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Portland launches its first mobile parking app, PassportParking®

June 18, 2018

 

 

 

Portland launches its first mobile parking app, PassportParking®

 

 

 

App can be used in more than 1,600 spaces downtown

 

 

 

Portland, Maine (June 18, 2018) — The City of Portland, Maine, announces the launch of PassportParking®, a mobile parking application that allows drivers to pay for their parking through their smartphones. The app is powered by the global leader of mobile payments for parking and transit, Passport, serving cities and universities throughout North America.

This is the first time Portland will have a mobile parking application provider. Drivers can pay for parking in more than 1,600 metered-spaces with the PassportParking app. In addition to paying for parking, drivers can monitor their parking sessions, view payment history and receive email receipts. Drivers can also extend parking time on the app.

 

“We wanted to provide a convenient solution to our Portland drivers,” said John Peverada, Portland parking manager. “With the PassportParking app, our drivers can pay for parking from anywhere, when they’re on the go.”

 

Passport also powers Portland’s enforcement solution, enabling the city to now have a comprehensive parking management platform with a powerful backend portal for real-time reporting and analytics.The PassportParking app is widely used throughout the New England area in places such as Cambridge, Mass., and the greater Boston area. The company also powers the ParkBoston app for the City of Boston. The company will soon launch its PassportParking app in Burlington, Vt., with 400 off-street parking spaces.

 

“Whether you’re a resident or a visitor in Portland the app will provide easy access to pay for parking,” said Passport Regional Sales Director Conor Kelly. “You can enjoy a stroll along Commercial Street, visit the the Children’s Museum or dine at one of the city’s great downtown restaurants knowing you can extend your parking time through your smartphone, when needed.”

 

Passport is the industry’s leading mobile technology solution specializing in enterprise business applications and payments for the public and private sectors. The app is free to download through the App Storeor Google Play. Users can also manage their parking at ppprk.com.

 

 

About Passport

Passport transforms the way cities manage their operations. The fintech company’s mobile-first platform has been adopted by more than 450 cities, universities, and private operators around the world in cities including Chicago, Toronto, London, and Miami, across more than 5,000 locations. Passport’s product lines —– parking, transit and tolling payments, parking enforcement, and permit management —– enable organizations in the public and private sectors to streamline their operations, enhance customer service, and make data-driven decisions. Consistently recognized as one of the fastest growing companies and Best Places to Work in Charlotte, North Carolina, Passport has an ingrained practice of putting People First —– a guiding principle in its Culture.

 

Passport is backed by a group of investors, including Bain Capital Ventures, Grotech Ventures, MK Capital and Relevance Capital. Learn more, or get in touch with Passport at passportinc.com.

 

Direct Travel Partners with SpotHero for Business to Become First TMC to Offer Mobile Corporate Parking Management

February 09, 2018

 

 

Direct Travel Partners with SpotHero for Business to Become First TMC to Offer Mobile Corporate Parking Management

 

 

Date: February 8, 2018

Direct Travel, Inc., a top travel management company in North America, today announced that it has partnered with SpotHero for Business, North America’s leading business parking reservation platform and the first mobile solution to help corporate travelers find and book parking on the go. The partnership will increase the value of Direct Travel’s offerings to clients, by helping them manage an estimated $3 billion in work-related parking spend and maximizing corporate travel program budgets with an easy-to-use mobile solution.

 

Using SpotHero for Business, business travelers can find and reserve parking in close proximity to hotels, airports, downtown offices and client sites, all from their mobile device. Digital receipts are then automatically forwarded to preferred expense reimbursement platforms, such as Concur, streamlining the overall corporate travel experience. Just as business travelers are able to shop for hotels and airfare to find the best rates, they can now find and book parking ahead of time using SpotHero for Business. With urban drivers spending twenty minutes on average searching for a parking spot, the SpotHero for Business solution also ensures significant time savings.

“Until recently, employees have managed parking expenses through very manual processes, leading to macro inefficiencies in corporate travel programs,” said Becca Rabinowitz, head of SpotHero for Business. “We are thrilled to partner with Direct Travel in order to give travel managers an easy way to improve both the accuracy of reports and their own visibility into this often overlooked yet significant category of spend.”

“We work with our top clients and prospects to survey the entire scope of their travel program and go beyond the obvious travel savings opportunities,” said Ronda Shipley, SVP Business Development & Strategies at Direct Travel. “As the first TMC to partner with SpotHero for Business, we are excited to offer our clients cutting-edge technology to ensure efficiencies beyond traditional verticals.”

About SpotHero

SpotHero, North America’s leading parking reservation service, empowers drivers to find and book parking at thousands of garages, lots, and valets across the US and Canada. Launched in 2011, SpotHero is headquartered in Chicago and has secured $57.5 million in funding. To learn more, visit www.spothero.com.

