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.
Quick booking by pressing the + button has replaced the ability to choose a specific space from the previous version of parking.
You must add a vehicle to your profile in order to book parking.
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
As a real estate administrator or global administrator, you can use the booking settings tab to toggle parking on/off and manage the order that parking zones fill up when spaces are booked.
Zones that are not added to the parking zone booking order will only be bookable by administrators via the spaces tab.
Administrators can also 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:
To configure spaces, use the actions button:
In the configuration view, you can add parking lots, zones within each lot, and spaces within each zone, then manage their properties.
When editing an individual space, you can choose the size, edit tags, or permanently assign it to someone:
You can also use the search bar to find a specific vehicle and see who it’s registered to:
Coming soon…
- Export a spreadsheet of bookings and license plate numbers for a given day
- Book parking spaces for visitors
- Change the vehicle on your parking booking
- Auto-release assigned spaces
- Whitelist parking zones to specific groups
Calven values your feedback! What features are you most excited for? What’s missing? Let us know to help guide what comes next for Calven parking.