At lease-up, have parking ready before the first move-in: spaces numbered, prices set, the parking agreement chosen and staff given access, so every resident is invited to park as they sign their home lease and every car on site has a permit from the first day.
Before the first move-in
- Map the spaces. Add each garage or lot and number its spaces, tagging the EV, accessible and covered ones. See Adding your spaces.
- Set prices for a space, an additional vehicle and guest passes by the day, week or month, and turn off the guest pass lengths you do not offer.
- Choose the agreement. The starter Parking addendum to a residential lease ties parking to the home lease, so if the lease ends the parking ends with it. Have a lawyer read the version you use. See Your contract templates.
- Give the team access. Leasing staff need the leasing pages; whoever walks the lot needs only the enforcement pages. See Giving your team access.
- Set up payouts so resident payments reach your bank. See Getting paid: payouts and bank accounts.
As residents sign
- Invite each resident when they sign, by email or with a link, naming their space or letting Parken Lot assign the first open one.
- The resident does the rest: they create an account, register their vehicle, add a card where parking is paid for, and sign the parking agreement, which the property then countersigns if countersigning is turned on.
- Residents already in your property-management system can be imported instead of typed in: export them as a spreadsheet and bring that in. See Importing occupants from a spreadsheet.
When spaces run out
New residents who accept an invitation when every space is taken join the waitlist, in order, and a space that comes free is offered to the next person automatically. See How the parking waitlist works.
The first weeks of occupancy
- Walk the lot on a routine with patrol rounds, so plates that are not registered show up early.
- Warn before you cite while residents are still learning the rules. The starter offences warn first unless you change them.
- Watch the occupancy report, which shows spaces assigned, open and out of use for each lot.
- Handle guests from day one. Residents ask for guest passes from their own account and you approve them. See HOA guest parking rules that people follow.