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Parkena for operators

Free software for your car parks, and a listing that sells them.

Parkena is one system doing two jobs. An operator runs the business on it — car parks, capacity, prices, bookings. The same rows are what parkena.com puts in front of travellers. Nothing is exported, reconciled or re-keyed between the two, which is why a space we sell is a space you actually have.

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The squeeze

Build a booking stack you can’t afford — or get disintermediated.

Airports are building their own dynamic-pricing technology, and the booking itself is being absorbed into a handful of very large platforms. Parkena is the third option: run the operation on software you do not pay for, keep your own brand and your own prices, and be listed on a site that compares car parks instead of burying them.

Two ways in

Run your car parks on Parkena, or connect the system you already have.

Both routes end in the same place: your car parks, at your prices, bookable on parkena.com. Pick the one that matches how you already work.

Path A

Run your car parks on Parkena

Free operator software. A console with your car parks in it, the price they sell at for the next thirty days, and every booking that comes in. Running the business on it is what puts you on parkena.com — there is no second listing to keep in step with the first.

Your car parks, and how many spaces each one really has.
What each of the next 30 days costs, day by day, and what decided it.
A floor and a ceiling you set. Parkena picks inside them and never outside — or you collapse the range and it is one fixed price forever.
Bookings from parkena.com landing in your console as they are made, with the traveller, the dates and the total.

Free to run. No card at signup.

Built today, and the one thing that is not

One thing in the console is named and not built: uploading photographs from the setup wizard. There is no file storage behind the console yet, so that step asks for the web address of a picture you already have online, and says so on the screen rather than offering an upload control that does nothing.

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Path B

Already have your own system? Connect it.

If you are not moving off the software you run today, you do not have to. A REST API takes your car parks and your prices in, and hands Parkena’s bookings back out to the system you already work in.

Push your car parks and how many spaces each one has in total.
Push the range you will sell in — a floor, a ceiling, and a base between them.
Pull Parkena bookings back into your own software, on a cursor you poll.

Read the API reference

Every route, every error code, every limit — and the two rules a nightly sync gets wrong.

In pilot. Keys from the console, no sandbox.

The reference is published and complete, and once your account exists an owner or manager can issue a key under Account → API keys. What is not open is the rest: there is no sandbox, and we build the connection with one operator at a time — so the honest first step is a conversation, not an integration.

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That button opens the same free console signup. The key comes from the console afterwards; the conversation comes first.

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Inside the console

What the software actually does

Reservations

One record of what is sold. Two travellers cannot buy the same space, a car park stops selling when it is full, and a cancellation puts the bay back — because there is a single count, not a booking system and a spreadsheet trying to agree.

Pricing inside a mandate

You set a floor and a ceiling; Parkena picks the daily price between them. It reads two things and nothing else — how full the car park is on that date, and how soon that date is — in coarse bands, so the number does not twitch between the quote and the booking. It does not read flight schedules, seasons, holidays or the day of the week, and it cannot quote below your floor or above your ceiling.

One system

What we sell is what your console says is free.

Reservations and pricing are not two products with a nightly file passing between them; they are one set of rows. A traveller books on parkena.com and the space is taken in the record you are looking at, at the price your mandate produced, with the booking in your console straight away. There is no barrier feed and no sensor count behind this — nothing here counts cars. What makes availability true is that there is only one copy of it.

Your consoleOne recordparkena.com

And the booking comes back down the same wire, into the console you already had open.

Getting listed

How a car park gets onto parkena.com

Sign up and add the car park
Create the account, add the car park, say how many spaces it has and what you want it to cost. No card, and nothing to sign before you can see the software.
Parkena reviews the listing
A person at Parkena reads what you submitted before it is public. Approved, it goes live on the site. Sent back, you are told what to change. Every decision is a recorded row, so there is an audit trail rather than an opinion.
Travellers book it at your price
The listing sells at the price your rate plan produced — not one Parkena decided for you — and the booking, the traveller and the total arrive in your console.

Step 2 is a person, not a queue that clears itself — and it is why there is no logo wall on this page and no count of operators, lots or countries. Parkena publishes numbers it can count and claims it can show you the mechanism for. Everything on this page is one or the other.

What this costs

The software is free. The standard commission is 15%.

There is no subscription and no card taken at signup — the console is free to run your car parks on whether or not a single Parkena booking ever arrives. What Parkena earns is a commission on the bookings it sends you: 15% of the sale is the standard rate today, it is held on your own operator account, and the console’s payment settings show the rate that applies to you. It is written onto a booking at the moment of sale, so a later change cannot reach one already sold. The one case where Parkena keeps more is a booking cancelled after the free cancellation window has closed: nothing goes back to the traveller and nothing is transferred to you. The terms set all of it out.

Why both sides

You keep the operation. We take the shopfront.

Your brand, your prices, your own rules on your own channels. On the bookings Parkena sells, one platform cancellation rule applies to every car park on the site — free until 48 hours before drop-off, nothing back after that — and it is written onto the booking at the moment of sale. Parkena does not resell your car park under another name and does not decide what it costs. What we take on is the front of the shop: the listing, the comparison, the checkout, and the refusal to sell a space that is not there.

Two-sided by design

Operators get software they do not pay for. Travellers get supply that is real, at a price the operator set and the system can honour. Each side is the reason the other one works — and neither is easy to unplug once it does.

Pick a path.

Both begin with the same free account, and neither one takes a card.

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