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Every job in ParkIn OS, step by step

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In the app

Sign up and add your parking

You do this once. It takes about 10 minutes.

Sign up and add your parking: screen 1 of 3

Good to know

  • No email? Check Spam, then tap Send the code again. The code works for 24 hours.
  • If you see Continue with Google, you can use it instead of a password.

In the app

Read your Home screen

One look shows how the month is going and who to collect from next.

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Good to know

  • Unpaid extra charges, such as a late fee, show on their own line: Unpaid charges.
  • Some passes have no start date? Home says so. Tap Set start dates.

App and website

Invite your staff

Staff join with a link you send. They do not sign up on their own.

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Good to know

  • A Collector works the gate. A Manager runs the day. You are the Parking admin and can change everything.
  • They tap the link, install ParkIn OS and join. The invite works once, for 7 days.
  • No WhatsApp? Tap Use email instead. Only the Parking admin can invite or remove staff.

App and website

Choose what each staff member can use

Switch features off for one person. Their role is the most they can get.

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Good to know

  • At first every switch is on, so staff work as before.
  • Some switches say Managers only, like Change rates and Lot settings. A Collector never gets them.
  • A switched off feature is hidden in the app and on the website, and ParkIn OS refuses it.
  • Only the Parking admin sees this screen. The Parking admin always has every permission.

Vehicles and customers

App and website

Add a vehicle

A pass is one monthly customer: plate, name, phone and monthly rate.

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Good to know

  • Receipts and reminders go to the WhatsApp number if you fill it. Calls still use the phone number.
  • More details has the vehicle type, a reserved slot, email, monthly plan and photos.
  • A plate can be on only one vehicle. If it is used, tap Open that vehicle.
  • The phone must be a 10-digit Indian mobile number starting with 6, 7, 8 or 9.

App and website

Add a second car for the same customer

Put it on the same pass, or give it its own pass with its own rate.

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Good to know

  • Its own pass has its own rate, start date and end date, under the same customer.
  • On the website, open the vehicle and tap Add plate under Plates.
  • Only the Parking admin or a Manager can add a car.

App and website

See a customer with several passes

One customer, many passes. See the total and collect in one go.

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Good to know

  • To collect for every pass at once, see Collect all passes in one go.
  • On the website the top says Customer and how many passes, with Total dues across all passes.

App and website

Give a car its own pass

Two cars on one pass? Move one to its own pass with its own rate.

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Good to know

  • Payments already recorded stay on the old pass. The car keeps its slot unless you switch it off.
  • The new pass must start after the last paid month. ParkIn OS names that month if it does not.
  • Only the Parking admin or a Manager can do this.

App and website

Give each car its own slot

A customer with more than one car can keep a different slot for each car.

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Good to know

  • No slot yet? Tap + Add slot on the car.
  • Only the Parking admin or a Manager can change a slot. A Collector can only look.
  • On the website, use Add slot and Remove slot under Plates.

In the app

Set up your parking slots

See which slots are free, add new ones and mark repairs.

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Good to know

  • You can add up to 500 slots at a time, like B-01 to B-20.
  • Only the Parking admin or a Manager with Manage slots and zones can change slots.

App and website

Fix or add a start date

Dues count from the start date. ParkIn OS shows the new dues before you save.

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Good to know

  • With no start date, dues count from the day the pass was added.
  • Only the Parking admin can change a start date.
  • If a paid month falls before the new date, ParkIn OS stops you. Delete those payments first.
  • On the website, tap Edit start date next to Since.

App and website

A customer left: end the pass

Billing stops. What they owed before stays on their record.

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Good to know

  • No new months are billed. Money owed from before stays on the record and shows under Old in Dues by customer. It leaves Still owed and Collect next.
  • Reactivate starts billing again. What was unpaid when it ended is owed again.
  • In the app, Change end date shows on active vehicles only. On the website, Set inactive ends a pass and Edit end date also works on old vehicles.
  • Only the Parking admin or a Manager can end, reactivate or change a pass. Collectors do not see More.

