# Laundromat ROI calculator

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Estimate what Fold Pay phone and wallet payments on washers and dryers would bring in and cost a laundromat each month.

## What Fold costs

- The customer pays $0.35 per top-up, not the store.
- The store pays 2.49% + $0.29 per top-up.
- Fold Reader: ~$3 per machine per month (pricing being finalized).
- No long contract and no upfront hardware cost. No 48-month contract. No $3,500 install.

## Inputs and starting numbers

- Washers: 20
- Dryers: 24
- Turns per washer per day: 4 (On average, across the week.)
- Average washer vend price: $4.50
- Dryer revenue per turn: $2 (What a typical dry brings in, all its time added up.)
- Customers who’d pay by phone or wallet: 30% (The rest keep paying with coins or your change machine.)
- Average top-up: $20 (What a customer loads at a time. The minimum is $10.)
- Off-peak discount you might offer: 0% (Optional. Leave at 0% if you don’t plan one.)
- Card and wallet uplift: 10% (Stores that take cards tend to see more spent per visit. Applied to the phone and wallet share only. An assumption to adjust, not a promise.)
- Coin collection and handling saved a month: $150 (Collecting, counting, rolling, bank runs, change-machine refills and service calls that phone payments take off your plate.)
- Turns per dryer per day: 4 (Follows the washer turns until you change it.)
- Share of wallet spending in off-peak hours: 30% (Only matters if you offer an off-peak discount.)

## How it is calculated

1. Machine revenue a month = washers × turns × washer price × 30.4 days + dryers × dryer turns × dryer revenue per turn × 30.4 days.
2. Wallet share = machine revenue × share paying by phone or wallet (moving coin sales to the wallet is not new money by itself).
3. Extra revenue = wallet share × uplift (an assumption, not a promise).
4. Off-peak discounts = wallet spending × off-peak share × discount.
5. Top-ups a month = money loaded ÷ average top-up.
6. Fold processing = money loaded × 2.49% + top-ups × $0.29.
7. Fold Reader rental = machines × $3.
8. Net monthly gain = extra revenue + coin handling saved − off-peak discounts − Fold processing − reader rental; 12-month total = net × 12.
9. Payback: no upfront hardware, so nothing to pay back.

An estimate from the numbers entered, not a quote or a promise of results. Questions: contact@foldpos.com

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