How to Protect your Vending Machine

As long as you have a Planet Antares vending machine in a location, someone can easily rob or vandalize the vending machine. This has always been a problem in the vending industry. Miscreants vandalize vending machines usually when there is no one watching over the vending machine. It just depends on the location that you have placed the vending machine. There are some locations that don’t have someone to supervise the location, while there are locations where there is not always someone around every hour of the day or night. These are the machines that are usually targeted.

Theft and Vandalism
Thieves and vandals have become more sophisticated in their efforts to beat the vending machine. As a Planet Antares vending operator, you should look for ways that you can curb vandalism and robbery from occurring in your vending locations. There have been cases where an entire vending machine has been stolen. Full line vending machines like those provided by Planet Antares are too heavy to move, this makes it practically impossible for thieves to even think of stealing one. The damage that is done to a vending machine during robbery or vandalism is staggering. The doors are usually pried open and the dollar bill acceptors with the money intact and the products inside the vending machine are stolen. To repair the vending machine, it can cost you anything from $50 to over $1000.

Solutions
There are some weapons that you can use to curb vending machine theft and vandalism. Today, there are new technologies such as charge card accessibility and cashless vending. With this technology, smart cards are inserted into the vending machine instead of cash. If there is no cash in the vending machine, thieves will stay away from the vending machine.

Electronic locks can also protect your Planet Antares vending machine securely. External theft and internal theft are both a major problem in a vending business. It is very hard to pick an electronic lock and to gain entry into the vending machine; it has to be a keyed entry.

Vending machine alarm systems are also available to protect your vending machine. There are those that will sound a loud siren if the door is opened without a proper code and then there are those that will sound an alarm if the vending machine is tilted or roughed up. Some systems can even take a photo of the attendant every time the door is opened without a code.

A security cage is designed to wrap around a vending machine, allowing access only to small openings at strategic areas. These cages are also designed to protect all sides of the vending machine.