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VendBuddy
Starter Kit
LLC, permits, distributors
26 pages
3 documents · 26 pages
The Vending Business Starter Kit
$27 one-time
You have decided to do this, and you do not know what to file, in what order, or where the machine actually comes from.
- Getting-Started Checklist — 10 pages. LLC, EIN, permits, sales tax, insurance and record-keeping in the order that makes each step unblock the next, with cost bands and a week-by-week timeline.
- Vending Machine Distributor List (all 50 states) — 8 pages. The three buying lanes with named sellers, the 15-point used-machine inspection, and the freight and delivery-receipt trap.
- Vending Terms Glossary — 8 pages. 96 terms, each with what it does to your money rather than just a definition.
VendBuddy
AI Pitch Pack
Five prompts that write the pitch
12 pages
12 pages, plus a plain-text prompt file
The AI Location Pitch Pack
$27 one-time
The list is built and you still have not contacted anyone, because writing twelve first emails is twelve small unpleasant tasks.
- Five copy-paste prompts — venue research, the 45-second and 15-second walk-in pitch, the cold email, the 4/10/21-day follow-up, and an objection rehearsal that role-plays the venue back at you.
- For every prompt: what to put in each bracketed slot, what a good output looks like, the seven or eight ways the model gets it wrong, and the exact sentence that corrects each one.
- A guardrail on all five that stops the model writing an income claim into your pitch. Runs on the free tier of ChatGPT or Claude.
VendBuddy
Location Playbook
The walk-in script and the agreement
55 pages
6 documents · 55 pages
The Vending Location Playbook
$47 one-time
You already know which building. You do not know what to say when the door opens.
- Cold Walk-In Pitch Script, word for word and then annotated line by line, with variants for offices, gyms, apartments, warehouses and salons, plus phone, voicemail and 15-second versions.
- Twelve objections answered, each with what the objection actually means underneath it, plus the seven-item carry list and a post-pitch log.
- A plain-English Placement Agreement in seven annotated sections, with a commission ladder and a filled-in worked example.
Ships with the three Starter Kit documents inside it, so ticking this adds the Starter Kit to your cart for $0.
Two kits: 10% off, rounded in your favour.
Done for you
These are not downloads. They are built after you buy, so they have their own pages and their own checkout — and each ships the document library above as an instant bonus while your work is built.
Done for you, automatically
50 Ranked Vending Leads in Your ZIP
$97 one-time
One ZIP, the fifty best machine-friendly locations, scored and enriched with the best contact on file where one resolves. Delivered automatically, in minutes.
- 50 scored locations, verified street addresses only
- A title to ask for on every row, name/email/phone where one resolves
- CSV plus a one-page report, emailed automatically
- No subscription, no renewal
See what is inside →Done for you
The Fast-Start Kit
$297 one-time
You know what to say and have nobody to say it to. Fifty researched, ranked locations in your city, built by hand.
- 50 ranked locations in your city
- The product pack and a 14-day action plan
- 90 days of VendBuddy Starter
- Plus the welcome PDF and bonus document library, instantly
See what is inside →Done for you
The Launch Kit
$997 one-time
Funded, time-poor, and you want a person involved rather than a document. Built by hand, only a few open at a time.
- 300 scored leads across your metro
- A 1:1 strategy session and your state agreement filled in
- 6 months of VendBuddy Growth
- Plus the complete operator document library, instantly
See what is inside →Or read the whole thing first
The kits above are the fill-in-the-blank version. This is the argument underneath them, written out end to end — and it is on Amazon rather than here, so it is not part of the cart. Prefer a guided one-time bundle instead? See the Locations Playbook offer.
VendBuddy
Vending Machine Playbook
Zero machines to a real operation
203 pages
The book · on Amazon
The Vending Machine Playbook
The Honest, Step-by-Step Guide from Zero Machines to a Real Operation
Most vending content is income porn. This is the other book: why a machine in a bad location earns nothing no matter what you stock in it, the Location-First Rule, the Parking-Lot Test, the walk-in word for word, the 100-Door Math, and what a route is actually worth if you ever sell it. Paperback, hardcover and Kindle.
