Campus Technology - Texas Tech Goes Mobile with Pay for Parking

The system was installed to help decrease the number of tickets drivers were receiving while reducing reliance solely on parking meters for collection of revenue.

The service allows users to pay for parking via credit card through their mobile phones. They can also extend their parking time by phone and access parking expenses for reporting purposes via a Web site. The organization running the parking lots can log in to view parking revenue in real time and e-mail parking receipts to users.

The Verrus pay by phone system has made paid parking extremely convenient for our customers, said Brian Brand, manager of parking enforcement at the campus. Our students really like the text message reminders and the ability to add time from anywhere and avoid possible citations. In addition, this system has made things much more convenient for us to operate. We spend a lot less time maintaining pay machines and processing credit cards manually.

About Verrus Mobile Technologies, Inc.

Founded in 2000, Verrus has pioneered pay by phone services beginning with North Americas first pay by phone parking installation in 2001, and the OrderUp mobile phone food and beverage ordering system used at Safeco Field launched in the Summer of 2005.

Today, the companys service is available in over 90 cities and towns throughout North America and Europe making it the most widely-used pay by phone system. Using state-of-the-art IT infrastructure supporting payments via SMS, IVR, and Web, Verrus has established a record of innovation and reliability with millions of payment transactions processed each year.