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Payments in Laundry

Card payments in laundry have rapidly become the dominant method for operating washers and dryers in laundromats, student accommodations, multi‑housing buildings, and hospitality settings. Modern laundry environments increasingly replace coin‑operated machines with cashless payment solutions giving users faster, frictionless access to machines.

Cashless laundry technology simplifies the customer experience – users can simply tap a card to start a machine, eliminating the hassle of finding coins and reducing common issues such as coin jams and failed starts.

Laundry machines are typically pulse driven, meaning adding card payment to laundry machines will require a payment device that supports pulse functionality.

Benefits

  • Higher revenues

    Removes barriers like coins or topping up laundry card

  • Reduce cash handling

    Fewer cash collections and reduced counting/processing time

  • Better customer experience

    Fast & simple “tap-and-go” payment with cards, phones and wearables

  • Improved machine uptime

    Fewer mechanical parts and less maintenance

  • Enables flexible pricing

    Easily adjust pricing or allow multi price options

  • Improves security

    Less cash stored in machines reduces risk of theft

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Common FAQs

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  • How do card readers start the laundry machine?

    Card readers send an electrical pulse signal to the washer or dryer once the payment is approved, simulating an output from a traditional coin validator.

  • Can the card reader provide different prices to the customer?

    Most pulse enabled card readers have some form of selection for the user, commonly referred to as multi-price pulse, be that a screen to select an option or a button to cycle through options.

  • Do card payments reduce machine downtime?

    Yes, prioritising cashless payments over coin, or even removing coin acceptance completely can eliminate coin jams, float shortages and theft or vandalism.

  • Do laundry machines need internet for card payments?

    Yes, our cashless solutions all perform online authorisation therefore an internet connection is required. Typically, the card reader will use an onboard 4G modem with SIM card or a wired ethernet connection. Some newer generation card readers also support WiFi.