Your Car Park Is Already Full of Customers. Everyone Else Charges You Like They Found Them For You.
If you run a pub, a gym, a church hall, or any small business with a car park, you have two options today for taking parking payments — and both were built for someone else.
Option one: the marketplace apps. JustPark and YourParkingSpace will happily list your spaces. In exchange, drivers pay 20–25% on top of your price, you give up another 3% (plus, on JustPark, a withdrawal fee), and then you wait — up to ten business days for a JustPark bank transfer, or until next month's payout run on YourParkingSpace.¹ That cut pays for something real: they find drivers and send them to you. But your car park doesn't have a demand problem. The cars are already there. You're paying marketplace rates for a car park that markets itself.
Option two: the council apps. RingGo, PayByPhone, Payzone — solid products, for cities. Try to sign your pub up and you'll discover there is no signup. They work on negotiated contracts with councils and large operators. And even where they run, every driver has to download an app, create an account, and pay a "convenience fee" that has a way of appearing at the last screen.²
So most small car parks do neither. The honesty box rusts, the "patrons only" sign gets ignored, and the parking earns nothing.
What we built instead
CarSpark is a QR sign and a web page. That's the whole product, on purpose.
You sign up online — no sales call, no demo, no contract negotiation — set your prices, and print a sign. A driver pulls in, scans it, types their reg, taps Apple Pay or Google Pay, and they're parked. No app. No account. About twenty seconds. Their reg even remembers itself for next time.
Your side is one calm dashboard: every car currently paid up, live — not just registrations, but "blue Volkswagen Golf, 42 minutes left." A car you don't recognise? Type the reg, get an instant answer, and log it with a timestamped photo if it shouldn't be there. When someone overstays, you'll see exactly how long. Log it or shrug — your call, it's your car park.
The part that matters: the money
Here's our pricing, in public, in full — something we notice nobody else in this market does:³
- Drivers pay a 29c/25p service fee per session. Printed on the sign. No surprises at the last screen.
- We take 0% commission from you. Nothing. Ever.
- Your money goes from the driver's card straight into your own bank account, automatically, within about two working days — standard card-settlement speed, the same as your till's card machine. Not next month. Not when you remember to click "withdraw."
And one more thing, because you've never met us and you shouldn't take a new company's word on money: we physically cannot touch your money. Payments run on Stripe — the payment infrastructure behind millions of businesses — and settle directly from the driver's card into your Stripe-connected bank account. It never passes through CarSpark. We just take our 29c on the way past. We also never see your bank details; you enter them with Stripe directly. We think the safest place for your money is wherever we aren't.
The scoreboard
| CarSpark | Marketplaces (JustPark/YPS) | Council apps (RingGo etc.) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Driver needs an app/account | No | Yes | Yes |
| Extra cost to the driver | 29c/25p flat | ~20–25% of the price | 20–35p + paid SMS extras |
| Commission taken from you | 0% | 3–6% all-in | negotiated contract |
| You get paid | automatically, ~2 working days | up to 10 days / monthly | per contract |
| Sign up today, live today | Yes | listing yes, walk-up payments no | No — sales process |
| See who's paid, live, with car details | Yes | No | No |
| Pricing published | Yes — this page | partially | no (location-dependent) |
What we don't do — also on purpose
Fair's fair; here's where the others genuinely have us, and why we're comfortable with that.
We won't market your car park or take bookings — if your spaces sit empty and you want strangers directed to them, a marketplace earns its cut and you should use one (some of our hosts use both: marketplace for weekday commuters, CarSpark for their own walk-up trade). We don't do camera enforcement, and we will never issue parking fines — we're a payment company, not a penalty company. What you get instead is evidence: a live record of who paid, and a photo-backed, timestamped log of who didn't, which is exactly what an enforcement firm needs if you ever decide to escalate. And no, we won't text your customers — companies that charge drivers 10p per "confirmation SMS" are running a different business model. Your drivers get a free email receipt with a calendar reminder before their time runs out, and extending is just scanning the sign again.
The pitch, in one sentence
Your car park is already full of your customers' cars. CarSpark turns that into money — for a flat 29c a session that the driver pays, with everything else going straight to your bank — and the sign takes one afternoon to put up.
carspark.app — set your prices, print your sign, get paid.
¹ JustPark host fees & payout times, YourParkingSpace payout schedule — from each platform's published support pages, July 2026. ² RingGo and PayByPhone convenience-fee FAQ pages, July 2026; fees vary by location. ³ Comparison data compiled July 2026 from public pricing/support pages; details and sources available on request.