On busy office days parking spaces are scarce, while on other days spaces are left over. With AppjePlekje colleagues book their space in advance. You decide how they are shared and get insight into how they are used.
When everyone came to the office five days a week, parking was an allocation problem you solved once. You assigned spaces and that was it. Now one person comes in on Tuesday and Thursday and another on Wednesday, one week differs from the next, and the same space goes unused one day while three colleagues circle around it on another.
On Tuesday and Thursday the garage is full by half past eight and everyone else circles the neighbourhood. On Monday and Friday that same garage is half empty. You pay all year for capacity that falls short two days a week.
Without agreed rules, whoever leaves home earliest or has been with the company longest wins. Colleagues with children, a part-time schedule or a new job keep missing out, and that feels exactly as unfair as it is.
On a busy morning every parking space seems necessary. How many spaces are used the rest of the week? Without an overview it is hard to decide whether you need extra space.
Your colleague chooses a day and books. The app suggests an available parking space, and your colleague can also choose a space themselves.
The app shows how many spaces are available each day. If the day is full, or their group may not book that day, the reason is shown right away and your colleague can switch to another day or to public transport. That saves a trip to a full garage.
The app suggests a free space. If your colleague wants a different one, they pick it from the list of free spaces.
Anyone who needs a charging point gets a charging spot if one is free. If the licence plate is mandatory, reception knows which car should be there that day. If something unexpected comes up, the space goes back into the free pool with one tap.
No more keeping separate lists or fielding phone calls about who can still park. You set up your parking rules once. Colleagues book and cancel themselves.
How many spaces there are and how many of them have a charging point. Whether the licence plate is mandatory. How far ahead people may book and until what time the day before, so a space nobody uses is released in time instead of at eight in the morning.
On top of that, a maximum per employee per week and per year. Anyone who joins halfway through the year gets a pro rata annual maximum, so you do not have to correct anything by hand.
You switch recurring bookings on for everyone, off for everyone, or on for admins only. The same applies to booking for a colleague. That way you decide whether it is self-service or whether someone acts as a go-between.
You decide per group whether it may use the car park. Think of an office, a department, the field staff or the colleagues who live too far away for public transport.
Within that access you set a maximum per group and per weekday. The field staff might get ten spaces on Tuesday and none on Friday, for example, while office staff can manage with five spaces on Tuesday. If you set a day to closed, that group cannot book on that day at all.
You can exclude individual spaces for certain groups. The spaces next to the entrance, a space for the company car or the space reserved for management then stay outside the normal allocation, without you having to remove them from the system.
Finally, you can keep a number of spaces free for visitors per weekday. They do not count towards what employees see, so they cannot be booked away by accident.
What a user-friendly app. We said goodbye to our Excel team schedule and moved over to AppjePlekje completely. Very satisfied.
If there is not room for everyone, you want to be able to explain how the allocation works. With clear agreements per team, everyone knows where they stand.
A maximum per week prevents one employee from claiming every day. Someone who has a space two days a week leaves the third day to someone else. An annual maximum does the same over a longer period, for example for colleagues who live nearby and only need the car now and then.
With a maximum per group per weekday you share out the peak in advance instead of explaining it afterwards. Every department knows how many spaces it can book per day.
A limit that applies all day leaves spaces unused. That is why a group limit can lapse in the evening. A number of hours before midnight, whatever is still free becomes available to everyone coming in tomorrow. The same goes for a fixed space, for example one belonging to management. If it has not been booked the evening before, a colleague can use it the next day.
Booking a parking space should be easier than looking for one. With AppjePlekje your colleague sees right away what is free and books with one click.
Booking should not become a weekly chore. Anyone with a fixed routine sets it up once.
Your colleague chooses the days they come in and repeats them every week, every two, three or four weeks, or monthly on, for example, the first Tuesday. They also indicate whether it continues or stops after a number of repeats.
Each repeat is checked against the rules you have set. If a day is full or closed, the series skips that day and continues with the next one. So a booking that should not have been allowed is never created.
If you would rather not have everyone book weeks ahead, you limit recurring bookings to admins. It then stays possible for the cases where it is really needed, without the calendar filling up months in advance.
