Once you’ve used a parking app at a shopping mall for parking, you’ll never look back. No queues to pay, no carrying cash, it keeps record of what you paid where, it is quicker to enter and exit a mall, no struggling with a machine that does not accept your note or coin, no more losing your ticket and having to pay a penalty.
Although the article covers the Admyt app, I’m also using the Parket app for a new mall in Cape Town that has cashless parking only.
I think the Admyt app does charge a small charge for the usage, but at one mall where I get a free 90 minutes of parking from PnP, I still use the Admyt app to scan the QR code in store, and my parking is free.
When I was visiting the same mall last weekend, I was amazed to still see so many people paying for their parking. There are signs all over the mall advertising the service, and any new user gets R20 free credit.
When I went to park at Newlands Forest not too long ago, I saw the parking “guard” has a QR code to accept payments by SnapScan. He says he gets paid more by SnapScan users than he receives as cash, and there is less risk of him having cash stolen from him.
The article at https://mybroadband.co.za/news/motoring/581651-say-goodbye-to-parking-tickets.html explains more about Admyt works.