A car park tariff sets what parking on a site costs: what each hour costs, whether there is a free period at the start, a daily maximum and at what times the tariff applies. Tariffs thus decide who parks on your site and for how long. A free first hour attracts different parkers than a daily rate, an evening tariff different ones than a weekend rate.
With a digital parking system, you set up tariffs in the portal and change them yourself, for individual sites or for all of them, without commissioning anyone on site. The following sections show how a tariff is structured, how to treat short-term and long-term parkers differently, and how to adjust tariffs during ongoing operation.
How is a tariff structured?
An example: the first half hour is free, after that every hour started costs €1.50, up to a maximum of €10 per day. Added to this is the time window in which it applies.
This makes it possible to treat day and evening, weekday and weekend, and peak and off-peak season differently. Separate rules can be set up for special days, such as public holidays or events.
- Free period at the start
- Price per hour started
- Daily maximum rate
- Separate rates for evening, weekend or season
Tariffs for short-term and long-term parkers
Short-term and long-term parkers need different rules. For short-term visitors, a free period or a price per hour started often fits well. Long-term parkers are set up via authorisations linked to their licence plate and so park free of charge.
Alternatively, they book a ticket with a fixed term, for example for one night, one weekend or one month. Anyone who wants to limit long-term parking on an area uses a booking quota.
Groups instead of exceptions
Instead of handling individual cases, you store groups: guests, staff, residents, suppliers. Each group gets its tariff or its exemption.
This keeps the rules manageable and follow-up work to a minimum. Anyone new is assigned to the group instead of getting their own rule.
Changing tariffs during operation
Prices change, events come up, the season begins. You make such changes yourself in the portal, for individual sites or for all of them, and can plan them in advance with a start date.
Decide who within your organisation is allowed to change tariffs, and keep the changes traceable. With every change, remember the signage: what is displayed on site must match the tariff in the portal.
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