Traditionally, parking time in large cities is billed by the sale of parking tickets or the use of parking machines. While these mechanisms have proven to be fairly reliable and useful, they are not always convenient for drivers and have a number of inherent disadvantages. The revenue from these traditional methods is difficult to keep track of, and their sales figures provide little information or insight into the actual parking patterns of citizens.

The ParkBySMS system offers an innovative solution to these problems, while giving drivers the most convenient and easy to use parking payment method possible. It works in parallel with any existing infrastructure and provides an alternative payments channel, which is much preferred by drivers and brings additional revenue to the municipality. ParkBySMS is implemented by municipalities in cooperation with the mobile operators, so that end-clients can simply pay for their parking time by sending one or more SMS messages, charged directly to their phone bill. As an additional convenience, drivers receive notification SMS messages, reminding them when their parking time is about to expire.

The system has been designed from the ground-up with security, reliability and scalability in mind and addresses all issues related to mobile parking payments in a modern city. In addition, it provides the municipality with a variety of real-time and historical reports and statistics that give detailed information about parking patterns, usage of the system, and revenue.

ParkBySMS saves time and effort by eliminating the need for inconvenient cash payments and offers many additional conveniences to the clients, including high availability, parking time notifications, ability to easily extend parking time remotely, and more.

ParkBySMS as a system solution offers an alternative payments channel for parking payments and due to its simplicity is much preferred over other, more conventional payment methods such as tickets, parking machines and credit cards. SMS payments have been available for over two years in Sofia and currently comprise over 85% of all parking payments (the old parking tickets payment method is still available, but rarely used). In addition, the municipality has vastly increased collection rates for parking payments, leading to significantly higher revenues.

Learn more on the ParkBySMS website or visit the on-line interactive demo!