Revenue Per Visitor Without New Staff
Concessionaires are measured on revenue per visitor. A Coinmat adds a sales point that opens with the gate and closes with it, needs no shift assigned to it and carries no payroll against its margin.
GW Coin · Brazil
Souvenir Coin Vending Machines in Brazil
Brazilian attractions recorded around 120 million visits in a single year. Ninety-four per cent of those trips were domestic — and domestic visitors are the ones who come back.
Brazil added a record 9.29 million international arrivals in 2025, but the commercial story is the home market: Cristo Redentor, the Sugarloaf cable car, the Brazilian side of Iguaçu and Beto Carrero World each move between one and 2.5 million people a year, mostly Brazilians, many of them returning. That is the ideal profile for a collectible: a souvenir a visitor buys once, then completes over several visits. GW Coin supplies the machine, the custom-struck coin and the service model — configured for a market where Pix and contactless have already replaced cash.
National parksCable cars and viewpointsTheme parksAquariumsStadium toursArt institutesVisitor centresAirport concourses
Built for How Brazilian Attractions Actually Operate
Concession operators run their own retail and their own P&L. The machine has to fit that, not fight it.
A Sales Point Where There Is No Shop
The queue for a cable car, the platform at the top of a viewpoint, the walkway before a waterfall overlook: high-dwell positions with no room for a store. A Small Coinmat occupies about a quarter of a square metre and sells in all of them.
Pix-Native, Not Cash-Dependent
Pix now accounts for roughly a third of physical point-of-sale sales in Brazil, and around three quarters of retail Pix payments are under sixty reais — precisely the impulse band a souvenir coin sits in. Cash has fallen to a small minority of in-store value, so the machine is configured for Pix and contactless first.
Control Across a Continental Country
A unit in Foz do Iguaçu, one in Rio and one in Santa Catarina report into a single dashboard. Sales, stock and fault alerts arrive in real time, so no one flies to a site to find out whether a machine is empty.
No Cash Box, No Target
Brazilian retail lost an estimated 42.1 billion reais to shrinkage in 2025, about 1.65 per cent of turnover. A cashless machine sited inside a ticketed perimeter removes the cash drawer that makes unattended equipment worth attacking in the first place.
A Complete B2B Programme, Not Just a Machine
Coin design, payment rails, telemetry and cabinet branding arrive as one package from a single manufacturer.
Coins Struck for Your Site
Coins at 29, 32 or 38 mm, struck from your own artwork: the statue, the falls, the stadium, the species. Because these are struck medals rather than altered currency, there is no question of defacing the real. Gold-tone, bronze or copper finish.
Pix, Contactless and Card on One Cabinet
Contactless already accounts for around three quarters of Brazilian card purchases, and Pix by proximity is reaching vending through 2026. Our units are configured for the rails Brazilian visitors already use, with no expectation that anyone is carrying coins.
Telemetry and Sales Data
Every unit reports sales, stock and status over mobile data. For a concessionaire reporting to a granting authority, that is an auditable revenue line rather than an estimate.
Cabinet Branding in Your Identity
The machine is wrapped in your colours, your logo and Portuguese-language copy. It reads as part of the park, not as third-party equipment parked in your visitor centre.
Where Coin Machines Work in Brazil
Six venue types where visitor volume, dwell time and souvenir intent already overlap.
National Parks Under Concession
The Brazilian side of Iguaçu recorded 2,058,539 visitors in 2025, an all-time high, with guests from 207 countries. Concession operators already run the shops, the transport and the photo services — a coin machine slots into an existing retail operation rather than creating one.
Cable Cars and Viewpoints
The Sugarloaf cable car passed two million visitors in 2025 and Cristo Redentor drew around 1.5 million. Both are ticketed, both have long queues, and both send every visitor past the same two or three chokepoints.
Theme Parks
Beto Carrero World, at roughly 2.5 million visitors, is the most-visited theme park in Latin America. Park audiences already buy souvenirs by reflex; the question is only how many purchase points you give them.
Aquariums and Zoos
AquaRio crossed one million visitors in 2025, about a third of them foreign. One coin per species, one per exhibit: a set a family completes across several visits instead of a single purchase.
