HotSpot Parking Transit Taxis

HotSpot Parking Inc

About this app

Description

The HotSpot Parking, Transit and Taxi mobile app allows users to pay for parking, transit, and taxi all from your mobile device! This provides you with a relaxed, care-free travel experience while visiting local shopping and tourist areas.

With HotSpot Parking, you can:

• Pay for and top-up your parking sessions from your phone.
• Refund unused parking sessions back to your HotSpot Wallet.
• Receive alerts 15 minutes prior to your session expiring and when your session has expired.
• Pay for parking tickets by simply taking a picture of your ticket and paying it through the HotSpot app.
• Get free or subsidized parking through merchant validation at HotSpot businesses.
• Use our real-time parking maps to find available parking.
• Purchase permits and manage your vehicles in the HotSpot app or online dashboard.
• With our user-friendly NFC tap system, pay through the HotSpot app by tapping your mobile phone at the gate.
• Manage multiple parkers under a corporate fleet account.

With HotSpot Transit, you can:
*Available in select cities
• Purchase digital transit tickets.
• Purchase monthly student, adult, and senior passes.
• Display your valid digital pass on your mobile phone when boarding the bus.
• View live transit maps to track bus locations.
• Use our Trip Planner to identify what bus to take and where the stops are.

With HotSpot Taxi, you can:
*Available in select cities
• Book a taxi.
• Receive dispatch notifications, such as estimated time for taxi to arrive and when the taxi has arrived.
• Pay your taxi driver through the app.
• Rate your driver to help us improve.

Savings and Community Donations:
• All valid CAA members in Canada receive great HotSpot membership savings. Members receive the Annual Plan for only $18/year.
• CAA Atlantic Canada offers a FREE annual HotSpot membership to their Premier package.
• HotSpot has partnered with United Way to give members the opportunity to give back to their community. Donate from unfinished parking sessions to help your local United Way build stronger, more prosperous communities for all.

Customizable Interface:
• You can choose the view on your Home page to be either Parking or Transit.
• You can change the app’s theme colour.

We hope you enjoy these awesome features and appreciate your support!

Much Love,
The HotSpot Team

Ratings and reviews

Single worst parking so I've used (and it's a pretty low bar). Very irritating ux, and forces you to put 10 dollars in a virtual wallet in order to pay anything. They say you can initiate a refund by calling, but they're obviously banking on folks not doing that, and profiting from both abandoned funds and regular users carrying a balance.

Pure rubbish. Complicated setup. Cannot process a single card payment like literally all modern apps, but rather forces you to fund a wallet with a $10 MINIMUM. My 1 hour parking fee was $1.22. Freaking absurd. If you park in Oregon City, I HIGHLY recommend you just bring coins instead of getting gouged by this straight-up scam. I've used many parking apps in multiple countries, and this is - BY FAR - the absolute worst one I've ever seen.

I don't think I've had a worse parking app experience than this. They're all pretty bad, but Hotspot seems like it was intentionally designed to be as hostile as possible. Oregon City needs to switch immediately. I've never before been required to keep a balance (minimum $10) just to pay 70¢ to park. On top of that, you can't have more than one active session, so I can't pay for parking more than one of my cars at once! Completely outrageous.

What's new

• Improved notifications and permit charge warnings.
• Updated “Find Available Parking” button UI.
• Fixed transit pass update and routing issues.
• Corrected plate editing and auto-renewal for permits.
• Fixed transit pass sub-total display error.