Card Concepts (FasCard)

Card Concepts Inc. is a family-owned Illinois manufacturer of payment and management systems for vended laundry, publishing at laundrycard.com and headquartered in Addison. Its product line covers LaundryCard, FasCard and FLEX.

The distinction between those products is the one that matters when you are evaluating a store. LaundryCard is a full store system, where the machines are converted to card operation and a value transfer station replaces the coin box entirely. FasCard is a reader that installs alongside existing coin operation, so machines keep taking coins while also accepting cards and the mobile app. If you are buying a coin store and want a revenue trail without replacing the fleet, that difference is the whole decision.

An auditable revenue record is not just an operational nicety. A cash-only laundromat is materially harder to finance and harder to sell, because neither a lender nor a buyer can verify the collections. Owners often find that the payment system pays for itself twice: once in convenience pricing and once at exit.