Get Parkee, DANA Adds a Non-Cash Parking Payment Feature

DANA inaugurated the latest parking payment feature in collaboration with parking service provider startups Parkee. This innovation makes it easier for vehicle owners to enter digital payments because they do not need to download additional applications to pay for parking non-cash.

DANA Co-Founder & CEO Vince Iswara explained that this release is the company's strategy to change user habits to switch to digital payments, especially in this pandemic era cash can be an intermediary for this dangerous virus.

“This is actually changing people behavior, so don't see amount [only business potential], but it's time to change. We believe that with technological developments, it will be easier to transact if you use a trustworthy platform," he said during a private press conference online, Wednesday (21/10).

To use this feature, users simply scan their parking ticket using DANA 15 minutes before leaving the building. Then confirm and pay. Once the transaction is successful, users will receive a notification that will remind them to leave the building or parking area at the specified time. In the early stages, new users can use this feature in 200 parking locations.

Parkee is a number of companies that have been signed by DANA. Vince explained, DANA technology which is open platform enabling them to work with multiple platforms to provide greater benefits to the Indonesian people.

One parking manager who has partnered with Parkee, PT Centerpark Citra Corpora, said the total global parking turnover reached $80 billion. Meanwhile, in Indonesia alone last year, it was Rp off street (side of the road).

He predicts that on street (special parking space) can be 1,5 times larger than off street. “The market niche is very large. As far as I know, the market car park In Indonesia, the tariff is still the cheapest. Outside Jakarta, parking for motorbikes can still be Rp. 500," said Centerpark Founder and CEO Charles Oentomo.

He admitted that non-cash payments are very much needed in the parking industry. From the company's data, 60% of payments still use cash. Meanwhile, non-cash payments still use card-based electronic money. Centerpark itself now manages 400 parking locations in 42 cities.

Parkee Business

Founder & CEO Parkee Wilson Sumanang explained, innovation with DANA is the answer for consumers who need practical solutions, without having to download additional applications on the internet. smartphone.

Therefore, he is not worried if Parkee users prefer to switch to the DANA application to pay for parking, rather than the Parkee application. The reason is, Parkee positioned itself as a platform, which means that the technology can be placed with partners and still get business.

After all, the solution developed by Parkee does not only pay for parking, there is also a parking reservation feature, and a dashboard for building owners and operators when they want to identify visitors in their parking areas, complete with the duration spent and monitor the number of transactions online. real-time.

“DANA can help jointly promote cashless payments to their users and Parkee. So this is not so churn [create an application] but will bring maximum benefits for users.”

Together with DANA, he continued, there will be further developments to be carried out. One of them is releasing a parking reservation feature which is already in the development stage. "The hope is that with DANA we can process 1 million transactions in the next year."

Parkee has been used by more than 200 thousand users and its services can be used in more than 200 parking locations throughout Indonesia. The volume of transactions that were successfully processed reached more than 900 thousand times. Parkee's partners include Centerpark and EZ Parking.

Parkee is not the only parking player online existing in Indonesia. In addition, there are Smark, Parking, Find Parking, Parkways, and eParking which are managed by Telkom.