Tandem parking is when you share a parking spot with one or more other people. While we’re generally all for sharing, in the case of tandem parking… sharing can cause issues.

Tandem spots are configured one in front of the other, which means that while there is space for multiple vehicles, the first car to park in the tandem is blocked in once another vehicle parks behind it. If you want to move your car out of a tandem, the person parked at the front has to move their car first.

Sharing a tandem parking spot can be difficult to manage, as you can get stuck waiting for your tandem partner to move their car. This is especially difficult if you have no way to communicate with the other person - sitting in your car and waiting for someone to turn up is a pretty bad way to end your day! Plus, you might not want to hand over your phone number to organise parking.

The outcome? Either poor parking experiences, or people simply avoid tandem parking. That means those tandem spots often sit empty or underused, which is a big problem in cities and at organisations where parking is a scarce and valuable resource.


Our product team has been working hard to make tandem parking easier to manage and use. The 

 already makes it easy to share and monetise parking at workplaces and organisations, and we’ve solved other parking issues like 

. We wanted to create a solution for tandem parking as well.

The key is to make communication between those parked in tandem simple, while retaining privacy.

When parking in tandem, the Parkable app assists in a few ways:

 Each person parking in tandem is required to set their estimated leaving time in the app before they start parking

When people begin parking in a tandem spot, the Parkable app automatically connects them so they can communicate

 Those parking in tandem can easily message each other in the Parkable app, and they receive notifications when there’s an update

Names are kept anonymous, and people can share their phone number or email as other forms of communication only if they want to

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Tandem parking solution

Tandem parking solutions: The problem-child of the modern car park

Verity Credit Union has implemented Parkable at their Seattle office, to improve staff parking for both employees and their facilities team.

With 120 employees and 55 parking spots, parking at Verity Credit Union is in high demand. Prior to Parkable, staff went on a waitlist to get access, and those without a parking spot would sometimes struggle to find other parking options in the city.

For the facilities team, parking was a frustrating task as their only management tool for their two parking lots was a spreadsheet. 

“Managing the parking was inconvenient and time consuming. We were using spreadsheets, and there was no clear direction or systems for successfully mitigating issues”

“For employees, there was a long waitlist to get a parking spot. There is not a lot of parking in the Seattle CBD, so if you couldn't park at the office it was pretty challenging. We needed a solution that would be easy to manage and better for employees.”

- Nathan Foshee, Facilities and Real Estate Manager

Fair, easily managed parking with Parkable 

Nathan Foshee found that Parkable offered the perfect solution, with both an intuitive management platform and a system that provides fair access to staff parking.

“We wanted to implement a system that allowed all our employees equal access to spots at our HQ - equity is very important to us. Parkable was the perfect solution, as the interface is so easy to navigate and it allows us to fairly allocate parking between all staff who want to drive into the office.”
- Nathan Foshee

With the Parkable app, staff at Verity Credit Union can request parking on the days that they’re driving into the office. The app’s allocation algorithm then fairly distributes parking access between employees, so that everyone gets equal opportunity to park at the office.

Managing the parking lots has also become far easier, as Parkable provides tools and automated solutions for managing access, solving problems, and distributing spots. This means that Verity Credit Union no longer relies on spreadsheets, and can spend less time managing the parking lots.

However, it wasn’t only the software features that led Nathan to choose Parkable

“Along with the product, I chose Parkable because of the people behind the company - they’re very supportive, patient, and responsive. We've been working on this project for a long time, and the Parkable team feels like great friends, not just business partners.”

Verity Credit Union in Seattle launches Parkable for easy-to-manage and fair staff parking

Verity Credit Union launches Parkable

One of the best features of Parkable's parking management software is that it allows companies to make the most efficient use of all of their parking bays - even those assigned to individuals.

Often in a business, people have assigned parking bays made permanently available to them. While tremendously useful to these lucky ones, it means that when they are away - on holiday, sick leave, or working away from the office - the parking space is left empty. For businesses suffering from space scarcity - more staff members than parking spots - having unoccupied bays makes little sense, and can reinforce hierarchy in the business.

