Flash PARCS: Fees and Taxes

Additional parking fees and taxes can be incorporated with Flash PARCS transient tickets. These charges are added to the customer's parking expenses, itemized on the parking receipt, and summarized on the payment screen.

We offer the following types of additional fees:

• Credit Card Fee: an additional Fee is only charged if the customer opts to pay with a credit card.
• Custom Fee: an additional fee to an existing price with a flat or percentage option.
• Tax: A taxed amount linked to an existing price with a flat or percentage option.

Custom Fees and Taxes can be implemented on a per-price basis. This allows the parking operation to charge different fees and/or taxes per price.

Contact Support to implement Fees and Taxes at your location.

Fee Type Setup Details 

• Credit Card Flat Fee: a non-recurring flat fee that gets added to the parking total and itemized on the receipt only in the case that the customer is paying with a credit card, e.g., CC Fee = $.75.

• Credit Card Percentage Fee:  non-recurring percentage fee that gets calculated and added to the parking total and itemized on the receipt only in the case that the customer is paying with a credit card, e.g., CC Fee = 2.5%.

• Flat Fee: non-recurring, flat dollar amount that is added to the parking total regardless of the payment type. e.g., Port Fee = $1.25.

• Flat Fee Per Time Period: recurring, flat dollar that is calculated as a Daily amount, an Hourly amount, or an amount by Minute and itemized on the receipt, e.g., Daily Fee = $5.00, Hourly Fee = $1.00, Minute Fee = $.25.

• Percentage Fee: a non-recurring fee that is calculated as a percent of the Parking Fee and itemized on the receipt, e.g., 5% of $15.00 = $.75.

• Percentage Fee per Time Period: a recurring fee that is calculated as a percentage of the Parking Fee by Day, by Hour, or by Minute and itemized on the receipt, e.g., Daily Percent Fee = 5%, Hourly Fee = 2%, Minute Fee = 1%.

Tax Setup Details

• Flat Tax: non-recurring, flat dollar amount that is added to the parking total and itemized on the receipt, e.g., Port Fee = $1.25.

• Flat Tax Per Time Period: recurring, flat dollar that is calculated as a Daily amount, an Hourly amount, or an amount by Minute and itemized on the receipt, e.g., Daily Fee = $5.00, Hourly Fee = $1.00, Minute Fee = $.25.

• Percentage Tax: a non-recurring fee that is calculated as a percent of the Parking Fee and/or any selected Fees associated with the Fee Structure and itemized on the receipt, e.g., 5% of $15.00 = $.75.

• Percentage Tax per Time Period: a recurring fee that is calculated as a percentage of the Parking Fee and/or any selected Fees associated with the Fee Structure by Day, by Hour or by Minute and itemized on the receipt, e.g., Daily Percent Fee = 5%, Hourly Fee = 2%, Minute Fee = 1%.

How it works

When fees and taxes are configured, these are presented as additional charges to the customer.

Credit Card Fee 

If the kiosk is connected to Cash Machine the screen will present to the option to via cash or credit card with notification of the additional credit card fees. 

Payment Summary

Fees and Taxes are shown in separate lines, as shown in the image below.

Receipts

Fees and Taxes are itemized on the parking receipt as a separate line item, and the label is customizable.

Some examples might include, Credit Card Fee, Daily Fee, Hourly Fee, Percentage Fee, etc.

The Credit Card Fee is shown on the physical ticket. Fee charge is added to the subtotal below.

Tax line as seen in a physical ticket. This amount is added to the Total line at the bottom.

The subtotal shows all combined parking and extra fees before taxes. Below the subtotal all taxes will appear as separate lines and will be summed up to the subtotal, appearing in the “Total” line below.

Reporting

• Location Ticket Fees And Taxes Export: This report provides a detail of all the parking costs, fees, and taxes within the selected date range.

• Location Trans Detail: Includes detailed information such as ticket number, arrival, departure, duration, and payment information. 

Additional fees and taxes are not itemized in ticket details when using Ticket Search in the Flash Admin portal. Only the total amount including fees and taxes will be shown.

Only the total sum after fees and taxes for the ticket is displayed when searching for a ticket in the admin portal.

FAQs

How do taxes and fees affect a grace period on a price?

A Grace Period can be configured so that Fees are not applied to customers who are within the defined period. 

Grace Period is only available for Fees and cannot be configured for Taxes.