How to buy or get vending machine locations in Australia

There are three ways to get locations: knock on doors yourself, pay a locator a fee per placed machine, or buy the research and make the calls with your own team. This page explains what each one really gets you, what our service includes, how long it takes, and where the limits are.

The three ways operators get locations

Do it yourself
Free, but slow
Maps, directories and cold drives. It works for your first handful of sites and then stalls, because building and qualifying a list by hand costs more hours than the machines return.
Pay a locator
Per placement fee
An agent finds and signs sites for a fee per placed machine. Fast, but expensive at volume, opaque, and the relationship with the site starts with someone who is not you.
Buy the research
Flat monthly plan
SiteFinderAI ranks and evidences the sites; you or your telemarketing team make the calls. Cost per qualified site keeps falling as you run more searches.

What's included

Ranked, callable sites

Real Australian businesses matched to your brief by town, suburb, postcode, state and machine type — with name, address, phone number and venue category, sorted by an opportunity score rather than dropped on you as a raw list.

500 m competitor scan

Every site is scanned for cafés, bakeries, takeaways, convenience stores, supermarkets and service stations inside your chosen radius, split by type, with the distance to the closest one recorded.

Staffing and hours signals

Venue type, workforce profile (blue collar or white collar), trading hours and seven-day operation, so you know before you dial whether the site can support a machine.

AI pitch notes and call script

An opening, hook, qualifying questions and close written from that site's own numbers, plus the five objections you are most likely to hear and how to answer each.

Confidence and opportunity scoring

A transparent breakdown across evidence quality, competitor density and callability, so you can see why a site ranks where it does and argue with it.

Exports and lead packs

One-click CSV for your dialler or CRM and branded PDF lead packs with maps and pitch notes to send to a site manager or your own vending client.

Shared pipeline and outcomes

Assign sites to callers, track them from Unworked to Won, log every outcome, schedule callbacks, keep a do-not-call list, and mark placements as bonafide leads.

API access for volume

A metered API key so your own systems or an AI agent can request sites programmatically against your account's lookup quota.

How it works, and how long it takes

  1. 1. Set the brief

    2 minutes

    Enter the towns, suburbs, postcodes or state you service, choose the machine type — combo, coffee, snack, drink, fresh food, PPE, cigarette, ATM, ice or photo booth — and set the competitor scan radius between 250 m and 2 km.

  2. 2. Run the search

    Under a minute

    SiteFinderAI searches the target area for matching venue categories, scans the surrounds of each candidate for competing food and coffee outlets, and scores every site.

  3. 3. Review the ranked list

    Same session

    Work down the list from the highest opportunity score. Sites with zero outlets nearby are highlighted as the strongest wage-loss pitch. Open any site for its map, competitor distances, score breakdown and call script.

  4. 4. Call and track

    Ongoing

    Assign sites across your team, call with the script, and log every outcome on the shared pipeline. Export the shortlist as CSV or send a branded PDF lead pack.

  5. 5. Rescan and compound

    Monthly

    Competition changes. Rescan an area on a schedule and revisit sites that said no when the café next door closes — the tracked list is what makes the second pass profitable.

Typical turnaround: a ranked calling list for a target area the same day you sign up, and your first placements inside two to four weeks of consistent calling.

What we don't do

  • • We don't sign sites for you or guarantee any placement — only the site can agree to a machine.
  • • We don't guarantee revenue, conversion rates or that any listed site will say yes.
  • • We don't supply, install or service machines.
  • • We don't draft your location agreement or give legal, tax or insurance advice.
  • • We don't sell the same shortlist as a fixed product — every search is run to your own brief.

Full terms, including the no-guarantee and no-refund conditions for this electronic product, are on the Terms & Conditions page.

Common questions

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