← Vending machine route profit calculator
Cantaloupe's Seed products are a full vending management platform built around its own cashless card-reader hardware: real-time telemetry from every machine, remote price changes, inventory and depletion alerts, restock predictions, and route-scheduling tools across a whole fleet. Per Cantaloupe's own published pricing page, base subscription plans start around $18.95/month, with operators typically budgeting roughly $8-12 per machine per month in telemetry and software fees on top of the hardware itself. Seed Cashless+ and Seed Pro are paid software tiers quoted per fleet on top of that. This calculator charges nothing, needs no hardware, and reads no machine directly -- it is a static page you type numbers into.
That makes Cantaloupe's Seed the right tool for running cashless payments and telemetry across a fleet of machines. This calculator answers a narrower question, for an operator who already has sales and cost figures for a location (from a DEX report, a cashless dashboard, or a manual count): is this specific location actually profitable, and does the whole route add up to my income goal?
| Question | Where to answer it |
|---|---|
| Take cashless payments and get real-time sales telemetry from a machine? | Cantaloupe's cashless readers and Seed software, or a similar VMS. |
| Get alerted when a slot is running low, or auto-generate restock pick lists? | Seed Cashless+ / Seed Pro's inventory and restock-prediction tools. |
| How much does Cantaloupe's own software and telemetry cost per machine? | Cantaloupe's published pricing page -- this calculator charges no subscription or per-machine fee of its own. |
| Is this one location actually profitable once commission, card fees, shrink, drive time, and machine cost are counted? | This calculator's per-visit profit. |
| Does my whole list of locations add up to my monthly income goal? | This calculator's route rollup. |
This tool needs no account, no hardware, and no telemetry: it is a static page, the arithmetic runs in your browser, and the location figures you type in stay on your device -- nothing is uploaded anywhere, and refreshing the page clears the route table on purpose.
They solve different problems at different scales. Cantaloupe's Seed products (Seed Cashless+ and Seed Pro) are a vending management platform: cashless card readers with built-in telemetry, remote price changes, inventory and restock-prediction alerts, and route-scheduling tools, sold as an ongoing software subscription on top of hardware you buy or lease. This calculator has no hardware, no telemetry, and no account at all -- it is a free one-page arithmetic check for whether a single location's numbers, that you type in yourself, actually add up to a profit once commission, card fees, shrink, drive time, and the machine's own cost are counted.
Per Cantaloupe's own published pricing page for Cantaloupe One, base subscription plans start around $18.95/month, and operators should plan for roughly $8-12 per machine per month in telemetry and software fees on top of that, plus the cashless reader hardware itself. Seed Cashless+ is described as a paid software subscription layered on top; Cantaloupe does not publish a flat price for it or for Seed Pro, both of which are quoted per fleet. This calculator has no subscription, no hardware requirement, and no per-machine fee -- it is a free static page.
No, and it is not trying to. This tool cannot read a machine's actual sales, cannot take a cashless payment, and cannot alert you when a slot is empty -- all of that requires the sensors and card readers Cantaloupe's hardware provides. This calculator only takes the numbers you already have (from a DEX report, a cashless dashboard, or your own count) and turns them into a profit-per-visit and a monthly route rollup. Plenty of operators running Cantaloupe or a competing telemetry platform still do this specific gut-check by hand or in a spreadsheet; this replaces the spreadsheet, not the telemetry.
No. This site is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Cantaloupe, Inc. Cantaloupe, Seed, Seed Pro, Seed Cashless+, and Cantaloupe One are trademarks of Cantaloupe, Inc., named here only to describe what this calculator is for and is not.