The problem with static machines, is their expense on the one hand, about R35K, and on the other hand, people become abusive with the machine when there is a problem. Now the way that some poeple carry their notes causes a problem with the note validator that can not read the note. Secondly you have to send some one to clear the money out of the machine, adding even more management burden, being cash money, it has a habit of disappearing.

I sell a portable hand hel machine for R3600.00 VAT included. You simply deposit money into our account at FNB or ABSA, and with in minutes you have a float on the terminal. You can then vend any voucher that is available provided that there is float to purchase with. When your float is down, simply bank again.Your return varies drastically depending on the vouchers you sell. If you just sell R5 vouchers at the prescribed rate, you will make about 1 or 2%, however if you add a value to it such as 50c to R1.00, then the return is pretty good. Most of the vendors are doing this on the small denominations. So you sell a R5 for R5.50 or R6.00. The system when you sell a voucher, takes the discounted amount from your float, leaving the profit in the float. You get your profit after selling the float in to cash.

If you sell the larger denominations, you can average about 4 to 5%. There is no contract, if you do to wish to sell you simply walk away. Unfortunately the terminal is your property.

Public phones is a different kettle of fish. A pain in the but, however, in about a month or two, the same terminal we sell you can be a public phone, with out the overheads of the current solutions. Using the same SIM card the terminal uses to purchases real time prepaid vouchers, it doubles up as a prepaid public phone card. In other words it works just like a prepaid car, but you get better rates on the airtime when you top up. What it does is it gives you more airtime than you have purchased. The client dials the number, and it charges the SIM card, say 72c if a local call, but the timer charges the customer 90c. So you have your profit immediately. We ware just finishing off our software for this application. You can stop anytime because it is prepaid.