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The vending machine course

Start your vending business here.

Judge the building. Sign the location. Place the machine. Read the numbers. Then do it again, with a 90-day plan built from a random sample of my machines.

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  • 10Levels
  • 70Lessons
  • 29Missions
  • 11Tools
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Read the real numbers off a random sample of my machines.

Seventeen Hotbox machines, twenty-three days, pulled from the machines themselves. Gross sales including tax, before product, the host’s share and fees. A sample, not the whole fleet and not a typical result. The full readout, with what I pay per pack and the hours they sell, is in the course.

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Ninety days is the plan the course is built around, not a promise: what you place and what it makes depend on your building, your capital and your work. Same machine, same packs, same prices, same 23 days: the best machine in this sample averaged $77 a day and the worst $4 a day. The building is the business. We teach you to judge it first.

Pick the building that makes money.

Tap one. The same system the course runs will judge it in front of you. Most people pick wrong on the first try, and that is the $3,500 lesson, for free.

Try the system before you buy it.

These two panels run the same code as the tools inside the course. Change a number and watch what the business does.

  1. 1

    The Napkin

    The whole business on one page: what you sell it for, what it cost you, how many you sell, who takes a cut first.

  2. 2

    The Hotbox Rating

    Five traits, a buyer match and a traffic read. Score a building out of ten before you spend a dollar on it. Decline most of them.

  3. 3

    The Offer

    “We place the machine, we restock it, we maintain it. The location gets a share of the net profit every month, with a report.” Word for word, with the eighteen objections and the answers.

  4. 4

    The Statement

    The same lines the owner sees every month. You’ll read one in ten seconds and send one by the 10th.

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The Napkin: one machine, one monthChange a number
Napkin
Sales$1,800
Product, tax, fees, costs, reserve, split-1,400
You keep$400
Machine paid off in8.8 months

The Hotbox Rating: a sports bar in DallasScored live
The statement: a Texas bar, February 2026Real
Hotbox Vending
Monthly statement, February 2026
Texas bar, one machine
Sales$900.00
Product-187.00
Sales tax-74.25
Card processing-30.42
Gross profit608.33
Software, reader, wireless, permits-85.95
Operating profit522.38
Tax reserve 20%-104.48
Net before split417.90
Location share 30%-125.37
You keep$292.53
A real statement. Every line is the one the owner sees.

Learn from the team that runs the machines.

Akash Singhania

Founder, Hotbox Vending

Started in vape vending, pivoted the company into trading-card vending across Texas and Ohio, and built the sourcing, the underwriting system and the tools the course runs on. Every lesson is his, in his words.

The Hotbox operations team

Installers and restockers

Their procedures are filmed for the Machine Track, and their machines produce the statements in the course. You learn the install, the restock and the reader fix from the people who do them every week.

Reviews

Trust only reviews signed by members.

The founding cohort is in Level 1. Reviews post here as members pass Level 2 and place their first machine, written by them, under their name and the date. No stock faces, no invented names, nothing I wrote myself. If you want proof today, open a random sample of my machines: real sales, real costs, pulled from the fleet.

Pay for the system once, not for the mistakes.

Two mistakes sink most first machines. Both have a price, and both are bigger than the course.

One bad location: a machine, product and freight parked in a building that sells $4 a day$3,500
Paying what strangers charge for product: a $10 pack against $6 bought right, on every pack, at the median machine’s 160 packs a month$640 a month
The system that keeps you out of both, once$999
The whole thing, once
$999

One payment for the whole system: ten levels, eleven tools, the Vault, the Hotbox network, lifetime access. Your Operator Card is issued the moment you unlock it.

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The two-day look-inside promise

Unlock it, open every level, try every tool. If it isn’t for you, tell us within two days and every dollar of the $999 comes back, no questions asked. After two days, sales are final.

  1. 01Pay. Your card is issued with the next serial.
  2. 02Tap the link in your email. No password, ever.
  3. 03Lesson 0.1 opens. You are an operator in training.
After the course: our team, on call. Operator Support is $50 a month, inside the course. Message a member of the Hotbox team whenever you want about your machines or the business, and a person replies within one business day, guaranteed. Optional. Cancel any time.
What stands between you and a first machine

The goal is one machine in a building that pays. Each thing that usually stops it, and what in the course removes it:

  1. Where do I put a machine?The Lead Finder pulls every venue in your city by category. The Hotbox Rating scores each one out of ten before you spend a dollar.
  2. What do I say to the owner?The offer word for word, the Script Library, and the Objection Trainer with eighteen objections and the answers.
  3. Do the numbers work?The Napkin and the calculators run the same math as the lessons: price, cost, sales a day, the host’s share, payback.
  4. Will I overpay for product?Member pricing through Hotbox Distro, and the suppliers we buy from in the Hotbox network.
  5. Which machine, and what then?Ten levels, seventy lessons, in order, from the napkin to the exit, around a 90-day plan. The Vault holds the catalog of 44 machine types, templates, checklists and case studies.
  6. Who do I ask when I’m stuck?Messages inside the course, answered by a person on the Hotbox team within one business day.
  7. Will it go out of date?Lifetime access and every update. The Machine Track videos and the Restocker SOP are coming soon, included when they land.

