A permanent photo booth installation costs your venue nothing. We build the booth, install it in your venue, service it, restock it and process every payment. In return you provide about twenty square feet and an outlet. So you get a profit-share check on the 1st of every month, forever, and you never pay us a dollar.
Cost to your venue, forever
Floor space required
Profit share, paid on the 1st
Operated and serviced by us
Most companies that say “photo booth” mean a rig they wheel into a wedding for four hours and wheel back out. However, that is a different business. A permanent photo booth installation is instead a fixed, co-branded machine that lives in your venue year-round, so it earns money every night you are open.
There is no fine print version of this page. In other words, this is the whole agreement.
About twenty square feet of otherwise dead wall, a standard 110v outlet, and internet access. That is the complete list.
The machine, the build, the install, the paper, the servicing, the repairs, the payment processing and the sales tax.
A share of every session the booth runs, paid out monthly on the 1st. No minimums, no invoices, no chasing.
Nothing. If it underperforms we pull it out at our cost and you keep every dollar of profit share already earned.
From first call to a working booth on your floor. Because every machine is custom-built to our design for your venue, the timeline moves with how custom you want it. Most placements run about eight to ten weeks. Occasionally it is faster, when we have a finished booth ready to go. Occasionally a build hits a snag and runs longer, so we quote you a range rather than a promise we cannot control. In any case, the only day you need to give us is install day.
Fifteen minutes. We talk about your foot traffic, your hours and your crowd, and whether a booth makes sense here. Sometimes it does not, and we will tell you.
We come to the venue, measure the wall, check the outlet and the signal, and pick the spot. Placement drives more of your earnings than the split does.
Your machine is custom-built to our design, sized for your wall and finished in your branding. This is not a stock cabinet with a sticker on it. Your logo goes on the machine and on every strip that prints.
We install during your closed hours. No jackhammers, no contractors, no permits. The booth is anchored but movable if a fire marshal or a private event needs the floor.
We run a launch promo and a social giveaway that tags your venue, so the booth has traffic on night one instead of sitting there being ignored.
Restocking, repairs, software, payments and taxes are ours. Your first profit-share payment lands on the 1st of the following month.
Every other company in this category asks you to sign before they will tell you what the machine is. Here are the numbers for a permanent photo booth installation up front, so you can decide whether you have the space before you spend a call on it.
Every booth is custom-built to our own design under the SmileMore Photo Booths brand, rather than a stock cabinet someone else sells with our sticker on it. That is why we can co-brand it to your venue, and it is also why the timeline flexes with what you want. Sessions run in the $8 to $12 range depending on the location and the crowd, and every session returns two printed strips plus a digital copy.
| Floor footprint | Approximately 20 square feet, against a wall |
| Power | One standard 110v outlet, always-on |
| Connectivity | Venue Wi-Fi or our own cellular backup |
| Output | Two printed strips plus a digital copy per session |
| Session price | $8–$12, set with you by location |
| Payment | Card and mobile wallet, processed by us |
| Branding | Your logo on the cabinet and on every strip |
| Staffing | None. Fully self-serve. |
| Relocatable | Yes, we move it at no charge if you need the floor |
| Install disruption | Installed during closed hours, no construction |
Every venue owner asks about the percentage first. However, it is the wrong first question, because the companies that lead with a big split number are usually hiding something in the service agreement.
The profit-share check is real money, and it arrives every month for as long as the booth is on your floor. That said, the reason a permanent photo booth installation is worth the wall is what it does to the room. Guests who take a photo stay longer. As a result, a group that stops for a strip on the way out often orders one more round. In addition, every strip that prints carries your logo and ends up on a fridge or an Instagram story.
In short, the revenue split is the part you can measure, while the dwell time and the tagged posts are the part that actually moves your P&L.
A percentage of every session, paid on the 1st. Predictable, and it scales with how busy you already are.
A reason to stay in the room for another ten minutes is a reason to order one more drink.
Your logo on every strip and a monthly giveaway that requires tagging your venue to enter.
