Payment

  The laundromat industry’s long overdue move from quarter-only to dual coin pay appears to be taking hold. Dollar coin acceptance is up six percentage points and now ranks as the third most [...]

(This edited article originally appeared in the June 2019 issue of Coin Laundry News) Coin is the first name of the Coin Laundry Association and synonymous with our industry. Every year, CLA’s [...]

Coinless pay at every washer and dryer. Credit card friendly. Big bill bonuses. In-and-out collections. All topped by a sweet float. Sounds appealing? Get ready for the year 1984. That’s right, [...]

Laundromat operators are facing a critical space shortage. Most cope the best they can, but not without sacrifice. Others are deciding whether it’s time to give up running a coin-op.  This kind [...]

Photo by © Mirko Vitali  It turns out that self-service pay for some laundromat owners comes down to letters, not numbers. Little by little, Generations X and Y are taking over the reins from [...]

The Ultimate Car Wash is just a couple of clicks south of the Fort Lauderdale International Airport on Federal Highway in Dania Beach, Florida. It’s neither flashy nor the new kid on the block. [...]

Americans love their phones, but apparently not when it comes to payment. The high hopes of app makers are being dashed by low adoption rates. An estimated 195 million U.S. adults own smartphones [...]

The goal is simple: Getting rid of quarters — lots of them. Getting there is another matter. Strange as it sounds, less is more when it comes to coins in the coin laundry biz. Less coinage [...]

How did coin become a dirty four-letter word in the squeaky clean business of laundry? Blame coin volume — not its use — for the backlash. High vend prices and high capacity washers tethered to [...]

It should come as no surprise that the mere mention of wash and dry payment stirs up laundry operators. After all, their livelihood is at stake. The Great Laundry Payment Debate pits cash against [...]