Payments for Municipal Parking & Transit

Parking and transit agencies collect millions of small payments at meters, garages, pay stations and fareboxes, mostly unattended.
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Payment solutions for municipal parking & transit

How these solutions fit municipal parking & transit

See what each option adds to the way your business takes and tracks payments.

Unattended Payments

For municipal parking & transit: Build self-service checkout for permit fees, public-service bills and registrations at kiosks, stations or access points that operate without a staffed counter. Unattended payment kiosks and readers let municipal parking and transit agencies take payments around the clock without a staffed counter. Unattended EMV and contactless readers at meters and garages. Roots specifies the hardware, sets up processing and connects it to your back-office system.
  • Specify kiosk hardware and placement
  • Integrate with your account or giving system
  • Monitor devices and support them after launch
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Tap to Pay on Phone

For municipal parking & transit: Take contactless payments for permit fees, public-service bills and registrations on a supported phone while serving customers on the move. Tap to pay turns a compatible smartphone into a contactless terminal, so municipal parking and transit agencies can accept cards and wallets with no extra hardware. Officers and staff take contactless payments on phones. Roots enables tap to pay on your merchant account and helps you roll it out to staff phones.
  • Check device compatibility for your team
  • Enable and provision staff logins
  • Train staff on the payment flow
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Recurring Billing

For municipal parking & transit: Schedule and manage payments for scheduled public-service bills and payment plans, including renewals and customer account balances. Recurring billing lets municipal parking and transit agencies put parking meters, garages, permits and fares on an automatic schedule, charged to a saved card or bank account. Permits renew automatically. Roots builds the plans, retry rules and notifications, and connects them to your records.
  • Design payment plans (including 10-month or 12-month) for drivers and riders
  • Set retry, dunning and late-fee rules
  • Sync recurring payments to your accounting or management system
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Mobile Payments

For municipal parking & transit: Collect payments for permit fees, public-service bills and registrations away from a fixed counter, with transactions recorded against the sale or job. Mobile payments let municipal parking and transit agencies take cards on a phone, tablet or handheld terminal wherever the work happens. Accept citation payments on handhelds. Roots provisions devices on your merchant account and supports them nationwide.
  • Choose devices for your drivers, reps or volunteers
  • Set up user logins and permissions per device
  • Train field staff
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Custom Payment Integration

For municipal parking & transit: Connect the payment flow for permit fees, public-service bills and registrations with your software and the operational records behind case references, bill balances and department totals. Payments are only half the job. Municipal Parking & Transit also need each payment posted to the right account, invoice or record automatically. Transactions reconcile with your parking and fare software. Roots scopes, builds and supports the integration.
  • Map how payments should post in your system
  • Build, test and host the integration
  • Support and maintain it as systems change
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Municipal Parking & Transit payment questions

Start with the workflows your business needs. Options on this page include Payment Kiosks for Transit, Tap to Pay on Phone for Transit, Recurring Billing & Autopay for Transit. Roots helps compare the setup, software and processing requirements around how you operate.
Yes. Bring your current POS, checkout or billing tools and recent processing statements. We review invoices, registration payments, recurring collections and reconciliation, then plan the changes your municipal parking & transit business needs.
Request a quote for your business. The review covers your payment mix, locations, software, hardware recommendations and implementation work. Consultations and payment reviews are free.
Bring recent payment statements, the systems you use and a record of how a customer places an order, receives a service or pays a bill. Tell us which municipal parking & transit workflows need to improve so we can scope a practical setup.

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