Manage more efficiently, park more efficiently

Many people love surprises. They don't want to know what's coming - and they certainly don't want to plan everything in advance. This may be an exciting attitude for your own life or for personal encounters. However, when it comes to finding a parking space at the destination of a car journey, even the most adventurous personalities would like to know in advance.

Companies that manage their parking spaces with the parkoneer solution can give many employees this certainty. And they do this by assigning them parking authorizations. For certain fixed days, for certain time slots. And for a specific vehicle registration number.

But what about those who don't come to the company by car every day? Is it because of irregular remote work, frequent external appointments or because they sometimes want to use their bike, sometimes public transport and only occasionally their car? Permanently reserving a parking space makes no sense for such people. Nor does it make sense for their employer. After all, companies choose parkoneer precisely because they want to make maximum use of their parking spaces and provide as many employees as possible with a space.

THE PARKERS MANAGE THEMSELVES - FLEXIBLE RESERVATION

The answer to this question is provided by the parkoneer parking portal. It is an add-on that can be integrated into the parkoneer system from the outset or at a later date. Using the parking portal, parkers can reserve a parking space themselves - specifically for the days they need it. Even those who often come with different cars can quickly and easily manage their license plates here. The barrier then also opens for the second car.

In this way, the portal gives employees who are not at the company every day a high degree of flexibility. At the same time, they can be sure that they have a parking space on the company premises. In this way, the parking portal also simplifies the planning of the journey - one less thing to worry about. All of this is an aspect of convenience that should not be underestimated and increases employee satisfaction in the long term. 

Of course, the individual reservation of parking spaces is also suitable for visitors. Or for residents who would like to use one of the parking spaces that may be empty outside working hours. Anyone who is invited to the parking portal by the company's parkoneer admin can intuitively create an account there, enter (and change) a license plate number and reserve their desired parking times. 

The smart parkoneer principle always remains the same: the camera at the entrance recognizes the license plate and the barrier opens. If the license plate is not recognized, parkers use their individual QR code provided by the parking portal.

FLEXIBILITY AND EFFICIENCY INCREASE, ADMIN EFFORT REMAINS MINIMAL

But doesn't so much flexibility, so much irregularity, create too much administrative effort? Quite the opposite: the admin simply invites interested parties, after which the parkers manage themselves completely. And the slots they reserve are automatically transferred to the system. In the calendar view, a traffic light system shows the utilization of each day. 

The same applies to the possible time horizon: the admin determines how many days or weeks in advance the spaces can be reserved. Users do not "book" a specific space, but rather the confirmation that they will find a space at the specified time. Serial bookings are also possible, e.g. every Tuesday and Thursday from 8 am to 4.30 pm. The company can also grant individual employees certain quotas, for example ten free parking sessions per month. Employees would have to pay to reserve all other "parking days".

Which brings us to the various possibilities for monetization. For companies, an interface to payroll accounting can be used to offset parking fees directly against payroll. And since external users have to enter a payment option in their parking portal account, residents or visitors can easily use it to pay for parking. 

Companies that use the parkoneer solution instead of a fixed parking space reservation are already experiencing the positive effects of the parking portal. Many people can now park closer to their place of work and are correspondingly more satisfied. This is because they can be just as sure of finding a space as if they had a permanently allocated space - but they can now flexibly choose the best space for them in the parking area. Even if the booking system does not show any free capacity, this is a benefit: they know in advance that they do not need to go to this parking space. This also means that the higher the parking pressure, the more sense the parking portal makes, because it enables optimum capacity utilization when demand is high. And this is another reason why many companies that want to manage their parking spaces digitally rely on parkoneer and the parking portal.