About Direct Travel

Direct Travel, Inc. is a leading provider of corporate travel management services. The company has been providing travel management services for over 40 years, working with clients to develop highly customized travel programs. By leveraging both the expertise of its people and innovative solutions, Direct Travel enables clients to derive the greatest value from their travel program in terms of superior service, progressive technologies and significant cost savings. Direct Travel has offices in over 60 locations across North America and the UK, and is currently ranked 15th on the Travel Weekly Power List. Direct Travel is also a prominent member of Virtuoso, the world’s most prestigious luxury travel network. For more information about Direct Travel, please visit www.dt.com.

Additionally, Direct Travel offers full-service performance improvement solutions, including meeting and event management, group incentive travel and individual recognition solutions through its wholly owned subsidiary Creative Group, Inc. For more information, please visit www.creativegroupinc.com.

SpotHero Recruits Ellen Shapiro to Lead Growing Mobile Development Team

April 21, 2016

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SpotHero Recruits Ellen Shapiro to Lead Growing Mobile Development Team

 
Shapiro to Focus on Making Mobile Parking Reservations Even Easier For Drivers

 

Chicago (April 21, 2016)– Today on-demand parking marketplace SpotHero announced that Ellen Shapiro has joined the company to lead mobile development. In this role, she will focus on building out a dedicated mobile team, including hiring iOS and Android developers, to create the next evolution of SpotHero’s mobile app. This move is part of SpotHero’s efforts to expand its industry-leading parking reservation service.

 

“In 2016, mobile has grown to almost 80 percent of our total parking reservations and we’re regularly ranking among the top 10 iTunes navigation apps,” said Mark Lawrence, co-founder and CEO, SpotHero. “For this reason, we’re excited to have recruited one of Chicago’s most talented mobile developers, Ellen Shapiro, to lead our mobile team.”

Shapiro joins SpotHero from Vokal, where she most recently served as Director of iOS Engineering. Prior to her role at Vokal, she developed iOS and Android apps at The Nerdery. Shapiro is also a leading public speaker in the mobile development space. She is presenting a keynote at the Mobile Dev + Test and IoT Dev + Test collocated events in San Diego today with a presentation focused on new software development tools and technologies. Shapiro is also speaking at iOS Con in London, UIKonf in Berlin, try! Swift NYC, and iOS Dev UK.

“SpotHero is dedicated to delivering an easy experience for drivers,” said Ellen Shapiro, lead mobile developer, SpotHero. “I am looking forward to growing and leading our team to leverage cutting-edge mobile technology to make parking even easier.”

In addition to recruiting mobile developers for iOS and Android to join Ellen’s team, SpotHero is hiring for more than 21 positions in its Chicago headquarters and satellite offices in New York, Boston and San Francisco. The company currently has more than 100 employees and was recently named one of the best places to work for women under 35 in Chicago.

About SpotHero
SpotHero is an on-demand parking marketplace that enables drivers to reserve parking spots with convenient garages, lots and valets. It currently offers easy and affordable parking at more than 2,500 locations in cities across the country, including New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Washington D.C. and Boston. Launched in 2011, SpotHero is led by founders Mark Lawrence and Larry Kiss, and has raised $27 million in VC funding. Learn more at SpotHero.com and find us in the Apple iTunes Store or Google Play.

Contact
Andrea de Vos, Elisco Communications
T: 1-646-306-4810
press@spothero.com

Record Year for Parking as parkbytext™ Record over 800,000 Parking Transaction in 2015

January 28, 2016

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– A third of parkers now choose their phones over traditional ‘pay and display’ machines –

28/01/2016: parkbytext™, one of Ireland’s leading mobile parking operator, recorded a whopping 60% increase in 2014 transaction numbers to 530,000 transactions in 2015 , for customers parking by text, app, online or over the phone. Visitor Parking and Virtual Permits issued, mainly staff, residential and student parking, rose 10% to over 270,000 transactions giving an overall total of over 800,000 parking transactions.

On average, 33% of customers choose to park with their phone over traditional ‘pay and display’ machines. Smartphone parking is the most popular method of parking, with an average 50% of customers preferring to pay through parkbytext™. Luas customers are the biggest adopters, with 65% of transactions originating from the app.

In regards to transaction numbers the busiest day of the year was Monday 30th November with the busiest location being Luas Red Cow Park and Ride. The most popular duration with customers is for one day’s parking.

2015 saw a new partnership with Unified Parking Partners in the USA, where parkbytext™ brought cashless parking to the east coast city of Portland, Maine. 2015 also saw the company launch their Corporate Accounts service, offering business clients the facility to manage multiple personal users under the one business account.

parkbytext™ provides quick, easy and convenient parking payments in over 300 locations across Ireland, such as Luas and Irish Rail locations. The company operates in a further 125 locations across the UK and USA. Registered users increased 60% in 2015, bringing the total amount of registered account holders to over 71,000, across all territories.

