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Vpod GainShare
Capex-Free Smart Lockers for Venues: Turn Visitor Storage Into Shared Revenue
Vpod GainShare smart lockers provide venues, arenas, attractions and event operators with a funded alternative to purchasing and operating a conventional locker estate. Vpod funds and manages the deployment, while paid visitor storage creates a shared revenue opportunity without the usual upfront locker investment.
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See GainShare in Under Two Minutes
For visitors arriving from LinkedIn, the fastest route to understanding the model is the short GainShare overview: no conventional upfront locker purchase, a managed platform and revenue generated when visitors use the service.
Placement strategy
Internal vs External Smart Lockers: Location Changes Demand, Revenue and Ingress
The commercial performance of GainShare smart lockers for venues depends partly on where locker capacity is positioned. External lockers can support bag-policy enforcement and ingress before security, while internal lockers are better suited to coats, merchandise and belongings that guests want to access during the event.
External lockers
Best for: bags, luggage, helmets and restricted items before security.
Potential benefit: stronger year-round demand and fewer bags entering search lanes.
Internal lockers
Best for: coats, personal belongings, merchandise and repeat access.
Planning issue: demand can vary materially by weather, season and event type.
For wider venue operations, see Vpod's venue locker outcomes for ingress and crowd flow and Martyn's Law guidance for events and venues. Smart lockers may support wider preparedness and bag-management procedures, but do not independently establish legal compliance.
Retail opportunity
Turn Smart Lockers Into Merchandise Click-and-Collect Points
Let fans buy merchandise before the event and collect it without joining the retail queue. Pre-purchased orders can be prepared by retail teams, loaded into a compartment and collected using a digital credential before or after the event.
- Reduce merchandise counter queues
- Reduce manual customer handovers
- Extend collection beyond retail counter opening times
- Improve order accuracy and provide a collection audit trail
- Increase retail capacity without expanding counter space
Explore Vpod's retail lockers and click-and-collect workflows.
Watch the deeper story
See how GainShare translates into the customer experience
Once the commercial model makes sense, the longer video gives decision-makers more context on the customer journey and how the service can operate in a live environment.
The readiness checklist helps venue, commercial, security and retail teams assess whether the operational foundations are in place before moving into a detailed GainShare proposal.
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