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paived.io · Car wash

Lane payments for car wash operators.

paived.io is the additive payments rail above your tunnel control, POS, and member billing. Enrolled vehicles are recognized at the lane and the wash settles before the gate even opens. Your existing stack stays in place.

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Car washes — Drive through. The wash is paid.Paid
Drive through. The wash is paid.

Drive in. The wash is paid.

Lane payments for car washes, above your existing stack.

A car wash member enrolls a vehicle and a payment method with paived.io once. At any participating site, the camera at the lane recognizes the vehicle and the wash settles to the enrolled account — whether the driver is on an unlimited membership, a fleet account, or a single-wash plate-pay charge. No kiosk code. No app to open. No card to swipe at the tunnel.

The driver

one identity · one account · one consent

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Your infrastructure

cameras · POS · pumps · gates

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How it works

Enroll. Arrive. Settle.

01

Enroll

A driver enrolls a vehicle and a payment method once — on your site, your app, or paived.io. The enrollment carries one consent across every paived.io site.

02

Pull into the lane

Your existing camera reads the plate. paived.io matches the vehicle to the enrolled account and the active membership or wash plan in your POS.

03

Wash starts. Charge settles.

The gate opens, the wash runs, the charge lands on the right card. A clear receipt goes out — your brand, paived.io footer.

Use cases

Every driver is one identity on the rail.

Unlimited members

Members drive in and their plan covers the wash, no kiosk code or barcode required. paived.io handles the recognition; your POS handles the entitlement check.

Single-wash drivers

Non-members enroll a vehicle once and pay by plate at any site on the network. Your single-wash price stands — paived.io doesn't mark it up.

Fleet accounts

A corporate or municipal fleet enrolls its plates under one billing account. Every wash across every site settles to that account with itemized monthly statements.

What stays

Your existing stack stays in place.

paived.io is the rail above whatever you run. It does not replace your tunnel control, your POS, your processor, or your loyalty platform — and it doesn't ask you to migrate any of them.

Tunnel control (PDQ, Belanger, Tommy, Sonny's)POS and member billing (DRB, ICS, OneWash, Washify)Payment processor and ratesCameras and LPRWash menu and pricing

Across the network

One enrollment. Every lane on the network.

A driver who enrolls at your sites doesn't enroll again the next time they wash, fuel up, drive through, park, or valet anywhere else on the paived.io network.

Drive-thru
Order, pull forward. The meal is paid.
Fuel
Fill up. The pump is paid.
Parking
Drive in, drive out. The visit is paid.
Valet
Hand over the keys. The ticket is paid.

Further reading

The why behind the rail.

Mechanism
Lane payments, explained
Lane payments are vehicle-recognized transactions — authorized and settled by the vehicle's identity at the lane, not by a card, phone, or kiosk. Here's how they work, where they fit, and why they're the next payments category.
8 min read →
Category
What is vehicle commerce?
Vehicle commerce is the category of transactions that happen because of or in proximity to a vehicle — wash, drive-thru, fuel, parking, valet. Here's how the category is defined, what makes it different from retail, and why it needs operator-neutral infrastructure.
9 min read →
Strategy
Why operator-neutral matters
Vehicle commerce works as a network only when no single operator owns the rail. Here's what operator-neutral means in practice, why every major payments network became one, and what paived.io's contractual neutrality terms look like.
8 min read →
Strategy
Cross-merchant identity: why one driver, every merchant changes the math
Most loyalty + payments systems lock identity to a single merchant. Vehicle commerce inverts that — the driver enrolls once, every merchant recognizes the same plate. Here's the network-effects argument, with the failure modes that every closed loyalty system has hit.
10 min read →
Comparison
Plate vs phone: why license plates beat mobile apps for vehicle commerce
Vehicle commerce already has a universal hardware token bolted to every car: the license plate. Here's why the plate wins on speed, friction, fairness, and infrastructure cost compared to mobile-app-based payments — and where phones still play a role.
9 min read →

Add lane payments to your wash.

One site or one hundred, one tunnel or twenty bays — the conversation starts the same way. Tell us about your sites.

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