Parkpoint is a young innovative company which has the primary objective of returning benefits to all stakeholders, namely parkers, tenants, property managers and landlords. Due to our innovative approach to parking management, we are able to offer different alternatives to the landlord or property owner when assessing a car park for the feasibility of providing a parking service.
Unlike other parking management companies who focus on one service application ,we are the only parking management company able to offer:
- Off-street (boomed) parking management,
- kerbside parking management (using a handheld parking meter), or
- a hybrid solution (a combination of the two)
We develop a comprehensive set of Standard Operating Procedures for each and every car park under management. Furthermore, we are not simply a passive service provider, but will actively market the car park in an effort to drive up utilization.
Off-street parking
Proven parking management whereby a parker either pulls a ticket to gain entry to the car park, or is given a ticket by a specially trained (by an outsourced training company) and selected Parkpoint parking operator, thus enhancing the overall parking experience.
We will install all necessary tariff signage, directional signage, and disclaimer signage, all branded in our striking trademark orange and black. We will also wrap parking kiosks in our attractive, "African themed" branding, so that there is no doubt the car park is managed by Parkpoint. In conjunction with the landlord or property manager, we agree upon an upgrade of the car park by, at the very least, painting the entrances and exits in orange and black.
We do not aim to be a parking management company which hides in the background, but want parkers to know who is managing their car park and improving their parking experience.
Kerbside parking
Using a vastly improved and technologically superior version of the kerbside parking solution currently used by the City of Cape Town, ParkPoint uses a state of the art wireless, hand-held device that acts as a point-of-sale by scanning the vehicles license disc, thereby enabling the parking transaction to be concluded at the parkers vehicle.
Other benefits
- The device is fully imported
- The software has been developed by ParkPoint and is proudly South African
- GPS and GPRS enabled, thereby ensuring almost real-time parking information
- One parking operator for between 10 and 15 parking bays, thereby enhancing the security aspect within the city.
- Employment is perfectly suited for previously disadvantaged individuals, and in particular black females.
- The device is linked to a central data base that collects and collates the information about the parker, and which is available to all stakeholders through ParkPoint Online.
- Parking operators are equipped with two-way radios and can alert each other, and the metro police, of any suspicious persons or vehicles in the area.
- The device can be linked to the Metro Police Department should a stolen or suspicious vehicle be encountered.
- The device can be programmed to reflect different parking tariffs in different areas, or even at different times of the day.
- The device can be used to send information to the relevant city departments if city assets require repair, such as traffic lights, street lighting, signage etc.
Hybrid parking
ParkPoint has further developed the Kerbside model to cater for off-street parking areas that were never designed for paid (boomed) parking. Such areas include convenience shopping centers, strip malls and sports stadiums.
In many instances these facilities have informal car guards who act both as security and parking attendants, but who are not formally employed or trained, and in many instances annoy and harass parkers. The landlord gains little or no revenue from these informal guards.
Other benefits
- Formalizing the car guard industry because the car guards become employees, who are correctly trained by Parkpoint, wear company uniform and are protected by the employment laws of the country.
- The landlord gains a revenue stream from an expensive resource that previously did not generate an income.
- The handheld device can be linked to booms and therefore becomes a much cheaper alternative to traditional boomed car parks as no ticket spitter, tickets and cabling are required.
- Management of tenant parkers is possible because the handheld device can be programmed to recognize a tenant parkers vehicle.
- Parking operators are equipped with two-way radios and can alert each other, and the metro police, of any suspicious persons or vehicles in the area.
- The device is linked to a central data base that collects and collates the information about the parker, and which is available to all stakeholders through ParkPoint Online.
