ParkPlus
Turning Calgary's parking backbone into a multi-tenant platform other cities could adopt in weeks instead of months.
Role
Product Lead, Parking Management Suite
Industry
PropTech / Smart Parking
Client
City of Calgary & Municipalities
Context
Enterprise Scale
01. The Platform
The Source of Truth for City Parking
ParkPlus is the central parking management platform behind the City of Calgary's parking operations: payments, permits, enforcement, and customer records, syncing data across street-side pay machines, the MyParking app, and enforcement vehicles. As product lead I owned both day-to-day operations and the modernization roadmap for a $45M+ product suite.
02. The Fix
Onboarding That Lived in a Spreadsheet
New client onboarding ran on spreadsheets, and every deployment was a months-long manual project. Rebuilding it into a productized, multi-tenant setup cut client setup time by 90% and saved over 350 hours per client.
That work turned a single-city system into something other operators could genuinely adopt, and we implemented ParkPlus for two new municipalities in Alberta and BC.
That work turned a single-city system into something other operators could genuinely adopt, and we implemented ParkPlus for two new municipalities in Alberta and BC.
03.
The Contact Center Integration
We worked directly with the parking division's contact centers to implement a triaging tool and integrate read-only APIs, so agents saw payment and ticket details on one dashboard instead of switching between systems.
It is the same pattern I later reused at enterprise scale: put the platform's data inside the support team's workflow instead of asking them to visit yours.
It is the same pattern I later reused at enterprise scale: put the platform's data inside the support team's workflow instead of asking them to visit yours.
Key Insights & Takeaways
- Client onboarding is a product. Ours lived in a spreadsheet until we rebuilt it, and the rebuild was worth 350 hours per client.
- Government buyers demand audit-grade data integrity and documentation from day one.
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