Paid parking

Ticketless paid parking with Hayat Gate — tariffs per vehicle class (free minutes, slabs, hourly rate, daily cap, night rate, lost-ticket fee, grace), how the fee is worked out, the cashier exit screen (cash, card, JazzCash, Easypaisa, Raast, pay link QR), receipts, waiving a fee, paying by plate before walking to the car, occupancy by floor, and where the money goes in the accounts.

With paid parking there are no paper tickets. The entry camera reads the plate and opens the barrier; at the exit the camera reads it again, Hayat works out the fee from the time inside, and the barrier opens once it is paid. Registered vehicles and monthly pass holders drive out without paying.

Turn on Paid parking on the entry and exit lanes of the car park (Lanes). The cashier needs Take parking payments… (gate.cashier); tariffs need Set up sites… (gate.manage).

Tariffs

On the site, Tariffs → + Add tariff, one per Vehicle class (Car, Bike, Commercial):

With this tariff: 10 minutes → free; 50 minutes → Rs 50; 2 hours 20 minutes → Rs 100; 5 hours → Rs 100 + 2 × 50 = Rs 200. A car that stays for days pays up to the daily cap for each 24 hours, plus the night rate for each night.

Try on the tariff works out the fee for any number of minutes and start time, so you can check it before going live.

The cashier exit screen

The cashier keeps Cashier open on a PC or tablet at the exit lane. When a car with a fee reaches the exit, the screen shows it at once, with the photo, plate, entry time, time inside and Due.

Find a car: type the plate to see what a car owes before it reaches the exit. Not found? Hayat suggests close plates (a misread).

Lost ticket / no entry read: tick Lost ticket to charge the lost-ticket fee instead.

Waive (managers only, gate.manage) lets a car out without paying, with a reason — a VIP guest, a complaint, the mall manager's own car. Waivers are on the Guard actions report.

If the camera did not read the plate at the exit, the guard types it on the guard screen as a manual exit.

Pay by plate before reaching the car

Each site with paid parking has a public pay page (the address is on the site page; print it as a QR code on signs near the lifts and the food court). The driver types the plate, sees the fee and pays by JazzCash, Easypaisa or card. The exit then opens by itself for the tariff's grace minutes — no queue at the cashier.

Online payments use your business's payment gateway settings.

Occupancy

Occupancy shows, per zone and floor, the capacity, the cars counted inside, the free spaces and a Full flag — useful for a "Basement 2 full" sign at the entry. Counts come from entries and exits. If they drift (a car left through the emergency gate), a guard can Adjust a zone with a reason. Peak occupancy by day is in the reports.

Sessions

Each stay is a session: entry, exit, time inside, fee, paid. Sessions lists them with filters, and flags oddities: exit without entry, entry without exit (a car read in twice), overstay. A manager can Close a session left open by mistake, with a note.

Where the money goes

Each payment posts one journal in Hayat ERP, with the receipt number as reference:

The two income accounts are added to your chart on the first payment. See How every module reaches the accounts. The cashier's collection by method is on Payments and the Revenue report.