15/10/2026
Workplace parking software decides who gets a space. It doesn't decide whether the barrier opens.
For office building operators, that difference matters more than any feature list.
Many workplace tools are sold as office parking management systems.
What they really do is allocate one company's spaces among its own employees, with points, waitlists and automatic release. For hybrid teams that works well.
But they don't supply barriers, plate recognition, payment or on-site service, and they always need a parking system underneath, connected through an interface that has to be tested again after every update.
In a building with several tenants, visitors, suppliers and paid public parking, that setup means two vendors, an interface nobody really owns and two sets of records to reconcile every month.
An integrated office parking system like SKIDATA covers the whole car park in one:
→ one contract and one point of contact when something breaks
→ permissions and barrier in the same system
→ each tenant manages its own employees and visitors, within limits the operator sets
→ one record of permissions, entries, exits and payments
→ access keeps working on site, even when the network is down
JBG Smith runs parking for more than 300 tenants in Crystal City, Washington D.C., on SKIDATA, from one control room.
Our new buyer's guide is written for operators, facility managers and procurement teams. It shows when workplace software is enough, when it isn't, and which eight questions every vendor should answer before you sign.
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