Abstract: This patent relates to a method and apparatus to provide portable networks of portable (moveable, e.g. table top or free-standing on wheels) self-service terminals designed to perform any or all of the following: product/service selection, payment acceptance, payment authorization or verification, communication via wire or wireless means for purposes including requesting product, service and/or payment authorization from local or remote network servers, to generate payment indicia in the form of tokens or tickets dispensed, such product/service selection/payment indicia to be human readable or optionally machine readable via bar code or other coding schemes, and optionally to include within a network, redemption terminals capable of reading the machine readable indicia, capturing and vaulting the tickets or tokens and generating confirmation of receipt of the payment indicia via visual or audible means to communicate to an attendant staff person.