This is for property owners. Creating an account takes you straight into it, and you can come back to it from Add a property in the account menu.
The steps
Setup is one screen with a list of steps down the side, each done where it stands. You may leave and come back; what you have entered is kept.
- Name the property — the name occupants will recognise, and which company or individual holds it. The address is optional, and there is a lookup that fills it in for you when you start typing.
- Add a lot — a garage, a surface lot, a street frontage. One is enough to start.
- Add your spaces.
- Set what occupants pay — the price for a space, and what an additional vehicle or a guest pass costs.
- Choose a contract — the template sent with invitations, or no contract.
- Set up enforcement — the offences this property recognises, their grace periods and fees.
- Pay for your spaces. This step does not appear for a property you are not charging for.
Payouts are not a step
You do not have to set up payouts before you can start. Occupants pay Parken Lot, on our own account, so you can invite people and collect from the first day; what is yours is recorded against the property and held until your payout account is ready.
It is offered on the finishing screen and lives at Money, and there is no hurry about it. See Getting paid: payouts and bank accounts.
Finished, and not finished
A property is finished when every step is done, and it stays finished from then on. Until then it is not listed as one you can manage, and inviting occupants, issuing passes and recording violations are all refused with a note saying to finish setting it up first. Lots, spaces, pricing, payment and payouts stay open the whole time, because those are the setup.
If you leave a property half done, the overview says so and offers Finish setting it up or Remove unfinished property.
More than one property
Each property is set up on its own, and each one is paid for on its own. Everything you have is shown together afterwards, with a control at the top of each screen to narrow it to one property.