As the number of automobiles is continuously increasing in the cities and the parking slots are limited. Therefore drivers are wasting a lot of time searching for parking the vehicles. And parking the vehicle in an inappropriate place always creates chaos and traffic. Due to this, the vehicle owners or drivers are not able to find perfect parking space.
Moreover, the statistics also reveal some of the issues faced by the vehicle owners or driver in parking:
- As per IBM, 30% of the city’s traffic is contributed by drivers for searching parking space.
- An average Americans spend more than 17 hours a year in searching for parking which will eventually result in a cost of $345 per driver, wasting their time, fuel and emissions.
Thankfully to the modern IT industry has rendered a resolution. Parking Apps bring ease to citizens since they save time and audacities. The working process of such Parking App Development is to discover and book a spot nearby. They also allow cashless payments, GPS and many more. This is the solution which makes the stressful parking issue so easy. If you have already recognised this issue and plan to bring a solution, the parking app is the one.
In this blog, we will discuss and explore the must-have features for Parking App Development.
Parking App Features:
For Parking app development, there are must-have features which make to work more effectively. In general, there are three panels:
User Panel of Parking App:
- Register: If the user is new to the parking app, then he has to signup with the app with the details like name and email Id or can sign up with their Facebook or any other social media account.
- Profile update: The user needs to update the profile with the details like full name, location, phone number, etc.
- Location Tracking: Using this feature, the user can able to spot the place where they have parked their vehicles. Even they can share their location to others via the social media channel.
- List the spot: The user can list his own space for availability to others by standing in the parking spot they wish to list. The user can choose whether the open space was available 24/7 or only specific time slots. If the parking spot is available at certain times, then the times need to be specified along with how long does the open space will be available.
- Search option: Using this feature, the users can search for a particular location, city or parking space name.
- Option to enter arrival and departure time: In this, the user can set the arrival and departure time.
- Booking: Where the users can pre-book a parking slot. They can search for the cheapest parking space available under their budget.
- Finalise Booking: They can spot the location when the vehicle owner checkout from the parking spot booked. The user can spot the location only when the booking was completed when the user was within 25m of the spot.
- Multiple Payment Gateways: Here, the users can pay for slot booking through various payment methods which were calculated by 1 hour.
- Manage Parking History: In this, the user can go through all the places where he previously parked the vehicle and can book the same spot again.
- Review and rating: The user can give reviews and ratings, which helps other users to choose the best space for parking.
Admin Panel of Parking App:
- Manage users: The admin was able to manage the users through the app where he can keep track of the number of users, their transactions, history, the payment received and many more.
- Accept or reject users: Admin can able to accept or reject any request from the users
- Manage Bookings: The admin can manage current reservations and pre-booking for the parking slots.
- Manage Earnings: The admin can able to monitor and track the parking costs and bookings of every parking spot tuned to the app.
- Manage reservations: All the pre-bookings of the places are managed and tracked by the admin.
Parking Owner Panel:
- Register: The Owner can signup to the app either by using their email account or with their social media account.
- Add slots: The parking owner can add slots for the user to park thier vehicles. He can also fix the space for cars and bike.
- Manage pricing: The parking owner has to specify the hourly price for the allotted parking space.
- Check the number of users: Can check how many numbers of users are parked in his parking space.
- Accept or decline request: The owner can accept or reject the request sent by the user for the parking space availability.
- Check bookings: Can check the number of bookings.
- Get payment from admin: The parking owner will get amount form the admin via payment gateway integration.
- Check review and ratings: The parking owner can check the ratings and reviews given by the users.
Advanced Features of the Parking App
- Push notifications: Using which one get details about the new features, discount, promo code and app updates.
- In-app communication: Using this, the stakeholders can chat directly within the app.
- Multilingual support: Where the app can be able to available in different languages.
- Heat map: The application will show the busiest routes in the real-time mode. Depending on this, users can make decisions about their booking.
Why choose Krify for Parking App Development?
We Krify have tremendous experience in developing parking app that you are looking for. Our developers have a vast knowledge of the latest technology to integrate those features are some benefits our company is renowned at. Please Contact us for your parking app development.
Conclusion:
There are many exciting features to implement during parking app development. However, it is always better to start with essential functions and add advanced features gradually. Contact us, if you are planning to develop Parking App.
