23 July 2018
Imagine coming home from a long day at work. You grab a drink, settle down on the couch and take your phone to order something to eat. At that moment, a red alert reminds you of your parking session which has been running since your 2:00pm meeting. You quickly open your parking app, quit your session and take a look at the damage: a €16.00 forgotten parking session.
In a personal situation, forgotten parking sessions can be quite frustrating. But what if you are a fleet manager, and you’re the one paying for all your employees’ forgotten parking sessions? And it’s not just the forgotten parking sessions that increases the cost, other hidden parking expenses can mount up quickly as well, without you realizing it.
So, what does your employees’ parking really cost, and how can you save money on it?
The use of a (business) parking app
Depending on the amount of parking sessions, you can either choose to pay costs per session or to take a subscription. The costs of starting up a parking session are somewhere between € 0.16 and € 0.50, regardless of the duration of your parking. A quick 5-minute stop for example, can turn out unnecessarily expensive!
Are you manually typing in the zone code, or does your parking app automatically fill in the code based on your location? In both cases, make sure to double check whether the correct code has been set correctly. When done wrong, you risk a fine and you unnecessarily pay for the parking session.
Starting up and turning off your session
A whopping 95% of employees indicate that they regularly forget to stop of a parking session. To help you with this, many parking apps offer the possibility to set a reminder. Where some parking apps offer a free notification via app or e-mail, the text service is usually a paid service. Having a text sent to you as a reminder for your running parking session, usually costs somewhere between € 0.25 and € 0.35.
Lastly, starting and stopping your parking session can fail due to technical issues with the parking app. A glitch or a bad connection may result in your parking session not starting (or stopping) properly.
Parking administration
The administration of a fleet’s parking sessions is often a hassle – full of frustration and lost parking tickets. On average, it costs a company €7 to process a single parking ticket in its administration. In many cases, that’s more than the actual parking ticket itself!
60% of employees who are driving a business car, also use it for personal purposes. In combination with unjustified declarations of personal parking tickets, this results in an average of 30% of a company’s parking costs. By making the distinction between personal and business parking sessions, a company can easily save up to 30% on parking costs!
How about Parkd?
With Parkd’s world first technology, it is possible to automate all your fleet’s parking. Parkd automatically starts, stops and pays for your parking sessions.
The driver is able to mark his parking sessions as private or business in the Parkd app. This ensures that the session will end up on the right invoice. You’ll never pay too much again and parking fines are a thing of the past.
On top of that, it is possible to save 90% on parking administration. How? Parkd sends a single invoice for all of a fleet’s parking sessions, registered per license plate.
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