Parkable for Business allows those with assigned parking to share their bay with other staff members on the days they are away. This means more parking available to your team, more efficient use of space, and a more equitable sharing culture.

For those businesses already using Parkable for Business, this system has created significantly more available parking, which is now being fully utilised by other members of staff.

At Auckland-based Kiwi Property, the ability to share assigned bays has resulted in a 15.7% increase in the number of parking bays available. These ‘bonus bays’ have an average utilisation of 102%, meaning that on average they are used by at least one other staff member each day they are available, and sometimes more.

“The app is really easy to use - our staff think it’s great,” said Michael from Kiwi Property. “Parking space is really scarce for us, so being able to make the best use of every bay we have is one of the best aspects of Parkable. It’s the shared economy coming to our scarce resources. Now, if someone’s away from the office, their bay goes to another member of staff, and the app makes that transfer extremely easy.”

Datacom has similarly seen an increase in available car parks of 9.87%, and a utilisation rate of 93%. The business’s use of park sharing has increased revenue made from Datacom’s car parks by 18.75%, although in this case the business elects to return the revenue to those employees who share their space.

Parkable for Business also gives flexibility to businesses over how they wish to encourage the sharing of car parks, and each business has taken a different route. Kiwi Property has chosen not to charge subscription holders or casual parkers, and has simply used encouragement to motivate staff to share their unused bays.

At the other end of the spectrum, Datacom has used financial incentives to encourage the sharing of subscription bays, as those subscription holders receive the benefit when someone parks casually in their bay.

Ilona from Datacom, who has a subscription bay, said: “I’ve found that having the ability to give back my parking bay when I’m not coming into the office is easy to do via the Parkable app, but also helps other casual users wanting to use the space. This also allows me to recover that days parking costs, which is a win-win in my view.”

Car park sharing between staff

Parkable makes sharing space between co-workers easy

 is vital to an effective facility management program, but it's also a complicated proposition. Managing parking lots at scale will quickly become more complex than you may have bargained for.

Juggling 200 plus spaces, from assigning to re-assigning, is a full-time job without considering payment schedules, infringement issues, and integrating sustainability policies into parking lot management.

Thankfully, there are solutions that help to streamline the complicated parking management process. Parking lots or garages exceeding as little as 50 spaces need parking lot management software to handle the complexities of people coming and going, parking in the wrong space, and a thousand other things that will pop up unannounced.

 must be designed with the intricate details of managing parking lots or garages on a grand scale in mind so that you don't need to waste precious time and resources on administration.

Multiple occupiers and changing employee needs

In large parking lots where more than a few businesses are sharing a space, the allocation of slots can quickly get complicated. Ensuring there are enough spaces for all employees of all companies is an ongoing challenge as occupiers come and go. For example, before Parkable, chasing down infringers at 

 wasted an average of 20 hours every week. With parking management software, infringement management is no longer a manual process.

Hybrid working has become more accepted in industries, leading to changing parking needs. For example, whereas employees may have driven to work daily, the spaces they habitually used are no longer occupied by their vehicles. As a result, these spaces might sit unused, costing money twice over. Or, too many employees come to the office at the same time, overwhelming the parking lots. Parking lot management software can effectively plan and schedule parking needs according to changing employee habits.

Two massive revenue holes exist in a poorly managed parking lot; empty space and revenue collection. An open parking space is simply a piece of ground you have spent money to lease that is now wasting your money.

Empty parking spaces happen for various reasons, including having spaces allocated to specific staff members or clients that aren't around to use them. This open space wastes money twice: the money you've spent and the money you could earn from someone using it.

Parking lot management software adequately disseminates empty parking spaces, eliminating this waste.

The other revenue hole is in the finance department, which manually has to figure out

parking payments. Chasing down employees to confirm the use of spaces, requesting payment, or calculating the appropriate way to deduct parking costs from paychecks is a draw on resources that can be better allocated elsewhere.

