Enable faster gameplay, reduce cash handling, and create a smoother player experience with modern cashless payment solutions built for arcades.
Simplifying Payments Across the Arcade Floor
It’s the weekend, and your arcade is buzzing with eager gamers. Players move from one game to the next, hoping to make their way to the top of the scoreboard or beat their own personal record. So, the last thing they want is to waste time digging through their pockets for cash or tokens.
Traditional cash-based arcades interrupt the gaming experience. Instead, arcade goers want modern gameplay, lightning-fast reloads, and seamless access to concession areas and prize or service counters.
With Ready Credit’s digital payment solutions for arcades and family entertainment centers, such as branded prepaid debit cards and digital wallets, game enthusiasts can pay seamlessly across arcade machines and food and beverage stations.
Key Benefits of Cashless Payment Systems for Arcades
For your arcade to thrive, gamers want continuous, uninterrupted play time and the ability to reload their play balances quickly. Token or cash-based systems do the opposite, inviting long queues and lengthy wait times. Even the slightest payment or reload delay can negatively impact the player experience, meaning players spend less.
Ready Credit’s modern digital payment solutions will keep players out of the queues and engaged at their games of choice while simplifying your operations behind the scenes.
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Faster Game Reloads and Continuous Play
Arcade-branded prepaid debit cards and digital wallet-based payments allow players to move seamlessly between games. By replacing tokens and cash, gamers can reload balances quickly and enjoy more uninterrupted play — especially during peak periods.
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Reduced Cash Exposure and Risk
Eliminating direct cash handling creates a safer environment for gamers and staff. Fewer accounting errors and reduced theft or loss mean simpler end-of-shift reconciliation and less time spent managing cash drawers and token inventories.
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Simplified Cash Handling with Self-Service Kiosks
Cash-to-Card® Kiosks enable gamers to convert cash into a prepaid debit card without staff assistance. Removing manual cash exchange lowers labor strain and increases operational efficiency.
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Easy Integration with Arcade Environments
Ready Credit’s digital payment solutions integrate seamlessly with your existing POS infrastructure, helping you modernize payments without major layout changes or disruptions.
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Better Visibility into Player Spending
With access to real-time spending data, you can identify peak gaming times and high-performing games. These insights support informed decisions around staffing, promotions, and arcade floor layout.
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A More Engaging Player Experience
Rolling out digital payment solutions removes interruptions, keeping players focused on gameplay rather than searching for coins or tokens. A smoother experience encourages repeat visits and ongoing engagement.
What Leading Entertainment Venues Are Saying About Ready Credit
Here’s how our bowling alley & other entertainment clients are transforming their payment systems and delighting guests with Ready Credit’s solutions.
“Ready Credit’s cash-to-card kiosks are a reliable product that works really well.”
Senior Business Manager
at American Airlines
“Ready Credit’s communication was outstanding, especially in helping us understand the difference between closed and open loop systems. They educated us on how to sell the product, giving us the confidence to get this solution over the finish line.”
Assistant Concessions Manager
at Orlando International Airport
“Everybody loves it. The airlines are happy that they don’t have to deal with [cash] anymore. We like the fact that we don’t have to… worry about a lot of complaints coming in.”
Principal Property Manager
at San Francisco International Airport
“Ready Credit has been a great resource to help us reduce costs, reduce theft, and increase efficiencies. As a business owner, I’m a huge proponent and fan of Ready Credit.”
CEO
at Bolder Adventure Park
“When your transaction is fast, but your kitchen isn’t—you realize just how much you’ve improved one part of the experience.”
Eric Gilbert, General Manager
at City Museum
Arcade Payment FAQs
Players can quickly and easily load their cash onto an arcade-branded prepaid debit card or digital wallet. With their balance instantly available, they can seamlessly pay for their gaming sessions and reload points, no cash or tokens necessary.
Digital-payment-first arcade systems are designed to accommodate rapid, repeat transactions. Gamers can reload their play balances quickly between games without interruption.
Arcade patrons can quickly and easily redeem their prizes at the prize counter. Ready Credit’s modern digital payment solutions track play time, wins, and balances digitally and in real-time, so that prize-counter staff members don’t have to count out prize tickets or tokens.
No, many modern digital payment solutions integrate easily with existing arcade hardware and payment infrastructures. This allows arcade owners to avoid replacing their current system and, instead, quickly integrate more modern digital payment solutions without disruptions or delays.
Ready Credit’s Cash-to-Card® Kiosks are self-service machines that enable gamers to convert their physical cash into a prepaid debit card. That way they can enjoy a modern and seamless payment experience like other gamers.
Cashless Payment Trends Shaping Modern Arcades
It’s game over for tokens and coins in modern arcades. Arcade environments are steadily making the transition towards digital payment solutions, such as prepaid debit cards and wallet-based payment models. What’s driving the switch? Players want faster gameplay, seamless points and balance reloads, and fewer interruptions (to no) between machines and at the prize or concession areas.
Get in Touch About Cashless Payment Solutions for Arcades
Today’s arcade gamers expect seamless and uninterrupted gameplay and simple balance and point reloads. Cashless arcade payment systems eliminate manual cash handling and accommodate smoother payments, and balance reloads at every game and service counter.
Fill out the form to discover how Ready Credit’s modern digital payment solutions for arcades can simplify your operations and give players the gaming experience they deserve.
Proprietary Software Built In-House
Custom-built applications, kiosk management, and service systems designed to scale as fast as you grow.
Bulletproof Reliability
Robust monitoring and predictive software keep your kiosks running flawlessly with 99.99% uptime.
Total Application Control
We own the tech. Customize and adapt your kiosk application for any client or vertical, instantly.
Scale Smart, Not Hard
Add hundreds of kiosks without ballooning headcount. Our infrastructure scales non-linearly with your growth.
Powered by National Partners
Cash pickup, card stocking, 24/7 support, and maintenance—handled by partners with nationwide and international reach.
Patent-Protected Innovation
Our provisional patent (US 20210326840 A1) protects the systems that make cash-to-card exchanges seamless and secure.
