How we run Waterloo car park and car wash
Waterloo is a LookingForCarPark site: we operate the car park and the car wash ourselves, and every booking, ticket and wash sale there runs through the software we sell.
The site
Waterloo is a car park and a car wash on one site in central London. Drivers pre-book parking or a wash online, and others arrive on the day and pay at the counter. That means two kinds of sale, online and walk-up, and two services, parking and washing, handled by the same staff on the same shift.
We built the till and the admin panel so that all of it goes through one system: one bookings board, one set of shifts and one customer account for parking and washing. Drivers can see the site itself on the Waterloo car park page.
The stack at Waterloo
Every part of this is a product you can use at your own site.
Online booking
Drivers book parking and car washes on lookingforcarpark.com, in one account, with no booking fee.
Learn more about online bookingANPR permits
Each parking booking is whitelisted to the site's ANPR cameras automatically.
Learn more about anpr permitsThe till
Walk-up tickets and wash sales on a touch screen, with 80 mm receipts and DVLA lookup.
Learn more about the tillWash catalogue
Packages and extras priced per vehicle type, sold online and at the till.
Learn more about wash catalogueShared shifts
Staff join the site's open shift, totals build up through the day, and a shift report closes it.
Admin panel
Bookings board, live occupancy, busy hours, tariffs, capacity, staff access and reports.
A day at Waterloo
Opening
Staff join the shift
The first member of staff opens the till and joins the site's shared shift. Anyone who comes on later joins the same shift.
Through the day
Bookings arrive on their own
Online parking bookings are whitelisted to the cameras as they come in, so booked drivers do not need the counter at all.
At the counter
Walk-ups and washes
Walk-up drivers get a ticket from the tariff cards, with the vehicle looked up from DVLA and a printed receipt. Wash customers pick a package and extras on the same till.
When plans change
Edit, extend or void
If a driver stays longer or a ticket was wrong, staff extend, edit or void it, and the audit trail keeps every change.
Closing
Shift report and the panel
The shift closes with its totals and a shift report. In the admin panel, the manager checks occupancy, busy hours and the reports.
What it means for your site
Because we run Waterloo ourselves, the software is shaped by a working car park and car wash rather than a demo. You can take the whole stack, or one part of it: the till and admin panel, ANPR automation or car wash booking. Starting prices are on the business solutions page.
Run your site the way we run Waterloo
Book a demo and we will show you the same till, admin panel and online booking our Waterloo staff use, then quote for your site.
Or email info@lookingforcarpark.com.
Helpful to include in your message
- Your company name
- The site postcode
- Number of spaces or wash bays
- Your current system (till, booking or ANPR)
- What you would like to change
Related
- All business solutionsEvery product, the starting prices and the UK and Ireland notes.
- Till and admin panelTouch-screen till, receipts, shared shifts, bookings board and reports.
- ANPR automationBookings whitelisted to your cameras automatically.
- Car washOnline booking with packages and extras, plus a till for walk-ups.