Mini TCG: Compact Trading Card Vending Machine | VTM

The Mini TCG is $2,850: the Mini Wall chassis fitted with 22mm precision coils for trading card packs. Included: the Nayax VPOS Touch reader, Wi-Fi receiver and antenna, VTM Software free for 3 months, onboarding, a 1-year warranty, and a 30-day return window. Acrylic top-loader cases are sold separately; wraps are optional add-ons from $215.

Well-placed machines commonly run $1,000 to $1,500+ per month, and top locations run well beyond that; treat those as top-tier results rather than the baseline. The best performing placements are family entertainment centers, arcades, grocery stores, bowling alleys, and convenience stores. Margins run 40 to 50%. Pricing formula: pack cost x 1.2 + $5, rounded up, so a $10 booster vends at $17, roughly $7 to $8 profit per pack. Payback is roughly 3 to 6 months at baseline volume.

120 booster packs across 8 aisles (15 per aisle) on 22mm coils, each pack riding in an acrylic top-loader case. At 21.6" x 33.3" it fits card shops, game stores, barbershops, and gas stations without eating floor space.

Yes. Loose booster packs are too thin and flexible to feed reliably through a coil, so each pack rides in a rigid acrylic case that vends cleanly and lands in mint condition. Our cases are sized to the 22mm coil pitch; generic top loaders vary in thickness, which is where jams come from. Customers keep the case, which they read as added value.

Our wholesale store, vendingwholesale.com, carries machine-ready sealed English boosters across 25+ SKUs at operator pricing, shipped from Solon, Ohio. You are never locked in: the machine vends any authentic booster pack, so source wherever the deal is best.

No; both are too large for coil vending. For a bigger-ticket slot, Pokemon mini tins vend from 50mm coils, and operator-made premium mystery packs or high-value singles in a top loader fit any machine. Single packs at $15 to $21 are the core business: impulse buys with far higher margin per dollar of inventory.

Yes. Many VTM customers vend graded slabs and mystery graded slabs. Load slabs in any row except the bottom tray. The bottom tray has about 0.25" less clearance at the exit, so slabs may not clear it cleanly.

Yes: sports cards, Magic: The Gathering, Yu-Gi-Oh!, One Piece, Lorcana, any standard pack in the same top-loader cases on the same 22mm coils. Each aisle gets its own image and price, so a mixed menu is a normal setup.

No. Trading cards are unregulated and not age gated: no ID hardware, no licensing, no placement restrictions. One rule: do not put Pokemon logos, characters, or "official" language on the machine or marketing; the category is not licensed to independent operators. Generic card-themed wraps are available from $215.

Nayax: $9.99 monthly fee plus 3.5% + $0.20 per transaction. VTM Software: $29 per month starting month 4, first 3 months free. No revenue share.

Everything a traditional POS would accept: magstripe, tap to pay, EMV chip insert, Apple Pay, Google Pay, and all major credit cards, through the built-in Nayax VPOS Touch reader.

Sales deposit directly to your bank account on a weekly cycle. Nayax processes every sale and deposits your net revenue, sales minus card fees, into the account you connect during onboarding; deposits land Friday mornings and cover the prior Friday through Thursday week. You track every sale in real time in the VTM dashboard, and VTM never touches your money.

Nothing gets charged. Every machine has an electronic infrared drop sensor: if a payment is approved but no product is detected dropping into the pickup door, the transaction is cancelled automatically. If a customer receives a defective product, that refund is handled by you as the operator, right in the Nayax mobile app MOMA.

A 1-year comprehensive warranty covering parts, electronics, software, and the card reader. Returns: 30 days, unused, 10% restocking fee, return freight at your cost.

Yes. Packs stay locked in a 1.8mm steel cabinet and drop only after a paid sale, so there's no open shelf to shoplift from and nobody has to fetch packs from behind the counter. The machine works as an anti-theft display and a register in one. For inventory control, the VTM software tracks stock by aisle and alerts you when an aisle runs low, so shrinkage shows up at the next restock instead of at a year-end count.

An anti-theft plate in the exit chute makes it difficult for anyone to reach up and grab product from the aisles, and the barrel locks can be uniquely keyed so no two of your machines share the same key. See how VTM machines protect your product, machine, and payments.

Yes. From the VTM Vending Portal you can turn the machine off remotely, take a single aisle out of service while the rest keeps selling, and change the admin password when someone who had access leaves. Card payments run through the included Nayax VPOS Touch reader, which encrypts card data with PCI-compliant AES/DES encryption and connects on its own Nayax SIM card, separate from the machine's Wi-Fi or Ethernet.