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paived.io · Valet

Lane payments for valet operators.

Hand over the keys, walk in, walk out. paived.io ties the plate to the driver to the charge across every site your team serves — hotels, restaurants, events, hospitals — so the ticket is paid before the driver asks for the car back.

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Hand over the keys. The ticket is paid.

Hand over the keys. The ticket is paid.

Lane payments for valet, above your existing operation.

An enrolled driver hands their keys to a valet attendant. The attendant scans or enters the plate; paived.io matches the vehicle to the enrolled account and opens a ticket. When the driver requests the car, the ticket closes and the charge settles at your published rate — plus tip — to the right card. No card swipe at the stand. No paper ticket exchange.

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 venue's site, on your operator app, or on paived.io.

02

Hand over the keys

Your attendant enters or scans the plate. paived.io matches the vehicle to the enrolled account, opens a ticket against your venue's rate, and prints or texts the claim slip.

03

Request the car. Ticket settles.

When the driver requests the car back, the ticket closes. The charge plus the chosen tip settle to the right card. The driver walks to the stand, the car arrives, the receipt is in their inbox.

Use cases

Every driver is one identity on the rail.

Hotel valet

Hotel guests with paived.io enrolled don't see a kiosk. The room folio can be the billing default; the personal card can be the override.

Restaurant and event valet

Restaurant and event venues bill the driver direct — no "validation stamp" loop. Tipping is a single tap in the driver's confirmation.

Operator portfolio billing

A national valet operator running across hundreds of venues lands one identity per driver. The charge routes to the right venue's processor, the right rate, the right tip pool.

What stays

Your existing stack stays in place.

paived.io is the rail above whatever you run. It does not replace your ticketing system, your dispatch software, your operator portal, or your processor — and it doesn't ask you to migrate any of them.

Ticketing and dispatch (Valet Anywhere, ValetEZ, custom POS)Operator portal and reportingTip routing and pool rulesPayment processor and ratesCameras (where present)

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.

Car washes
Drive through. The wash is paid.
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.

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 valet operation.

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