How many people would you actually lose if you didn't have swipe? I'm guessing not many, most of those using swipe are doing so because it is available. If they are forced to tap or insert their card, they will do so. Nayax forces tap or insert before allowing swiping, and even then swiping is only allowed if those 2 previous methods fail for some reason. As a result, we have less than 3% swiping still. Swiping increases your risk greatly.
I'm not sure, but here are my 3 choices:
1. Keep it exactly how it is, & make sure I collect those 24 swipes each day x $14.80. This assures I don't lose $120,000 + per year on 2 sites!
2. After quitting my job of 34 years (9mos before retirement), I can Go to the wash & ask each swipe customer individually (over the next 6 mos): "Wouldn't you rather tap your card, than swipe"?
3. Just rip out the swipe & take the monumentally bad advice.
Now, almost everybody who says "don't install swipe" has real world experience. But, only experience on THEIR wash & maybe another operator's wash in their area. I recently sold a wash, which mirrors mine, in ANOTHER STATE! It had slightly higher % of swipe. Did right at $130,000 of swipe the last year.
Now, I'm under contract to build a new wash in FtW. I will prolly use Top+ only at this site. I'm looking at a dbl iBA of friction & a Touchless. Or an Autec Mini-tunnel. If I do the dbl iba, I will add swipe & tap to my Vacs. But Tap only for the IBA's.
In my line of work, I am never ceasing to be amazed, by the # of M2M guys there are, & how opinionated they are. "IF you don't run Man to Man, you ain't really coaching. You can only win big, if you run Man-to-Man". Well, I ran M2M for about 18 yrs, & had high success. Then switched to a matchup zone. Guys always want to ask my about our matchup, but never did our M2M. WHY? Cause our matchup zone is tougher than a $2 steak! Most of these young know-it-all coaches don't even know wth we are running! ha
disclaimer" i've gone to State 3x running M2M, & never running matchup.
disclaimerll: we had superior talent when we ran M2M
