ParkWhiz Transient Price Configuration

ParkWhiz transient pricing consists of a set rate available at any time unless a location is blacked out or conducting an event price.

Requirements

• Must have a ParkWhiz Admin account.

How to create a transient price

In the ParkWhiz Seller Console, locate the seller account and location record.

1. Go to Pricings and then the Reservations tab. You will land on the “Reservations > Transient” tab.

2. Click the green “Add New Pricing” button

Using the checklist below, check the settings' proper values and click the Save Changes button.

Checklist of Settings

Critical Fields that affect Time Parameters

* Required

• Pricing Name

Any text is allowed. The most common conventions for pricing names are:

1. Name it according to the pricing’s use (example: Hourly Rates, Evening rate, etc)

2. Use a pricing name that describes the Days/Times the rates are available (Weekday Evening, etc)

• Quantity

* Maximum number of spaces that can be concurrently booked at any given time under the pricing.

• Valid Times and Pricing (Hours and Rate)

See the following sections in this document for a detailed discussion:

* Valid Time” settings which translate to 24/7 availability

* How pricing stacks over a 24/7 period

* Manipulating the Valid Times field for non-24/7 locations

* Not Required but critical

• This location offers overnight parking

See the following section for a detailed discussion:

* Overnight Parking Checkbox

• Accepts smartphone mobile parking passes

* This setting is found under the Amenities heading 

* The only time this needs to be unticked is when the location requires printed passes for validation

• Require vehicle license plate

* This setting is found under the Sales Options heading 

* Enable this setting if the location uses license plates to validate passes

Other Controls

Parameters that affect Availability

• Customer must arrive after

Requires that the arrival time be on or after the time entered.

• Customer must arrive by

Requires that the arrival time be on or before the time entered

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• Customer must depart after

Requires that the departure time be on or after the time entered.

• Customer must depart before

Requires that the departure time be on or before the time entered.

• Minimum parking hours

The value must be equal to or less than the parking duration.

Only whole numbers are accepted

• Maximum parking hours

• Value must be equal to or more than the parking duration.

• Only whole numbers accepted

• Restrict when customers can book this pricing

Pricing must be booked __ hours before the booking start time

• Limit number of spots customers can buy at this price

Limits the number of spaces that a customer can book for any intersecting parking period 

• This pricing is private and only available to a group of users by their email address

This makes the event pricing private to the users whose email addresses are added to this field.

• This pricing is private and only available to users who have access to one of its pricing access codes

• This makes the event pricing private and only available to customers with access to the pricing access code link.

• This setting can only be enabled by contacting [email protected]

• Pause pricing

When enabled, this makes the pricing unavailable.

Amenities

1. Manually set according to known properties of the facility.

2. “Accepts Smartphone Mobile Parking Passes” is identified as a critical setting because this affects the availability of ParkWhiz apps.

• On-site security guard

This informs the customer that the location has retained the services of at least one person to guard the location and customer property.

• Attendant on-site

This amenity has two selections in the drop-down right next to it. The "at all times" selection means that at least one attendant should be at the location for the duration of the customer's stay. The "for arrival" selection results in an attendant staying only for the customer's arrival at the location and no attendant is likely to be present for the customer's departure.

• Restrooms available to customers

This amenity indicates that the parking location offers restrooms.

• Tailgating is allowed

This option tells the customer that they can cook and consume food and drink at the parking location.

• Handicap accessible

This selection means that a given location can handle customers with wheelchairs, powerchairs or other motorized conveyances without causing inconvenience to them.

• Electric vehicle charging available

This indicates that there is an EV charger at the location.

The icon does not promise that the charging is "included" with any given purchase or rate, so it can be enabled even when there is a fee for EV charging.

If there is a fee for EV charging, it must either be stated in the location description or disclaimer or set up as an Optional Add-on.

• Customers allowed to leave and re-enter with same pass

• This amenity allows customers to park, depart and re-enter as many times as needed for as long as their pass is valid. Unless this is enabled, customers cannot come and go as they please -- one pass for one entry and exit. This is not enabled often for many locations. Please note that some customers unfamiliar with city parking may misunderstand and think this is the norm.

If In/out is allowed on a transient pricing, include this in the pricing name: in/out allowed

• Accepts smartphone mobile parking passes

Do not tick if the location requires printed passes for validation

• Free shuttle service is offered to

This is a specialized amenity for only locations that offer shuttle service to and from the venue to the parking location, typically if they are located outside the normal one-mile max range of walking distance. To enable this amenity, a venue must be selected. The system will display all venues in range by proximity.

• This is parking for Recreational Vehicles (RVs)

This amenity designates that the pricing is for oversized vehicles, particularly RVs.

How multiple transient pricings interact

The rate engine will return the cheapest price available for the period searched

In-Depth Look: Valid Times, Pricing and Overnight Checkbox

• Determines the period that pricing is available for

• Pricing will only be returned if parking start and end time falls within Valid Times 

Valid Time settings which translate to 24/7 availability:

How pricing stacks over a 24/7 period:

Manipulating the Valid Times field for non-24/7 locations

• For locations that do not operate 24/7, a non 24/7 availability must be set.

• The system reads 12:00am as 00:00 or the first minute of the Day

• What the +Days setting does is add 1 calendar date change to the start time

The way to read this is, from Sun 00:00 to Mon 00:00 (Sunday start of day to Monday start of Day)

Since the calendar date changes at midnight, setting “Days” to zero results in an error.

Another example:

Monday, from 5:00 am to 5:00 pm that same day

Overnight Parking Checkbox

• The overnight checkbox has a specific function: it is to allow the rates to jump over and stack over the period that is not included in the valid times. 
  
  
  

When ready scroll down to the bottom and click the Save Changes button. The system will take you back to the reservations page, showing that the price was successfully created.

How to edit Pricings

• Click the pricing that needs to be edited

• Update the relevant fields

• Click Save Changes

How to delete Pricings

• There are two ways to delete Pricings: 

• Pause pricing - pricing will be retained in the pricing list, but will be grayed out

• Deactivate pricing

Notes

• If any error occurs during the price creation, a message will appear at the top of the editing page after clicking on Save Changes, indicating to check all information fields to provide or fix the given parameters for the pricing.