How They Work: Pay-by-Plate Parking Meters
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Are you considering installing parking meters as a means to control your paid parking operation?
As a property or facility manager, you know it’s important to provide your customers with seamless parking experiences. And this is simple, your parking meters will handle what you need them to. However, choosing the right technology makes all the difference between a positive or negative customer experience.
Today’s latest and most effective parking meter solutions are Pay-by-Licence Plate meters, also commonly referred to as Pay-by-Plate parking meters. Pay-by-Plate parking meters are a feasible tech-savvy solution that provide ultimate customer convenience and make overseeing the day-to-day of parking more manageable.
Pay-by-Plate parking meters are an automated multi-space solution, meaning that one parking meter can support up to 45 parking stalls. These machines require customers to input their licence plate number in order to pay for parking. As a result, customers are not required to display a receipt on their dashboard.
When a licence plate number is entered on a Pay-by-Plate meter, it is automatically enrolled, in real time, to an intelligent cloud-based server. Authorized representatives, including parking enforcement officers, allowing them to have access to this data to verify active and valid parking sessions via licence plate.
More advanced solutions let you integrate complementary technologies such as mobile payment apps, discount codes and virtual validations.
In addition to improving your customers’ experience and reducing risks, such as parking enforcement errors, lost tickets, or ticket sharing amongst customers, Pay-by-Plate parking meters provide a wealth of real-time data you and your team can analyze for behavioural trends, peak times, and much more.
Director, Western Canada, Precise ParkLink
About Precise ParkLink
CANADA’S PARKING INDUSTRY LEADER FOR MORE THAN 30 YEARS.
When Precise ParkLink was founded more than 30 years ago, the company was a two-person field operation with a simple aspiration: to make a difference in the world of parking automation.
Since then, Precise ParkLink has grown into a nation-wide managed services and technology firm with more than 700 employees across Canada, a head office in Toronto, and 13 supporting offices across the country.
But what sets us apart from other parking operators isn’t where we are, it’s what we are: a full-service parking solutions provider. One source for all your parking-related needs.
Precise ParkLink manages thousands of parking lots on behalf of hundreds of property owners. We supply cutting-edge technology and services to thousands of clients in the healthcare, municipal, commercial, institutional, and private sectors.
Being a vertically integrated company puts us in a unique position. We can provide a level of management and technical integration that is best-in-class. Just ask the hundreds of clients to whom we’ve delivered cost-effective and customer-focused solutions over the years.