Telemetry for vending and claw routes
Run every machine on your route from one screen, and know which ones are losing you money.
ClawDynamo fits a telemetry and cashless board to claw, vending and amusement machines from any manufacturer, for route operators running 30 to 3,000 machines. It reports plays, revenue, payouts and faults in real time.
No account. No card. No sales call.
The problem
A route operator drives to machines to find out whether they are full, broken or empty, and learns a machine has been jammed for three weeks when the venue finally calls.
Cash handling is unaccounted, payout ratios are guessed, and nobody knows which placements are profitable after the driving time.
It is a data business run entirely without data.
Who it is for
Route operators
Amusement, claw machine, vending and pool-table route operators running 30 to 3,000 machines.
Entertainment centres and arcades
Family entertainment centres and arcade chains.
Is this machine making money once prizes and servicing are counted?
Put in one machine's weekly collections and prize cost, the venue's share, service visits and other costs. See its monthly profit or loss and the weekly collections it needs to break even. Runs in your browser. No account, no card, no call.
How the machine adds up, each month
- Collections a month
- $520
- Venue share
- $104
- Prizes or stock
- $173
- Servicing time
- $120
Take this with you
No email required. It is your result.
ClawDynamo — machine profitability calculator · Profit or loss: $102 a month · Prize or stock cost: 33% of collections · Break-even at $69 a week in collections Run it yourself: https://clawdynamo.com
Method: monthly figures are weekly figures spread over the weeks of a month. Profit = collections - venue share - prizes - servicing time - other costs. Break-even assumes prize cost stays the same share of collections while servicing and other costs stay fixed. Every figure is from your own records or estimates.
How it works
ClawDynamo, from the first step to the result.
- 01
Get a Route Profitability Report
Upload your collection spreadsheet and see profit per machine and per venue.
- 02
Trial the hardware
A free hardware trial on five machines.
- 03
Watch the dashboard
Revenue, prize cost, payouts and faults in real time.
- 04
Plan routes by need
Visit the machines that need it, and give venues their own view.
A route run on data instead of driving
A retrofit board and dashboard that show what every machine is doing, what it earns, and which placements are losing money.
- 01
Retrofit any machine
A retrofit board fits existing machines regardless of manufacturer.
- 02
Live telemetry over cellular
Plays, revenue, payouts, faults and door openings, reported in real time over cellular.
- 03
Cashless on every machine
Cashless payment can be added to any machine.
- 04
Revenue against prize cost
See revenue per machine per day, and prize cost against revenue.
- 05
Fault alerts
Get an alert when a machine faults, rather than waiting for the venue to call.
- 06
Routes planned by need
Visits are sequenced by actual need rather than by geography.
Questions people actually ask
- Does it work with my existing machines?
- Yes. The retrofit board fits existing machines regardless of manufacturer.
- What does it report?
- Plays, revenue, payouts, faults and door openings, in real time over cellular.
- How does route planning work?
- Visits are sequenced by actual need rather than by geography.
- Can venue owners see their numbers?
- Yes. Venue owners get their own read-only view of their revenue share.
- Can I see which machines lose money before buying hardware?
- Yes. The free Route Profitability Report takes your existing collection spreadsheet and returns profit per machine and per venue after prize cost and estimated servicing time, with the loss-making placements named.
- Can I trial the hardware?
- Yes. There is a free hardware trial on five machines.
- What does it cost?
- The telemetry and cashless retrofit is 350 dollars per machine, or 25 dollars per machine per month over 24 months. The platform is 12 dollars per machine per month, and cashless processing is at standard rates.
- Why should I trust the machine profitability calculator?
- It is arithmetic on the figures you enter for one machine, worked out in your browser. The free Route Profitability Report does this for every machine and venue from your collection spreadsheet, with the loss-making placements named.
Pricing
Buy the retrofit outright or spread it over 24 months, then pay per machine for the platform.
Profitability report
Profit per machine and per venue from your collection spreadsheet.
- Loss-making placements named
- Free hardware trial on five machines
Retrofit
Telemetry and cashless retrofit.
- Fits any manufacturer
- Real-time data over cellular
Bundled retrofit
The telemetry and cashless retrofit, spread over 24 months.
- Telemetry and cashless retrofit
PlatformRecommended
The dashboard and route planning.
- Fault alerts
- Route planning by need
- Read-only venue view
Cashless processing at standard rates. Prices in USD.
Is this machine making money once prizes and servicing are counted?
Put in one machine's weekly collections and prize cost, the venue's share, service visits and other costs. See its monthly profit or loss and the weekly collections it needs to break even. Runs in your browser. No account, no card, no call.
Open the free toolIt runs in your browser. ClawDynamo never sees your inputs.