What Misparked costs an operator
Priced on reports. Never on tows.
A report is a guarantee that a vehicle is there right now, and that is the thing being bought. What happens after you arrive is yours, and it never touches the invoice.
The shape of it
Three numbers, and you pick one of them.
A report, to start
The rate falls as the month's volume grows, down to $1.99. A month with no reports in it costs nothing.
A monthly maximum you set
In dollars, from your own settings, changed whenever you want. Reports past it are held rather than sent, so the worst case is a figure you chose.
Before anything is charged
Card on file at signup so there is no invoice to chase. Annual prepay is available and is not required.
The whole schedule
Marginal, the way tax brackets are.
Each report is priced at the rate for its position in the month, so no single report ever costs more than one report's rate. There is no threshold where the next report suddenly costs more than the last one, because a price worth arguing about is a price somebody argues about.
Every bracket
| Reports in a month | Each report in that range |
|---|---|
| 1–10 | $5 |
| 11–30 | $4 |
| 31–75 | $3.25 |
| 76–150 | $2.75 |
| 151–999 | $2.25 |
| 1,000 and up | $1.99 |
A month of forty
40 reports in a month comes to 10 × $5 + 20 × $4 + 10 × $3.25 = $162.50. The next report after that costs $3.25, and not a penny more.
What does not bill
A report that was wrong is not a report you pay for.
Two of the four ways to decline a job take it off the bill: the vehicle was allowed to be there, and the driver could not match a vehicle to what was reported. Those say the report itself was wrong, so you are not charged for it, and the reporter's own record carries it.
The other two still bill, and they should. You could not get to it, and it is not something your contract there covers, both describe a report that was fine and something on the other end that was not.
Decline rates sit in the data and we look at them. An operator declining most of what arrives is either receiving genuinely bad reports, which shows up independently in the reporters' own records, or is not declining in good faith, and the two do not look alike.
Why not per tow
Nobody here is paid for a vehicle being taken.
It would bend every decision we make
Revenue that tracks tow count decides where a threshold gets set and whether a shaky report gets forwarded. On a flat rate those are easy calls, and they stay easy.
It is your license, not ours
The contingency arrangements that draw attention are the ones between the operator and the property. Misparked stays out of that relationship entirely, and it stays out of it in writing.
Residents are not paid either
Nobody reporting a vehicle earns anything for it. A bounty on neighbors would poison the one signal the whole record depends on.
Tell us which properties you gave up on.
Not the ones you already patrol: those work. The value is in the lots where nine trips out of ten find nothing, which is why you stopped going. A report means the vehicle is there right now, and that is what collapses ten trips into one.