Lotably: Features, Pricing and Integrations

Lotably is parking enforcement software built for the operator who writes the tickets. An officer checks a plate from a phone against monthly parkers, guest passes and paid sessions, then issues a citation with photo evidence. Unpaid tickets and open boots on that plate show up before a new one is written.

Every ticket carries a QR code that opens a payment page under the operator’s brand. The money settles to the operator’s own Stripe account. The same system sells daily parking from a QR poster in each lot, keeps monthly parker rosters and billing, and emails owners a monthly property report.

It is white-label and multi-tenant. On a Custom plan, a management company can run a separate branded workspace for each client, with its own fines and payout. In the parking management guide it sits on the enforcement side of the category, closer to a patrol company’s toolkit than to a resident permit portal.

Who it fits

The site lists private lots and garages, parking management companies, universities, hospitals, municipalities, HOAs and residential, apartments and multifamily, towing and patrol companies, and event venues. The database tags institutional multifamily, HOA communities and commercial facilities.

The clearest buyer is a parking operator or a tow and patrol company enforcing lots for several owners. It wants one login for scanning, ticketing, collection and owner reports. Lotably pitches itself as the replacement for five tools: an enforcement app, a payment portal, a permit system, a guest registration site and the tow company’s software.

An HOA board or a community manager can use it too. Residents update their own plates through a portal that signs in by email link, and issue guest passes up to a quota the property sets. Each lot can also give a plate a set number of courtesy warnings before officers are told to ticket.

It fits less well where the leasing office wants parking to follow the lease without anyone touching it. Nothing on the site connects the roster to a PMS. Move-ins and move-outs reach Lotably by CSV import or by residents editing their own vehicles.

Pricing

The Free plan is $0 a month for up to 2 active lots, with a 12% fee on payments collected online. Starter is $99 a month for up to 25 active lots, with a 5% fee on online payments.

Daily parking is charged differently. Lotably takes the plan percentage or a flat amount per session, whichever is less: at most 35 cents on Free and 25 cents on Starter.

Cash and payments taken outside the platform carry no Lotably fee. Drivers pay no app fee unless the operator asks for a service fee to be added. Stripe’s processing fees are separate and billed by Stripe.

Lots over 2 cost $39 a month each, but only in two cases. One is while the Stripe account is not connected and taking payments. The other is after Lotably says more than the occasional payment is being taken outside the platform.

More than 25 lots is a quoted Custom plan, which adds your own domain and removes the “Powered by Lotably” credit. All plans are month to month, and Free needs no credit card. Lotably puts the break-even for Starter at about $1,400 a month in online citations and monthly parking, or about 990 daily sessions.

For a property, the fee comes out of citation and permit revenue, so ask who keeps the rest. If a patrol company runs Lotably on your lots, the account, the payout and the fine schedule may be theirs.

Integrations

The site names Parking BOXX, whose paid sessions sync every couple of minutes so drivers who paid at a station are not ticketed. Rosters and vehicles import by CSV. Daily sessions from other equipment can be imported by CSV or keyed in.

Citation, daily parking and monthly parker payments run through the operator’s connected Stripe account. Monthly parkers can pay by card, ACH or a net-14 invoice. Exports cover tickets, boots, parkers and payments in CSV and JSON.

Plate reading from a photo is built into the officer app. Tickets print to Brother mobile printers from the phone, with Zebra on Android listed as in testing.

The site names no property management system: no Yardi, Entrata, RealPage, AppFolio or HOA accounting platform. It says that when a vendor has an API, Lotably builds the connection at no extra cost. Ask whether that offer covers your PMS, and how long the last one took.

Limitations and questions to ask

Lotably is built mainly for parking operators, and a multifamily buyer should read it that way. The first question is who enforces. The HOA page answers it: a property manager, a contracted patrol service or trained community staff.

The software supplies the scanner and the pay page, not the people walking the lot at night. Budget for that labor, or for a patrol contract, before comparing prices with a full-service vendor.

Towing and booting start switched off, and Lotably turns them on when asked. The site says Lotably does not check whether booting or towing is allowed where you enforce, and the operator carries the risk. Ask your attorney what your state requires, and ask your tow company how it takes the one-tap call.

Ask how the roster stays current without a PMS link. A CSV import on day one is easy. Ask who removes a resident’s plate at move-out, and how fast that change reaches the officer’s phone.

Ask what residents will see. Contests land in a review queue the operator works, and the site offers a citation revenue calculator. Decide in writing what a first violation costs, how many warnings come first, and where the money goes.

Alternatives

The parking management vendor list compares the category. 5280 Parking will run permits and patrols for you in Colorado and Atlanta, or sell OpenParking as self-serve software. Online Parking Permits sells resident-paid permits to large operators.

PatrolWorks pairs plate-as-permit software with partner patrol companies. For one table of every vendor, read the other parking options compared.

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