Parkopedia launches multi-domain payment platform | Automotive Industry News

Parkopedia has released a new multi-domain payment platform enabling drivers to shell out for parking, EV charging, fuelling and tolls.

The platform suggests the alternative solves the task for automakers of aggregating a big selection of suppliers and payment vendors into a person integrated payment platform with single indicator-on capability for drivers.

The platform is being rolled out in 2021 with automaker and lover announcements to observe shortly and will be available by using car or truck infotainment devices in combination with web-site and mobile apps.

Parkopedia initially released in-car payments in 2014 with the parking payments platform sent in partnership with Volvo.

Now, Parkopedia aims to simplify how drivers make payments for their wider car or truck-centered buys, by consolidating many international retailers into a person account.

In-car payments for car or truck companies can mean obtaining to deal with hundreds of retailers. Parkopedia’s new platform aggregates these retailers and eliminates existing obstacles to entry, such as the have to have to swipe a card to unlock a charging station, or to shell out for gas, offering connected service to drivers and simplifying administration for automakers.

“We are already the current market chief for in-car or truck parking payments, so expanding throughout other crucial locations of the integrated payments current market basically helps make perception for our clients,” claimed Parkopedia COO, Hans Puvogel.

“Our One Sign-On alternative will substantially decrease equally the complexities and linked charges for OEMs in this area. We already have the rely on from some of the world’s greatest automakers with our present parking products, so we are confident they much too will welcome this announcement.”

For his part, Parkopedia founder and CEO, Eugene Tsyrklevich, added: “This previous yr has proved the foreseeable future is with digital payments and integrating as quite a few car or truck-centric payments all under a person roof with our new payment platform is the rational following move for us and the field.

“How drivers shell out is transforming and we are witnessing the advancement of electric car or truck profits and charging as effectively as speak to-totally free fuelling and the emerging smart metropolis toll payments. The platform was developed to simplify and automate this complex region for equally corporations and buyers alike.”