How To Source Event Parking for Your Property’s Next Party
Organizing an event is never an easy undertaking. It can be daunting and stressful for all parties involved. Planning the event is already hectic, but imagine trying to plan around the necessary parking requirements. That often adds to the headache. Organizing the needed parking for event employees, caterers, and attendees is something that most property owners, managers, or event planners neither want to figure out nor handle because they are all too familiar with the various challenges that accompany what should be the simple task of providing enough safe and convenient parking for all event needs. This is where ParqEx steps in as a technological problem-solver, offering a much-needed relief from this stressful aspect of event planning. Continue reading to discover how to source event parking for your property’s next party with ParqEx!
Brief Explanation of ParqEx
Before discussing ParqEx’s steps to source parking for businesses, property owners, property managers, and event planners, let’s quickly address who and what ParqEx is!
ParqEx, a SaaS-focused (software as a service) property technology company, broke into the parking industry over ten years ago when this parking and property tech business took it upon itself to solve the urban parking problem. With so many people constantly seeking parking and a seemingly diminishing and limited parking supply available, ParqEx’s technology quickly worked to solve the dilemma. With their access control system, ParqEx could unlock private parking behind gates and garage doors and make it available to all transient parkers looking for hourly, daily, weekly, and monthly parking. By making the most of underutilized parking assets, ParqEx made more parking available (users can rent parking on ParqEx’s Parking App) to the citizens of cities and provided a value-adding revenue opportunity to property owners who chose to list their available parking on ParqEx’s parking marketplace.
How Does ParqEx Source Parking?
ParqEx can help source parking to fit various parking needs and requirements for business owners, property owners, managers, and event planners. After initial discussions with clients, ParqEx works on sourcing available parking. ParqEx identifies ideal parking locations, converses with various parking owners and operators, formalizes contractual agreements, and onboards the parking property or properties on their parking reservation & management platform. Once the parking property is set up, ParqEx works with parking operators, property owners, and event planners to provide a parking reservation system exclusively for the event. With 24/7 customer support throughout the event, property owners, managers, and event planners can rest assured that the management of their event parking will be handled entirely and managed, providing a sense of ease and comfort and allowing event planners to focus on what matters most: their actual event.
Benefits of Event Parking With ParqEx
- Valet Parking for Event Attendees: Event planners, if you are reading our “How to Source Event Parking for Your Property’s Next Party” seeking the valet parking section, do not worry; ParqEx’s comprehensive platform offers a valet parking solution. More often than not, valet parking is now expected for events. That is why ParqEx has developed a valet parking workflow exclusively to fit these event planning needs. How does it work? For event attendees who have already pre-booked their ParqEx-sourced event parking via the event invite, emails, or reminders, they simply have to pull their car up to valet services. For those who have forgotten to book their parking space, QR codes will be affixed to the valet desk for on-the-spot payment and reservation, marrying walk-in convenience and top-of-the-line parking technology that will either impress your guests so much they make a note of it or fit guests’ seamless and straightforward valet parking expectations that they do not even bat an eye at it. Either one of those options is a success for you and your event, providing you with the reassurance and confidence that your event parking needs are in good hands.
- GuestParq for Event Parking: ParqEx’s GuestParq platform is designed to streamline visitor parking, with a specific focus on VIP event attendees. Property managers and event planners can pre-book parking spaces for their VIP event attendees, ensuring a hassle-free experience from arrival to departure. Guests with their VIP GuestParq parking reservation can drive up to valet and drop off their car without any need to create their own reservations. This platform not only enhances the VIP guest experience but also provides control to property managers, event planners, and ParqEx’s customer support team.
- Access + Technology: As previously alluded to, one of the most powerful technologies that aid ParqEx in solving the urban parking crisis is its various access control lines. With its Access + App, Access + Touchless options, and Access + Premium LPR (License Plate Recognition), its innovative parking solutions allow property owners and managers to provide controlled access to private and secure parking spots through the ParqEx platform and app. For secure parking behind gates and garage doors, ParqEx’s Access + technology ensures that only pre-approved drivers can enter, automatically heightening the security of the parking facility while simultaneously providing property owners an additional revenue stream from their unused parking assets. Regarding sourcing parking for event planning, ParqEx’s Access + technology solutions can unlock several parking locations event planners would never have considered and ensure the safety and security of their event attendees’ vehicles, giving property owners a sense of security and control over their parking facilities.
- Streamlined Parking Management: ParqEx’s tech platform offers property owners and managers a complete end-to-end solution for managing parking spaces efficiently. The ParqEx platform allows parking ownership and management to list their available parking spots, making them open to all transient renters and event attendees needing parking. As ParqEx ensures the parking reservation system for these privately owned parking spots is well-organized, property owners can certainly benefit from the revenue from transient renters looking for daily parking. Moreover, suppose these properties are used for event parking needs. In that case, ParqEx’s streamlined parking management eliminates the headache of planning event parking. It reduces the hassle of event attendees finding parking spots on the event day, all while adding more income to the pockets of these parking facility owners.
- Maximizing Underutilized Spaces: As we keep mentioning, ParqEx provides a practical opportunity to monetize parking facility owners’ underutilized parking spaces. Property owners can generate additional revenue by listing these parking spots on the ParqEx parking platform while providing a helpful service to transient renters seeking parking daily. By listing these underused parking spaces on ParqEx’s platform, property owners are even offering valuable services to future event attendees who may need parking for their event nearby. This revenue-generating benefit makes ParqEx an attractive and no-brainer option for property owners hoping to optimize their resources.
- Real-Time Monitoring and Reporting: Are you curious about insights and analytics regarding your parking operations, especially event parking? ParqEx offers reporting and real-time monitoring features, allowing property managers & owners, event planners, and enforcement officers to keep a diligent eye on parking and usage during all times of the day and the events. ParqEx’s reporting helps parties make parking allocation and reservation decisions while guaranteeing parking operations run smoothly throughout the event. Run a smooth, hiccup-free event with ParqEx.
- Enhanced Security and Control: Security is a top priority for any event, and ParqEx effectively addresses parking security head-on with its property technologies. With technologies and features like Access +, license plate reading cameras, the Enforcer App, and real-time monitoring and reporting, property owners and managers can maintain high security over their parking facilities before, during, and after the event. This protects the property and ensures the safety of event attendees, empowering property owners and managers with a sense of control and guaranteeing peace of mind for event planners and attendees.
That’s a Wrap!
Are you planning your next event? ParqEx provides a powerful parking management and technology platform for property owners, managers, and event planners. With technologies like Access +, GuestParq, the Enforcer App, and their valet parking features, ParqEx streamlines event parking management, augments property and parking security, and provides revenue for property owners making their parking available for event purposes. What are you waiting for? Ensure a successful event with ParqEx!
Thanks for reading “How to Source Event Parking for Your Property’s Next Party.” If your future event requires help managing and/or sourcing event parking, don’t hesitate to get in touch with ParqEx. If your property needs more dedicated parking, check out our long-form article on sourcing parking with us!
FAQ on Sourcing Event Parking
Certainly! Suppose you want to hand off all parking operations and management from the get-go. In that case, ParqEx will happily take control of any event parking needs that may arise before, during, and after the event itself.
No! ParqEx sources parking for anyone and any entity that requires additional parking. We are in the business of making parking more accessible; we don’t leave anyone out!
Of course! If your existing parking isn’t suitable for your residential community’s needs, contact us, and we will help source more parking to accommodate your residents and their guests.
Yes! After initial discussions with hosting property owners, managers, and event planners, ParqEx will work on sourcing additional available parking in the area and begin all needed conversations with various parking property owners and operators. However, we can always accommodate you if you want to be included in these discussions.
After ParqEx has sourced the best available parking for your event, that parking facility will be onboarded onto our parking management and reservation system. Once complete, ParqEx will create an event-specific website and landing page that can be attached to all invites, emails, websites, and SMS/iMessage messaging. These event-specific webpages we design will include simple step-by-step instructions on reserving event parking. If any questions arise, we always include all of our customer support information, and event attendees should feel free to contact us. And we can walk them through the reservation process or create the reservation with them on the call or chat.
This is a good question and not something you must worry about! When users create their ParqEx account, including user, vehicle, and payment information, all ParqEx users become viable to make the most of our Access +! Event attendees will be pre-approved for the event parking property & can quickly gain entry and exit via our Access + App or LPR, depending on the existing tech on-site!
Of course! We like to cater to our guests as much as possible in event planning. That being said, if you want to lessen the burden on your guests (be it a minimal burden), we can organize and orchestrate all event parking in advance for your event attendees. Keep in mind that we will need all event attendees’ information beforehand to ensure a seamless operation, but that is certainly something we can do for you in advance.
Yes, we require that users and attendees include their payment information, even for the scenarios where payment will be $0. This helps ParqEx ensure the legitimacy of the user and that their payment source is valid, thus helping reduce the risk of fraudulent accounts in our system,
We make our parking reservation system as quick as possible. With pre-generated QR codes, we get users to the page where they need to create their accounts and input their personal, vehicle, and payment information. It should take no more than a couple of minutes!
Yes! If you only want to make your underutilized parking available for event purposes, we can remove your account after the event. Remember that by keeping your underused parking spaces available on our marketplace after the event, you can continue generating revenue via transient renters. People are always looking for parking!
ParqEx can generate very detailed reports for your event. With focuses on zone management, spot utilization, parking maps, heat maps, and capacity management, you will be in the know the entire duration of your event if you choose.
This is property-dependent. If the parking facility already has an enforcement company enforce their parking garages and parking lots, then yes, enforcement can be made available for your event. If not, ParqEx can start the conversation with the parking facility owner and trusted enforcement agencies in the area to get the ball rolling on that front.
