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Thanks for the help on this. Appears that the EPROM is out of date. The Security menu also did not have the Product Codes option, which I would bet is related to the old EPROM.

Can anyone help with some ideas about why an AP 123 would not report cash sales? Originally this machine was set up on the 7.95 a month plan and when I set up another machine with a card reader, I had Nayax update them both to the 9.95 a month plan. Nayax claims this was done, and the other machine is reporting cash transactions but the AP 123 is still not doing so. Are there any machine settings I should look at? An eProm version I should be looking for? Thanks!

Keep fighting. I had one 5591 where the cable bundling was a little to tight and opening the door slowly worked the cable loose from the keypad connection. Another one had a bad keypad, then later a bad cable. That one was frustrating, you replace the pad, and everything is fine, then get complaints again, replace again, works while you are there, not after you leave - finally replaced the cable and all was good.

I input stock purchases all year long (as well as all other expenses and revenue). Each year end, I do a physical inventory of machines and warehouse stock. Then you just adjust purchases by the change in inventory to get COGS. Let's say beginning inventory was $1,000. You buy $50k of stock throughout the year and your end of year inventory is $2,000. COGS was $49k.

I use GnuCash, its a free shareware accounting program (PC, not sure if it is available for Mac). Full double entry accounting, lots of preset expense accounts, decent reports for end of year. I haven't tried to see if it will handle inventory - I just do inventory once a year and adjust my COGS by that annually. The cost is right, and my accountant seems happy with the reports it puts out. If you have no accounting experience, you might struggle a bit with paying yourself profits, I run it thru the preset RE and dividend accounts. I also don't have any employees, so I am not worrying about wages and payroll and all that.

If you can't find pepsi or coke crates, milk crates work just fine, stack well and are highly stable. You will lose a little height in your stacks as they are a bit taller than a 16.9oz bottle, but they are easy to come by and versatile to use for many vending issues.

In Oregon, I still have access to one nursing home, shut out of the other. But for a very strange reason. One floor of this nursing home is in lockdown do to some residents with flu symptoms but no positive test yet. However, the residents and staff from the locked down floor won't stop coming downstairs to use the vending machines, so I had to turn them off to remove the temptation. I'm bringing a bottle of hand santizer with me, visible to everyone. At each location I sanitize before loading each machines, then after collecting money as well.

Well, at least check all the cable connections for the keypad. I have had keypad problems develop a few times and it seems due to the effect of the pulling at the cable every time you open and close the door. Over time, the cable can work loose, completely or partially disabling the keypad. A couple weeks ago, I lost the C key, but re-installing the cables solved the problem. To confirm this is actually a keypad problem, does the * key work on any of the other menu options? Or does it work when you run the keypad test?

You could structure the deal to pay him machine value, with the remainder being paid after a certain period where revenues come in at, or within a certain percentage of, historical figures. Obviously he won't agree if the numbers are BS. If numbers are accurate, he still may not want to do it, but it could convince him to give you proof in another way. This is pretty ridiculous when you think about it. He's gotta be buying between $4k and $5k of product a month. Even if he is paying cash, there would be purchase orders and other evidence - and none of that would put him in trouble with the "other accounts" on his CC readers or the IRS (at least not anymore than advertising the business for sale).

I have a Brother P-touch label maker and just make my own. Really easy and you can get both black print on white or white print on black tapes to put in it depending on what is already in the machines. I print a reasonably long run of each $ amount I need and cut them myself to save on tape - you'll see what I mean when you start printing them out.

I'm certain that others have more experience than me, but this seems right at the very edge of credibility to me. I have two nursing homes that are my best accounts, they each do $200-$300/week out of a 4 wide snack and a DN5591. After seven days the drinks are pretty decimated and the snacks at least half empty. All the locations you are talking about would appear to just have two machines. My point is, depending on the equipment, to get to most of those numbers, he would have to be servicing them twice a week. Is that what he is telling you? I've never seen a vending business for sale in my area with such a collection of great accounts and no duds - even the office locations are doing good business which rarely happens. And all for sale for 6 months gross? If its accurate, its a tremendous deal and will be sold quickly. He's gotta have some sort of documentation he can show you. Deposit slips, receipts for inventory purchases, etc. That's a lot of cash, there must be some records of it being deposited or spent somewhere.

Diving boards help, but products on the edge do that occasionally. I have more trouble with it happening to bottles rather than cans, so I adjust products so cans are on the edges sometimes. Part number might be 80190364, there are at least two different sizes - longer ones for the top rows and shorter ones for the lower rows. Link to an ebay listing (not mine)... https://www.ebay.com/itm/DIXIE-NARCO-BEV-MAX-2145-3561-5591-9-PRODUCT-STABILIZERS-Free-Ship/130939201170?hash=item1e7c95a692:g:0OwAAOxy4fVTEpZ7&frcectupt=true