Your finance department can leverage parking lot management software to take this job off their to-do list while streamlining it and ensuring a payment never gets missed.

While this model may seem like the fairest, it can leave employees with needs and responsibilities outside their control feeling like the system disadvantages their commuter options. Unaddressed, these feelings can lead to some pretty serious consequences, such as 

 and ultimately, decreased staff retention.

Another side of this is that while the first to come is rewarded, we’ve seen examples of employees showing up early to work to get a spot but then nap or eat breakfast in their car. Therefore, staff members with families (or who live far away) never get a parking space at the office. This grows the same resentment and unfair feeling, as though the company is not doing what it can to ensure their parking options are convenient and affordable.

Parking lot management software streamlines parking by changing to a booking system, allowing employees to book appropriate spaces independently of how early they can get to the office.

Switching from allocated spaces based on seniority, or first-come, first-serve spaces based on availability, to a parking lot management software that gives employees the power to plan their commute in advance. This flexibility means seamless space sharing between employees who aren't in the office and employees who need a space at a specific time.

Using parking lot management software that can be programmed with the appropriate division of large parking lots means specifying how many spots are allocated for businesses. Gone are the days of the daily parking space lottery. With Parkable's parking lot management software, parking is based on schedules and needs.

Parkable's parking lot management software saves your admin team time and money. They no longer have to manually allocate parking spaces; these are automatically assigned and re-assigned using a smart algorithm.In fact, with flexible parking software, managing every type of parking is simplified. Whether it’s booking spaces for visitors, allocating 

 also provides real-time reporting and dashboards, meaning you can make better informed decisions about asset usage in the short and long-term.

Parking lot management software increases the productivity of parking lots while minimizing redundancies. By allowing for appropriate scheduling and sharing of parking spaces, pavement never sits empty, waiting for payment. This optimizes the space available, increasing occupancy and, thereby, revenue. Revenue is also improved with parking lot management software by cutting associated costs and work for the company.

Use parking lot management software to increase flexibility and revenue

Parking lot management software is designed to remove the pain and inefficiencies of outdated practices. By using parking management software backed by industry titans like 

, you can simplify facility management while maximizing parking lot efficiency.

 to see how Parkable can improve your revenue and experience.

Solving workplace parking problems is vital to an effective facility management program, but it's also a complicated proposition. Managing parking lots at scale will quickly become more complex than you may have bargained for.

How to manage private parking lots at scale

So how does a parking lot management system help? Well as we know, parking is one aspect of daily life we don't always have space to think about. For example, when you have a report due in a few hours and have to present with a mustard stain on your shirt, you don't want to worry about where you'll park your car when you get back from lunch.

But parking is consistently one of employees' top complaints about their workplace. Not being able to locate a parking space or having to search for a long time are real irritations. As well as feeling as though you miss out on the good spots if you don't come to work extra early. These can all lead to feelings of resignation.

 offer an elegant solution to parking problems. Parking lot management systems help organize available parking spaces according to your customers' and employees' real-time parking needs. This frees up space, creates a better working environment, and improves coveted parking spaces for potential customers.

Parkable is a parking lot management system that allows a company to designate which parking spaces are available for their organization. Using advanced algorithms, the app recognizes how many parking spaces there are and who can book them. This makes parking management very easy. In addition, the algorithm recognizes when someone shares their parking spot and can automatically reassign.

Another excellent feature is being able to book a space days in advance. This reassures employees that they will have a parking spot when they arrive at work. If they can't find available space to book, they have plenty of time to arrange another way of getting to work. These can include public transport, bike riding, or ride-sharing.

An excellent feature of managing your parking spaces is being able to park specialized vehicles in specialized spaces. As electric vehicles (EV) become more popular, having a place to park and charge an EV is a significant perk for eco-friendly employers.

If you choose to set aside chargers for employees, you can program Parkable's parking management system to recognise this. It will detect which employees need that space for their EV and designate it for them.

