Managing a location is never easy due to the many variables that has to be taken in consideration. The increased competition or the changes that affect consumption habits are just a few examples but they make it clear that the operator must always be up to date and ready to change the procedures of his own vending company. To get closer to the consumers’ needs, Coges Engine is therefore characterized by an increasingly higher level of flexibility thanks to the possibility of coordinating various cashless media. Depending on the reader connected, Coges Engine supports MyKey, Mifare, Legic and – thanks to an optional Bluetooth module – Pay4Vend, an App designed by Coges for the purchase via smartphone. The management of several alternatives of cashless media makes this electronic system the best ally to face all the challenges of vending and it guarantees great usability to your machine for years, savings on management costs and allowing a potential increase in the number of consumers.
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The Happy Break of Coges Engine
To guarantee a quality service and to make your customers even more loyal, Coges Engine can offer a series of bonus programmable directly from a PC. Among these, Happy Break encourages the final user to purchase a combination of products thanks to a bonus credited directly to his cashless media. All selections made by the user are then automatically recorded by the system which, if it identifies products belonging to the Happy Break menu, will provide a top-up bonus at the end of the purchase. The credit will be made directly to the consumer’s key only if the purchase ends within a certain pre-set amount of time. Do you want to offer a discount on breakfast or coffee break? Or encourage the purchase of some particular products? With Coges Engine you can do this by simply associating the price lines of the concerned products with the specific menu table. In this way you can reward your most loyal customers and promote your location in a smarter way.
Coges Engine: Absolute Vending Experience
The Vending world is becoming increasingly mature and evolved thanks to the presence of more demanding customers, new legislative opportunities and a constantly changing market. Fortunately, there are technological innovation that allows the Operator to satisfy new consumption trend, increase profits and improve its competitive strenght.
For forty years Coges has been dedicated to the design of advanced and performing payment systems for vending, with a range that goes from cashless media such as the MyKey rechargeable keys to change-givers and banknotes readers. Today our flagship product is Coges Engine, a multiprotocol cashless system (Executive, MDB, BVD) compatible with both MyKey keys and Mifire or LEGIC media.
Coges Engine applications go beyond cashless payment to invest the entire vending machine ecosystem. Engine act as the central brain of the system interfacing with cash payment peripherals: it collects all the accounting data, it manages programming parameters and puts everything in communication with the outside, through technologies such as the Nebular platform.
To allow you to know more about what Coges Engine can do to improve your clients satisfaction and to make your vending company more competitive, we have decided to gather under the label “Absolute Vending Experience” some insight on the strenght offered by the versatility and the completeness of this payment system.
If the vending machine is the main technological resource of a vending company, it is often the payment system that makes the difference: a foundamental interface between the vending machine and the user. A professional payment system such as Coges Engine contributes to the excellence of the service provided and, at the same time, represents an essential tool for a correct management of accounting data. Start your journey in the Absolute vending Experience with this brief video by clicking here and find out what makes this system the most suitable for those who want to get the best from the vending potential!
Nebular is even on Youtube
Coges has always been attentive to the quality of your Vending service and, for this reason, it has recently launched on the market some new functions for Nebular, the most intelligent and complete connectivity solution in the vending sector. In this regard you can find, on the company’s Youtube channel, a series of video tutorials created to let you know more about this technology and to help you make the most of all its new potential. Find out how to remotely update the payment system’s firmware, how to make remote refunds through simple clicks and how to manage alarms, prices, products, cashless payment media and much more. Do not miss the opportunity to renew and make your vending company even more technological, take a look at our Youtube channel by clicking here and read the article dedicated to all these new features here. With Nebular 2.0 Coges wants to innovate in a continuous way the vending sector and guarantee to its customers not only a cutting-edge product but a real competitive advantage.
Discover Coges Engine with the new interactive brochure
Discover the full potential of the Coges Engine system with the new interactive brochure!
Download the new PDF brochure from here. The strenght of Coges lies in a dynamic and continuous relationship with its customers, a relationship based on collaboration and mutual growth that generates value for both and that is always able to create technological updates and new services. This allows us to design great payment systems for vending, always putting the customer at the center of our business. Coges Engine continues to be enriched with new functions and today it is the heart of an entire ecosystem for vending ranging from cashless payment to telemetry, from online product management to integration with smartphone apps.
For this reason we have decided to update our Coges Engine presentation and make it more interacive: all the main features of our electronic system are now connected to the Coges website and they can be deepened at your own discretion. Download the new PDF from the Coges Engine page and experiment all its features, click on the link buttons and build an information tailored to your needs.
The advantages of data audit in the Vending market
The Vending market is increasingly interested in the audit of vending machine accounting data. The modern legislative requirements in terms of accounting are combined with the interest in knowing the amount collected and the cash movements entering and leaving the vending machine. One of the aspect that most increase vending machine’s commercial capacities is in fact a deep knowledge of their current performance because it’s from here that all the margin for improvement can be identified and exploited and, in this way, it’s also possible to approach the most consolidated experience in the retail sector.
Starting from this topic, Coges has developed payment systems able to store all the accounting data. If the payment system is set as master in the vending machine configuration, it will also be able to store the data of all the connected payment peripherals such as banknotes readers, coins recognition devices and change-giver coin mechanism connected in MDB. All of these payment systems are completed with a wide range of accessories aimed at detecting and analyzing their data. Download the accounting data and integrate them in your ERP is easier and more efficient thanks to tools such as USB pendrive, BT Data-Key and the Nebular remote connectivity solution, which is able to increase the technological level of your location and to fully satisfy all your vending needs.
The collected data not only meets your accounting needs, but they provides important information on the most sold products, on the economic performance of various vending machine, on the best sales time and on many other details that will allow you to act exactly where you feel more appropriate to improve your sales opportunities and customer service: for example by reinforcing sales at times in which there’s more request or by changing shipper’s routine to always ensure a full stock in the most popular locations.
The management of your location will also be supported by a control able to detect any malfunctions. This will guarantee an effective and rapid intervention in case of need contribuiting, at the same time, to the reduction of lost sales. The costant check of your vending machines can translate itself into a potential increase of sales and allows you to have an accurate account of your stock products.
Download our new interactive catalog dedicated to the German market
Coges’ experience and continuous innovation go beyond Italian borders to include Germany, a market with great opportunities for the Vending industry. To get an idea of all the products dedicated to this market, download our new interactive catalog from here.