iPAM Small Communities Program
Your community. Your parking rules. A free first year with iPAM.
Eligible small US municipalities can apply for 12 months of iPAM at no subscription cost, with the rules and automation set by your town. Eligibility, the scope of the award and what follows the first year are agreed with each town directly and put in writing before anything is activated.
Why we run this
Most small towns manage parking with a clerk, a spreadsheet and one officer who also does everything else. The software built for cities is priced for cities. This program is part of Allerin's community engagement work: a working parking system for a year for the towns that software leaves out.
It is an agreement, not a donation. We provide the software and onboarding for the year under written terms that we send to applicants before anything is activated.
Who can apply
A verified US town, city, borough, village or equivalent local government, one award per municipality, applied for by someone authorised to act for it. You do not need paid parking, a minimum permit count or any citation revenue to qualify. Size and scope are confirmed with each town during the application, so apply and say what you have; estimates are fine.
What the award includes
A working parking system for the year, sized for a small-town operation rather than trimmed to a trial. Three things it does for you, then the exact list.
Manage parking on your town's terms
Set the free-parking limit and the extensions you allow. Configure hours, seasonal restrictions and rules that differ by location. Administrators choose which supported actions run on their own and which staff review.
Give staff one place to work
Permits, applications and renewals, enforcement from an officer's phone, citations, payments and the reports on all of it, with history drawn from your town's own records.
Make routine tasks easier for residents
Online applications and renewals, payments and receipts, renewal reminders and operational notices, without a trip to the clerk's window.
Included in the award
- Free-parking limits and extensions. Set the free allowance and decide when, where and for whom extra time applies.
- Seasonal and time-based parking rules. Parking hours, seasonal restrictions and rules that vary by location or time.
- Administrator-controlled automation. Choose which supported actions happen on their own and which need staff review, according to your rules.
- Permits, applications and renewals. Online application and renewal, with tracking of active permits and outstanding work so staff can see demand.
- Enforcement from an officer's phone. No hardware to buy. Digital citations with online payment.
- Lot availability and temporary closures. Operating hours and closures for maintenance, community events or other temporary restrictions.
- Alerts, reminders and notices. Permit-renewal reminders and operational notices to residents.
- Parking reports. Permit activity, violations, citations and payments, with trends from the town's recorded activity.
- Scheduled reports, basic. Recurring standard reports to the people responsible for parking administration and finance. The full scheduled-reporting set is on the Standard tier.
- Event parking scheduling, basic. Requests to use municipal lots by location, date, hours and spaces requested, kept in one place. The full event module is on the Full tier.
- Resident portal. Applications, renewals, payments and receipts in one place.
- Configured parking rates, where parking is paid. Town-set rates by time or location. Optional; most programme towns run free time limits only.
The award is this list. Nothing else is implied. Where an item says basic, its scope is set out in the written terms we send applicants.
Camera-supported lots add occupancy, arrival and departure tracking, parking duration and matching against permits or payments. They are scoped separately during the application, because camera activity does not track permit or citation volume. They are not part of the award, and we tell you before activation whether and how they fit, and at what cost if any.
The award is the software subscription. Hardware, installation, connectivity and payment processor fees sit outside it. We say so here so nothing surprises your finance office later.
Apply to the program
Tell us about your town and how parking runs today. We confirm eligibility and the scope of the award with you directly, and nothing is activated until the terms are in writing.