A standard patrol contract bills a flat monthly fee and produces no lookup logs, no photos, and no record of what happened on any given night. That is a problem whether your patrol is excellent or absent, because nothing in the paperwork lets you tell the difference. Park Entra gives you two ways out. Put your existing patrol on the platform so every action is logged, or enforce with your own staff and volunteers around the clock. Either way the work stops being invisible.
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$18K-$36K
Typical annual patrol spend
100%
Enforcement actions logged
24/7
Coverage, not just overnight
$89/mo
Park Entra, 200-unit plan
The problem
Plenty of patrol companies do solid work. The trouble is that a typical contract gives you no way to tell. You get a flat fee, a drive-through, and an invoice. No lookup logs, no photos, no list of vehicles checked. When the lots are still full in the morning, you have nothing to take back to the vendor or to the board.
You pay $1,500 to $3,000 a month whether patrol looked up 200 plates or none. There is no performance metric written into the contract and no activity report attached to the invoice, so a busy night and an empty one cost exactly the same.
Most patrol contracts leave no digital trail. No timestamps, no photos, no log of vehicles checked. When a resident asks whether their complaint was acted on, nobody in the chain can answer.
A nightly drive-through covers one window. Violations at 7 AM, through the workday, and across the weekend fall outside the contract entirely, so residents keep reporting the same problems.
Boards keep hearing about blocked spots and guests who never leave. Without enforcement data there is no way to tell whether the rules are being enforced and ignored, or simply not enforced.
How Park Entra helps
Park Entra records every plate lookup, warning, fine, and tow request with a timestamp, the enforcer's name, and photo evidence. You can hand that to your current patrol company and turn an unverifiable service into a documented one, or you can enforce with your own managers, staff, and volunteers and redirect the contract budget. Patrol companies that do the work tend to welcome this, because it finally shows what they did. The point either way is that the work becomes visible.
Look up any plate to instantly check registration and active guest passes. Residents create virtual guest passes tied to a plate number. Enforcers verify everything by looking up the plate. No paper hang tags to forge or lose.
Every warning, fine, or tow request includes timestamped photos. No more he-said-she-said disputes.
Add as many enforcers as you need: patrol officers, board members, managers, community hires, or trusted residents. There are no per-user fees, so putting your existing patrol on the platform costs nothing extra.
Morning, afternoon, evening, weekends. Your community sets the schedule rather than inheriting whatever window the contract happens to cover.
See enforcement trends, top offenders, violation types, and scan history broken out per enforcer. Bring real numbers to board meetings and to contract renewals instead of anecdotes.
Digital workflows ensure every vehicle is treated the same. Rules are applied uniformly. No favorites, no oversights.
How it works
Add your units, residents, and registered vehicles. Residents can self-register through their own portal.
Invite your patrol officers, your own staff, board members, volunteers, or any mix of them. Each one gets the Enforcer Portal on the phone they already carry. No training required and no hardware to buy.
Walk the lot anytime. Look up plates, check guest passes, and take action on violations, all from one screen.
After a month you can see scan volume, actions taken, and results per enforcer. That is the number to bring to a renewal negotiation, or the evidence that your own team already has it covered.
What changes
A 200-unit community paying $1,500 a month for patrol spends $18,000 a year on a service with no record attached to it. Park Entra's 200-unit plan costs $89 a month, or $1,068 a year, with a full digital audit trail. Communities that keep their patrol company still get that audit trail. They just keep the contract alongside it.
$16,932/year saved
That is money back in your reserves. Use it to fund landscaping, repairs, or reduce dues.
FAQ
For anything not covered here, contact our support team or our sales team.
Yes, and it is a common setup. Add your patrol officers as enforcers and every lookup and action they take is logged with a timestamp, photos, and their name. You get a service you can verify without changing vendors, and your patrol company gets a record of work it can point to at renewal.
Yes. A board volunteer, a community hire, or a property manager's on-site staff gets the same tools: plate lookup, violation logging, photo evidence, and the ability to issue fines. They also know the community and can enforce during the day rather than only in an overnight window.
Every enforcement action in Park Entra includes timestamped photos, the enforcer's name, and a full audit trail, so the board reviews a record rather than trying to reconstruct the night from memory.
Enforcers get a dedicated portal with only the tools they need: plate lookup, scan logging, and violation recording. They cannot access admin settings, financial data, or resident personal information. That applies to outside patrol officers too, so adding a vendor to your account does not expose your resident records.
Park Entra supports tow requests with full documentation. Your community sets the rules for when towing is authorized, and the app ensures the process is followed consistently with a complete evidence trail.
HOAs and property managers have the legal authority to enforce parking rules on private property. Park Entra is a record-keeping and communication tool. It doesn't change your legal authority, it just makes exercising it far more efficient and well-documented.
Most communities are up and running within a week. Import your vehicle registry, invite your enforcers, and start looking up plates. You can run Park Entra alongside an existing contract through the notice period, which also gives you a direct comparison before you commit either way.
Whether your patrol company does the enforcing or your own team does, every lookup, action, and photo lands in one system you can audit.
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.
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