Collect money

App and website

Collect cash

One tap for cash. Tapped by mistake? You can undo it.

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Good to know

  • No internet? It still works. The payment waits on the phone and goes by itself when you are back online. Do not collect it again.
  • Too late to undo? The Parking admin can delete the payment from its receipt.

App and website

Collect by UPI

Show a QR. Confirm only when the money reaches your account.

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Good to know

  • No money? Tap Didn't pay. Nothing is recorded.
  • A payment done screen on the customer's phone is not proof. Check your own app.
  • The QR needs your UPI ID. Add it in Settings under UPI ID.

App and website

Collect several months, or part of the money

Pick the months you are collecting now. What is left stays owed.

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Good to know

  • The oldest months are always paid first. What you skip stays owed, and the sheet shows how much.
  • For a part payment the sheet says what will still be due. Then tap Cash or UPI.
  • On the website, tap Change months. It works the same way.

App and website

Collect all passes in one go

One payment for every pass of a customer, with one receipt.

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Good to know

  • All passes are recorded together, or none.
  • Collect all needs internet. It cannot wait on the phone.
  • The button shows when two or more passes owe money.

App and website

Confirm payments that are waiting

A payment saved but never confirmed counts for nothing until you check it.

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Good to know

  • Only the Parking admin or a Manager can confirm or cancel. A Collector sees the list only.
  • A cancelled payment is marked failed. It never counted, so your totals do not change.

App and website

Send a receipt on WhatsApp

Every payment gets a numbered receipt. Send it in one tap.

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Good to know

  • The message starts with your parking name and ends with Managed by ParkIn OS.
  • It goes to the vehicle's WhatsApp number, or to the phone number if there is none.
  • Need an old receipt? Open the vehicle, tap History, then the payment.

App and website

Add an extra charge

A late fee or damage. It adds to what the vehicle owes.

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Good to know

  • When you collect, the charge is ticked with the months. Untick it to leave it for later.
  • The Parking admin or a Manager can add a charge. Only the Parking admin can delete one.

App and website

Delete a payment collected by mistake

The money comes out of your totals and the vehicle owes it again.

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Good to know

  • Only the Parking admin can delete a payment.
  • The receipt stays, marked deleted. Paid online? Use Refund instead.

Reminders

App and website

Remind one customer

Send it free from your own WhatsApp, or let ParkIn OS send it.

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Good to know

  • From your own WhatsApp, the message starts with your parking name and ends with Managed by ParkIn OS.
  • Send automatic reminder sends an app notice. It reaches only customers who use the ParkIn OS app.
  • Each vehicle gets at most one paid reminder a day.
  • On the website, Remind opens your WhatsApp. Send reminder now under Reminders uses credits.

App and website

Remind many customers at once

See who gets it, the message and the cost before you send.

Remind many customers at once: screen 1 of 3

Good to know

  • Customers who asked for no reminders, or got one today, are skipped. The sheet counts them.
  • Not enough credits? The rest show Not sent: no credits.
  • On the website, tick vehicles one by one or tap Pick all, then send. At most 500 go at a time.

App and website

Set automatic reminders

Choose once when reminders go. ParkIn OS then sends them by itself.

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Good to know

  • WhatsApp and SMS reminders use message credits. With none left, they stop and the screen says Reminders are not being sent.
  • Automatic sending is off means sending is not switched on for your parking yet. What you choose is saved.
  • Only the Parking admin can change these. Managers with Lot settings can look.

App and website

Buy and check message credits

WhatsApp and SMS reminders are paid from a prepaid balance.

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Good to know

  • Credits are added as soon as the payment is confirmed.
  • You can buy on the website and in the Android app. The iPhone app shows the balance only.
  • A message that does not reach the customer is paid back: Refund: not delivered.
  • Only the Parking admin can buy. A Manager with View message history can look.

