Swift Parking

West Midlands Combined Authority

About this app

SwiftParking is the new, smarter way to pay at car parks around the West Midlands. Easily pay for your parking spot right from your mobile device. No more fiddling for change or queuing at the self service kiosk. Use the SwiftParking app to select the duration and you’re ready to park! You can do it when you arrive or pay in advance for time that you use later.


Avoid the hassle and stress before you travel


○ Choose the nearest or preferred car park
○ Select the parking duration you want
○ Buy parking time for now or later
○ Get alerts before your parking session expires
○ Extend your parking time remotely from the app
○ See any car park’s opening hours and costs
○ View your transaction history

This app is a pilot to test the Swift Parking solution.

Functionality and options are currently restricted to Bromsgrove railway station car park only. The plan to roll out Swift Parking to car parks across the West Midlands in the future is subject to the success of the trial.

Ratings and reviews

No receipts. No faq. No contact us option. The contact details are for buses. Nothing about private parking. It took ages to set up the app Vs other apps. Its not clear how you view or search for car parks. So frustrating why they can't all use the same apps that actually works. I have to have so many of these apps but this is the worst I've used. It did at least finally allow me to park. But the rest of it useless for business customers.

Not sure why WM combined couldn't use a bigger parking provider like Ringo or Paybyphone instead of clunking together their own poor solution. Set up takes far too long if you're waiting in a car park. You're unable to pay the exact amount, needing to top up a fixed amount, leaving me with credit I'm not going to use. I recently reset my phone, and for some reason I'm unable to use the my Google account to sigh in on my phone. Installed the app on my ipad and it logs in with no issues. Poor.

It's like the person who designed this has never used a parking app! Clunky 'top up' system rather than just taking payment from card. Is it simply a way to max revenue as 'top up' has to be set value, but actual parking cost is different? Can only pay to park one car at once, which is awkward. Finding car parks is also a little hit and miss. I had to restart app to make it work. Overall not very impressive.

What's new

- Our redesigned profile page makes management of your personal information easier and faster.
- Never miss news & events, they are accessible from the same place on your messages thread.
- A number of UI/UX improvements and bug fixes for a better experience.