Sales Dashboard And Summary Metrics Are New Features On PayRanges Vending App

PORTLAND, OR -- New features in PayRange Inc.'s smartphone app provide real-time sales information and summary metrics for vending operators. It's part of PayRange's consumer-facing mobile payment app that works with vending machines. Now, when the signed-in user is an operator, the app automatically activates an "operator mode" that prompts additional menu options, including a sales dashboard with charts and summary information.

The app can still be used in consumer mode to make purchases. The operator's information is downloaded from the PayRange server after sign-in, so only operators have access to their data.

"When I was an operator, I always imagined it would be so nice if I could view the sales we did yesterday first thing in the morning as I got up, like most people check email," said PayRange founder and chief executive Paresh Patel, a former vending and amusement operator. "Now that dream is a reality for operators."

In operator mode, PayRange provides daily, weekly, monthly and annual sales information, which is updated hourly. It also projects annual sales, lifetime mobile sales, average sales per machine, number of active devices and average sales per user. The company developed a backend system that supports nearly instantaneous results.

The PayRange app in operator mode not only reports the mobile sales, but also cash sales from vending machines. Each machine equipped with the PayRange BluKey, which enables mobile sales, is already equipped to provide data for the operator mode, so the vendor does not need to do any setup or visit the machines for updates, according to Patel.

The operator app and service is now available to all existing operators with the 3.1 version of the PayRange app available for iOS and Android devices. Operator mode will be provided free for life to all existing operators including for any machines acquired later. It is also available to operators in the U.S. and Canada who sign up for service by Dec. 31.