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Parking validation, delivered as a code from any business.

Let a restaurant, a hotel, or a partner cover a guest's parking, or run a discount of your own. Print a code, hand it over, and it applies to the session already running.

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How it works

A printed code, and nothing to reconcile.

Where it earns its place

Which lots need parking validation?

Parking validation is when a business covers some or all of a customer's parking cost. Traditionally a stamped ticket, here a scannable code that applies to the session already running. It earns its place anywhere a nearby business has reason to pay for someone else's parking.

A garage under shops or restaurants.

Tenants want to validate for their customers and currently do it with stamps and a monthly argument about the count.

Garages

Hotels.

Covering a guest's parking, comping after a complaint, bundling it into a rate. All the same code, handed over at the desk.

GaragesResidential

Anyone running a promotion.

First hour free, an opening-weekend rate, a deal for a nearby employer. Set an expiry and it stops itself.

Surface lotsEvents & venues

Probably not you if there's no business attached to the lot and no reason to discount.

Rates alone will do
Pricing

No monthly fee. Here's how that works.

Validations are included. They run on the same discount system as your promotions.

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.

QR payments

Codes apply to a session that's already running, so QR comes first.

Passes

For someone who parks every day, a pass is usually simpler than a recurring code.

Enforcement

A validated session is a paid session, so enforcement leaves it alone.

Questions

The ones operators actually ask.

Yes. Create a code for any amount, including the whole session, and print it as a scannable code. Their customer scans it and it applies to the session they've already started.

Only the part you chose to give away. You set the discount amount, so a two-hour validation costs you two hours and nothing more. How the validating business reimburses you is between you and them.

Yes, it's the same system. A first-hour-free code, an opening-weekend discount, an event rate, whatever it is, set the amount and an expiry, and it stops working on its own.

No. They hand over a printed code. Nothing to install and nobody to train.

Yes. Redemptions are recorded against the sessions they applied to, so you can tell what a validation arrangement is actually costing you.

Parking validation is an arrangement where a business pays for a customer's parking instead of the driver. A restaurant, hotel or office tenant gives the customer a validation, and the parking operator honors it. Traditionally this was a stamped ticket collected at exit. On OpenSpot it is a printed code the customer scans, which applies a discount to the session already running.

Yes. Set an expiry date, and set the amount to anything from a few percent up to the full session.