Quick Start: Payment Portals

• Pulse Settings
  If a user inserts 1 peso coin (for Philippines), coinslot reads that as Pulse 1 where we set the amount to 1 peso. 
  
  Or if the user inserts a 5 peso coin, coinslot reads that as Pulse 5 where the amount is 5 pesos.
  
  Same thing applies for the rest of coin and bill  denominations. You can also add a new pulse setting by clicking the “New Pulse Settings” button, depending on what denominations are available in your country.
  
  For setting the pulses, there are two options: manual and automatic. If manual, you will manually input the pulses of the specific amount but in automatic, you only need to insert the specific amount and the system will automatically find the pulses for you.

To edit the default settings, just click the edit button. 

• Built-in/GPIO
  • Alias
    You can set an alias for each payment portal with a distinctive name. This will be useful to easily identify a specific coinslot if you have multiple payment portals.
  • GPIO Pin for Coin Acceptor (white wire)
    Check your board and based on your wiring, choose  the GPIO Pin for your coin acceptor. When you select from the choices in the dropdown, an image will be shown also so you can verify you have selected the correct Pin.   
    The choices in the dropdown are the lists of PINs that we tested to work.  
  • GPIO Pin for Bill Acceptor (white wire)
    Same thing also with the Coin Acceptor, check your board and its wiring then select the PIN where your Bill Acceptor wire is connected to. 
  • Relay Settings
    • Relay Delay (in seconds)
      For “power cut” wiring setup, the coinslot only turns on after pressing the insert coin button. The tendency is it will send a fake pulse (credit) to your board, even before inserting a coin. Adding a relay delay will fix that. 
    • Coin Acceptor Relay GPIO Pin
      Based on which Pin you connected the Set Pin wire from the coinslot, select the right PIN from the dropdown.
    • Bill Acceptor Relay GPIO Pin
      Check which PIN of your board  the bill acceptor set wire is connected to. Select that PIN from the PIN numbers provided in the dropdown. 
    • Coin Acceptor Relay Active
      High
      It means that the signal sent to the module is HIGH or “Positive”.
    • Bill Acceptor Relay Active
      It means that the signal sent to the module is HIGH or “Positive”.
• Wireless Payment Portals
  Apart from the wired coinslot connected to the main wifi vending machine, you can also add another payment portal using wireless connection.
  
  Please refer to this link for the full guide on how to set up Sub Vendo as a wireless payment portal. 
  
  Security Token
  Open (auto-accept) connections
  
  If checked, your main vendo will be visible to active sub vendos. Sub vendos will then automatically scan and connect to wifi vending machines that are set to auto accept connections.  
  
  As for the token, you can change it and set this in your controller device (such as NodeMCU). 
  
  Connected Wireless Coinslots
  All sub vendos or wireless payment portals that are connected to your wifi vending machine will appear here. 

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