ParkDwell: Features, Pricing and Integrations

ParkDwell is parking management software that also bills for EV charging. A permit records the price, the term and the plate, and can be issued automatically from the PMS. Residents send guests QR passes, and guests claim them without an account. Enforcement runs from warning to citation to tow, with repeat offenders flagged, an audit log, and a public appeal page. The EV side is short on the homepage: per-spot chargers, kWh billing, lot-level electrical capacity, and time-slot booking. ParkDwell sells no chargers, so in the multifamily EV charging category it is the software layer for a property that already assigns spots, and the facts panel below is rendered from our vendor database with a source and verification date on each entry.

Who it fits

The database tags institutional multifamily, HOA communities and commercial facilities. The site lists apartments, condos and HOAs, workplaces and hotels. The buyer is a community manager who sells or assigns parking, has some spots with chargers, and wants one system to issue the permit, bill the kWh and tow the car that should not be there.

It does not fit a property that needs chargers bought, installed and maintained. It also fits less well for an owner whose real problem is panel capacity, since ParkDwell tracks capacity but does not manage the load on the hardware itself, as far as the homepage says.

Pricing

ParkDwell publishes four plans. Pay-as-you-go costs nothing a month and takes a platform fee on each transaction, covers paid parking only and includes no PMS link. Starter is $99 a month for one property and up to 150 spots, with the resident app, permits, guest passes, lot maps, an enforcement ladder, PMS sync and revenue reporting. Growth is $249 a month for up to ten properties and 1,500 spots, and adds enforcement escalation, a live monitor map, Stripe Connect payouts and PMS sync with Entrata, Yardi and RealPage named. Scale is custom and billed annually, with SSO, custom roles and a 99.9 percent uptime commitment. Starter and Growth come with a 14-day trial, Scale with 30 days, and annual billing is listed at 17 percent off.

Ask what the transaction fee is on each plan, including on EV charging payments, since the pay-as-you-go fee is described only as small. Ask whether EV billing is in every plan or only some. Paid guest-pass overages are split 85 percent to the property and 15 percent to ParkDwell, according to the pricing FAQ; ask whether EV payments follow the same split.

Integrations

The database lists Entrata, Yardi and RealPage. The pricing page lists PMS sync from the Starter plan up and names the three systems under Growth, so ask whether a Starter customer on Yardi gets the same connection. The homepage also names Brivo for access control and ChargePoint, plus Okta, Azure AD and SCIM for staff sign-on. Ask what moves between ParkDwell and the PMS: the resident roster for permits, charges back to the ledger, or both. Ask what the ChargePoint connection does, whether ParkDwell reads session data from ChargePoint stations to bill by the kWh, and what happens with chargers from any other network.

Limitations and questions to ask

We found no coverage of ParkDwell outside its own site, and its customers page describes illustrative scenarios rather than named case studies. Ask how many properties run it today and for a reference at one with EV billing live. The customers page says the enforcement ladder runs from a patroller’s phone with photo evidence, so ask whether any plate-reading hardware is supported or whether enforcement always depends on staff walking the lot. Ask how towing partners are set up in your state and who carries liability for a wrongful tow. Ask how a disputed kWh bill is resolved.

Alternatives

The multifamily EV charging vendor list covers the hardware vendors ParkDwell would sit alongside. Ivy Energy is the other billing-only vendor, built around solar and EV billing with the same three PMS names. Pando Electric bills residents through its own outlets and pays the property back. For chargers to pair with it, see the vendors compared with ChargePoint.

AI visibility

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