Skip 6 months of figuring it out. Place your first machine in 30 days.

If you want a vending machine that collects money — not a hobby you research forever — this is the head start: the exact paperwork, walk-in scripts, and signed-ready contracts, sequenced into a day-by-day 30-day plan. 83 pages. $69, once.

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The Get Started Bundle — all three kits, $69
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Three kits and two bonus documents — 83 pages in all. The three books are $101 bought separately. The two documents on the right are not sold separately at any price. All five: $69.

One purchase, every step covered: set up right (LLC, permits, distributor list), pitch right (walk-in script, 12 answered objections, AI pitch prompts), close right (a placement agreement property managers sign). $69 instead of the $101 the three cost separately — you keep $32, and it is the only combination that carries the two bonuses. Already ticked; untick anything and the price updates instantly.

Two bonus documents come with the bundle, free:

  • The First 30 Days Operator CalendarFREE · 8 pages · bundle only
    A dated day-by-day plan from the day you buy to the day a machine is installed and taking money. It does not repeat the kits — it tells you which one to open on which day, when to file, when to walk into buildings, and the one condition that has to be true before you buy a machine.
  • The Restock and Route Log PackFREE · 8 pages · bundle only
    Five printable templates for after the machine is in: the per-visit restock log, the route sheet, a per-machine monthly P&L one-pager, a par-level and product performance sheet, and a service log. Each with a field list, how to fill it in, and a worked example.
Both bonuses are in your cart, free — 16 extra pages we do not sell separately at any price.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Two kits: 10% off, rounded in your favour. All three: $69 instead of $101 — the Get Started Bundle price, and the only combination that carries the two bonus documents. And because the Playbook physically contains the Starter Kit documents, ticking it adds the Starter Kit for $0 rather than charging you twice.

Or have it done for you

These two are not downloads. They are built by hand after you buy, so they have their own pages and their own checkout — and both now ship 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, fifty scored locations, and the job title to ask for at each one. Built by the same engine subscribers use, delivered in minutes.

  • 50 scored locations in the ZIP you enter
  • Decision-maker title, and name/email where we can resolve one
  • Phone, address, category and score in one CSV
  • No subscription, no renewal
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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
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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
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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.

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.

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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?Email [email protected] within 30 days and we refund it. No questions, no proof, and that applies to a $27 document the same as to anything else we sell.
Why does ticking the Playbook add the Starter Kit for free?Because the Playbook physically contains the three Starter Kit documents. Charging you $27 for files that are already inside something else in your cart would be taking money for nothing, so we do not.
Why are all three kits already ticked?Because it is what most people buy, and at $69 for all three against $101 separately it is the only combination where the price actually improves. Nothing is locked: untick any kit and the total updates immediately, or use the clear link in the bar at the bottom to start from an empty cart. We would rather show you the option most buyers pick than make you assemble it.
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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