Free tools for parking operators

One toolkit for sizing, pricing, and compliance

Running a parking lot well is a sequence of small decisions: how much to charge, how many spaces you actually need, whether your signage and accessibility setup will pass an inspection, and how your rates stack up against the lot across the street. Each tool on this page answers one of those questions on its own, but they are designed to be used together. Most operators start with the rate database to benchmark their market, run the price calculator to set an anchor rate, use the demand estimator to confirm the lot is sized correctly, and finish with the compliance checker and audit checklist to close any regulatory gaps before they cost money. None of them require an account, and none of them store your inputs on our servers — the calculators run in your browser.

How operators chain the tools together

A typical workflow looks like this. When you are evaluating a new site, the demand estimator tells you whether the lot is over- or under-built for its location, and the rate database tells you what comparable lots in the same city charge. Once the lot is live, the price calculator helps you find the hourly rate that targets healthy occupancy without turning drivers away, and the dynamic-pricing logic baked into Park Graph lets you vary that anchor by time of day. On a recurring cadence, the audit checklist scores the whole operation across payment, signage, compliance, operations, and discoverability, and the compliance checker confirms your accessible-space count and signage meet federal ADA minimums. The QR sign generator produces the physical artifact that ties the payment flow together — a weatherproof, scannable sign drivers use to pay without downloading an app.

Built for a hardware-free, agent-discoverable lot

These tools reflect how Park Graph thinks about modern parking: no gates, no pay stations, and no proprietary hardware to maintain. Drivers pay by scanning a QR code, operators manage everything from one dashboard, and the lot itself is discoverable not just by people on a map but by AI agents through a public API, an MCP server, and ChatGPT Actions. That last point increasingly matters — when a traveler asks an assistant to find and book parking near a venue, lots that expose structured availability and pricing get surfaced and the ones that do not stay invisible. The free tools help you get the fundamentals right; the platform turns those fundamentals into a lot that collects revenue and shows up wherever drivers and agents are searching.

Every tool here is free to use without an account because the fundamentals of running a parking lot should not be locked behind a paywall. Benchmark your rates, size a prospective lot, score your operation against a checklist, and confirm your accessibility setup as often as you like. When you are ready to actually collect revenue, the same thinking that shaped these calculators powers the platform: contactless QR payments, demand-based pricing you control, and a lot that surfaces to drivers and AI agents alike.

Want the platform behind the tools? See how Park Graph works or jump straight to a rate benchmark for your city.