Patent ID: 8645273

Claim:
A method for providing a vending network, comprising: receiving inputs for monetary cashless transactions and non-monetary cashless transactions from a plurality of transaction-type devices associated with respective vending machines; transmitting, to at least one remote server, first non-batch transaction data associated with at least a portion of the monetary cashless transactions and second non-batch transaction data associated with at least a portion of the non-monetary cashless transactions, wherein the at least one remote server is configured to inspect a class of transaction for each transaction in both at least the portion of monetary cashless transactions and at least the portion of non-monetary cashless transactions, and is further configured to permit further processing of an inspected cashless transactions when a class of transaction of the inspected cashless transaction has been previously approved to perform with the at least one transaction-type device; and settling at least the portion of the cashless transactions via at least one vend settlement server.