EV charging for customers is another perk you can give visitors to your building. Parkable’s algorithm can be set to allow for only customer parking in EV charging spaces.

Parkable offers an easy EV charger management option so you can manage, share, and monetize EV chargers. Whether you choose to allow employees and customers to charge for free or charge a fee, Parkable makes it streamlined and straightforward.

What makes a parking management system so great?

A significant benefit of empowering employees to book spaces and track how often they use them is that it streamlines charging staff for parking. Instead of a salary sacrifice model wherein staff give up a fixed amount of their salary for parking privileges regardless of how often they use parking, charges are based on usage. This makes it much fairer and encourages employees to find alternative ways to travel.

Payments are simple, done with daily, weekly, or monthly mobile payments that work as seamlessly as 

Increased efficiency with a parking lot management system

There's an increase in efficiency across the board. Employees can save time finding a parking space before inevitably feeling defeated and parking far away by having a space already booked.

Those who don't enjoy driving in the city can more easily make ride-sharing plans with other employees. Failing that they might be offered incentives to try alternate forms of transportation. Employees with flexible schedules can plan more effectively. They will know when they will and won't have parking made available to them.

Employees can still have dedicated parking spaces available when needed. However, if they are away from the office, their spaces can be repurposed. This will increase the overall parking areas available for all employees, no matter their seniority.

Allowing employees to work earlier or later as feasible is a great work perk that many people with children or other responsibilities or hobbies like to take advantage of. However, flexible working policies can put added strain on parking.

Some employees show up when there is nowhere left to park. They then have to walk blocks to their car at the end of their workday. This can sometimes be at night if they work a flexible schedule. But parking management systems can free up parking spaces for different types of workers at different times.

A parking lot management system boosts morale

Companies using Parkable's parking management system have found a marked increase in morale. Many employees felt under the old system that parking was unfair. Making them feel less valued than other employees.

For instance, one company CEO using Parkable's parking lot management system admitted that it felt strange to her that she had a personal space assigned just to her.

In addition, she disliked that this spot would sometimes be empty. This left employees parking streets away and fighting for their spot, despite it being open. Using Parkable, she has a spot when she needs one but can also ensure that parking is fair for everyone.

. For example, two-thirds of employees think that using the Parkable parking lot management system has made parking at work fairer than before. Added to that, 1 in 3 said that park sharing improved their perception of work culture.

Employees can also ride-share more easily. When someone knows they have a space booked, it's straightforward for them to approach others offering ride-sharing options.

Parkable allows companies to incentivize employees to use alternate forms of transportation. Such as scooters, bikes, E-bikes, or public transport. This saves the employee gas money and contributes to more eco-friendly solutions.

When coming to a business, customers need to feel like their trip is as stress-free and enjoyable as possible. Unfortunately, parking is a common irritant that makes any situation 100 times more stressful than it needs to be. Say the parking lot is full of employees' vehicles and customers are huffing and puffing from a few blocks away. This reflects poorly on the business and leaves a bad taste in customers' mouths.

Parkable's parking management system frees up important parking spaces to make the parking experience more enjoyable for your customers.

Although parking is usually treated as an afterthought, it has a massive effect on our daily lives. 

Parking costs companies more than they realize

 in human, financial, and administrative woes. By using a parking management system that efficiently organizes your parking, you can ease a lot of strain. It eliminates many of the problems, costs, and irritation associated with parking for your customers and coworkers.

 to learn more about how Parkable parking lot management can help your business optimize its space.

Parking is one aspect of daily life we don't always have space to think about. For example, when you have a report due in a few hours and have to present with a mustard stain on your shirt, you don't want to worry about where you'll park your car when you get back from lunch.


Workplace parking lot management system

How a parking lot management system humanizes workplace parking

Sydney’s Waverley College has launched Parkable to manage its staff parking.

Prior to Parkable, Waverley College used a ballot system to allocate their parking spaces to employees. When someone didn’t receive a park in the ballot, they used street parking.

