Compliance
Setting an HOA Parking Fine Schedule That Holds Up at a Hearing
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Built for HOAs, condos, apartments, student housing and patrol companies.
Built for
Illustrations use sample data.
How it works
Residents keep their cars and guest passes up to date. Enforcers check plates against that list from a phone. Payments, violations and reports are kept in one place for the board or manager.
Try the administrator view01Set up
Create your community, add units one at a time, by range or from a CSV file, and set your vehicle limits, guest pass rules and fines.
02Invite
Share your access code, invite link or printable flyer with residents. Add enforcers, managers and board members at no extra cost.
03Enforce
Residents register cars and create guest passes. Enforcers look up plates and record warnings, fines and tows with photos.
Park Entra keeps your residents' cars, guest passes and violations in one place, so anyone enforcing your rules can check a plate and see every warning on file.
$0
Commission
Park Entra takes no cut of the fines, passes, spaces or storage your residents pay for.
$29
A month for up to 50 units
Flat monthly prices by number of units, with no setup fee and no contract.
Unlimited
Staff accounts
Add every enforcer, manager and board member at no extra cost.
Up to 5
Photos per action
Attach photos to any warning, fine or tow, saved with the time and the enforcer's name.
There is nothing to install or mount. Enforcers sign in on the phone they already carry and type the plate or the tag number.
Pick a scenario to see what an enforcer sees after a lookup. Plates and units are sample data.
Plate lookup
Plate or tag number
Pick a scenario to run a lookup
Saving the lookup
Fine recorded
6RTW901$50.00Unpaid
Note: Visitor lot, no guest pass
2 photos attached
Scan the QR code to pay at parkentra.com/fines
Guest vehicle
Pass is validResident vehicle
No action neededChoose your ladder once. Park Entra counts each car's prior warnings and fines, offers enforcers only the steps your ladder includes, and moves to the next step once a car reaches your limit. Fire lanes, blocked access and accessible spaces can always be towed.
7 Enforcement policies, from warnings only to the full ladder
1 to 5 Warnings before a fine, or fines before a tow, as you set
0 to 30 Days of grace before a tow, as you set
Each kind of community starts with a different parking problem. Pick yours to see how Park Entra handles it.
By property type
Each page covers the problems Park Entra solves for that kind of property and how setup works.
See all 16 use casesApply your CC&Rs the same way to every car. Every warning, fine and tow is saved with the time, the enforcer's name and any photos, so the board can show what happened.
Residents lease spaces and storage online and create their own guest passes. When a resident moves out, one step releases the unit's cars, passes and spaces.
Students sign up from a printed QR flyer, roommates share one household's limits, and a move-out clears the unit for the next term.
Your team checks plates on their own phones and switches properties without signing out. Each property keeps its own activity log and per-enforcer analytics, both exportable to CSV, so you can show a client the work your team did.
Screens show sample data.
By problem
Pricing
Choose the plan for your number of units. There is no setup fee, no contract and no charge per enforcer, and residents never pay to use Park Entra.
Up to 50 units
$29/month
$319/year
51 to 150 units
$59/month
$649/year
151 to 300 units
$89/month
$979/year
301 to 500 units
$129/month
$1,419/year
Prices in US dollars. Standard card processing fees apply to resident payments, and you choose who covers them. Printed violation notices are ordered through sales.
Each property is priced by its own number of units. With 3 to 5 properties the total is 10% off, and with 6 to 10 it is 15% off, on monthly or annual billing. Start one property on a free trial and contact sales to add the others under the same login. For more than 10 properties, or a community over 500 units, we quote your price.
Example: 8 properties with 51 to 150 units each, billed monthly, would cost 8 times $59, or $472 a month. With 15% off, the total is $401.20 a month.
A 200-unit community on the $89 plan sells 60 extra guest passes a month at $5 each, leases 10 reserved spaces at $75 a month and rents 6 storage units at $50 a month. That adds up to $1,350 a month, about 15 times the plan price, without counting any fines.
Illustration only, before card processing fees. Space and storage leases are paid up front for the term you set, shown here per month. Your prices and volumes will differ.
Payment questions in the FAQNo contracts. Cancel any time from your account settings.
FAQ
For anything not covered here, contact our support team or our sales team.
HOA parking enforcement software keeps a community's parking records in one place and helps staff apply the parking rules the same way every time. Park Entra is web-based parking enforcement software for HOAs, condominiums, apartment communities, student housing and the security patrol companies that serve them. Residents register their vehicles and create guest passes, enforcers look up plates from a phone, and your property sets how warnings, fines and tows are handled. Every action is logged with the time, the person and any photos.
Park Entra is software only. There are no cameras, gate arms or handheld scanners to buy, mount or maintain. It does not read plates automatically: an enforcer types the plate or the number on a hang tag and sees the result on screen. Vehicles, guest passes, enforcement, payments and reports all live in one system, for one flat monthly price based on your number of units.
No. Park Entra runs in the web browser on any phone, tablet or computer, so there is nothing to download or update. Residents can save it to their home screen for quick access. They join with your property's access code, an invite link or the QR code on a printable signup flyer.
