Listen to this articleCantaloupe Systems’ vision is to enable the evolution of vending from an intuition-based business to a science-based business. Cantaloupe is the only fully integrated, cloud and mobile based VMS, cashless, and analytics platform available today. Below is our recent interview with Merrilee Parsons from Cantaloupe Systems:
Q: Tell us something more about Cantaloupe Systems?
A: Founded in 2002 by engineers Mandeep Arora, a second-generation vending professional, and Anant Agrawal, Cantaloupe Systems’ vision is to enable the evolution of vending from an intuition-based business to a science-based business. More than 200 customers, with some 150,000 machines connected, rely on Cantaloupe Systems’ innovative solutions to give them full control and visibility over their operations, their inventory and their people so they can more proactively, predictably and competitively run their business.
Q: What is your core competence?
A: Over the past 11 years Cantaloupe has been the leader in bringing the best technology and business solutions to drive cost out of the business, maximize revenues, and enable maximum control over a vending business.
Today, Cantaloupe is the only fully integrated, cloud and mobile based VMS, cashless, and analytics platform available today.
We started out literally in a garage and now have grown to over 65 professionals who are all 100% focused on partnering with our clients to ensure they get the very best solutions and support to help drive their business to grow faster and profitably.
We are the preferred technology partner of over 200 forward thinking operators across 150k machines worldwide.
Everyday, our customers, our partners, are dynamically scheduling their routes, pre-kitting their orders, proactively merchandising planograms, accepting cashless and mobile payments like Apple Pay, and streamlining backend office functions like managing their warehouse, cash room, and equipment service departments.
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Q: Could you explain the function and advantages of your Seed Cloud solution?
A: Seed Cloud is the end-to-end vending solution from Cantaloupe Systems. It enables vending operators to take control of their business, to accept card and mobile payments, and to optimize operations to increase sales and dramatically lower operating costs. As a cloud-hosted, mobile-optimized solution, Seed Cloud is accessible from any computer or mobile device, anywhere in the world, without servers to buy or software to install and manage.
Q: Who is your ideal customer?
A: We partner with vending companies of all sizes. We find the greatest success with clients looking to continue to grow their business more efficiently, increase profitability by optimizing their workflows, and position their business to be modernized for tomorrows consumer rather than yesterdays.
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Q: What advantage does Cantaloupe Systems have over its competitors?
A: Cantaloupe is the only fully integrated, cloud and mobile based VMS, cashless, and analytics platform available today. But what also makes us unique is our people. Our enthusiasm for making vending operators successful permeates our worldwide team and is, we believe, a crucial reason for our continued success.
We have been leading the charge and doing this for more than 10 years. We have the experience gained with our customers on what the right mix of technology and change management is needed to drive a successful implementation and drive maximum return for our clients without it turning into a failure.
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Q: What are your plans?
A: Cashless and Mobile payments are the fastest growing part of our business and we look forward to embracing and incorporating new, but proven, payment technologies into the Seed Cloud platform to ensure our customers have the ability to accept payment in any form.
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