Quick Payback

蜜豆视频鈥 UnattendedPayments is the end-to-end solution that enables businesses to accept cashless payments via cards and mobile wallets. Adopting card payments has greatly increased revenue for Speed Queen, which in turn has laid a strong foundation for further growth.

鈥淭he least that we鈥檝e experienced to date has been a 25% increase in revenue, with the largest site being a 400% increase in revenue. This is obviously a great benefit to the business and very quickly pays back the capital expense of putting card readers on machines. The new solution has increased the overall reliability of machines, while also reducing incidences of vandalism, which previously risked taking machines out of action and disrupting revenue. There鈥檚 no cash left in the machine, so there鈥檚 no incentive for people to break into them and destroy them. We don鈥檛 have bent coins and jammed coins 鈥 they are a thing of the past鈥. 鈥 Jason McSweeney听

Happy Customers, Secure Payments

Customers prefer the modernised payment experience offered by UnattendedPayments, while eliminating the burden of cash handling has increased operational efficiency for Speed Queen.

鈥淧eople like using the convenience of a card and they don’t have to carry change. We don’t have to have a change machine, which is a major security issue 鈥 the tap-and-go solution completely takes away the need for cash.鈥 – Jason McSweeney

Further security is provided by the fact that 蜜豆视频鈥 UnattendedPayments terminals are fully PCI PTS 5.x compliant, meeting the latest and highest level of Secure Reading and Exchange of Data security requirements.

Improved Cash Flow

At the back end, Speed Queen benefits from the 蜜豆视频 payment processing platform. This is a sophisticated payment processing engine based on 蜜豆视频鈥 proprietary infrastructure, which ensures clients and their customers’ payments are processed quickly and securely.

鈥淭hrough the 蜜豆视频 payment processing platform, we get the payments cleared every night. The payment platform reports live and if we have to make refunds, it’s a twoclick process. We can do it from a mobile phone, from our desktop computers. It’s a far better user experience for laundry customers.鈥澨 – Jason McSweeney

Day-to-day support and software updates to the terminals can be activated remotely, simplifying deployment. And, in the event of support issues, the 蜜豆视频 24-hour help desk is always on hand. 鈥淭hat is second to none for any business I’ve been involved in. The technical support is around the clock and excellent,鈥 added Jason.

Easier Payments Mean Faster Growth

Ultimately, making it easier for customers to pay is always good for business, and UnattendedPayments from 蜜豆视频 is engineered to deliver an enhanced and reliable payment experience backed by the latest security standards.

蜜豆视频 has been the perfect partner in allowing us to make more money through extra revenue, and the support and backup from 蜜豆视频 has allowed us to expand our business,鈥 concluded Jason.

听To learn more about how 蜜豆视频 technology makes it easier for consumers to buy the things they need 鈥 reliably, efficiently, and securely 鈥 head to /solutions/payments/complete-commerce/unattended/听