How to create restrictions to simplify your parkers’ experience
Overview
The restrictions feature, when enabled, prohibits new parking sessions for the selected zone(s)/space(s).
Below are some examples of when you may want to use a restriction:
- If there is active construction in a zone, you can restrict people from starting a parking session
- If you want the zone to be free of charge for a set time, you can restrict people from paying for parking
- If it’s a holiday and you want to give free parking
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Steps
1. In OpsMan, navigate to the Setup > Restriction Setup tab.
2. Click Create New Restriction.
3. Complete the following fields:
- Restriction Name: your internal name for this restriction. Your parkers will not see this text.
- Ex. Construction
- Restriction Type: is not visible to the parker. Simply use this field for organization within OpsMan.
- Title: your external name for this restriction. This is displayed as the title when the restriction is shown to the end user.
- Ex. No Parking – Construction Zone.
- Message: this is the message displayed in the restriction when it is shown to the end user.
- Ex. This lot is closed due to construction.
- One Time Slots: active for a specific date range.
- Recurring Slots: active on a recurring schedule.
- Ex. Weekly from Sunday – Tuesday.
- Choose to apply to Zones or Spaces.
- Zones: Click one or multiple zones and drag over using the right arrow from the Available zones to Active zones in order to apply this restriction to a certain zone(s). NOTE: do NOT apply to both zone and spaces, or it will not work. You must select only one. If you’d like to apply to a full zone, drag the zone over. If you’d like to apply to a few spaces, select the zone in the drop-down within the Spaces section and pull over the spaces.
- Spaces: Click one or multiple spaces and drag over using the right arrow from the Available spaces to Active spaces in order to apply this restriction to certain space(s). NOTE: do NOT apply to both zone and spaces, or it will not work. You must select only one. If you’d like to apply to a full zone, drag the zone over. If you’d like to apply to a few spaces, select the zone in the drop-down within the Spaces section and pull over the spaces.