Income disclaimer. Results are not typical and are not guaranteed. The figures on this page and in the course are real examples from Hotbox machines and researched ranges from named sources, as of 2026. They vary widely by location, product, deal terms and effort, and most people who buy a course never finish it. This is education, not legal, tax or financial advice.

Get your answers before you buy.

Is this for me?
If you have $3,000 to $5,000 you can put to work, you will walk into twenty buildings and ask for something, and you want a business you run on the side first: yes. If you want passive income, or you want to buy a machine this weekend and find a spot later: no, and we would rather you keep the $999.
How much money do I need to start?
Roughly $3,000 to $5,000 for the first machine, product, freight and setup. The course tells you to fund it from cash first and never to buy a machine before a location has said yes.
How does the refund work?
Tell us within two days (48 hours) of buying, by email to [email protected] or in Messages inside the course. We refund the full $999 to the card you paid with, no questions asked. Refunds go out within five business days, and your access ends when the refund is issued. After two days, sales are final.
How much time does it take each week?
The seventy lessons add up to about eight and a half hours across all ten levels, and each one says how long it takes. The rest is field work: walking into buildings, scoring them and talking to owners. How long that takes depends on your city and your pace, and we have not measured a weekly number across members yet, so we won’t quote one. The course is built for people running this on the side first.
Is it live or recorded?
Both. The lessons are recorded, so you take them at your own pace, in order. Live classes run in the Classroom (the next one is on the lobby screen at the top of this page), and every session is recorded and posted in the Classroom the same day.
Do I keep access?
Yes. One payment gets you lifetime access, including every update; the University is updated constantly. You sign in with a link sent to your email. No password, ever.
Can I pay in parts?
Not today. Checkout takes one payment of $999, and that founding price is locked for life once you are in. If a payment plan is what stands between you and starting, email [email protected] and say so.
Is this only for Pokémon card machines?
No. Cards are the main example because they are the simplest version of the business and we run them. The course also covers vape machines in 21-plus venues (with the legal reality first), snack and drink machines, and the rest of the 44 machine types in the Vault’s catalog, from smart fridges to claw machines to ATMs.
Do you find locations for me?
You find them, with our tools. The Lead Finder pulls every venue in your city by category, the Scorecard tells you which ones deserve a machine, and the Pipeline and Script Library are the same system our own reps run. If you would rather we hand you one, that exists as an optional extra inside the course: a confirmed lead in your area, scored and with the owner expecting you, for $250 (coming soon). Nobody needs it to place a first machine.
Do I need to be in Texas or Ohio?
No. The system is the same anywhere in the United States. Where rules differ by state, the course says so and shows you where to check. Sales tax presets cover ten states and the method covers all fifty.
Do you guarantee I’ll make money?
No, and nobody honest can. What a machine makes depends on the building and on you. That is also why Lesson 0.1 is free and the Napkin is on this page: judge the teaching before you pay. And if you buy and it isn’t for you, you have two days to say so and be refunded.
Can I get help after I buy?
Yes. Messages inside the course reach the Hotbox team, and the Hotbox network is included: the suppliers, operators and location contacts we work with. If you want our team on call, Operator Support is $50 a month inside the course: message a member of the Hotbox team whenever you want about your machines or the business, and a person replies within one business day, guaranteed. Month to month, cancel any time.

Still have a question? Email [email protected] and a person answers.

Hear it from Akash.

I spent two years in vape vending learning this business the expensive way: machines in the wrong buildings, product bought at the wrong price, rules that changed under me. When we pivoted to cards, I decided the one thing I would never do again was guess about a location.

So we built a system for knowing. Everything in this course is that system: the five traits, the rating, the offer, the statement, the plan. It is what I would hand my own brother on day one. If you do the work, you will sign a location. If you don’t, nothing on this page will help you, and you should keep your $999.

One more thing. This course gets better every month, because my team and I are still out there placing machines and everything we learn goes in. The price goes up as it does. The people who are in never pay more.

Akash

Run the 90-day plan to your first machine.

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