The number plate is the ticket now.
Cameras read the plate, the barrier lifts, and the right account is charged — no tickets, no cards, no paper.
ANPR & pay-by-plate.
No tickets. No cards. No paper. With ANPR and pay-by-plate the licence plate becomes the customer's identifier — read on entry, matched to their permit, booking or card on file, and billed automatically on exit. Regulars are waved through. Visitors pay from their phone. Your barriers stop being a bottleneck and start being a silent, accurate toll on every car that enters. It runs standalone, or on the cameras and gates you already have.
The problem, and the fix.
Today, without ParkCanvas
Tickets jam. Access cards get lost, shared and never returned. Paper permits get forged and forgotten on dashboards. Every physical token a car park hands out is something to print, distribute, replace and police — and every one is a point where the queue backs up and revenue slips through. Visitors press the help button because the machine ate their ticket. Staff prop barriers open because it's faster than fishing for a fob. The hardware meant to control access becomes the thing that obstructs it.
With ParkCanvas
ParkCanvas makes the licence plate the single identifier for every driver. ANPR cameras read the plate on approach, match it to a permit, booking, subscription or card on file, and lift the barrier without anyone touching anything. Regulars are recognised automatically. Visitors pay by plate from their phone, or have a saved card charged on exit. There's no ticket to take, no card to carry and no permit to display — the car is the credential, and the system already knows who it belongs to.
How operators actually use it.
Frictionless staff entry
An employee with a digital permit drives up; the camera reads the plate, the barrier lifts, no fob required. Lost-card requests to facilities drop to zero.
Pay-by-plate for visitors
A first-time visitor parks, enters their plate on a web page, and pays for the time they actually use — billed automatically on exit, with no ticket to validate.
Card-on-file regulars
A frequent parker saves a card once. From then on every visit is recognised by plate and charged silently — they simply drive in and out.
Overstays and unknowns
Because every entry and exit is matched to a plate, overstays and unmatched vehicles are flagged automatically instead of going unnoticed.
Operational and financial payoff.
Run it with less effort.
- Recognise permits, bookings and subscriptions automatically at the barrier
- Eliminate tickets, access cards and printed permits entirely
- Cut queues and barrier-props that come from fumbling for tokens
- Match every entry and exit to a plate for clean enforcement
- Runs on the ANPR cameras and barriers you may already operate
Grow what it earns.
- Remove the cost of printing, issuing and replacing tickets and cards
- Capture revenue from overstays and unmatched vehicles you used to lose
- Higher throughput means more cars served in peak periods
- Card-on-file billing slashes unpaid and walked sessions
The bottom line.
Every physical token between a driver and a space is friction, cost and a chance to lose money. By making the number plate the credential, ParkCanvas removes the ticket, the card and the permit in one move — and with them the queues, disputes and leakage they cause. Access becomes invisible to the driver and airtight for the operator. That's the modern parking experience customers now expect, delivered on infrastructure you may already own.
Book a demoEnvironments that rely on this.
Put anpr & pay-by-plate to work.
A 20-minute demo on your own sites — we'll map your bays, permits and first recurring revenue stream with you.