Automated payment is essential to modern parking management

The fully automatic calculation of parking fees for short-term parking tickets (bar code, magnetic stripe) and ChipCoins and customer self-service payment of parking fees is just the beginning. The main efficiency-increasing factor is shifting the complex job of invoicing and renewing long-term parking tickets to the automatic pay station: the fact that long-term parking tickets can be renewed at automatic pay stations means there is no longer any need to send out monthly invoices for rental fees or for individual parking transactions. This facilitates administration – and advance payment on the part of the customer also benefits cash flow.

Payment itself can be made using coins, banknotes or cashless payment media. Coin payment modules are available for simple and highly secure interim payment. Coin capacity can be increased to a virtually unlimited extent by means of so-called add-on hoppers. Scheidt & Bachmann offers all the commonly available banknote inspection and dispensing units, fully integrated in the system – from simple banknote acceptance through to modern “banknote recycling”. Several currencies can be accepted – even for a single payment – and entervo offers flexible conversion functions in line with current exchange rates.

Scheidt & Bachmann also provides automatic pay stations purely for cashless payment as a sensible alternative to fully equipped pay stations (PAY series). The integration of different pay terminals for payment systems which are specific to a project or a particular country can also be taken care of subsequently of course.