Vending machine services that accept multiple forms of payments, namely, cash and cashless payments; vending machine services that accept payments using mobile payment options, namely, cards, debit cards, credit cards, smartphones, apps, electronic card payments, and magnetic card payments

Providing on-line non-downloadable software for monitoring vending machines, namely, monitoring product sales, monitoring sales history, monitoring product levels, monitoring machine inventory, monitoring product jams, monitoring vending machine functioning, monitoring vending machine malfunctions, monitoring coin jams, monitoring sales volumes, monitoring vending machine operational performance, monitoring vending machine temperatures, monitoring vending machine cooling, monitoring internal vending machine conditions, monitoring door opening, monitoring door closing, monitoring payment failures, monitoring reader failures, monitoring cash or cashless payment failures, providing off-site access to monitored vending machine data, providing remote access to monitored vending machine data; providing on-line non-downloadable software for monitoring and remotely controlling the operation of vending machines, namely, providing alerts of monitored vending machine data via multiple forms of media devices and controlling machine operation based on monitored data, providing cash or cashless payment alerts, providing price setting alerts, providing restocking alerts and providing machine operation alerts via multiple mobile applications, and by remotely controlling vending machine operation, namely, controlling vending machine functions, controlling temperatures, disabling vending machine functions, controlling temperature within vending machines, controlling price setting of vended products, remotely setting product pricing, remotely changing pricing of vended products, providing remote control over inventory pricing in vending machines