While this system was fair, it meant that whenever someone with an allocated park was on leave or away from the campus, their parking spot sat empty. Because staff parking at Waverley College is scarce, the team wanted to improve how they used the space.

Introducing Parkable to manage and share staff parking

Parkable enables easy sharing and booking of Waverley College’s staff parks. Using the app, the staff can share their allocated car park with colleagues when they’re on leave, and other members of staff can easily book and request those shared parks.

“We wanted a solution that could help us leverage better value from the parking spaces we had, and provide our staff with a way to locate unused spaces easily and simply. Parkable came along at a perfect time to assist with better management of the limited parking opportunities our staff had.”- Simon Potter, IT Manager

While changing to a new system is always a challenge, Parkable’s experienced customer success team provided engagement tools and platform training to make the transition easy.

“Parkable’s implementation was managed really efficiently and the help and guidance to get staff across the line with adopting the platform was excellent.”

Parkable enables easy sharing and booking of Waverley College’s staff parks. Using the app, the staff can share their allocated car park with colleagues when they’re on leave, and other members of staff can easily book parking.

Waverley College, Sydney implements Parkable for shareable and bookable staff parking

Parkable allows TSG to easily share 150 parking spots among 250 staff

TSG on Auckland’s North Shore has over 250 staff members and just 150 parking spots, all of which are allocated to specific employees. Staff without a parking spot are put on a waiting list, but generally that list only moves when someone leaves the business. With no other parking options close to TSG and a long public transport commute for those not living on the Shore, the system was creating difficult mornings for employees. In response, staff on the waiting list have been using the allocated parking spots of their colleagues, causing daily problems in the car park.

For Rebecca Rogers, Office Manager of TSG, resolving these parking issues was taking an hour or more of her time each day. However, Rebecca knew that parking at TSG was a problem of management, not just of scarcity.

“We never really had a system for staff parking. All of TSG’s parks are assigned to staff members, so whenever people were away, parking spots were left empty. The only way to share those parks was for people to advise the business that they would be away from the office, and often people forgot or didn’t bother.”

Yesterday, TSG launched Parkable’s software to manage their staff parking and facilitate easy park sharing between employees. With more of TSG’s employees now working from home or on flexible schedules, now is the perfect time to ensure that staff can easily share their allocated park with colleagues, and employees driving into the office can find a park.

“Parkable is making car park availability more visible to all staff as well as making it easy for staff to share parks if they are away from the office. People are already loving the ease of use.”

Parkable's parking management software allows TSG to easily share 150 parking spots among 250 staff.

TSG Auckland launches Parkable

TSG Auckland launches Parkable’s staff parking management system

Instead of pushing the usual idea that increasing your business revenue is all about creating new income streams, we had a good long think about creative practices that businesses can implement to generate extra revenue from what they already have. Below are the fruits of our labour, and they include happier employees, optimising your resources, banking on your values, and fully appreciating your existing customers.

1. Promote satisfaction in your team and see the results

As an employer, focusing on increasing happiness among your team is not only a great end unto itself, but also positively affects the overall success of your business. A great work culture helps businesses to attract and 

 and motivate a better work ethic, and it has also been found to increase profitability. In fact, companies with happy, engaged staff are 

That’s great to know in theory, but where to begin? ‘Make your staff happier’ can sound like a pretty daunting task - but there are a few simple ways to begin the journey:

 to quickly and efficiently receive feedback from your whole team.

Also remember to keep other channels of communication open, so that people feel free to tell you if they are experiencing a problem at work or have a suggestion for improvement.

Provide a basket of fruit each week for a quick, healthy snack - companies like 

 deliver fruit to your door in New Zealand, and 

Organise healthy shared lunches in the office.

Encouraging your team to get some fresh air or exercise together during their breaks.

If someone in your team has excelled or achieved an important goal, make sure that it’s acknowledged!

