Flowbird parking 4+

It’s Lyon’s official app for parking now and is an awesome improvement over their competitor’s. The app is easy to use and allows me to pay my monthly parking automatically. The notifications, letting me know when my time is up, are great because fines here are no joke.
Only annoying thing is you need to re-login every time you swipe away from the app. Which is bothersome when I need to switch back and forth between the app and my bank app.

All in all awesome.

I reviewed this app already but I didn’t get a response. Today I needed to park downtown again and this is the app the city of Paso Robles unfortunately switched to. We did have “Way to Park” which was so simple…AND it sent you a message when your time was running out. With Flowbird I again did not receive the 15 minute warning I signed up for. I checked all my settings and every single button for notification was on. I couldn’t verify if you received my payment. There was no countdown on my free parking session, which you ask me to “pay” for. And when I tried to look for a timer you wanted me to enter my info and start all over! Is this even a real app? I notice all your responses to other negative reviews are the same. Hellooooo. Anyone competent out there?! And why the heck do you call it “Flowbird”? Out of all the apps on my phone, when I park I’m looking for something that cleverly has the word PARK in it.

First time use. It walks me through a 9 step tutorial I don’t want, the skip button doesn’t work, swipe left/right doesn’t work, I have to ploddingly click the tiny right arrow 9 times. Now the only thing I can do is add vehicle, but I have to tap add vehicle, then ANOTHER add vehicle, to do that. Then select zone, select time (this one step had a nice UI I will acknowledge, the time dial works well). Then, time to pay. Doesn’t accept Apple Pay which would be easy, wants me to fill out a web form with credit card, which doesn’t work with my password manager or auto fill either (!) so I have to ploddingly fill out credit card details manually. By the time I finish, I paid for 30 mins parking and it says 26 minutes left, yes the 3 minutes I spent on clunky app interactions came out of my parking session. Not impressed.