The parts of an hourly rate
An hourly rate card in Paski has a few parts, and each one answers a question a vehicle owner asks at the exit:
- A minimum stay and its price: the first two hours for ₹20, say. Everyone pays at least this.
- The extra-hour price: each hour or part of an hour after the minimum.
- Grace minutes: a vehicle that leaves within, say, ten minutes of entering pays nothing. Someone who drove in, found no space and drove out is not charged.
- A day maximum: however long the vehicle stays, the fee stops at this figure. Without one, a car left overnight owes more than the owner will pay.
- A lost-ticket charge, for the gate that still uses paper.
Slabs are an alternative to the extra hour: up to 2 hours ₹20, up to 4 hours ₹40, up to 8 hours ₹70, then the day maximum. Many malls prefer slabs because the board at the gate can print them as a table.
One rate for each vehicle type
A two-wheeler, a car and a van each get their own card. The entry screen shows the types the gate takes, the attendant taps one, and the fee at the exit is by that type's card. A type can be switched off without losing its tickets, and a new type is live at the gate the moment it is saved.
What the owner sees before paying
At the exit the attendant scans the QR on the owner's WhatsApp ticket, or types the last four digits of the number plate. The screen shows the time in, the time out, the stay and the fee, and the same figures go to the owner as a receipt. A fee worked out by a rule, shown in writing, is one nobody argues with for long.
The money is taken in cash or by a UPI QR drawn for the exact amount, so there is no change to find and no round-off. How that works is in the guide on collecting the fee by UPI.
Weekends, festivals and nights
A rate can have days and hours of its own: a weekend card, a festival-week card, a night card from 10 pm to 6 am. The gate picks the card the vehicle meets as it comes in and the ticket keeps that price, so a vehicle that came in on Saturday pays Saturday's card even if it leaves on Monday.
Monthly passes
Shop staff and regulars buy a monthly pass by number plate. A pass vehicle is let in and out at no charge for as long as the pass runs; the pass is matched on the full number plate, never on the last four digits, so a similar plate never rides on someone else's pass. The report shows pass vehicles separately from paying ones.
Checking the card before the gate opens
The rate card screen has a preview: type a time in and a time out and it shows the fee the gate would charge. Try the awkward cases before the first real vehicle: 2 hours and 5 minutes, an overnight stay, the ten-minute drive-through. The fee rule on the phone is the same as the one on the server, so what the preview says is what the gate will charge, with or without a signal.
Rates are for each location. A mall with a basement and an open lot can set them up as two branches with different cards and one report.
Starting
Sign up, choose "Mall" as the kind of place, and the gate is set up the hourly way with a car and a two-wheeler card to edit. The first 15 days are free; after that a location is ₹500 a month or ₹5,000 a year.
