SpotHero is a major North American parking marketplace. We connect its facility, rate, and reservation data to the systems that need it — and automate the fulfilment around it.
Parking is a booking business with its own quirks. Inventory is a facility rather than a seat, rates depend on arrival and departure times rather than a simple date, and fulfilment is a pass or barcode that has to work when the driver arrives at the gate.
Integrating a parking marketplace means handling all three correctly: finding the right facility for a location or event, quoting a rate for a real time window, and reliably delivering something the customer can actually use. It is a natural companion to event ticketing, where parking is often the attachment sale.
Reading the documentation is the easy half. These are the areas that decide whether an integration takes weeks or months — and the ones we scope carefully before quoting.
Parking is frequently sold alongside something else — an event ticket, a flight, a hotel stay. That makes it an attachment product, and attachment products live or die on whether the combined experience holds together when one half fails.
The design question is what happens when the parking books and the main item does not, or the reverse. We build those flows so a partial failure is detected and resolved rather than leaving a customer half-booked and nobody aware of it.
Yes — search nearby facilities, quote a rate for the customer's time window, take the booking, and deliver the pass. The parts that need care are time-zone correctness and making sure fulfilment is verified rather than assumed.
Marketplace API access is normally partner- or agreement-based rather than self-serve. We establish what access you have or can get before designing anything around it.
Yes, and it is a natural attachment. The important design work is the failure case: what happens when one half of the bundle books and the other does not. That needs to be detected and resolved, not left to a customer to discover.
Normally a pass or access credential issued on confirmation. Treat it as something of value: deliver it reliably, confirm it arrived, and handle it carefully in logs and storage.
Terms vary between facilities rather than being uniform across the marketplace, so the integration has to carry the actual policy through to your customer instead of assuming one rule.
We are usually working in several of these at once, which is how we know where each one bites. See all integrations for the full list.