App and website

Check reminders and payment claims

See what was sent, stop reminders for one customer and check who says they paid.

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Good to know

  • Says already paid never marks anything paid. Check your records, then tap Checked.
  • A message that did not go says why, for example the customer opted out.
  • Only the Parking admin and Managers with View message history see Reminders on a vehicle.

Daily parking

App and website

Check a car in

Make a ticket in a few taps. The car shows on Daily with a timer.

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Good to know

  • No plate? Tap No plate yet · Issue ticket.
  • No internet? In the app the ticket waits on the phone. The website cannot make a ticket offline.
  • Prices come from Settings, Daily rates. On the website it is Rate cards.

App and website

Check a car out and collect

ParkIn OS works out the fee from your prices. You take the money.

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Good to know

  • Set your daily prices first. Without them ParkIn OS cannot work out a fee.
  • Driver lost the ticket? Find the car by its plate or ticket number.

Money and reports

App and website

Read your money and reports

Three words you will see. Each one counts something different.

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Paid for
By billing month. Money for this month's monthly bills, whenever it was paid. Walk-in fees are not in it.
Came in
By payment date. Every rupee received that day or month, whatever it was for.
Still owed
Every unpaid month since each pass started, added together.

App and website

See every customer's dues

One row per customer with everything they owe till date, all months.

See every customer's dues: screen 1 of 2

Good to know

  • Old customers are counted apart. What they left unpaid is not added to your total.
  • On the website you can tap Download CSV or Download PDF.

App and website

See who collected each payment

Every payment shows the name of the person who took it.

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Good to know

  • Online payments say Paid online. Every receipt also shows Collected by.
  • A Collector can tap Only mine to see their own payments.

App and website

Write down an expense

Note money you spend, like the electricity bill. Profit uses it.

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Good to know

  • Reports, Where did money go? shows your expenses by date.
  • The Parking admin and Managers can add expenses. Staff with the Expenses switch can see them.

App and website

Take, use and return a security deposit

A deposit is the customer's money you hold. It never counts as income or dues.

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Good to know

  • Paying dues from the deposit pays the oldest months first. Receipts are made as usual.
  • When you end the vehicle, you can pay dues from it, return all of it, or Keep it for now.
  • A Collector can take a deposit. Only the Parking admin or a Manager can return one or pay dues from it.

App and website

See the deposits you hold

The total of your customers' money you keep, and whose it is.

See the deposits you hold: screen 1 of 2

Good to know

  • It is the customer's money, so it never counts in Came in or Profit.
  • In this period shows deposits received, used for dues and returned.

In the app

Close your shift

Staff count the drawer at the end of duty. ParkIn OS tells you if the cash matches.

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Good to know

  • Start of duty: open Staff cash and tap Open shift. Type the cash already in the drawer.
  • A Manager finds Staff cash on the Money tab. A Collector finds it in Reports, under More.
  • Count only cash. UPI money is not in the drawer.
  • Shifts are for staff only. The Parking admin has no shift card and reviews every shift in Staff cash.

Account and help

In the app

Keep the app up to date

Small fixes come as an update. Tap Update, then restart the app.

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Good to know

  • Updates never delete your data. Payments waiting on the phone stay safe.
  • Tell us your version when you ask for help, like Version 1.1.26 (Patch 2). Press and hold it to copy.
  • Nothing changes until you tap Update. Not now? Tap Later.

App and website

Delete your account

Your account is closed and you are signed out on every phone.

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Good to know

  • If you are the only owner, your parking is closed too. You cannot undo this from the app.
  • On the website it is in Settings, under Danger zone.

App and website

Get help from a person

Real people answer on WhatsApp: +91 70113 40142.

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Good to know

  • Need more than 10 vehicles free? Ask us on WhatsApp. There is no button for it.
  • Settings also has How it works. It opens this page in the app's language.
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