Mini ATM
originally “Mini ATMs”
Every mom-and-pop knows the squeeze: take cards and watch the fees eat your margin, or go cash-only and watch customers walk when their wallet's empty. Mini ATM is the third option — an ATM the size of a cash register that sits right on the counter. No armored truck, no giant lobby machine, no install crew. Here's the trick: the owner stocks it with their own cash, the same bills already sitting in the drawer. A customer needs cash, they swipe their card, the machine pays out — and the shop splits the transaction fee with us. The thing that used to cost you fees becomes the thing that earns you fees. It runs on a cellular connection, so a farm stand or a farmers-market booth can run one all summer. Cash-only shops stop losing sales, card-weary owners gain a revenue stream, and nobody drives off hunting for an ATM.
For cash-only shops losing card-carrying customers: a countertop ATM the owner stocks — and earns fees from.
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