You can find more excellent suggestions for improving employee satisfaction 

2. Fully utilise your space and resources

One of the easiest ways to create new revenue streams is to make better use of your existing resources. 

 has found that the average company car park has between 20 and 35% of its space unoccupied during the workday, and many offices have more desk space than they currently need. Instead of having these resources go underused, why not lease them to people outside your business and make some extra income?

If you have a parking space that has spare capacity, consider using the 

 to share your extra bays with others and help you achieve some easy extra revenue. Simple to use and flexible to suit your schedule and work hours, leasing your extra parking bays can bring in revenue every month with almost no effort on your part. Pretty neat, right?

Hot desking is another easy way to immediately increase revenue, as well as bringing fresh faces (and fresh ideas) to your business. You should look for people who can bring their own unique energy and experience into your building, so that your workplace becomes more enjoyable as well as more profitable. Try 

In many industries, you will have a huge number of competitors. How do you set yourself apart from other businesses that do something similar to you? One option is to market yourself based not only on the quality of your product or service, but on your values.

 demonstrate that businesses promoting their sustainability practices and values boosts public awareness, purchasing, and customer loyalty.

Companies committed to sustainability had their sales increase by 4% between 2015 and 2016, compared to under 1% growth for other businesses.

In 2016, 66% of respondents said they are willing to pay more for sustainable products.

Sustainability can sway purchasing decisions for 45% of consumers.

Where to start? Here are a few easy steps, and the local companies that are carving out a niche by practicing sustainable and prosocial business methods.

Change all of your packaging to recyclable or compostable materials - or go packaging-free! Some inspiring examples of this are NZ’s 

Train your employees according to your values, and ask them for their ideas on how you can act on them.

Conserve water and electricity. Swap for efficient light fittings and heating, choose a power company that only uses renewable electricity, and use water-efficient dishwashers and toilets.

Put some of your profit towards a good cause. This could be an environmental group, a local project, or a charity - the 

 is a great place to start for organising regular donations.

Whether it’s your environmentalism, your support for community projects, or whatever else your business really cares about, chances are there will be other people who care too, and they’ll be thrilled to find you.

4. Make the most of the customers you have

Many businesses will be using upselling and cross-selling techniques without even knowing it, because often, it’s just a natural part of the sales process. If you’re already onto the terms, skip ahead - otherwise, here are some quick and dirty definitions.

 is when you go into a cafe to buy a sandwich and are asked, “Are you sure you wouldn’t prefer the two-course lunch special?” You are being offered something more expensive than what you planned to purchase.


 is when you’re buying your sandwich and are asked, “Do you want a drink with that?” You are being offered a complementary product.

However, what it really means is making the most of the customers who are already purchasing your products or services - something which many businesses underestimate in the quest to grow their customer base. Whether your business uses these techniques consciously or not, the importance of upselling and cross-selling for revenue is huge.

 to resell to an existing customer than to sell to someone new, according to Marketing Metrics.

Increasing customer retention by just 5% can increase profitability by between 

20% of your current customers will provide 80% of your business’s 

Here are some easy ways to boost your upselling and cross-selling, which could have huge impacts on increasing your revenue.

Email everyone on your customer database whenever you have an exciting new product, sale or announcement to make. Many of your customers might not be aware that you’ve launched something new, so why not reach out? Check out 

 if you don’t already use an email platform.

Look at your sales records to figure out what products or services people tend to buy together. If you find trends, you can cross-sell the products with the knowledge that they’re likely to be popular.

Make an effort to improve your customer service, and request feedback on your service from customers so you know exactly where you can improve. 

 is a good tool to use, or it could be another use for SurveyMonkey.

Increase customer engagement by creating a quarterly newsletter, becoming active on social media, implementing prize draws, and giving out ‘thank you’ coupons to show your appreciation.

Well, that’s it from us! We hope that you’ve found some positive and innovative suggestions for increasing your business revenue.

Instead of pushing the usual idea that increasing your business revenue is all about creating new income streams, check out some creative practices that businesses can implement to generate extra revenue from what they already have.

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4 innovative ways to increase revenue streams

RGF Staffing has launched Parkable’s parking management software to create better experiences for their flexible-working team, and optimise their car parks.

