Card and phone payment for coin-op laundry · New Zealand

Retire the coin tin.

Automat fits into the washers and dryers you already own. Guests scan the code on the machine, pay with Apple Pay, Google Pay or card, then press Start. The money lands in your Stripe account. Nobody counts coins.

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  • No app for guests
  • Keep your machines
  • Fitted on site, in person
The Automat unit: a small screen showing a QR code and Scan to pay, LG Washer 3
The unit that sits on each machine.

Your prices. Per machine, per cycle.

This is the live price board from our first site. Change a price in the dashboard and the next guest sees it. Switch a cycle off on one machine without touching the others.

GUEST LAUNDRY · THE CROSSING LODGE

  • COLD WASH$5
  • DELICATES$5
  • WARM WASH$8
  • HOT WASH$10
  • DRYER · 50 MIN$7

Card, Apple Pay, Google Pay. Exact price, no top-ups, no change.

What the guest does.

Their own phone, their own camera. No app to install, no account to make. These are the real screens.

  1. 1 · Scan

    The QR on the machine's screen opens the page for that exact machine.

  2. 2 · Choose

    Pick a cycle and leave a mobile number for the "done" text.

  3. 3 · Pay

    Apple Pay, Google Pay or card through Stripe. The exact price.

  4. 4 · Credit loads

    $8 is 8 credits. The machine beeps for each one and the page counts down with it.

  5. 5 · Press Start

    Same as with coins: the guest presses START. The page says so plainly.

Things you stop doing

  • Emptying the coin tin
  • Counting and banking coins
  • Clearing jammed coin mechs
  • Refunding out of the till
  • "It ate my two dollars"

What you do instead

Watch every machine from your phone
Online, running or offline, machine by machine.
Refund in one click
Guests report a fault from their phone. You see it and refund from the dashboard.
Get paid into your own Stripe
Payouts, statements and CSV exports for your accountant.
Hand out staff codes
Free-use codes for housekeeping and comps, kept apart from paid cycles.

First site: The Crossing Lodge, Tongariro National Park.

5 LG machines in a busy backpackers, running on Automat since March 2026. The figures come straight out of the system and update themselves.

Check your own machines

Will it work on my machines?

LG and Maytag coin-op machines
Working with both. LG is running now at our first site.
Another make?
Happy to look into it. Tell us the make and model and we'll find out whether it can be done.
What gets fitted
A small screen with the QR code on each machine, wired to the coin input. The machine still thinks it's taking coins.
What you need
Wi-Fi that reaches the laundry, and a Stripe account. We set Stripe up with you.
Who fits it
We do, on site and in person. The same people look after it afterwards.
Who it suits
Backpackers, lodges, motels, holiday parks and laundromats with unattended guest laundry.

Got coin-op machines? Let's look at them.

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