Jim Moore, CEO parkbytext™ has said: “2015 has been a great year for parkbytext™ as we continue our steady growth both in Ireland and overseas. We launched our new Corporate Account service during the summer and also partnered with UPP to bring the first cashless parking solution to the city of Portland, Maine in the US.

2016 will see a lot of system integrations with parking operators which will bring greater opportunities to us. We will continue to look at all aspects of our customers offering in order to ensure we provide our customers, and clients, with a world class parking solution”.

Media contact:
Andrew Cosgrove, Marketing Manager, parkbytext™
Tel: +353 1 485 2195
Mob: +353 85 748 1342
Email: acosgrove@parkbytext.ie
Web: www.parkbytext.ie

About parkbytext™

parkbytext™ is the leading mobile parking operator hailing from Ireland and provides convenient, cashless and cost effective parking by text, IVR, phone, app, web and now also by parkbytext™ 2Bill – parking payments direct to your mobile phone bill or credit – which is a European first in the mobile parking payments sector.

In November 2014, parkbytext™ secured a five year contract with Transdev, the largest private sector provider of multiple modes of transportation across the globe, to provide managed parking systems in the Park + Ride car parks attached to the Luas, Dublin’s tram system.

As an international business, parkbytext™ has become an Enterprise Ireland HPSU client. 2015 saw the company runner up at the inaugural Eir Elevation Fast Company Awards. In addition, the company was selected as a National Champion in the 2013/2014 European Business Awards. It is the first Irish finalist from the parking sector in the history of the awards to be given this accolade. The company was also named in the top Tech100 by Business and Finance in July 2014.

Visit www.parkbytext.ie or @parkbytext

parkbytext™, Together With Unified Parking Partners, Launch First Cashless Parking Service In Portland, Maine

January 15, 2016

Customers can now pay for their parking by text, app, online or by phone

 

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parkbytext™, the leading mobile parking operator hailing from Dublin, Ireland, and Portland car park operators, Unified Parking Partners, have together rolled out the parkbytext™ cashless parking service in Portland, Maine. Customers now have the convenience to pay for their parking by SMS, App, the parkbytext™ Customer Care team or online through www.parkbytext.com, in 17 car Lot locations in the Downtown, Old Port and East End areas of the city.

As a new customer, you can avail of the service as an account holder or one-time user. As an account holder, users are able to top-up their account with the credit or debit card and then pay for their parking using their account balance. Account holders can securely store their card information for automatic account top-ups. One-time customers can pay for their parking using their credit or debit card.

Benefits of being an account holder, which is a free service, include: Extending your stay from wherever you are; text reminder options; ability to print parking receipts; swap cover between vehicles; automatic account top-up. Customers can create an account through the mobile app, available for iPhone and android, online at parkbytext.com or by calling the Customer Care team on 207-464-1555.

Jim Moore, parkbytext™ CEO, has said: “We are delighted to launch the first cashless parking service in Portland, Maine. Our dedicated IT team has developed time zone capability in our proprietary system which is enabling our continued US expansion. We are very much looking forward to this partnership with Unified Parking Partners and offering the benefits of parkbytext™ to consumers in Portland”.

Asher Champell, Unified Parking Partners District Manager, has said: “This is a great time for Unified Parking Partners to bring Smartphone parking to Portland as people, our customers, are becoming more and more reliant on these technologies. It is a natural progression within the industry and we are always looking to give our customers the best possible service options. We are very proud to be the first operator offering cashless parking in Portland and we are excited for the relationship that we have begun with parkbytext™”.

For a list of locations and prices visit www.parkbytext.com/locations

Media contact:
Andrew Cosgrove, Marketing Manager, parkbytext™

Tel: +353 1 485 2195
Mob: +353 85 748 1342
Email: acosgrove@parkbytext.com
Web: www.parkbytext.com

About parkbytext™

parkbytext™ is the leading mobile parking operator hailing from Ireland and provides convenient, cashless and cost effective parking by text, IVR, phone, app, web and now also by parkbytext™ 2Bill – parking payments direct to your mobile phone bill or credit – which is a European first in the mobile parking payments sector.

In November 2014, parkbytext™ secured a five year contract with Transdev, the largest private sector provider of multiple modes of transportation in North America, to provide managed parking systems in the Park + Ride car parks attached to the Luas, Dublin’s (Ireland) tram system.

As an international business, parkbytext™ has become an Enterprise Ireland HPSU client. In addition, the company was selected as a National Champion in the 2013/2014 European Business Awards. It is the first Irish finalist from the parking sector in the history of the awards to be given this accolade. The company was also named in the top Tech100 by Business and Finance in July 2014.

parkbytext™ have just launched a redesigned website for the US market www.parkbytext.com.

About Unified Parking Partners

Unified Parking Partners is a full service parking management company based in Portland, Maine and servicing all of New England. Their focus is garage, flat lot, healthcare, hotel and restaurant parking management.

Visit www.unifiedparkingpartners.com