Top Ten Custom Kiosk Manufacturers

Custom Kiosk Manufacturers Recommended

Custom kiosks are an art that few companies demonstrate recurring excellence.  A truly custom kiosk may also be an exclusive design.  That can be a little spendy but just like TIO for banking payment kiosks, it happens.  You will not get a custom kiosk from China, unless you have someone make one for you here and then let China copy it.  [Feature Image is a telehealth unit from RedyRef].

The picture to the right is a “custom kiosk” that NeoProducts did for UK Postal Job Centre in 2001. Based in Australia but with a facility in the UK (I visited). Injection molding… 9,000 units.  Might be the first large-scale production kiosk?

While we are it maybe a good idea to point out top software providers?

Introduction: Custom kiosks always have unique requirements, either functionally or aesthetically.  Extra design and engineering implies NRE or non-recurring engineering and that can exceed a million by itself. Mercedes-Benz likes stainless steel for example. It fits their brand—big budget. A good place to see custom kiosks is our Best of 2024 Awards. I love the Empire State Building unit and also the Santa Monica outdoor smart city.  One and only one place to get those units…

One big problem is Non-Disclosure Agreements. The kiosk companies did it but often they are not allowed to broadcast it.  But then you will note that some deployers actually celebrate their units.  NASA wanted to tell the world about their units and so did Empire State Building. Especially after they won a big award for it.  Extra points for that.

One criticism I have received? — “But you forgot Europe!”. (See criticism comments below and also kioskeurope.org).  I am very data-oriented, and while I am an Okie from Muskogee, I pay attention to the world, especially the details. Canada and Mexico are NOT considered US (and neither is Greenland:-).

Let’s do the numbers and see the region breakdown. The European kiosk manufacturers almost always complain about being neglected and marginalized. Some don’t though and sell a ton in the US (e.g. Pyramid and Acrelec). 

Here are the companies with the “most” custom designs in the last 5 years.  Olea and KIS are equally capable but Olea/Frank always end up doing more customs (though he has a new modular line which is custom in its way). Alpine Kiosk is modular. Lego-blocks.

Custom Kiosk Manufacturers

1. Olea Kiosks – many many examples
2. KIOSK Information Systems – ditto — they’ve done everything
3. Kiosk Group tablet kiosks have custom designs. See the Braille
4. Kiosk Innovations – ex-KIS design engineer is CEO – Colorado
5. Alpine Kiosk – I always think Lego as you can make anything – Austria and Asia
6. Advanced Kiosks – special projects along with software are key market
7. REDYREF – I like the AT&T bill pay and the Fridge
8. Entropy Cabinet Solutions — ready and willing
9. ImageHolders – tablet and small form factor kiosks of all types – Canada and UK
10. Alveni – custom kiosks and big digital signage market – Mexico

Excellent Standard Kiosks

• Pyramid Technology — Been to McDonald’s lately?
• ACRELEC – McDonald’s, Popeyes, Burger King come to mind
• KT Group – Sports Betting and Bill Payment galore
• EasyPay Systems – Sports Betting and Bill Payment galore
• Honeybee Kiosk — smaller outfit – new payment support
• SKG Manufacturing
• Peerless-AV – tend to be large touchscreen OTS

Design Backstory Notes

While at Kiosk Information Systems we won a Best of Show at KioskCom in 2008 with the custom Solohealth vision testing unit. One of our competitors kept hanging around and later when we/KIS had some problems, they adeptly stepped in and took the production cycle away. We overestimated ourselves and  we paid dearly for it. We did all the work and they got the build. The actual mechanical design of the kiosk was handled by Neil Nguyen who just happens to be the CEO of Kiosk Innovations now. That unit actually has two displays. One of them is inside the kiosk, actually.  I had to steal an ELO 22 off the show floor to replace ours that failed hours before the judging.

The software initially was done by Netkey. Shortly after the award, Netkey was able to point to this project and sell itself for a pretty penny to NCR (Dusty Lutz managed) before eventually vanishing.

Here is a recent wrap on “Solohealth” look-back in 2023 we did.

As of June 2025, SoloHealth as a brand no longer operates under its original name, having rebranded to Pursuant Health several years ago1. The SoloHealth Station kiosks, which provided free health screenings for blood pressure, vision, weight, and BMI, were widely deployed in retail environments such as Walmart, Sam’s Club, Safeway, and Schnucks Markets12.

Currently, Pursuant Health maintains a large network of health kiosks—over 4,600 units—located in high-traffic retail pharmacies across the United States3. These kiosks continue to provide free biometric screenings and health assessments, functioning similarly to the original SoloHealth Stations. While the kiosks may no longer be branded as “SoloHealth,” the technology and service model persist under the Pursuant Health name31.

Turns out the evolved Plan B with blood pressure and diabetes proved to be the stronger equation than the Plan A vision testing.

Definitions

• Is it really just a modified standard kiosk? Those are cheaper.
• Have you visited the main office?
• Have them pull their mobile out and give you a virtual tour of their plant and offices.
• I’ve done that several times with China.
• Where is the design and engineering done?
• Where is manufacturing?
• Where is the assembly, for that matter?
• How often and how recent, or is it just a “we’ve done that before” verbal.
• Typically, a custom unit is a smaller production run (20?)
• Much heavier design and engineering cost factor.
• 10X the profit factor (why sell 100 when you make more money selling 10?)
• Are they an actual kiosk manufacturer?
• Or do they just sell or serve as a provider of kiosks (eg Diebold, Grubbrr, etc).
• Some “standard kiosks” are extremely customized
• Custom kiosks usually implies NRE or non-recurring engineering. Can be over a million dollars and that is just hardware (AT&T and Verizon good examples)

Companies like I&E and Elotouch advertise quite a bit, but, they don’t do custom kiosks.

Pictures of Kiosk Design

Here is our collection of kiosk designs — https://www.pinterest.com/kioskindustry/kiosk-designs/

Comments and Criticism

• List that excludes rest of world beyond North American shores, few notable exclusions KT, Evoke Creative, OEM kiosks, E-kiosk are just few that pop as well known within custom kiosk fabrication.  [nice cheat on North American especially from European in the list…]
• Kenneth Larsen thanks for speaking in behalf of so many other interesting and amazing custom manufacturers of selfservice kiosks like PARTTEAM & OEMKIOSKS® . Kudos to your comment. [I am familiar with CityLink but that was one project and done back in 2019.]

Custom Kiosk Resources

• Custom Kiosk Manufacturers
• Custom Kiosks Self Service & Self Order – Kiosk Industry
• Olea Kiosks Kiosk Manufacturer
• Custom Kiosks – Cash-To-Card and Drive-Thru Kiosks
• Custom Kiosk Software Development

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