Parka.is

After using the app for a week during my visit in Iceland, I can tell you a few things definitively: 1. There is no support if you can’t get your credit card or your second credit card or your third credit card to run in the app try Apple Cash or some non-credit card format that’s what worked for me. But no one ever responded to my inquiry, which could’ve been a problem given that most of the places we visit use the app to register and pay for parking. 2. After doing some research on the company, apparently they have multiple ongoing litigation with the Iceland government for more or less bad business practices where they have either intentionally lead folks to think that they are in a parking area or. By putting cameras in a place to scare people into paying instead of getting a bill from the rental car company later. 3. Klasek application is not receiving any care or advancement because they simply don’t have to. They’ve got the contracts and visitors are forced to use it. Bad luck for them and it’s a bad look for Iceland.

So many annoyances and missed opportunities. Autofill for email and credit card doesn’t work anywhere in the app. The payment part feels extremely dodgy, and the sign up email confirmation went straight to phishing spam. But worst of all, the price for parking was never shown up front. Even when you check out from the parking spot, it just presents the card you saved and says “Pay now” — without a single indication of how much. The price was finally shown _after_ the payment is processed. The transaction fee was also high, or 86 kr on top of a parking cost of 116 kr. I’d highly encourage the developers to try other parking apps and play around with them to see what’s possible here.

Have used parking apps for different cities, but this is the worst of them all. If you change language to English, it immediately changes to Icelandic the moment you move out of the home page. I couldn’t find out how to increase the parking time before checkout. The only useful thing about this app is the color coded street map view that helps you identify the zones. But highly recommend visitors to just directly pay in the meters as this app is not useful at all. Also there is an addition 85isk charge for using the app every time you check out.