ParkMate (NZ) User Reviews

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LPR sometimes works

Poor at LPR

Lack of info

Gives no option to select plan or clear understanding what you are being charged for when you start the session!

Credit facility

I went to Park today and you would not let me use my credit facility that I have with you

Rip off

$8.50 for 11 minutes? If it’s a timed app then charge per minute

Changes

These guys can’t go 1 week without raising the carpark price. Time to find a new building to park in.

Cuts off early bird parking early

Early bird cuts off at 9:30am but app cuts off earlier

Can’t register

Zéro

To make life easy

When arriving straight away you could see how to pay , and no hassling with different machines

Garbage app

The app gets stuck, is unresponsive, pure garbage.
Plus, some "genius" developers hardcoded allowed email domains, so I can't use my email because someone doesn't like it. On top of that they limit the phone number length and new numbers are invalid. Seriously, hire someone who actually knows something, what did you hire, the cheapest and most useless devs you could get?
Deleted the account and uninstalled this garbage.
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Warning: NO GRACE PERIOD

The extra 38 seconds it took me to click End on the app cost me $5.00

Wrong charges

It says on the signs that it is $4 per hour paid through park mate. You charge me $6 through ParkMate an hour.

Rubbish

Used the app and got overcharged because I didn’t end my parking session immediately upon leaving car park.

A nightmare to use

Very difficult to use the app to pay for parking. Last week I found out you can select your carpark, authorise payment via your credit card (takes a couple of minutes to get payment to work) get a receipt for the payment transaction and you get a parking penalty ticket a few days later. Turns out the money was credited to my Parkmate account and they did not pay for the parking!
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Useless for non-NZ residents

Even after many tries, to a german telephone number it shoes „Error sending SMS“
No information about why or how to fix the problem.

Error sending sms

Seems to be useless, when youre not a resident in nz.
Tried to sign up multiple times and always got „error sending sms“.

Terrible

If you forget to pay through the app, there’s no notification nothing. And you get stung with a $85 fee. And because they use 20th century letters in the mail, if you don’t receive their letter, you have no idea about it, you get an additional $20 late fee on top. Avoid these criminals at all cost. Why have an app which monitors your parking, but doesn’t send a simple reminder after 15 minutes? Because they want to shaft you $85 which is insane for a $5 parking space for 12 hours. Outrageous conduct.
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Useless

Registration does not work. Does not send sms.

Easy to use

Takes the effort out of parking, just drive up, select and walk away

Locations

How about location numbers or QR codes on your signs? Don’t want to be guessing and hoping I don’t get a ticket

UX IS TERRIBLE

It’s slow and laggy on a modern iPhone 16 pro. It’s the only App on my phone that is confusing to use.