You can always cancel a single day from a series, without losing the rest. The space goes straight back into the pool and a colleague sees it appear the same minute.
That is exactly where a deadline pays off. Anyone who cancels before a set time the day before still gives someone else the chance to rearrange their plans. For Monday the preceding Friday counts, so the weekend does not spoil things.
Reception and admins can step in and change or cancel a booking for someone else. What they cannot do is give anyone preferential treatment, because a booking they make is also checked against the rules and groups of the colleague they are booking for.
A booking says what should happen. On the day itself you want to know what actually happens. Who is expected, which car belongs where and which space stayed empty for no reason.
Per location you see who is parked, who is still expected and who is late, and which charging points are in use. With a connected barrier, access gate or licence plate recognition you see which cars are inside. Without a connection, the overview shows the bookings.
If a location has several car parks or you share a garage with other tenants, you see per zone how much space is left.
If a car is parked in a space that is not its own, you search by licence plate, name or organisation. Reception can also book for a colleague or visitor.
A space that is booked but stays empty could have been used by a colleague. With a connected barrier, access gate or licence plate recognition you see when a car comes in and leaves again.
That shows you per day the difference between booked and actually parked. If it turns out that people regularly book without coming, you have that conversation with figures instead of a hunch.
Do you manage a multi-tenant building? Then there can be one reception for the whole building, with the parking spaces rented out to the tenants. Each tenant books in their own environment for employees and visitors, and the reception is connected to the barrier. We set this up on request.
Get in touchNot every parking space is the same. One has a charging point, another is behind a barrier, and for visitors someone has to let them in. You arrange that in the same booking, and where there is a barrier or an access system we connect to it.
You record how many of your spaces have a charging point. Charging spots are assigned separately to those who need to charge, depending on what is free that day. That way a charging spot goes first to someone who needs it.
A booking on a space with a charging point counts as electric driving. The booking data is used for commuting expenses and CO2 reporting.
You can make the licence plate mandatory when booking. That way you know per day which car should be there, and that is exactly what you need when a car is in the wrong space or when you only check at the barrier.
For visitors it goes a step further. If you use Brivo Access, a registered visitor automatically receives a temporary access code by email, valid for the doors and gates of the access group you have linked to that location. The code expires automatically and your reception no longer has to let anyone in.
Do you use a different access system? Tell us which one, and we will look together at what is possible.
You sign in with your organisation's account and the data is stored in Europe. You can read how we handle security on the Why AppjePlekje page.
Once you have been booking for a few months, you know the answer to the question you now have to guess at. Admins get a dashboard per location covering the last 30 days, 90 days or a year, each showing the change from the previous period. You can export what you see to Excel, because a conversation about renting more or giving up space rarely happens in the app itself.
The six key figures are bookings, average attendance per working day, average occupancy, peak occupancy, available capacity and the average number of days per week someone comes to park. In the occupancy over time chart, the average is shown as a bar and the peak of the same period as a dotted line, so you see at a glance whether you have a structural shortage or just two busy days.
Occupancy per weekday shows which days are always full and which are quiet. The heatmap puts the groups next to that, so you see which department causes the pressure on which day.
The dashboard points out three things. Spaces that are hardly used, spaces that are only needed on the two busiest days, and spaces that are almost always booked by the same person.
That last one is the conversation you want to have before you rent more. The reports show numbers and patterns, not employee names.
The booking data is used for the commuting allowance and for the annual work-related mobility report, for which you submit totals per mode of transport and fuel type to RVO.
How this works for commuting expensesWith AppjePlekje colleagues can also book a pool car. That way you manage the use of your shared cars alongside parking.
Yes. You switch on what you use. If you start with parking only, that is fine, and desks or meeting rooms can be added later without a new contract.
You pay per user, €3,30 per month or €2,80 with an annual subscription, excl. VAT. The number of parking spaces and locations is unlimited, so adding a space or location costs nothing extra. Everything is on the pricing page.
Yes. Booking, fair distribution, charging spots, the licence plate and analytics all work without a connection. A booking then counts as parked for as long as it runs.
The connection to a barrier, access gate or licence plate recognition is needed to see when a car actually comes in and leaves again, and to give visitors a temporary access code.
