Monthly parking for a lot that has to pay for itself.
There is good software for an airport garage and good apps for an hourly space downtown. For one lot with forty monthly parkers there is almost nothing — which is the gap this was built in.
HOAs
Most HOA parking disputes are not about parking.
What it looks likeCondo associations
A condo building has two kinds of space and often two kinds of resident — the owner who holds a deeded bay and the tenant renting their unit.
What it looks likeApartments
In multifamily, parking is either an administrative cost or an income line, and the difference is almost entirely whether anybody is keeping track of it.
What it looks likeCommercial lots
You are here.
Campuses
Campus parking is a scale problem for three weeks a year and an enforcement problem for the rest.
What it looks like
What goes wrong
Four problems, and what happens to each one.
Collecting monthly, from people who are not tenants
Cards on file, charged on the billing date. A reminder, a suspension and a release, in a sequence you set once.
Agreements
Your own paper, signed in the browser, stored with its own text so you can produce exactly what was signed.
Knowing who is in the lot
Permits that verify from a code or a plate, and patrol rounds that keep the plates nobody recognizes.
No staff
Residents and parkers do their own vehicle changes, pass requests and payments. The screen you look at is the exceptions.
Getting started
What the first afternoon looks like.
- Describe the lot
Areas, levels and zones if you use them, then the spaces in ranges rather than one at a time.
- Pay for the spaces
Per space, per month, once you can see your own number.
- Bring people in
Import the list you keep, or invite them one at a time, with the agreement attached.
- Set the rates and the rules
Monthly rate, second vehicle, guest passes, offence types and fees.
Questions from commercial lots.
Does it do hourly or transient parking?
No. This is monthly and permit parking. If your lot is mostly hourly, a transient product will serve you better and we would rather say so.
Do we need a gate or an LPR camera?
No. If you have them they keep working; the product is the record of who may park where.
Can we run several lots?
Yes — as areas within one property, or as separate properties with their own banks and their own books.
One price, whatever kind of building it is.
Per space, per month, with everything included. Describe your lot and the arithmetic is yours to check.