Set up and book parking in Calven

Auto-book parking with Calven

If your office has parking spaces configured, you can enable auto-book parking space in your profile. If enabled, Calven will book your parking in advance at the same time desks are auto-booked at your office. 

When Calven auto-books spaces, it takes fairness into account to ensure that those who did not get a space last time bookings were made are more likely to get one the next time - equitably distributing spaces over time.

If you don't want recurring parking bookings, you can also “quick-book” parking for a specific day and let Calven pick out an available space for you, by pressing the + button next to no parking booked in your office pass.

Parking waitlist

If you don't get a parking space when auto-booking happens, you'll be added to the waitlist for a parking space. Each day, Calven will look for any parking bookings that have been cancelled and re-book those spaces for people on the waitlist.

Book based on vehicle size and type

Add vehicles to your profile and Calven will book parking for the one you’ve selected as your primary vehicle.

Calven supports 3 parking space sizes: 

• Standard spaces can be booked by all vehicle sizes
• Compact spaces can be booked by compact vehicles only
• Motorcycle spaces can be booked by motorcycles only

Spaces can also be flagged as accessible or EV. Accessible spaces can only be booked by vehicles that require accessible parking. Electric vehicles will prioritize EV spaces, but can also be booked into non-EV spaces when EV spaces aren’t available.

You can add and manage your vehicles from your profile in both Calven mobile and web. When registering your vehicle, you can choose it's size, and whether you'd like an accessible or EV space for it:

Enable parking and manage spaces

Who can manage parking in Calven?

• Global administrators and real estate administrators can enable/disable parking, configure spaces, and manage booking settings
• Global administrators and booking administrators can create and cancel parking space bookings on behalf of others

Learn more about administrator roles in Calven

As a real estate administrator or global administrator,  head to app.calven.com/admin/parking to enable parking for your office:

Once you've enabled parking booking, you use configure parking spaces to add parking lots, parking zones, and spaces. Each office can have multiple parking lots, and each parking lot can have multiple zones, which contain individual spaces:

When configuring your parking spaces, you can change size, tags, or choose to permanently assign a space to someone:

Once you've created parking zones, use the booking settings tab to manage the order that parking zones fill up when Calven books parking spaces.

Booking administrators can use the spaces tab to manage bookings and book available spaces on behalf of others. Click on a space for a given day to choose who to book for:

You can also use the search bar to find a specific vehicle and see who it’s registered to:

Coming soon…

• Change which vehicle you're booking for
• Book parking spaces for visitors
• Auto-release assigned spaces
• Whitelist parking zones to specific groups