← Vending machine route profit calculator
VendSoft is vending management software: once your machines and sales data are connected, it optimizes driver routes, pulls DEX telemetry from the machines themselves, tracks inventory across warehouse, truck, and machine, and automates commission and sales-tax calculation across a whole operation. Per its own published pricing page, that is an ongoing subscription — a Basic plan at $1 per machine per month with a $19/month minimum, and a Premium plan at $2 per machine per month with a $49/month minimum, scaling with how many machines you run. (Pricing is VendSoft's own and can change — check their current page for your own numbers.)
This calculator does none of that. It has no account, connects to no machine, costs nothing this month or any month, and answers a narrower question by hand: given the numbers for one location — units sold, commission, card fees, shrink, drive time, and machine cost — what does this visit actually profit, and does a whole list of locations clear a monthly income goal?
| Question | Where to look |
|---|---|
| Is this one location, priced from my own numbers, actually profitable? | This calculator's per-visit result. |
| Does my current list of locations clear my monthly income goal? | This calculator's route section. |
| I run enough machines that manual entry is the bottleneck — I want DEX telemetry pulled automatically. | VendSoft's published features page. |
| I want driver routes optimized across many stops, not priced one at a time. | VendSoft's route-optimization feature. |
| I want machine-level profit-and-loss reporting once machines report through software. | VendSoft, once connected and subscribed. |
| I don't want an account, a monthly per-machine fee, or anything uploaded, for a route this size. | This calculator. |
This tool needs no account and no machine connection: it is a static page, the arithmetic runs in your browser, and your location list and sales figures stay on your device — nothing is uploaded anywhere, and refreshing the page clears the route table on purpose.
They fit different stages. VendSoft (vendsoft.com/pricing/) is an ongoing subscription — its published pricing lists a Basic plan at $1 per machine per month with a $19/month minimum, and a Premium plan at $2 per machine per month with a $49/month minimum — built around route optimization, DEX telemetry pulled from machines, inventory across warehouse/truck/machine, and automated commission and sales-tax calculation across a whole route. This calculator has none of that: no account, no telemetry, no ongoing cost. It exists for the question before or alongside a subscription decision — given the numbers for one location, or a list of locations, is this route actually profitable and does it clear your income goal? Many operators use a calculator like this to decide whether a location or a whole route is worth running at all, before or instead of paying an ongoing per-machine fee to manage it.
VendSoft's published features page describes machine-level and location-level profit-and-loss reporting and automated commission calculation once your machines and sales data are connected to it — so once you are a subscriber and your machines are reporting through it, it can show you similar numbers from live data. This calculator does the same category of arithmetic — commission, card fees, shrink, drive time, machine cost — from numbers you type in by hand, with no machine connection, no account, and no ongoing fee, which is the trade a smaller or newer route usually wants before committing to per-machine software.
A trial is the right call once you already have enough machines that route optimization and automatic DEX data pulls save real time. Before that point — sizing up a single new location, deciding whether to keep a marginal stop, or checking whether five or six locations clear a monthly income goal — this calculator answers it in the time it takes to type the numbers in, with nothing to cancel afterward and nothing uploaded anywhere.
No. This site is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by VendSoft. VendSoft is a trademark of its owner, named here only to describe what this calculator is and is not.