Parkwhiz API
ParkWhiz runs a documented v4 REST API with OAuth2, a sandbox, webhooks, and native SDKs, covering search, booking, supply management, and seller data. Access is partner-gated: credentials come by emailing partner support, with no self-serve signup, public pricing, or published rate limits.
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Parkwhiz scores D+ on the API Report Card. ParkWhiz runs a documented v4 REST API with OAuth2, a sandbox, webhooks, and native SDKs, covering search, booking, supply management, and seller data. Access is partner-gated: credentials come by emailing partner support, with no self-serve signup, public pricing, or published rate limits.
Without a usable official API, teams fall back on manual exports, file drops, or one-off vendor integrations. The other option is an unofficial API layer like Supergood that automates the authenticated web app directly.
ParkWhiz is a Chicago-founded consumer parking reservation marketplace launched in 2006 that lets drivers pre-book hourly, daily, monthly, and event parking at thousands of garages, lots, and on-street/valet locations across major North American cities and airports (Boston, Chicago, NYC, SF, LA, DC, Toronto, plus 50+ airports).
Fleet/Trucking/Logistics, specifically consumer mobility / parking-as-a-service, sitting between drivers and parking operators. Consumers search a date/time/location on parkwhiz.com or the Parkwhiz/Arrive mobile app, compare rates across nearby garages, prepay via credit card or Apple/Google Pay, and receive a mobile parking pass (QR code, license-plate read, or barcode) used at the garage gate.
High in U.S. consumer pre-booked parking, but concentrated. ParkWhiz/Arrive is consistently named one of the top four U.S. parking management/reservation platforms alongside SpotHero, ParkMobile, and ParkHub, with coverage in every major U.S. metro and 50+ airports.
ParkWhiz/Arrive sits on the transactional and supply-side data layer for one of the four largest U.S. consumer parking marketplaces: facility metadata for thousands of garages, lots, valet, and on-street locations (geo coordinates, entrances, photos, amenities, vehicle restrictions, height/oversize rules), per-facility rate cards (hourly, daily, monthly, event-pricing overlays driven by sports/concert schedules), real-time capacity and utilization signals fed by Flash and partner operator systems, every consumer booking (vehicle, license plate, payment method, mobile pass, ticketing add-on link to Ticketmaster orders), payouts and reconciliation data for supply partners, and B2B distribution telemetry from venue/ticketing integrations (MSG, Ticketmaster, Groupon).
Mature, mid-modern, in a brand-transition phase. ParkWhiz launched in 2006 in Chicago, was acquired/rebranded under Arrive Mobility, and merged with FlashParking in January 2021 to form one of the largest end-to-end parking platforms in North America.
No self-serve API onboarding, credentials require emailing partner-support@parkwhiz.com with no published SLA, pricing, or approval criteria. Developer changelog has been effectively silent since February 1, 2022 (removal of `ble_vend` capability), creating uncertainty about ongoing v4 support and what's changed under the Arrive/Flash rebrand. Full sourced list under Sources below.
Common alternatives include SpotHero, ParkMobile, ParkHub, Flash (formerly FlashParking), Premium Parking, JustPark. Graded alternatives appear under "More from the report card" below.
Grades measure one thing: can a customer's engineering team get their own data out programmatically? We check six things (whether a real API exists, how access is gated, data coverage, auth quality, docs and developer experience, and stability) and roll them into a letter grade. Grades get re-verified, and they only move on evidence.