JB Charging Blog
Stay charged with the latest updates, expert tips, and trends in the power bank rental industry.
Stay charged with the latest updates, expert tips, and trends in the power bank rental industry.
When a renter keeps a power bank, they're charged a non-return fee and the venue is never charged. Here's what a lost bank costs an operator, the habits and settings that help keep losses rare, and a checklist.
Malls and big venues ask for a certificate of insurance before a phone charging station goes in. What a COI means, what JB's policy covers (not you), what to carry, plus a checklist and email.
The shift manager can't say yes. How to find who can at franchises, company-owned chains and managed properties, and the one-page proposal they'll forward.
A phone charging station is a vending machine whose product comes back. For snack operators that means no spoilage, no cash and no product to haul, plus two new jobs: picking venues and keeping machines online.
Wholesale 8-slot stations list for a couple hundred dollars. Here's the 12-line checklist of what that price leaves out, the cost math, and when building your own wins.
Ten questions to put to any phone charging station company before you pay, the answers that should make you walk away, and our own answers so you can check us too.
Many charging station outages have dull causes: a pulled plug, a switched outlet, weak signal. Here's the text to send the venue, a 6-step fix flowchart, and how to stop it coming back.
A full charging station can't take returns, and many operators think it looks unused. Keep permanent stations about 80% full, fill every slot at events, move banks to where they drain, and pull worn ones.
A quiet charging station often has a spot problem, not a machine problem. Five checks, a keep-line formula, an in-venue move and a 30-day test that tells you whether to keep it, move it or take it elsewhere.
Charging guests' phones behind the bar costs staff time and puts phones you may not be insured for in your custody. Here are 4 house policies, compared in one table.
Host a station a local operator runs for the cost of electricity (our standard terms), buy your own and keep 80% of rentals, or rent for an event. What each costs and who does the work.
Lockers take the phone away, cables tie guests to a wall, and rental power banks go wherever the guest goes. Compare what guests pay and who does the work, then pick by venue type.