Stadium Tours and Sports Venues
The Maracanã tour recorded 421,484 visitors in 2025, a record. Club identity, match anniversaries and squad milestones give a coin programme an obvious release calendar.
Art Institutes and Museums
Inhotim received roughly 357,000 visitors in 2025. Smaller footfall, far higher dwell time and a visitor already primed to take away an object — a good fit for a limited, exhibition-linked coin series.
Hardware Matched to the Space You Have
Four cabinet sizes, each available in indoor and outdoor specification.
Small Coinmat
From 0.25 m²The compact unit for ticket halls, cable-car queues and narrow walkways. Minimal footprint, full coin range, the easiest install to get approved.
Midi Coinmat
Mid capacityHigher coin capacity for sites with steady daily traffic: visitor centres, regional museums and mid-size parks that restock weekly rather than daily.
Mini Lux
Premium finishA display-grade cabinet for flagship institutions and premium venues, where the machine has to match an interior rather than sit apart from it.
Big Coinmat
High volumeMaximum capacity and the widest design range, for theme parks and headline sites moving millions of visitors a year through one entrance.
Specified for Humidity and Salt Air
Foz do Iguaçu takes over 1,600 mm of rain a year and the Rio coastline exposes equipment to constant salt mist — the effect Brazilians call maresia, which cuts the service life of unprotected metal dramatically. Outdoor units add a sealed enclosure, protective roof, weather seals and corrosion-resistant hardware, with a shortened service interval on coastal sites.
Three Ways to Work With Us
Choose the model that fits your concession contract and your capital plan.
Machine Purchase
You buy the unit outright and keep the full margin on every coin. Suited to operators who already run their own retail and want the asset and the pricing under their own control.
Revenue Share
We supply, install and service the machine; you provide the location. Revenue is split on agreed terms with no capital outlay — the simplest route to a pilot at one gate before committing across a network.
Service Packages
Coin restocking, design refreshes, preventive maintenance and reporting, contracted separately for venues that already operate machines and want the supply chain handled.
How a Brazilian Installation Proceeds
From the first conversation to a machine selling, normally inside a single season.
Needs Assessment
We review annual footfall, the domestic-to-international mix, seasonality and where your visitors actually stop moving inside the site.
Placement Recommendation
We propose cabinet size, siting and payment configuration for your specific traffic flow — boarding queue, exit path or the shop floor you already run.
Coin Design and Approval
Our studio prepares the artwork and you approve the die before anything is struck. Designs can be reserved exclusively to your site.
Production
Machines and coins are manufactured in our own facility in Poland, so a specification change does not depend on a third-party supplier.
Shipping and Customs
Consolidated sea freight to Brazilian ports, or air freight when a season deadline is at stake, with documentation prepared for import clearance.
Installation and Handover
On-site setup, a short briefing for your team and connection to the telemetry dashboard. Restocking and servicing then follow the agreed schedule.
What Your Venue Needs to Provide
A standard power outlet0.25 to 1 m² of floorA named site contactMobile data coverageAccess for restocking
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. Pix is the primary payment route we configure for Brazilian installations, alongside contactless cards. Around three quarters of retail Pix payments fall under sixty reais, which is exactly the price band a souvenir coin sits in. Cash acceptance can be added, but in Brazil it is now the exception rather than the default.
Our coins are struck medals produced from blanks in our own facility. No circulating currency is pressed, altered or destroyed in the process, and the pieces carry no denomination. That keeps the product clearly outside any question about the handling of legal tender.
Yes. A die cut for your venue is used only for your venue. We also run limited seasonal designs — anniversaries, temporary exhibitions, championship years — which give returning domestic visitors a second and third reason to buy.
Either as your own asset or as a revenue-share arrangement with us. Because every transaction is logged by the machine and visible in the dashboard, the revenue line is auditable — which usually matters more to a granting authority than the size of the line itself.
Outdoor units use sealed enclosures, weather seals and corrosion-resistant fixings, and we shorten the service interval on sites exposed to salt mist. Where a sheltered indoor position is available we will always recommend it first — it costs less to run and lasts longer.
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.
Turn Brazilian Visitor Traffic Into Recurring Revenue
Send us your annual footfall and the type of venue you operate. We will come back with a cabinet recommendation, a Pix and contactless configuration and a realistic revenue model, at no cost and with no obligation.
