ParkedIn sits between car rental companies and parking operators. Each side connects to us once. We keep every operator's whitelist of your licence plates up to date — and, separately, send the operator's licence plate scans back to you.
Today, each car rental company and each parking operator agree how to exchange data one pair at a time — plate lists by email, printouts, one-off file exchanges, custom APIs. Every new partner adds integration work on both sides.
separate connections to build and maintain — each with its own format, contacts and manual steps.
connections — one per company, maintained by us. Each new partner adds one connection, not a new project.
Data flows in two directions. Each direction is its own feature with its own benefit.
ParkedIn keeps each parking operator's whitelist of your licence plates up to date.
When an operator's camera reads one of your plates, ParkedIn sends that scan to your system.
A parking operator lets a rental vehicle in only if its licence plate is on the operator's whitelist. Someone has to keep that list correct — at every operator, for every rental company.
Send plate changes
to one API.
One integration instead of one per operator. No lists to send, print or reconcile.
One connection instead of one per rental company, in the format the operator already uses.
Adding a partner no longer starts an integration project.
When a parking operator's licence plate recognition (LPR) camera reads one of your plates, the operator sends the scan to ParkedIn. ParkedIn matches it to your fleet and sends it to your system as a signed webhook. This is separate from whitelist management and requires the operator to send its scans.
At the operator's facility
Scan time recorded
To ParkedIn
By licence plate
Signed, retried on failure
Each scan says which vehicle entered or left which facility, and when. Your system holds the last known location of every vehicle, based on scans rather than manual check-ins.
Today the return is usually logged when an agent processes it, which can be later than the actual arrival. The entry scan records when the vehicle actually arrived. Your system can use that time to close the rental — and has the scan record if a customer questions the charge.
A customer returns the vehicle at 11:50 and leaves. The agent is busy and logs the return at 12:15. With hourly billing, the logged time adds an hour the customer did not use. With the entry scan, the return time is 11:50.
ParkedIn is not a self-service sign-up. Every customer starts with an agreement; we then set up your account and your parking operators before your team connects.
We discuss your fleet, the parking operators you work with, and which features you need — whitelist management, scan events, or both.
We create your company account, link it to your parking operators, and issue your API key — and, if you use scan events, your webhook secret.
Your system calls our API to add or remove vehicle licence plates. We pass the changes to every linked operator — within about a minute over REST, or in the operator's nightly file.
Your system provides an HTTPS endpoint and checks the signature on each request. We send every scan of one of your plates there and retry if the endpoint does not answer.
We run the first end-to-end test with your team before going live.
A simple per-vehicle fee. No setup costs. No long-term lock-in after the first year.
Indicative annual cost by fleet size
ParkedIn is the integrator between car rental companies and parking operators. Each company connects once instead of once per partner.
Feature 1 — Whitelist management. Rental companies send plate changes to one API; ParkedIn keeps every linked operator's whitelist current in that operator's format. Result: less complexity and lower integration cost on both sides.
Feature 2 — Licence plate scan events. Operators send their plate scans to ParkedIn; ParkedIn sends each scan of your vehicles to your system. Result: (1) correct vehicle location tracking and (2) the real return time for customer rentals.
CHF 3 per vehicle per month. First three months at no charge.
Whether you run a rental fleet or a parking facility, get in touch to discuss your partners, your systems, and how quickly we can connect you.
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