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Hi all, Noob here just starting out. I bought my first machine from a garage sale. (Dixie narco 501e) I have a location ready for this soda machine but they want a snack machine too. What is a good website to buy refurbished machines? And if you can give some trusted brands both for soda and snack machines it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you! I'm 100% new to vending and this forum sorry if I duplicated a post.

First of all just want to acknowledge how great this site is. Has helped me on my journey of vending with my first questions regarding vending machines at age 17 up until now at 24. Would love to see this as an app somehow. Really think it would help the future generations of vending and make it easier to navigate with mobile devices. I come to ask a few questions though. I’ve grown a small vending route alongside different jobs that I’ve worked the past few years but now I’m having trouble keeping up with everything smoothly while I still keep up working with my other business. So nonetheless I need to clean things up in order to help my route run smoother with less stress. Question 1: Labeling keys? I’m getting confused with all these keys. I have 4 locations with snack and soda machines in both and I’m working on a 5th location. How can I label the keys/ tell them apart?? Question 2: Hand truck? What should I use to bring snacks and drinks inside and out? I usually just carry things in and out but I feel like it makes the route run longer and me more tired. I need something to make this part simpler. Question 3: Inventory tracking?? How can I keep track of vends with locations that don’t have cc readers?? I’m never sure what products are moving and how fast, so I usually just bring everything. Is there a device or software that can help me know how much of what to bring and how often? Question 4: Route runner? Ideally I want this route to be sufficient enough to have someone stock the machines for me and I be able to just service/ maintenance them when need be. How does that work? Has anyone hired someone? Did you trust them to deliver all cash or did you pickup cash separately? Please feel free to answer all of the questions or only specific parts if you’d like. I appreciate all of you guys responses and help. This community never lets be down. And hopefully this will help someone else that comes along.