Our flagship permanent photo booth installation went live in the Nova Southeastern University Center lobby in Davie on August 10, 2026, after months of planning with the university. The machine was custom-built to our design, co-branded in NSU colors, and it runs at $10 a session for two printed strips.
In its first five days it ran 150 sessions. That is a university lobby in August, so treat it as a launch-week number and not a run rate. What it tells you is what a room with heavy repeat foot traffic does when there is a booth in it.
The lobby was chosen for a specific reason: thousands of students walk through it several times a week, for years. That is the profile we look for in a South Florida venue. Not the biggest room, the most repeated one.
Launch-week figures from our own flagship placement at Nova Southeastern University, August 2026. Volume varies by venue, hours and foot traffic.
A rental shows up, takes photos for four hours and leaves. A placement is a partnership. We build it, we install it, we service it, and the venue never writes us a check.Thomas Steckman, Founder, Vertex Vending Group
Every permanent photo booth installation we take on is one we can physically reach, so we stay inside a radius we can actually drive. As a result, if your booth jams on a Saturday night, someone from Vertex is at your venue, rather than a subcontractor or a shipping label.
Fort Lauderdale, Davie, Hollywood, Pembroke Pines, Coral Springs, Weston, Plantation, Sunrise, Pompano Beach.
Miami, Miami Beach, Brickell, Wynwood, Coral Gables, Doral, Aventura, Hialeah, Kendall.
West Palm Beach, Boca Raton, Delray Beach, Boynton Beach, Jupiter, Wellington.
Because we pay for the machine, a permanent photo booth installation in the wrong room costs us more than it costs you. So it is worth being honest about the fit before either of us spends time on it.
Nothing. Because we own the machine, we absorb the entire cost of building, installing, servicing and operating it. So there is no install fee, no monthly fee, no equipment cost and no service charge. Your only contribution is the floor space, the outlet and the internet connection.
Roughly twenty square feet against a wall, plus enough clearance in front for a group to stand. In practice that is a stretch of wall most venues are not using for anything. Of course we measure it on the site walk first, so nothing gets built before we know it fits.
Install day itself is only a few hours, and it happens during your closed hours. However, the full timeline usually runs about eight to ten weeks, because every machine is custom-built for your venue rather than pulled off a shelf. Occasionally it is faster, when we have a finished booth ready to go. Occasionally a build hits a snag and runs longer. So we give you a range rather than a guarantee we cannot control, and we keep you posted as it moves.
No. Since the booth plugs into a standard outlet and is anchored without structural work, there is no electrical rough-in, no contractor and no permit involved in a standard installation.
No, because it is fully self-serve. Guests pay at the machine by card or mobile wallet, and the strips print on their own. As a result your staff never touches it, and they never handle money for it.
You send us a message and we handle it. Repairs, paper, ink and software are entirely ours. Also, because we only install inside South Florida, we can physically get to your venue. In short, it never becomes your problem and it never costs you anything.
Profit share is calculated on every session the booth runs, then paid out on the 1st of the following month. Therefore there are no minimums to hit and no invoices to submit.
Guests own their photos. That said, this is a question worth asking every company that pitches you, because the answer varies a lot across this industry. In fact it is usually buried in the agreement rather than stated on the website.
Yes, and it is standard rather than an upgrade. Since every machine is custom-built to our design, your logo goes on the cabinet and on every strip that prints. In other words, every photo that leaves your venue carries your name on it.
We move it. The booth is permanent but not immovable, so if a fire marshal, a private buyout or a floor change requires it to shift, we handle the relocation at no charge to you.
We remove it at our cost, and you keep every dollar of profit share it already earned. Because we are the ones who chose to put a machine there, we carry the risk on placement rather than passing it to you.
Not currently. We install and service every booth ourselves across Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties. Servicing our own machines is the reason the zero-cost model works, so stretching the radius would break it.
A fifteen-minute call. We will tell you whether your room is a fit, roughly what a booth would do there, and exactly what the split looks like. If it is not a fit, we will say so on the call.
Vertex Vending Group · Davie, Florida · Serving Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties
