Customers auto-registered
A wash purchase registers the plate automatically — queuing and waiting time never counts against a customer.
Car Wash
Your busiest lane, never your slowest.
Car washes lose money two ways: strangers parking all day in customer bays, and clumsy enforcement that fines genuine customers stuck in the queue. Parka's ANPR fixes both — customers are recognised automatically, abusers are managed with evidence, and the lane keeps moving.
Washes today
1,860
Avg wait
3 min
Members
62%
Lane control, live
What we help you solve
Customer bays for customers — enforced fairly.
Abuse stopped
All-day parkers and non-customers are identified by time-stamped evidence and managed by your policy.
Site truth, live
Queue length, dwell time, and bay occupancy in real time — staff see the site without leaving the till.
The operator's guide
Fair ANPR for wash and valeting sites.
The wrongful-charge problem, solved by design
The car wash industry's enforcement horror stories all share one flaw: dumb time limits that can't tell a queuing customer from an all-day parker. Parka links the transaction to the plate — buy a wash, and your visit is a customer visit, however long the Saturday queue ran.
That single design choice protects your reviews, your regulars, and your staff from the disputes that give ANPR a bad name on forecourts.
Take the bays back
Wash sites near stations, offices, and high streets are free-parking magnets. Every plate is time-stamped in and out, so vehicles with long dwell and no purchase stand out immediately — with photographic evidence supporting whatever action your policy prescribes, applied consistently.
Generous grace periods for browsing and waiting are built in; the target is the 9-to-5 parker, never the customer deciding between two valet packages.
Data a small site can actually use
Queue length by hour, visit duration, repeat-customer frequency, and capacity peaks — the dashboard shows a wash site its own rhythm, which shapes staffing, pricing, and opening decisions.
Hardware is all-weather and compact, the platform is GDPR-first and ISO 27001 certified, and one site or a fifty-site chain runs the same way — in pounds or euro.
Common questions
How do I stop non-customers parking at my car wash?
ANPR time-stamps every vehicle. Plates with long dwell and no purchase are flagged with photo evidence and handled by your policy — while anyone who bought a wash is automatically a customer, full stop.
Can queuing customers get charged by mistake?
No — this is the core design. The purchase registers the plate, so queuing and waiting time never counts against a customer. The industry's wrongful-charge stories come from dumb time limits; Parka doesn't use them.
How are customers registered?
Automatically at purchase — the till, app, or subscription links the plate. No codes to type, no tablets at the exit, nothing for staff to remember on a busy Saturday.
Does this work for wash subscriptions?
Yes. Members' plates sit on a standing whitelist, recognised on every visit — which also gives you clean data on how often members actually come.
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Data, revenue, and compliance on one platform
Proven since 2016, no limit on site size
ISO 27001 certified, GDPR first