No. Any phone, tablet or laptop with a web browser works. Enforcers look up plates and tag numbers, record warnings, fines and tows, and attach up to 5 photos to each action. There are no scanners to buy and no per-device licenses, and every plan includes unlimited enforcer accounts.
Signup has three steps: your account, your community and your plan. A setup guide in the app then walks you through adding units, setting your parking rules and inviting your team. You can add units one at a time, as a numbered range, or from a CSV file of up to 2,000 units. After that, most of the time depends on how quickly residents register their vehicles.
Not directly. You can import your unit list from a CSV file, including a unit list exported from your property management software, and you can export Park Entra records to CSV. Residents then register their own vehicles.
You set the rules once: how many warnings come before a fine, whether towing is allowed, and after how many months an old warning stops counting. Park Entra counts each car's prior warnings and fines, offers the enforcer only the steps your rules include, and moves to the next step once a car reaches your limit, so the same limits apply to every car. Each action is saved with the enforcer's name, the time and up to 5 photos, and residents see their own violations in their portal. Park Entra keeps the records; enforcement decisions stay with your property.
No. Park Entra tells the enforcer when your rules allow a tow and records the tow with its photos, but your property or patrol company calls its own towing company. You can list your towing company's contact details so residents can find them. Cars in fire lanes, blocking access or parked in accessible spaces can always be towed, whatever policy you choose.
Residents see each violation in their portal with the time, the amount and a photo when one was taken. To dispute it, they contact your office by the phone number or email you publish in Park Entra. Your property decides the outcome, and Park Entra keeps the record.
Yes. Printed violation notices carry a QR code and a 6-character notice code. Any driver can go to parkentra.com/fines, enter the code, see the violation and its photos, and pay by card without creating an account. The violation closes when the fine is paid. Park Entra prints the notices for your property; contact sales to order them.
$29 a month for up to 50 units, $59 for 51 to 150, $89 for 151 to 300 and $129 for 301 to 500. Every plan includes every feature, with no setup fee and no charge per enforcer. Annual billing costs 12 months for the price of 11. Communities with more than 500 units, and portfolios of more than 10 properties, are priced by quote.
Yes, on monthly plans. The trial lasts 30 days. A card is required at signup, nothing is charged until the trial ends, and we email you 3 days before the first charge. Cancel before then and you are not charged. Annual plans have no trial and are billed when you sign up.
No. Park Entra charges one flat monthly price based on your unit count and takes no cut of guest pass, parking space, storage or fine payments. Payments go straight to your property's own Stripe account. Standard card processing fees apply, and you choose whether the property covers them or the resident pays them at checkout. Staff can also record cash and check payments.
No. Registering vehicles, creating guest passes within your allowance and viewing violations are free for residents. Apart from any fines, they pay only for optional things your property chooses to sell, such as extra guest passes or a reserved parking space, and that money goes to your property.
Yes, if your community chooses to charge for parking. Residents can pay online for extra guest passes, extra vehicle slots, parking spaces, storage units and EV charging access, and drivers can pay fines online with the code on a violation notice. Payments go to your property's own Stripe account, and the revenue page shows card, cash and check payments together with unpaid fines.
Cancel any time from your account settings. There is no contract and no cancellation fee. You keep access until the end of the period you already paid for, and unused time is not refunded.
Yes. One login switches between every property you manage, and each property keeps its own residents, vehicles, rules, staff and payments. Enforcers assigned to several properties switch between them without signing out. Park Entra sets up each additional property for you. Portfolios get 10% off at 3 to 5 properties and 15% off at 6 to 10, and larger portfolios are priced by quote.
Your property owns its data. You can export it at any time, and after your subscription ends it stays available to export for 30 days. Database access rules keep each property's records separate from every other property's, and every connection is encrypted. Park Entra is hosted on Vercel, with the database on Supabase running on Amazon Web Services, and is built and maintained in Irvine, California. Card payments are handled by Stripe, so Park Entra never stores card numbers. Staff can turn on two-factor sign-in with an authenticator app.
Guides for boards and managers on fines, towing, guest parking and the rules behind them.
Most parking enforcement breaks down after the first warning. A documented escalation ladder changes that by making the next step automatic, not a judgment call.
Start a 30-day free trial on a monthly plan, or talk to sales about large communities and portfolios.
Open the live demo as an administrator, enforcer or resident. It is the real software with sample data, and there is nothing to sign up for.
Try the live demoEach property is priced by its own number of units, with 10% off at 3 to 5 properties and 15% off at 6 to 10. Larger portfolios are priced by quote.
Price your portfolioMonthly plans: $29 a month for up to 50 units, $59 for 51 to 150, $89 for 151 to 300 and $129 for 301 to 500. More than 500 units: contact sales. The 30-day free trial applies to monthly plans: a card is required, nothing is charged until the trial ends, and we email you 3 days before the first charge. Annual plans cost 12 months for the price of 11, are billed at signup and have no trial. Prices in US dollars.