Resources
Guides, standards, and videos for Dryline operators.
The product tour, pricing, how switching works, the standards we are built on, and how to get help. All in one place.
New to vending? Start with the basics.
Vending Basics for New Operators
Every guide for people starting out, in one place: payments, machines, planograms, stocking, and the business side.
Why offer cashless
What card and phone payments add for customers and for you, and what a machine needs to take them.
Tap to Start, Select First, and Multivend
Pay first, choose first, or buy several items with one tap, and why your machine has a say.
How MDB works
How the controller runs the coin mechanism, bill validator, and card reader on one connection.
Planograms
The map of a machine: what goes in each slot, at what price, and how full to fill it.
Stocking strategies
A first product mix, par levels, rotation, and restocking the machines that need it.
Starting a vending business
Licenses, sales tax, insurance, machines, locations, commissions, pricing, and routes.
Finding locations
Where to look, how to score a site, and how to pitch the manager who decides.
Agreements and commissions
What every location agreement covers, and the commission models compared with real math.
Sourcing and pricing
Where to buy as you grow, cost per unit, and pricing for margin and the location.
The Vending Operator Playbook
A printable workbook with a site scorecard, a location agreement checklist, commission math and a pricing worksheet (PDF).
See what Dryline does.
Product tour
Every Core and Pro screen: machine fronts, planograms, restock, reconciliation, routes, and forecasting.
Payment terminals & store
The Rain Pay reader and how it adds cashless over MDB, with published pricing and card checkout.
Pricing
Core and Pro per reader, the reader price, and what is included. No activation fee or contract.
Guide: adding a card reader
What a vending machine needs to take cards, how the reader connects, and what you see afterward.
Guide: installing the Rain Pay reader
A printable photo guide to taking out the old card reader, mounting the Rain Pay reader on the door, and connecting its cables (PDF).
Guide: MDB learning
A printable guide to matching each selection on your machine to the MDB code it reports, on the web app and the phone app (PDF).
Guide: QuickBooks Online sync
A printable guide to connecting your QuickBooks Online company, choosing the accounts, and matching your Rain Pay deposits (PDF).
Learning
Short how-to videos that walk through Dryline on real screens: managing your products, planogram setup, and more as they are recorded.
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