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Payment Solutions
Modern Payment Solutions for Your Laundry Room
ALCO Makes Laundry Payments Easy
Card readers, mobile pay, smart cards, or coin — ALCO Services sells and installs the payment system with the equipment, so it's yours from day one.
How customers pay is now as much a part of the equipment decision as the washer itself. ALCO Services works with laundromat owners and on-premise laundry operators across Fresno and the Central Valley to match a payment system to the store: cashless card readers and mobile pay for a busy vended store, a reloadable store card for a loyalty program, or traditional coin where that is what your customers expect.
Because you buy the machines and the readers outright, every vend is your revenue and every report is your data. There is no revenue share, no route operator collecting on your floor, and no one else's card in your customers' wallets.
Every option on this page can be specified on new Huebsch equipment from ALCO, and card, mobile, and smart-card readers can usually be added to machines already on your floor. We have supplied and serviced commercial laundry equipment from Fresno since 1971, and the payment hardware gets the same parts and service support as the machines it sits on.
Cashless Payment Options
Say goodbye to jammed coin drops and lost cards. Pick one system or combine them — coin, card, and mobile can all live on the same machine.
Mobile Payment
Customers start washers and dryers from their phone. A small reader on each machine talks to an app, so there are no coins to carry, no card to reload, and no line at the change machine.
- Start a machine from a phone
- See which machines are free before walking over
- Follow cycle progress and get an alert when a load is done
- Refunds handled inside the app instead of at the counter
Credit & Debit Card Readers
A card reader mounted at each machine takes credit, debit, and tap-to-pay wallets directly. No coins, no store card, nothing for the customer to learn.
- Accepts major credit and debit cards
- Tap-to-pay for phones, watches, and contactless cards
- Wireless readers, so adding one machine does not mean rewiring the store
- Vend prices set in any amount, not just quarter increments
Smart Card & Loyalty Card Systems
A store-branded stored-value card that customers load at a central kiosk with cash or a bank card. The card keeps them coming back, and the system gives you loyalty tools and reporting the coin box never could.
- Central value-add kiosk takes cash and cards
- Reloadable store cards with bonus-value promotions
- Customer accounts and transaction history you can actually read
- Less cash sitting in the machines overnight
Coin-Operated
Coin drops and coin slides are still available on new equipment, and they run side by side with card and mobile readers on the same machine. Some customers will always want to pay with quarters.
- Familiar quarter-based operation with no learning curve
- Hybrid setups: coin plus card or mobile on the same machine
- Simple, mechanical, and serviceable by our own technicians
- Full parts and service support from ALCO
Key Benefits of Going Cashless
The payment system is the part of the store your customers touch on every visit, and the part that decides how much of each turn you actually collect.
- Fewer lost coins and cards
- Card and mobile readers end the jammed coin drop, the lost store card, and the refund line at the counter.
- Real-time reporting
- Connected systems show machine status, balances, and transaction history from your phone or desk, not from counting the coin box.
- Flexible pricing
- Set vend prices in any amount and change them by time of day or day of week, instead of being tied to quarter increments.
- Less cash on site
- Cashless turns mean less money sitting in the machines, fewer collection runs, and less exposure to break-ins.
Our Preferred Payment Partners
ALCO installs and supports payment systems from these manufacturers. Each link opens the partner's own site in a new tab.
- Payment systems ESD(opens in a new tab)
Laundry payment systems that take coin, credit and debit cards, tap-to-pay, smart cards, EBT and loyalty cards, plus the CyclePay mobile app.
- Payment systems PayRange(opens in a new tab)
Mobile payment for unattended machines: a small Bluetooth reader in each washer or dryer pairs with the PayRange app, so the machine needs no network connection of its own.
- Payment systems Laundroworks(opens in a new tab)
Card-based laundry payment: contactless machine readers, store-branded stored-value cards, a value-add kiosk, a cloud reporting dashboard, and customer and attendant apps.
More Preferred Vendors
The furnishings, vending, and financing partners we point customers to when a store is being built out or retooled.
- Vending Vend-Rite(opens in a new tab)
Vending machines for laundromats, including single-load soap and detergent vendors, along with the boxed products and signage that go in them.
- Furnishings Sol-O-Matic(opens in a new tab)
Laundromat furnishings by Caco Mfg.: UL-listed bulkheads behind the machines, folding tables, modular seating, drain troughs and welcome centers.
- Financing Eastern Funding(opens in a new tab)
Commercial lending for laundromat owners: equipment financing, store acquisition and new-store loans, refinancing and SBA 504 loans.
Why Choose Us?
- Products designed to maximize profits and minimize expenses
- Products that are easy for staff to use
- The latest in high efficiency ultra-dependable green products from the industry's premier brands including Huebsch, B & C, Maytag, Whirlpool and more
- Complete Parts department
- Factory trained Service and support staff
- Complete line of accessories for all your needs
Ready to modernize how your laundry room gets paid?
Tell us about your store and we'll recommend a payment system, quote the hardware, and install it with the equipment.