CARD CONCEPTS, INC.

Card Concept’s Coinless LaundryCard™ system was developed to give store owners the right tools needed to easily succeed. Custom Laundry Cards, On-The-Fly Reporting, Custom Marketing Tools, and Remote Management Abilities are just a few of the Unique Features LaundryCard™ has to offer.

The Totally Automated Store (TAS) concept was developed by one of CCI’s founders Steve Marcionetti during the company’s formation back in 2000. All of the products and services which CCI produces are built around the idea of automating and simplifying the operation of running a vended Laundromat. CCI’s unique development focus comes from its family roots who have been actively involved in the Laundromat industry for over 35 years. This experience has been essential to the company’s growth. With over 350 Laundromats across the US and Canada CCI is positioned firmly in the marketplace.

CCI’s core product, LaundryCard™ replaces all of the coin acceptors in a laundry with card readers. Traditional change machines are replaced by kiosks (called X-Changers). These kiosks dispense ‘debit cards’ that customers can add value to and start machines. The system maintains the customer’s card balance and allows them to revalue their card with either cash or a credit card. Along with LaundryCard™ CCI manufactures and distributes other ancillary products that complement the Laundromat operations. All of the technologies are designed to be easy to use, easy to implement, and easy to support.

Some of the features of the LaundryCard system include:

• separate technician, collector, and attendant cards
• advanced reporting, including the ability to track hourly and daily sales
• the ability to schedule deadlines and reoccurring events
• scheduling for attendants, including an integrated time clock
• an included attendant training video
• the tracking of technicians’ time in the store and their solutions to service issues
• the ability to disable a machine for service
• a “Wash-To-Win” loyalty program
• the elimination of coins from your business
• the capability to reward a customer with a registration bonus of your choosing
• encouraging customers to return to your laundromat because they’ve already pre-loaded money onto their cards
• the option to automatically apply a bonus to a customer’s card on his or her birthday
• a coupon code system
• the ability to include a unique welcome or thank you message when a customer inserts his or her card
• the convenience of allowing each customer to access his or her card history and verify balances
• the storage of customer information, including email addresses that you can use for email marketing campaigns
• increased profits if a customer leaves an unused balance on his or her card
• the ability to add a LaundryCard system on to your already-existing store
• ease of programming washers and dryers automatically
• time-of-day and day-of-week pricing options
• the feature to charge different amounts for different cycle selections
• the flexibility of penny-increment pricing, which allows you to raise your prices more often
• affordable replacement and personalized cards, which start as low as $0.70 each
• the option to backup important data files online
• mirrored databases providing an automatic backup to protect your customer information
• remote monitoring that can alert CCI technical support to any service issues
• the option to alert the store owner to errors with the system
• the capability to link data among all stores you own
• remote access to your system via your iPhone
• a collection report that you can access remotely to see how many bills of each denomination are in your X-Changer and know when it’s time to collect
• integrated battery backup to safeguard your system in the event of a power outage
• a bi-lingual speaker system to communicate to your customers from the X-Changer
• the convenience of accepting credit and debit cards at the X-Changer to load money onto LaundryCards
• the acceptance of both 50- and 100-dollar bills at the X-Changer
• the ability to access your store from any internet-enabled computer
• the ease of having all of your money centrally located – never collect coins machine by machine again!
• an automatic card dispenser built in to the X-Changer so your attendants will not need to handle the cards or money
• the option for customer-specific discounts which allows you to take advantage of a variety of marketing options, such as senior citizen or student discounts
• displaying how much time remains on a machine to let customers know when a machine will become available
• individual start mechanisms at each reader which provides extra redundancy
• an easy-to-use touch-screen which is more durable than a system with buttons that can break
• the ability to display two lines of text on each card reader to give your customers more useful information
• water-resistant, intelligent card readers that can sense a problem and shut themselves down to prevent the problem from spreading to other readers
• a two-CPU system that allows your system to operate in the unlikely event that one computer should fail
• the added security of high-quality Medeco locks on the X-Changers
• an included two-year parts warranty and two years of 24/7 software support