See it on Amazon →Bought and delivered by Amazon, not VendBuddy — returns and delivery are handled there. As an Amazon Associate, VendBuddy earns from qualifying purchases.
More kits
Vending Location Proposal Kit · $29Proposal template: nine sections, every [BRACKET] explained, sample language for each, and a send checklist.See what is inside →Route Buyer's Due-Diligence Kit · $49Due-diligence checklist: six stages from paperwork to closing, plus the red flags that should pause a deal.See what is inside →Vending Profit Spreadsheet · $19Machines tab: per-machine sales, product cost, card fees, commission, restock time, other costs, monthly profit, margin and payback in months.See what is inside →Placement Agreement + Proposal Kit · $39Placement agreement: term and renewal, commission on net sales, service levels, location duties, insurance, equipment ownership, removal and signatures, with notes on the choices that matter.See what is inside →Pokemon Vending Machine Business Kit · $29Product mix and pricing sheet: what goes in each slot, how to set a price from landed cost and local prices, bundles and labels.See what is inside →Looking for the tiered document sets instead? They are on the shop page.
Need the physical gear too? The Route Starter Checklist puts the hand truck, totes, coin counter and locks in one Amazon cart.
What is a vending machine starter kit?
A vending machine starter kit is the set of documents that takes a new operator from decision to first placed machine: the business setup checklist (LLC, EIN, permits, sales tax, insurance), a distributor list for buying the machine itself, and the pitch scripts and placement agreement used to land the location. VendBuddy sells those as three one-time kits — $27 for the Starter Kit, $27 for the AI Location Pitch Pack, $47 for the Location Playbook, or $69 for all three together, which also adds two bonus documents that are not sold separately. None of them is a subscription, nothing renews, and every file downloads the moment you pay.
Questions people actually ask before buying
What is in a vending machine starter kit?Three documents, 26 pages. A getting-started checklist that sequences the LLC, EIN, permits, sales tax and insurance so each step unblocks the next. A vending machine distributor list covering all 50 states, with named sellers and a 15-point used-machine inspection. And a 96-term glossary written in terms of what each one does to your money. Adding the Location Playbook adds the walk-in pitch script, twelve answered objections and a placement agreement on top.
What format are these, and how do I get them?PDFs, delivered instantly. You pay by card on this page, land on a download page straight away, and the same links arrive by email. Nothing to install, no account to make, no software to log into.
Is this the subscription, or does it turn into one?Neither. These are one-time purchases and nothing here renews. The VendBuddy app is a separate product with its own free tier, and you do not need it to use any of these documents.
Do I need the VendBuddy app for any of this?No. Every kit on this page is a document you read and use on your own. The app builds location lists continuously, which is a different job, and none of these guides assume you have it.
Is a vending machine starter kit worth it, or should I just figure it out myself?You can absolutely figure it out yourself. Every fact in these documents exists somewhere online, and a large part of it is free on this site already. What $27 buys is the ordering and the templates: not re-deriving which permit blocks which, not writing a placement agreement from a blank page, and not learning the used-machine inspection list by buying a bad machine first. If that trade is not worth it to you right now, read the free guides instead — we would rather say so than sell you something you do not need.
What if I already have machines?Then skip the Starter Kit and look at the Location Playbook. The Starter Kit is setup paperwork you have already done. The Playbook is the walk-in script, the twelve objections and the placement agreement — the part that gets a machine you already own into a building that actually earns.
What if it is not what I expected?Each kit has its own page listing every document and its page count, so you can see exactly what you get before you pay. If a file is broken, missing or not what its page describes, email hello@vendbuddy.io and we fix or replace it. Refunds follow our refund policy, which covers a first subscription payment only; one-time downloads are not refundable once delivered, except where the law where you live says otherwise. What are the two free bonuses, and why only with all three kits?They are the First 30 Days Operator Calendar and the Restock and Route Log Pack — 16 pages between them, added to your download page automatically the moment you buy all three together. They are bundle-only for a real reason rather than a marketing one: the calendar is a day-by-day sequence that keeps pointing at documents from all three kits, and the log pack covers what happens after a machine is placed, which none of the three kits covers. Neither is sold separately at any price, and neither comes with a single kit or a two-kit cart.
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