Most parking enforcement platforms are built around hardware (handheld scanners, parking meters, motion sensors) and they come with the installation fees, maintenance contracts, and vendor lock-in to match. Park Entra is 100% browser-based. Enforcers use their phone. Residents use their browser. Admins use their laptop. Zero equipment to buy, zero installation, and zero maintenance.
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$0
Hardware cost
Zero
Installation required
Any device
Phone, tablet, or laptop
100%
Browser-based
The problem
Competing parking platforms require proprietary equipment that costs thousands upfront, locks you into maintenance contracts, and breaks at the worst possible time. Every device is another line item, another thing to maintain, and another reason you can't easily switch providers.
Competitors sell proprietary handheld units per enforcer, plus annual licensing fees and software updates. If a device breaks or goes missing, you buy another one. Five enforcers means $2,500 to $7,500 in hardware before you scan a single plate.
Other parking enforcement platforms charge $2,000 to $10,000 upfront for onboarding, $50 to $200/month per device in licensing, and lock you into 2 to 3 year maintenance agreements. The hardware creates vendor lock-in. Switching means writing off your entire equipment investment.
How Park Entra helps
Park Entra runs entirely in the browser, on devices your team and residents already own. Enforcers look up plates and issue fines from their phone. Residents register vehicles and create guest passes from any browser. Admins manage everything from their laptop. No equipment to buy, no installation to schedule, no maintenance to budget for.
Look up plates, log scans, issue warnings and fines, attach up to 5 photos, all from the phone in your pocket. No handheld scanner, no proprietary device, no per-device licensing.
Residents register vehicles, create guest passes, pay fines, and manage their household from any device. No app download, no app store, no compatibility issues, no IT support tickets.
Digital timers with configurable presets, grace periods, and overtime alerts run entirely in the browser. Enforce visitor spots, loading zones, and EV charging stations without a single parking meter.
Enforcers snap photos directly from the enforcement workflow, timestamped and linked to the violation record. No dedicated camera equipment, no photo management software.
Manage units, residents, vehicles, violations, revenue, and analytics from any laptop or desktop browser. No on-site server, no office-only software, no VPN required.
Create your property, add units, invite enforcers. No hardware deployment, no installation appointments, no wiring, no IT department. Your enforcement team is live the same day you sign up.
How it works
No equipment delivery, no installation appointment, no IT setup. Create your property and configure your rules in under an hour.
Enforcers get the patrol portal on their phone instantly. No devices to buy, provision, or ship.
One link, any browser. Residents self-register their vehicles and start creating guest passes immediately.
Plate lookups, guest pass verification, timed parking, photo evidence, and full analytics, from devices your team already carries.
What changes
Handheld scanners for 5 enforcers: $2,500 to $7,500. Annual maintenance and licensing: $5,000 to $15,000. Setup and onboarding fees: $2,000 to $10,000. Park Entra for a 200-unit community: $89/month with every feature included.
$0 upfront. $0 in hardware.
Your enforcers already have phones. Your residents already have browsers. That's all Park Entra needs.
FAQ
For anything not covered here, contact our support team or our sales team.
Any phone, tablet, or laptop with a browser. That's it. No handheld scanners, no proprietary equipment, no per-device licensing fees. Open the browser, log in, and start scanning plates. Most enforcement teams are fully operational within a single shift.
No. Park Entra runs entirely in the browser. Residents tap a link and they're in. It works on any phone, tablet, or computer. No app store searches, no downloads, no storage space on their device, and no version updates to worry about.
Enforcers use their phone's built-in camera directly from the enforcement workflow. Photos are timestamped, linked to the violation record, and stored automatically. Up to 5 photos per enforcement action. No separate camera app or upload step.
Park Entra's digital timer system runs in the enforcer portal. Start a timer for any plate, select a preset duration (15 minutes to 8 hours), and the system flags overtime vehicles automatically. Configurable grace periods prevent false positives. No meters, no sensors, no installation.
Most competing platforms charge $2,000 to $10,000 in setup fees, require proprietary hardware purchases, and lock communities into multi-year maintenance contracts with per-device licensing fees of $50 to $200/month. Park Entra has zero setup fees, zero hardware requirements, and zero long-term contracts. Just a flat monthly subscription based on your unit count. Cancel anytime.
Yes. Park Entra makes its own numbered parking decals, each tied to one car. Enforcers check a decal by its number or by scanning its QR code, and see the plate of the car it belongs to, so a decal on another car is caught. Tags from other systems are not checked.
Join communities using Park Entra to enforce parking with zero hardware, zero installation, and zero maintenance, just the devices your team already carries.
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.
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