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The plate is the ticket, in and out.

Cameras read every plate at entry and exit, so sessions start and end on their own. Your regulars drive straight in.

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Connects to Verkada · DMV lookups in 43 states

How it works

Cameras do the reading. Sessions start themselves.

Where it earns its place

Which lots need license plate recognition?

LPR reads every plate at the entrance and exit, so sessions open and close without anyone touching anything, and nobody has to walk the lot to find the cars that never paid.

Garages with lanes.

Entry and exit reads open a gate, or replace it. Contract parkers are recognized without a hangtag and without stopping.

Garages

Lots too big to walk.

Once walking every row takes half an hour, it stops happening. Cameras check every car on the way in, with nobody on the lot.

Surface lots

Lots with a lot of regulars.

The more passes you sell, the more it matters that a pass is checked rather than assumed.

ResidentialGarages

Probably not you if you can see the whole lot from your window.

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Pricing

No monthly fee. Here's how that works.

Plate recognition is included. Cameras are the one thing you buy.

You set

$10.00

Whatever you want.

Driver pays

$11.00

+10% at checkout.

You keep

$10.00

Same as you set.

Card processing comes out, 2.9% + $0.30, like any card payment.

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What runs alongside it.

Enforcement

Check plates from a phone and issue a notice the driver pays from the windshield. No cameras needed.

Passes

Every plate read is checked against active passes, so your regulars pass through untouched.

QR payments

Works from day one, so the lot earns while cameras are being sorted out.

Questions

The ones operators actually ask.

LPR stands for license plate recognition. LPR parking enforcement uses cameras to read every vehicle's plate as it enters a lot and check it against paid sessions and active passes. Anything with neither is flagged, with the time it was read. It replaces walking the lot and checking windshields by hand.

QR payments, rates, passes, validations, and valet need no hardware at all. Printed signage is the whole install. Only plate recognition needs cameras, and OpenSpot works with the camera provider you already have. Plate-based access control can also run gate-free, using plate recognition plus enforcement instead of a barrier arm.

That's the usual setup. You connect your camera provider once and assign cameras and gates to a location, and that mapping tells a plate read which lot and which lane it belongs to.

99%+ under optimal conditions, based on internal testing. Real-world accuracy varies with lighting, weather, camera angle and how well the hardware is maintained. Every read is stored with its timestamp and the plate it returned, so a misread is visible and correctable rather than invisible.

No. The same plate read can trigger a gate you already have. Plenty of operators eventually remove them because a gateless lane is cheaper to run, but that's a choice rather than a requirement.

The read is stored with a timestamped photo and the vehicle shows as unpaid in your dashboard. In 43 states, OpenSpot also looks the plate up with the DMV for an automatic violation, so nobody has to walk out to the car. The driver can still pay for the parking itself.

43 states. Where a lookup is available, a plate read with no session and no pass gets an automatic violation. Everywhere else, the unpaid read is flagged in your dashboard and you can enforce it by hand.

That's the usual path. Operators start with QR, build up regulars on passes, and add cameras once the volume justifies automating enforcement.