Freeplay

Freeplay is the complete operating system for an independent coin-op amusement route operator — the business that owns 240 arcade cabinets, pinball machines and jukeboxes and places them on revenue-share in 38 host venues: bars, taprooms, laundromats, bowling alleys, pizzerias and campus unions. It runs the route end to end, and it fronts the pitch that wins the next location.

The Route Board is the working picture of the estate: every machine by host location with its live state — earning, down, in the shop or awaiting a part — so the operator knows before the phone rings which cabinets are making money and which are dark. Machine Detail carries the cabinet spec, install date, meter readings, full service history and an earnings sparkline for the individual unit. Collections is the cash desk: coin-drop counts per visit, cash against card-reader takings, and the split calculated automatically against each host's revenue-share percentage, which is the number both sides actually argue about.

Locations holds the 38 hosts with contract terms, split percentage, contact and a performance ranking, so a weak site is visible long before renewal. Service Calls runs the fault queue with technician assignment and parts on order, and Parts Inventory tracks flippers, boards, monitors and coin mechs with low-stock alerts — because a route dies from missing parts, not missing demand. Earnings reports per machine, per location and per title profitability with a weekly trend, and Title Performance answers the only question that governs what to buy next: which games actually earn. A Tournament Ladder runs a league across the host venues with standings, turning regulars into a reason the machines keep getting played. A public "Host a machine" pitch and application page brings in new venues.

Visually Freeplay is built in the language of 1980s arcade attract-mode and CRT phosphor rather than a generic dashboard: a near-black cabinet ground with phosphor-glow accents and a scanline overlay, a bitmap display face used for short display strings and score numerals against a real grotesque for everything you have to read, a scrolling high-score and coin-drop marquee, chunky bordered cabinet panels with hard offset shadows, tabular monospace numerals on every money figure, and a drawn attract-screen plate tucked into an asymmetric bento grid. Remix it for any route-based, revenue-share, field-equipment or placed-asset business.