Spirit Box is more than just a vending machine. It’s an educational small business enterprise complete with curriculum, support, virtual training, and student certification. Plus, it’s easy to install and implement, with a turn-key business management and entrepreneurship program that’s easy for teachers to manage, while challenging and fun for students - all while generating revenue.

Spirit Box qualifies as Career and Technical Education, and often meets requirements for the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act grant funding. The application and purchase process can be started by clicking here.

You can launch a Spirit Box School Based Enterprise (SBE) at any point throughout the year.

In less than seven weeks! A typical process for getting your Spirit Box up and running includes:

Week 1: We'll design your school branded custom graphics wrap.

Weeks 2-4: We manufacture your Spirit Box vending machine.

Week 5: Your Spirit Box is shipped and delivered.

Week 6: We schedule a virtual training with teachers and students on how to operate and stock the Spirit Box machine.

Week 7: Go live and start selling!

Year one Investment: $13,750. This includes a state-of-the-art vending machine that your school owns, CTE-aligned curriculum with over 30 lessons, an inventory starter-pack (approx. $900 retail value), onsite training at your school, as well as ongoing program support, online sales reporting and resources throughout the year!

Many high schools have used the revenue they generate from their Spirit Box to pay for the cost of the program and several schools have generated enough revenue to cover the costs within the first two years.

Once you purchase your Spirit Box School Store, we will schedule a virtual training to take you through all the inner workings of the machine, as well as offer training and support on how to implement the Spirit Box curriculum. Often, this training qualifies toward continuing education credit hours.

We have a network of technicians available nationwide to help with onsite technical/mechanical issues with your Spirit Box if needed, but often times we can troubleshoot issues with you or your student manager over the phone.

Spirit Box supports your team with ongoing account management, onsite technical service as needed, and credit card processing/management services (among other tools and services). These are all included in the year 1 investment and can be renewed for just $925 per year after year 1. While Spirit Box school teams have expressed that the ongoing support package is very valuable to the success of their program, it is not required.

Each Spirit Box team is assigned an account manager for yearlong ongoing support, as well an area technician for any onsite technical support needed. Also, check out our growing online resource library including lesson plans, templates and best practices. Spirit Box also manages credit card services and simply cuts the school a check quarterly for credit card and smart payment sales!

The Spirit Box curriculum was developed by educational experts with first-hand experience teaching small business enterprise in the classroom. Each part of the curriculum has been carefully constructed so all you need to do is download the lesson plans and do what you do best - teach.

The school will be sent a check quarterly for the total amount of credit card transactions through their Spirit Box, minus the transaction and processing fee (flat 5%).

Cash, Discover, American Express, Visa, Mastercard Credit Cards, Visa and Mastercard Debit cards, as well as Google Wallet and Apple Pay. The machine must be stocked regularly in order to dispense change and will require $1 coins.

The products and product placement within the Spirit Box is completely up to you and your team. Spirit Box will provide an initial inventory starter pack that will fill about half of your Spirit Box (five trays). Aside from this initial inventory, we recommend basic school branded items like T-shirts, hats and lanyards, as well as some basic consumables like sugar free gum, chapstick amd hand lotion which can be easily sourced from your local Sam’s Club, Costco or Walmart.

We recommend that you select one-to-five students to be the primary Spirit Box managers. Tasks can be delegated to additional students if more would like to participate. We will communicate with you and your Spirit Box managers throughout the school year to help with managing the machine. Check out more here: [Spirit Box Management Team][2]. [2]: https://www.spiritboxnation.com/management-team

The boxes are manufactured to be placed in a climate controlled indoor space and with no internet signal needed. We recommend high traffic areas like lunch rooms, outside the gym area or in a commons area that is also available outside of school hours to capture before and afterschool event sales.

The dimensions of the Spirit Box are: 72" tall, 44" wide, 35" deep and 610 pounds.

Just a standard 3-prong outlet. That's it!