Between the 193 archaeological zones and 165 public museums administered by INAH, the private eco-parks of the Riviera Maya and 11.2 million cruise passengers arriving through Cozumel, Costa Maya and Ensenada, Mexican visitor traffic is concentrated in a small number of venues that already handle millions of people a year. GW Coin supplies the machine, the custom-struck coin and the service model that turns that traffic into margin per visitor — without adding staff, retail floor space or inventory risk.
Every constraint below is one we have already engineered around at high-traffic sites in other markets.
INAH sites are free for nationals and residents every Sunday, and public holidays push attendance far above an ordinary day. Headcount does not rise with them. A Coinmat sells through those peaks unattended, seven days a week, with no cashier assigned and no shift to cover.
A Small Coinmat needs roughly a quarter of a square metre. It fits between a ticket window and a turnstile, inside a museum vestibule, or under the covered walkway of a cruise terminal — positions where a retail counter would never be approved.
Mexico remains a cash market at small ticket values: national survey data puts the share of people who prefer cash below 500 pesos at over 85 per cent, and several archaeological-zone ticket offices accept pesos in cash only. A machine that takes coins and notes sells where card-only retail cannot.
A site in Quintana Roo, a park in Yucatan and a museum in Mexico City report into one dashboard. Stock levels, transaction counts and fault alerts arrive without anyone driving several hours to check a machine.
Relative humidity on the Caribbean coast sits between 74 and 82 per cent year-round and salt air is constant on both seaboards. Outdoor units use sealed enclosures, protected coin paths and corrosion-resistant fixings, and can be anchored or relocated indoors ahead of the June-to-November hurricane season.
Coin design, payment acceptance, telemetry and cabinet branding arrive as one package from a single manufacturer.
We strike coins at 29, 32 or 38 mm from your own artwork: the pyramid, the facade, the mask or the species your visitors actually came to see. Gold-tone, bronze or copper finish, with seasonal designs that give returning visitors a reason to buy a second time.
Peso coin and note acceptance is standard, with contactless and NFC available on the same cabinet. Contactless is still a minority of Mexican card transactions but has been growing at well over 100 per cent year on year, so dual acceptance covers this season's visitor and next season's.
Every unit reports sales, stock level and status over mobile data. You see which design sells, at which hour and in which month, and restock before a machine runs empty during a 160-ship cruise month.
The machine is wrapped in your colours, your logo and your language. Visitors read it as part of the venue rather than as third-party equipment parked in your lobby.
Six venue types where visitor volume, dwell time and souvenir intent already overlap.
INAH administers 193 archaeological zones open to the public. Chichen Itza drew roughly two million visits over the first eleven months of 2025, Teotihuacan about 1.6 million and Tulum close to a million. Visitors arrive expecting to take something home and find few authorised options on site.
The Museo Nacional de Antropologia recorded over five million visitors in 2025 — the largest single paid indoor footfall in the country. Museum shops keep opening hours and staff rosters; a machine in the lobby does not.
Cozumel handled 4.73 million cruise passengers across roughly 1,300 calls in 2025, with around 160 ships in January and again in December. Costa Maya added 2.4 million and Ensenada 1.3 million. Passengers have a few hours ashore, cash in hand and a strong souvenir reflex.
Grupo Xcaret passed five million visitors across its parks and services in 2025. Independent cenote operators run smaller sites with long dwell times and limited retail infrastructure — exactly the profile a compact unattended unit was built for.
Family audiences, a high share of repeat local visitors and a natural collectible logic: one coin per species, one per exhibit, a set worth completing over several visits rather than one purchase and done.
Departure concourses and hotel lobbies catch the traveller who realises at the last moment that they never bought anything — the highest-intent, lowest-competition moment of the whole trip.
Four cabinet sizes, each available in indoor and outdoor specification.
The compact unit for ticket halls, museum vestibules and narrow walkways. Minimal footprint, full coin range, the easiest install to get approved.
Higher coin capacity for sites with steady daily traffic: regional museums, mid-size parks and visitor centres that restock weekly rather than daily.
A display-grade cabinet for flagship museums and high-end resorts, where the machine has to match an interior rather than sit apart from it.
Maximum capacity and the widest design range, for cruise terminals and headline sites moving thousands of visitors a day through one entrance.
Indoor units are specified for air-conditioned lobbies and concourses. Outdoor units add a sealed enclosure, protective roof, weather seals and corrosion-resistant hardware for open plazas, coastal boardwalks and jungle sites where humidity stays above 80 per cent for months at a time.
Choose the model that matches your procurement route, whether you are a private operator or a public institution.
You buy the unit outright and keep the full margin on every coin sold. Suited to private operators who want the asset on their own books and full control over pricing.
We supply, install and service the machine; you provide the location. Revenue is split on agreed terms with no capital outlay on your side — usually the simplest route through a public procurement process.
Coin restocking, design refreshes, preventive maintenance and reporting, contracted separately for venues that already operate machines and want the supply chain handled.
From the first conversation to a machine selling, normally inside a single season.
We review your annual footfall, visitor mix, seasonality and the cash-versus-card reality at your own ticket points before recommending anything.
We propose cabinet size, siting and payment configuration for the specific traffic flow through your venue — entrance, exit or the queue itself.
Our studio prepares the artwork and you approve the die before anything is struck. Designs can be reserved exclusively to your site.
Machines and coins are manufactured in our own facility in Poland, so a specification change does not depend on a third-party supplier.
Consolidated sea freight to Mexican ports, or air freight when a season deadline is at stake, with documentation prepared for customs clearance.
On-site setup, a short briefing for your staff and connection to the telemetry dashboard. Restocking and servicing then follow the agreed schedule.
Yes, and it is the main reason the format works in Mexico at all. Peso coin and note acceptance is standard on every unit. Contactless can be added to the same cabinet when you also want to serve card-carrying international visitors, but it is never a prerequisite.
Yes. A die cut for your venue is used only for your venue. We also run limited seasonal designs — anniversary years, temporary exhibitions, restoration campaigns — which give returning visitors a second reason to buy.
Under revenue share, nothing in capital terms: we supply and install the machine and take an agreed share of sales. Under direct purchase you pay for the unit and keep the whole margin. Payback depends entirely on your footfall, so we model it with your real visitor numbers before you commit to either route.
Outdoor units are specified for sustained high humidity and salt air, with sealed enclosures and corrosion-resistant fixings. For the hurricane season we recommend either a sheltered position or a mounting that lets the unit be moved indoors at short notice.
Diagnostics are remote: most faults are identified, and often cleared, through the telemetry connection. Spare parts ship directly, and for partners running several units we set up a local service arrangement and a parts stock in-country.
Production plus sea freight typically runs a few months. Air freight shortens that considerably when a season deadline matters. You get a firm date once the coin design is approved.
Send us your annual footfall and the type of venue you run. We will come back with a cabinet recommendation, a payment configuration suited to your ticket points and a realistic revenue model, at no cost and with no obligation.
