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Vending Genie™ Wireless & Cashless Vending Solution

SkyGate® Hospitality Vending Genie^TM

“Guest Room Key Card/RFID Wristband, the Multipurpose WALLET”

cStar’s guest room key cashless payment solution completely revolutionized the way guests utilize their room key card in hotels/resorts. Allowing a multi-purpose room key card, hotel guests can enjoy a soda, snack, arcade game, parking, etc. all with the swipe of their room key card or wave of their RFID enabled wristband.

Since deploying industry’s first wireless, cashless hotel room key card vending solution in March of 2004, cStar Technologies has become the industry leader in cashless payment solutions for unattended (self serve) point-of-sale machines.

cStar’s M2M Gold Value Chain Award winning SkyGate® Hospitality Vending Genie™ delivers a safe, guest-centric environment enabling cashless payment in vending, arcades, parking, business centre, laundry facilities and photo booths.

The SkyGate Hospitality Vending Genie’s robust wireless local area network (wLAN) provides 99.99% up time removing cash from all unattended machines. No cash completely eliminates vandalism and theft offering peace of mind and 100% return on investment

Hotels and resorts present great opportunities for guest room key cashless applications, however, the complications of integrating many kinds of hotel property management systems (PMS) and room key card systems can create obstacles in cashless application deployments. To overcome this challenge, cStar has developed a turnkey system with hotel/resort specific backend applications that is readily deployable, eliminating any lengthy integration or development work. Hoteliers are delighted in cStar’s solution for ease of use for their guests and the complete elimination of cash theft and vandalism from their unattended POS venues.

The benefits of SkyGate^® Hospitality Vending Genie™ are:

Sales increase of 30%+
Operational cost savings of 50%+ from the elimination of cash related problems
- Eliminate: coin jams, wet bills, providing change
Elimination of cash shrinkage and cash management headaches
Competitive advantage in winning new accounts for service providers
Elimination of machine vandalism and theft of cash
Flexible pricing
- Flexible price changes – loyalty, promotions, “happy hour”
- Set price from $0.01
Transparent transaction reporting
Hotel/resort books revenues
Enthusiastic guest experience feedback
Improvement of resort front desk staff productivity
Hotel resources freed from providing change and overseeing vending machine service issues
No costly wiring required
Robust wireless LAN reaches from basement to 40+ floors

cStar's innovative system easily integrates with existing payment mechanisms so you can broaden your customer base by providing more choice and greater flexibility for consumers through alternative payment methods:

Magnetic stripe / RFID cards - hotel room key, credit, debit, prepaid/stored value and loyalty
RFID wristbands for water parks, resorts and theme parks

cStar’s SkyGate® Hospitality application can create a wLAN closed payment system that integrates to a proprietary payment settlement application, such as the hotel PMS or a stored value system, eliminating expensive wireless cellular airtime and credit card processing charges. cStar’s SkyGate® Hospitality application has its own pre-paid card management module and credit card payment module to provide the ease of deploying a complete cashless payment system for all unattended POS applications.

cStar’s SkyGate® Hospitality Vending Genie™ can deliver the above benefits of cashless unattended POS applications to hotels, casinos, theme parks, water parks, resorts and other family entertainment centers. Take advantage of the available cashless applications or talk to us to explore other cashless application possibilities for your specific needs.

VENDING Customers no longer need correct change or cash in hand to purchase beverages, snacks or ice cream from cStar supported vending machines. CStar readers support all major makes of vending machines – Crane, Dixie Narco, Royal, Vendo, Fastcorp, AP, Wittern, etc and the bottler-branded machines. With hotel room key card vending, see your vending sales soar by 30-50%. For a greater operational cost reduction, Vending Manager application module polls vending machine DEX data for efficient vending service management and remote vending machine health monitoring.
ARCADE GAMES & TOKEN DISPENSERS cStar’s readers for arcade applications support pulse and MDB enabled arcade token dispensers of the major manufacturers - American Changer and Standard-Change Makers - and various arcade gaming machines that accept bill validators. Offer cashless convenience to your arcade customers and see your arcade revenues jump.
PHOTO BOOTHS Compliment your photo booths with cashless payment options and increase sales. Whether you have photo booths as part of a family entertainment center or in an independent setup, enabling cashless acceptance in photo booths results in greater customer convenience and increased sales. See sales go high with significant increases in multiple purchases from cashless payment options.
PARKING Online (real time) guest room key card parking is possible with cStar’s intelligent real time guest status verification system. Regain control of your limited parking spaces and parking revenue and eliminate parking abuses inherent with widely used off-line room key card parking systems. No more separate parking cards for guests. Front desk check-in steps are stream lined by simply enabling parking for guests through the normal guest check-in and room key card cutting process. cStar’s solution also includes a one-time / single day parking access solution for non-staying hotel guests with separate user interface application and parking card encoding capability.
BUSINESS CENTERS Offer the convenience of room key card cashless payment to your traveling business guests at your 24/7 unattended business centers. Add room key card acceptance to your existing pay per use fax, printer, copier, and PC workstations. You can have complete transparent sales details of your business centers not relying on third party reports.
LAUNDRY Extend cashless payments to laundry machines for your guest convenience. No need to provide change or install change machines. Eliminate cash handling and internal cash shrinkage problems with transparent transaction reporting whether the machines self operated or third party operated.