Parking management system: passes, payments, cash

Short answer: A parking management system records entries and exits, hourly payments, monthly passes, cash shifts and occupancy reports for one or several car parks in one place. With Tashkent's hourly rates set between 5,000 and 12,000 soums and cashless payments reaching 72% of GDP, a manual till and a paper log have become the operator's biggest risk. An ERP links barrier and camera data to payments and accounting and shows the real revenue of every site.

From the outside, a car park looks simple: a lot, a barrier, a cashier. Add a second and third site, and the questions multiply. How many cars came in yesterday, and how many paid? Whose monthly pass has expired? Did all the cash from the night shift reach the till? A parking management system answers these questions with numbers. This article covers what a parking operator should automate and what changes afterwards, with sourced figures.

Demand is growing. According to the Statistics Committee, individuals owned 4,552.3 thousand passenger cars as of 1 April 2026, up 344.6 thousand in a year (stat.uz, 2026). As free space in city centres shrinks, paid parking matters more.

What is a parking management system?

A parking management system is software that keeps entries and exits, payments, passes, cash and occupancy for a car park in one database and links them to accounting.

It helps to think of it in two layers. The first is hardware: barriers, automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) cameras, ticket or card readers, payment terminals. The second is management: tariffs, pass holders, cash shifts, revenue and costs per site, reports. Many operators have the first layer, while the second lives in Excel and notebooks. The camera sees the car, but nobody systematically sees where the money went.

What problems do parking operators face?

A pattern we often see in our projects: the more sites there are, the more control depends on the owner's personal visits. The main problems:

Cash leakage. A cashier takes money without issuing a ticket or under-records the time, and there is no reliable data to reconcile at shift end.
Pass control. The list of monthly pass holders sits in a notebook or spreadsheet, and cars with expired passes keep getting through.
Tariff confusion. Rules for daytime, night, weekends and the first free minutes are calculated by hand.
Several sites. Each site keeps its own spreadsheet, so total revenue and occupancy cannot be seen on one screen.
Corporate clients. Monthly invoices for business-centre tenants or companies are prepared manually, and overdue balances are spotted late.
No occupancy data. Nobody measures when the lot is full and when it is empty, so pricing is guesswork.

Drivers lose out too. An INRIX study of about 18,000 drivers found that the average US driver spends 17 hours a year searching for parking, costing $345 in wasted time, fuel and emissions, and that drivers overpay for parking by $97 a year on average (INRIX, 2017). An operator that shows free spaces in advance and accepts prepayment solves that problem and wins the traffic.

How is paid parking being regulated in Tashkent?

Under the system approved by Tashkent's mayor, hourly rates are set by zone: 12,000 soums in zone 1, 10,000 in zone 2, 8,000 in zone 3, 6,000 in zone 4 and 5,000 in zone 5, with at least 5% of spaces free for eligible groups (Kun.uz, 2024). In 2025 the city announced dynamic pricing and said it was looking for sites for multi-storey and park-and-ride facilities (Kun.uz, 2025).

For a private operator, two conclusions follow. First, hourly charging is becoming normal for customers and varies by zone and time. Second, calculating such tariffs by hand invites errors, so the rules should be configured once in the system.

How do you automate passes, payments and the till?

An automated payment cycle records the time on entry, calculates the charge by tariff on exit, takes the payment and posts it to accounting straight away.

In practice:

Tariffs: hourly, daily, night and weekend prices and the first free minutes are set up as rules.
Passes: a monthly or quarterly pass is sold as a product, the plate number is linked to it, and a reminder and automatic invoice go out before it expires.
Online payment: through Payme, Click or a bank card. In Uzbekistan, card-based cashless payments reached about 72% of nominal GDP in 2025 (UzDaily, KPMG, 2026), and more than 68.27 million bank cards were in circulation at the start of 2026 (Kun.uz, 2026).
Cash shifts: each cashier opens and closes a shift, and the system reconciles the number of cars, the amount charged and the money received.
Corporate clients: several plates are linked to one contract, and a single month-end invoice goes out through Didox: Didox and ERP integration.

In Odoo, passes run in Subscriptions, the till in POS, and invoices and payments in Accounting: the Odoo accounting module. Connecting barriers and ANPR cameras is usually a separate integration through the equipment's API, which should be confirmed with the hardware supplier at the start of the project.

How do you control several car parks?

Each site is set up as its own branch or analytic account. Then:

Revenue, costs (rent, staff, utilities, equipment maintenance) and profit are visible for each site.
Occupancy is measured by hour and day, so the owner sees where to raise prices or push monthly passes.
Variances by cashier and shift are flagged automatically, and control no longer depends on personal visits.

On which metrics an owner should see: what management accounting is. On cutting costs through automation: reducing costs with business automation.

What changes after automation: in numbers

Tariff errors disappear: zone-based hourly rates of 5,000 to 12,000 soums (Kun.uz, 2024) and time-based prices are configured once and applied automatically at every exit.
The cash share falls: card-based cashless payments grew from about 25% of GDP in 2021 to 72% in 2025 (UzDaily, KPMG, 2026), so enabling online and card payment reduces the cash passing through the till and the risk that comes with it.
Customer flow grows: drivers spend 17 hours a year on average looking for a space (INRIX, 2017); an operator that shows free spaces and prices in advance cuts that time and earns repeat customers.
The market expands: the number of passenger cars grew by 344.6 thousand in one year (stat.uz, 2026), so opening new sites calls for a standard process and central reporting.
Passes are renewed on time and an expired plate no longer opens the barrier.

How does Deep Vision approach parking operators?

Deep Vision is an official Odoo Gold Partner based in Tashkent. Our Odoo partner page lists 7 certified specialists, 24 client references and 89% customer retention (Odoo partner page). We have a ready-made Odoo module for Didox e-invoices, and the team of Deep Vision founder Amon Olimov translated Odoo into Uzbek, so cashiers and administrators work in their own language.

A typical car park project runs like this:

Diagnostics: how sites, equipment, tariffs, passes and the till are handled today.
Phase one: tariffs, passes, cash shifts and online payment. Standard modules are often live in 6–8 weeks.
Phase two: barrier and camera integration, per-site analytics, corporate invoicing. A full project typically takes 2–6 months.

To discuss a solution for your business, fill in a short brief or see our Odoo implementation service. Our work: portfolio.

Frequently asked questions

If barriers and cameras are already installed, do they need replacing?

Usually not. If the equipment has an API or data export, the ERP connects to it through an integration. We check this with the supplier during diagnostics.

How should monthly passes be managed?

A pass is sold as a product and linked to the plate number. Before expiry the system sends a reminder and an invoice, and if it is not paid the plate is removed from the access list.

How can cashiers' cash be controlled?

Every shift is opened and closed in the system. Cars entered, amounts charged and cash in the till are reconciled automatically, and the owner sees any variance at once.

Does it work for car parks in different cities?

Yes. Each site runs as a separate branch or analytic account, and the owner sees overall and per-site reports on one screen.

How much does implementation cost?

It depends on the number of modules, users and integrations. For a rough idea: Odoo ERP pricing in Uzbekistan.

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