How to make money on vending machines

Do you know what is common in the terminal for receiving payments in the underpass, the check-in point in the shop of Lebedev Studio , and the crane-machine , around which children are crowding, in the hope of pulling out a soft toy? All this - vending machines.

Vending is the sale of goods and services through automated systems (vending machines). Vending is widespread in the world, as a convenient and not very demanding way to trade or provide services. In 2001, the volume of vending in the United States amounted to $ 24.34 billion. In Japan - about $ 60 billion (the largest in the world). ( Wikipedia )

This article is an introduction to the topic of vending. With the support of the portal " Vending Century ", I will talk about what it is, what it is eaten with, and I will give a couple, I hope, useful advice to those who are interested in the practical side of the issue - namely, how to start your own vending business. This is not as difficult as it might seem at first glance.
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What is vending?

Vending is, literally, selling goods without a seller.

Coffee vending machines, payment terminals and condom sales terminals are all vending.

Vending machine is a misanthropic dream and a panacea for poor service, which is especially important in our harsh latitudes.

However, in this article I would like to tell not about the advantages of vending machines - good, almost all of us are constantly confronted with them, but about how to become the ruler of non-human robots to organize our own vending business.

How to start your vending business.

So, you have decided that a vending machine is a good option for additional (and maybe even basic) earnings. In this case, the procedure is as follows:

1. you decide on the product your automaton will trade in, write a business plan where you designate your goals, prescribe expenses and expected incomes (even if you decide to start working alone, in self-discipline it will not be superfluous);

2. register the PI.

How to register IP.

The question is relevant, regardless of whether you are going to start your vending machine or not, therefore I will set out below a brief educational program.

The main thing that needs to be learned is that there is nothing complicated or frightening about it; registering your business yourself is quite simple and cheap. Issue price - 300 rubles of state duty and 500-1000 rubles for notary services.
So, come to the tax and get your hands on a questionnaire that you need to fill out and notarize and a notary and a receipt for the payment of state duty - 300 rubles.

Vending under the All-Russian Classifier of Types of Economic Activity (OKVED) is number 52.63 - other retail trade outside stores. However, if you are not sure of your choice, then you can see what other economic activities in this classifier are available: very informative reading.

Then you certify the questionnaire with any notary (depending on their greed for geographic location relative to the Moscow Ring Road, it will cost 500-1000 rubles), after which you take it to tax and after five more days you take your certificates.

And two more actions that should be done without departing from the cash register when obtaining certificates: write an application to transfer you to the simplified taxation system (STS) and request an extract from the Unified State Register of Individual Entrepreneurs.

The simplified tax system, as the name implies, makes life easier: paying a number of taxes — on profits, VAT, on sales, on property of organizations, and Unified Social Tax — are replaced by paying a single tax, calculated on the basis of business results for the tax period. Permission to go to the "simplified" will come to you by mail within 10 days.

As for the statement, you will need it when opening a bank account - which is desirable, since it is unlikely that you will be able to work with legal entities with legal entities. The statement will be ready in five business days.

Total, the price of opening your own business is about 1000 rubles and three trips to the tax, not including the notary and the bank.

In my opinion, it does not look very scary. And if you guess with time to visit the tax, then the special queues can be avoided.

3. In parallel with the decision of legal formalities, you need to deal with the main issue: the choice of the location of the machine. It’s impossible to place an automatic machine for free - the usual scheme of work is 10% of turnover or a fixed rate of 3-4 thousand rubles per month.

However, you can try to put the machine in your office, agreeing with the boss (if you yourself are the boss, then life becomes even easier). Put in your office a coffee machine or hand-washing machine (ask your colleagues what they need). Let the vending machine work for you while you work for the company.

4. Choose the machine itself.

The cost of coffee machines - 100-200 thousand rubles, depending on the manufacturer, the amount of loading and options.
The cost of snack machines - 100-150 thousand.

The space for saving is unlimited - for example, you can buy a used car (but, in order not to “fall”, it is advisable - still working at the outlet).

It takes quite a bit of time machine - depending on the type of machine and sales, you need to visit it once every 3 days or daily, if it is, for example, a machine for selling freshly squeezed juices. Vending machines selling snacks can be visited once a week.

Giant tomagochi, which, if you take care of him, also brings money.

However, you can not even bother with such concerns and hire an operator who will take care of maintaining your machine.

Statistics of vending returns, according to veq.ru , is as follows :

The purchase of ingredients will take about a quarter of your revenue. Of the remaining amounts, you will have to pay salaries (if you hire another operator), rent a place and incur other expenses (for example, repair of an automatic machine).
The average payback period of the vending machine is 16-18 months
The average revenue from one vending machine is 11.6 thousand rubles per month
Profitability of the business of the vending operator - 29%

Blog them. Andorro and the portal " Century Vending ", especially for Habrahabr.

UPD A small clarification. These publications are a joint project of my blog and the portal veq.ru. We are not vending operators, manufacturers of vending machines or components for them, and we do not have the task of luring, engaging, turning, unwinding, etc.

Our task is to tell about what is vending and help those who are interested in this topic and decide to become a vending operator. Therefore, in the future we will definitely answer all the questions that have arisen, and we will pay special attention to critical comments, observations and objections.

Thanks for the comments, stay tuned to “ My Business ” or their blog. Andorro .

UPD2 The second material was released: " How to make money on the vending machine: legislation ."