Retire the paper permit for good.
Issue, manage and renew staff, resident, visitor and contractor permits in seconds — no spreadsheets, no laminator.
Digital permits.
Permits without the paperwork. ParkCanvas replaces spreadsheets, hangtags and emailed PDFs with digital permits you issue in seconds and never have to chase. Staff, residents, visitors, contractors, corporates and executives each get the right permit, tied to the right vehicle, valid for exactly as long as it should be. Holders manage their own details. Expiries take care of themselves. Your team gets its week back.
The problem, and the fix.
Today, without ParkCanvas
Permits are where parking operations quietly drown in admin. A new starter needs a staff permit, a resident swaps cars, a contractor arrives for a three-week job, an executive expects a reserved bay on day one. Each request means updating a spreadsheet, printing a hangtag, emailing a PDF, and hoping enforcement hears about the change. Permits expire and no one notices. Old permits keep working long after the holder has left. Multiply that across hundreds of holders and several permit types, and a part-time job becomes a full-time one.
With ParkCanvas
ParkCanvas makes every permit digital and every permit type a template. Create a staff, resident, visitor, contractor, corporate or executive permit in seconds, tie it to one or more vehicles, set its validity, and — when the role demands it — lock it to a specific bay. The permit is live the moment it's issued and dies the moment it expires. There's nothing to print, nothing to post and nothing to chase. Holders can self-register from your branded portal, and renewals run themselves.
How operators actually use it.
Onboarding a new hire
HR adds a starter; ParkCanvas issues a staff permit against their plate before day one. No hangtag, no fob — they drive in and the barrier already knows them.
The three-week contractor
A maintenance crew needs access until month-end. A contractor permit is issued with a hard expiry; when the job ends, access ends — automatically, with no one having to remember to revoke it.
Resident changes cars
A tenant buys a new vehicle and updates their plate in the portal. Their resident permit follows them to the new car instantly — no trip to the office.
The executive bay
A director's corporate permit is tied to a named, reserved bay on level 1. It's theirs, enforced on the live map, from the moment it's issued.
Operational and financial payoff.
Run it with less effort.
- Issue any permit type in seconds from a reusable template
- Permits go live and expire automatically — no manual revocation
- Holders self-register and update vehicles from your branded portal
- Tie permits to vehicles and, where needed, to specific bays
- A complete audit trail of every issue, change and revocation
Grow what it earns.
- Eliminate printing, postage and the staff hours of manual administration
- Stop revenue walking out the door on permits that should have expired
- Charge for permit types you previously gave away by default
- Scale to thousands of holders without adding headcount
The bottom line.
Permits are the contract between an operator and everyone who parks regularly. When that contract lives on paper it's slow to issue, easy to forge and impossible to audit. Digital permits make the agreement instant, enforceable and accountable — every holder accounted for, every expiry honoured, every change recorded. The admin burden that quietly consumes a team's week simply disappears.
Book a demoEnvironments that rely on this.
Put digital permits to work.
A 20-minute demo on your own sites — we'll map your bays, permits and first recurring revenue stream with you.