RGF Staffing has 19 staff parking spots in the Auckland CBD, most of which are allocated to specific members of their team. Recently, they noticed that on some days many of these parks were sitting empty.

The company always had flexible working in place, but as they continued to grow they noticed that their car parks would fluctuate between being completely full or completely underutilised on any given day, depending on which staff members were coming into the office.

They were looking for a simple solution that allowed people to continue to park easily when they drove into the office, while giving them the option to share their allocated park with colleagues when they were working from home.

General Manager Oscar Dunn explained that RGF Staffing also “have a commitment to reducing our carbon footprint and reducing unnecessary costs in the business, so leasing additional car parks wasn’t a solution we wanted to consider.”

That made a software solution the right answer for Oscar and the team. Parkable’s parking management software allows RGF Staffing employees with an allocated park to share their spot whenever they’re away from the office. This ensures that their parks don’t sit empty, and gives parking access to more members of their team.

“Parkable was the perfect solution. The technology is super simple to use and effective for managing our car parking needs.

“If you’re looking for a way to reduce your fixed costs as well as your carbon footprint, while providing a better car parking experience for your people, you can’t look past Parkable.

“Their simple tech platform has allowed us to better manage our car park requirements and share our resources across the business more effectively.”

RGF Staffing team with Parkable on launch day

RGF Staffing launches Parkable to save costs while providing better staff parking experiences

How Parkable is helping a small organisation work a little more harmoniously

It was small consolation, but when Abbie Rutlege was sick in bed, she knew her parking space was putting in a full day. Abbie runs Corporate Services at the Auckland office of APRA, the 87,000 member organisation that helps music creators get paid for their work. Ed Sheeran has ‘people’, but most musicians do not and so many rely on APRA to help them get a fair go.

The 30 people in Edwin Street, Mount Eden, are managing licensing, copyright and royalty issues for an industry that has had its business model turned upside down. They also have a big mission to encourage and nurture new talent.

So they are busy. And they only have 13 parking spaces in one of the most congested suburbs in the city; which means 0.43 spaces each for the mathematically inclined. Which means frustration, endless circling of the block and parking tickets for them.

“These issues were driving us nuts. Someone would be sick or way on business and so their assigned parking space might be free. But none of us knew and so, being polite, we continued to leave the space free whilst risking traffic wardens or paying exorbitant parking fees in Mount Eden,” said Abbie.

“Even in a small office like ours, people’s diary and business movements can’t all be tracked and so whilst we tried to manually sort this out through email and texts it didn’t really work”.

“People were having to park as far as 20 minutes walk away, and in Auckland weather that can be a damp experience, not to mention security issues after dark,” she added.

Enter Parkable. Parkable is an app that dynamically matches your parking real estate and available public parking near you with the real-time needs of your employees and customers. It has thousands of daily users amongst the public in Auckland and now businesses are turning to it to earn revenue for any empty or out-of-hours parking bays they want to rent and, more importantly, to make the lives of their employees and customers easier during the working day.

For example, parking bays that are assigned to senior staff can be made available to others when they're away from the office; staff know in advance whether there is an office park available for them, making it easy to organise alternative transport if need be; and soon, car pooling between staff will be facilitated as well.

Parkable client companies very quickly see significant increases in the ‘optimisation’ of their car parking, but more importantly, they are reporting that what was once a source of employee irritation becomes easy and stress-free. Being able to book a space a few days in advance, allows employees with, for example, family school run commitments to be sure that they can balance home and work.

“I had heard about Parkable and so gave them a call, and in no time at all we had a solution,” said Abbie.

“So when I was sick in bed that day, I was able to list my space on the App and know it would be used and help a colleague.”

“We love Parkable’s schtick. The coordination issues are taken away and you are totally part of our process now.”

“All our staff benefit and it could not have been easier to implement and people got used to it in hours,” said Abbie.

When we asked APRA employees about their Parkable experience, they said:

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