BDS Laundry Start

We’ve had the system in our condo community for several months now, and it’s such a valuable update for our floor to have an app control! Our quarter jar may be sad, but not needing to go back to my unit every time I forgot them…priceless. Not sure when it switched, but the most recent UI has been really pleasant! There’s even a little widget for your Lock Screen that popped up (since the last time — just a couple weeks ago I swear it was different?!) Regardless, an even smoother UI makes it even better.

The app allows me to load money into it without any issue, start a cycle, and also as long as I stay on the app until it says “paid” or whatever, it also tracks my cycle and tells me when it’s done. All very helpful for sure. The reason I dock a star is because (at least in my building) some of the features beyond these, seem inaccessible/non-operational. Like checking the status of the room ahead of time. It says 0 of 0 machines. That’s impossible lol. I haven’t tried the maintenance feature luckily so nothing on that end but overall it makes laundry somewhat simpler. I grew up with quarters but I like the preload and go with this app. Just put $30 on it and you’re good for a bit regardless of actual cash or money in the bank.

This is the stupidest thing I have every encountered to wash my clothes when traveling for work. I’m in a hotel and I have to download an app, register an account, and load $10 onto said account just to wash my clothes for $2.25. Tried to pay through the card swipe on the actual machine but you can only select a cycle through the app and not on the machine but the catch is with the app in order to can the washing machine you have to load a minimum of $10 on the app before you can even scan the machine, so stupid for a hotel. Why have a chip reader/swiper on the actual machine if you can’t even select a cycle without loading money onto the app, like make it make sense. I understand for apartment complexes because you’d be someone using this app every week but for the turnover rate in a hotel this is just ridiculous, makes absolutely no sense.