According to Kfir Rusin, co-CEO of digital parking platform Admyt , the move away from physical ticketing reduces costs and wastage for centre managers and property owners on one hand, while providing convenience for consumers on the other.
"Parking is a cumbersome, grudge experience on the user side - if you think about faulty pay stations, paper tickets, carrying around cash, waiting in queues, having to roll down your window and so forth, it's unsustainable," Rusin said in an interview with TechCentral earlier this week.
"On the landlord side, the current format of parking stations and ticketing machines is expensive to install. You are talking about anything from about R150 000 to R450 000 per lane. If you imagine a site like Sandton City or the V A Waterfront, that amounts to tens of millions of rand."
Beyond the high set-up costs, traditional parking solutions require constant maintenance and support, especially since tickets can be faulty or get lost, and ticketing machines sometimes malfunction and must be serviced.
Payments are facilitated via a debit or credit card loaded onto the parking management app. In some facilities, where Admyt happens to be the sole parking management solution available, QR code-based scan-to-pay options are available for payment apps such as Zapper, SnapScan and Google Pay.