Real photos. Real paper. Real memories. We build authentic walk-in photo booths and place them permanently inside the venues people already visit, so the moment is available on an ordinary Tuesday rather than only at a wedding.
SmileMore is the consumer brand behind every machine Vertex Vending Group places. In practice it is a full-size, walk-in booth with a curtain, a real camera and a printer that hands you two paper strips about fifteen seconds after the last flash.
So it lives in the building permanently. Nobody has to hire it, schedule it or throw a party to justify it either. You find it, you use it, you take it with you.
The booth is installed and then stays. Guests pay for their own session, so the venue never buys entertainment it then has to market.
Vertex also designs and assembles every machine rather than reselling somebody else’s hardware, which is why we can co-brand and service them properly.
Two strips per session, one for each person, and also a digital copy sent to your phone if you want it. The paper is the point.
Because almost every photograph taken today is stored, scrolled past and never printed. SmileMore exists to keep the physical print alive and to keep the walk-in booth from disappearing entirely, because a strip in a wallet or stuck to a fridge does something a camera roll cannot.
In other words, that is the whole idea behind the brand: spread a bit of joy, make the memory tangible, and preserve a format worth preserving.
Most placed machines feel random, though. You find one, you use it once, and it never means anything again because the next one you see is unrelated hardware with a different name on it.
SmileMore is deliberately the opposite. However, every booth carries the same look, the same flow and the same brand, so someone who used one on a college campus recognises it instantly in a bar across the county and already knows exactly what they are getting.
It compounds for the venue too. Each install makes the next one easier to sell, because by then the brand already means something to the people walking past it.
Anyone can put five machines in five bars. Instead, our target for the first year is harder and worth more: one SmileMore booth live in each of five genuinely different environments, because that is how you learn what the brand actually is and prove the model somewhere other than the easy case.
The first one is already running, though. We wrote up how the NSU placement came together and published the session numbers from its first week.
Nova Southeastern University, Davie. Our first placement, open since August 2026.
Late crowds, so groups are already in a photo-taking mood, and the hardest test of the machine.
A lobby with guests, events and visitors moving through it every day of the year.
So far the best fit is where groups gather near the front of the house before they ever sit down.
The one we want most. People arrive expecting an experience and leave wanting proof of it.
To enter, use a SmileMore booth, post your strip, and tag both the location and us. That is the entire entry. One winner every month, free to enter, and it resets on the first.
The prize is the hook, of course. The reason it matters is the tag: every entry is a real post from a real customer naming the venue by name, reaching that person’s own friends. After all, it is the kind of social proof a location cannot buy convincingly.
Take your photos in any SmileMore booth.
Post the strip and tag the location plus SmileMore.
You are entered. The winner is drawn at the end of the month.
In short, if you are a venue owner you are dealing with Vertex Vending Group. If you are somebody who just walked past a booth in a lobby and wondered what it was, you met SmileMore. So it is the same company doing two jobs.
The parent company. Designs and builds the machines, handles installation, servicing, restocking and payments, and holds the relationship with the venue. This is who signs the agreement.
The consumer-facing brand on the machine itself. What guests recognise, what they post, and what they go looking for the second time. Its own site lives at smilemoreusa.com.
More than a hundred locations have been suggested by people who want a booth somewhere specific — a campus corner, an arcade, a coffee shop, a museum they love. Still, we read every one, and they genuinely shape the list.
If you run a venue and want to understand the model before talking to us, the questions worth asking any placement company are a good place to start.
Booth live today, on a university campus in South Florida.
Different types of venue we intend to be inside within a year.
Locations endorsed so far by people who want a booth near them.
Years the walk-in photo booth has been worth keeping around.
We build the machine, install it, service it, keep it stocked and handle payments. Meanwhile, all that comes from your end is the floor space. Tell us about the room and you will get a straight answer either way.
