Unity5: Beyond Pay-to-Park - Turning Spare Spaces into New Income

Most car parks have quiet times. A town centre site might fill on Saturdays and sit half empty on a Tuesday morning. A leisure car park might be busy in the evenings and quiet during the working day. Pay-to-park only earns when a driver turns up. Permits let you sell that spare capacity in advance.

What a permit does

A permit sells the right to park for a set period, such as a week, a month or a year, rather than session by session. For the operator, that means predictable income from spaces that would otherwise earn little. For the permit holder, it means a guaranteed way to park without paying every day.

With MiPermit, permits and pay-to-park run on the same platform, alongside each other at the same sites.

Who might buy them

The best customers are often right next door. Some examples to consider:

• Office blocks that need staff parking on weekdays, but don’t have enough spaces of their own
• Local businesses whose staff or contractors need somewhere reliable to park
• Regular commuters who would rather pay once a month than every day

Take a car park beside an office block. If spaces sit empty from Monday to Friday, selling a block of staff permits to that business turns those empty weekdays into regular income. Your weekend and evening pay-to-park customers carry on as before.

Getting the balance right

Permits work best alongside pay-to-park, not instead of it. Start by looking at when your sites are full and when they’re not. Only sell permits for capacity you can reliably spare, so the drivers who pay by the session can still find a space.

Built for permits from the start

MiPermit is used by 88 local authorities across the UK for permits as well as pay-to-park. That same platform is available to private operators, so you can offer permits without bringing in a separate system.

Explore what your spare spaces could earn

On a 15-minute savings review, our Account Management team will look at your sites with you. We’ll cover both the fee savings from MiPermit and where permits could add a new income stream.

About Unity5

Unity5 is the creator of Zatpark - SaaS Solutions For Parking, Enforcement and Environmental Management - Designed for private parking companies and public sector bodies, Zatpark delivers world-class features completely controlling and automating the full lifecycle of parking enforcement data, from issue to recovery action and every step in-between. Built-in ANPR, Moving Traffic Violation Management and dedicated Permit and Kiosk solutions, Zatpark, Zatmobile, Zatpermit, Zatenviro, and Zatpark Flexible Enforcement provide end-to-end management of all your PCN and FPN activities.