# Location commission

A term used when buying vending machine.

The share of machine sales paid back to the host site for the right to sit there.

Commissions run from nothing at a small office to a fifth of sales at a large plant or a school, and that difference is most of the profit on a machine. A route sold on gross sales hides it completely. Ask for the commission rate on every location rather than an average, because the two or three best-selling sites are usually the ones paying the most back out.

Part of: Buying a Vending Machine Business (https://searchspheresource.com/guides/buying-a-vending-machine-business)

Source: https://searchspheresource.com/guides/buying-a-vending-machine-business/terms/location-commission
Not dated: The same editorial definitions as the glossary, inside a trade.

Site index for machines: https://searchspheresource.com/llms.txt