Manage Car Parks

Note

This feature is only available to users with an Admin role.

As an admin, you will be able to configure and manage all your resources from the Manage Car Parks section of the application.

From the left-hand navigation bar, click the Manage Car Parks menu item.

From this page you can see and manage all your currently configured car parks, which are displayed with their Name, Description and action buttons.

Adding a new car park to the service

To add a new car park, click the Add Car Park button at the top of the page.

Fill in the following details:

• enter the Car Park Name

• enter the Car Park Description

• enter the appropriate Email

• configure the car park's AM/PM Time Slots using the Start Time and End Time fields; this will also essentially configure the car park's opening and closing times.

  When users come to book parking spaces in this car park, on Step 2 of the booking flows, they will be able to book for an AM, PM or All Day time slot and these times will be displayed.

• configure Include Weekends to either:

  • True if the car park will be available to book at weekends
  • False for Monday to Friday bookings only

• configure Allow Multi-day Booking to either:

  • True to allow users to book parking spaces in this car park across multiple days
  • False to only allow users to book 1 day at a time

• configure Number Of Parking Spaces To Return Per Search Day: this allows you to limit the number of results returned when a user searches for available parking spaces. This can be set to prevent the system for example, returning hundreds of options for a large car park.

Clicking Save Car Park will add the car park to the Car Park Booking service.

Editing a car park

You will be able to edit your car park's details at any point by using its associated Edit button, making your changes and clicking the Update button to save.

Any changes will be immediately available.

Enabling/Disabling a car park

As an Admin, you have the abiltity to remove a car park from the booking options.
Each car park is displayed with a corresponding Change Availability button, and Car Park Available column showing it current setting.

Clicking the button will immediately reset the car park's availability. If it's current Car Park Available setting is equal to true, it will be set to false, and vice versa.

When a car park is

• Enabled (true) - it is displayed in the Car Park dropdown list and can be selected by bookers.
• Disabled (false) - it is not displayed in the Car Park dropdown list and therefore, is not available for bookers to select. It will also be highlighted in the Manage Car Parks list as shown below.

Note that admins can also change the availability of a car park by editing its details page.

Important

Please be aware that you cannot disable a car park if there is a future booking against it for that date/slot. Any future bookings must be cancelled before you can disable it.

Scheduling the unavailability of a car park

You can schedule a period of unavailability to occur at a future date or date range. This can be applied to a car park, level or zone.

For full information on this feature, please refer to userguide - Holidays and Breaks.

Deleting a car park

As the admin, you will be able to delete any car park which is no longer required or available.

From the left-hand navigation bar, click the Manage Car Parks menu item.

Locate your car park in the list and click its associated Delete button which will display a confirmation modal:

• Clicking Cancel will dismiss the modal
• Clicking Delete will dismiss the modal and delete the car park and all of its levels, parking spaces and zones.

However, if there are any current bookings for parking spaces in this car park, the following message will be displayed and you will not be able to complete your deletion until all the open bookings have been cancelled.

Click the Cancel button to dismiss the modal.