An owner-occupier in an Amsterdam apartment block has two parking spaces and one car. The neighbour on the third floor has one space and two cars. The practical arrangement is obvious — but then: how do you give access, and how do you take it back when the agreement ends? That is where most residential complexes still get it wrong.
Revtek · 28 July 2026
The Netherlands has more than 1.4 million homes that form part of a residents' association (VvE). At most newer complexes, parking spaces are individually assigned through the property deed or the association's house rules. Those spaces are not always in use.
An owner working abroad for six months. Someone who sold a second car but kept two parking spots. A resident who no longer drives. In all these cases there is a space sitting empty that the owner can, in principle, rent to another resident — provided the association's rules allow it and the board agrees.
So far, straightforward. But then the real problem starts.
In complexes with a barrier or ANPR camera, access is linked to a licence plate, a transponder, or a physical access card. If resident A rents a space to resident B, B needs a way to actually get onto the site.
The traditional approach: hand over a spare transponder, a copy of the access card, or ask the board to enter the plate manually into the system. All of these share the same flaw. When the rental period ends — or when the agreement breaks down early — access has to be actively withdrawn. That means recovering the card, collecting the transponder, or asking the board to delete a plate.
In practice this often fails. VvE.nl notes that associations that do not actively enforce their parking rules risk those rules being treated as optional — leading to legal disputes and conflicts between residents. A former sub-letter who keeps parking because their plate was never removed is a typical example.
ANPR parking management handles this differently at the root: access is not tied to a physical object, but to a licence plate on a whitelist — with a start and end date attached.
The owner adds the renter's plate to the whitelist for the exact rental period. Access expires on 31 August? It lapses automatically at midnight. No action required from the owner, no reminder to the board. The system handles it.
There is also no physical object to lose, copy, or fail to return. The renter's plate is either in the system or it is not. That is binary and always verifiable.
With Revtek the owner does not need to wait for a property manager or a board member. Via a WhatsApp message to the Revtek number, an authorised resident can add a plate to their personal whitelist slot, including a validity window.
"Assign [plate] to space 14 until 31 August" — and it is done. The same evening. Without an email to the manager, without waiting for the next general assembly.
This works for short-term arrangements too. A neighbour who needs somewhere to put their car for two weeks while on holiday. A resident temporarily parking a shared car. Situations that previously got informally ignored — or created unnecessary paperwork — are now handled with a single message.
Autonomy for individual residents does not mean the board loses oversight. In the Revtek dashboard, the board can see at any moment which licence plate rights are active, which space they are linked to, and who granted them.
If a resident claims they did not rent their space but an unknown plate keeps appearing, that is immediately verifiable. If a dispute arises over who has rights to a particular space, the registration history is right there.
The board does not need to get involved in every individual rental agreement. But when it wants to, the full picture is available. That is a very different position from maintaining a spreadsheet of who holds which card.
The model scales from a twenty-unit building to a large underground garage with over a hundred spaces. The logic does not change with scale: each owner manages their own space, within the permissions the board has set. The board decides which residents have whitelist rights; residents decide what they do within those rights.
For complexes that also have shared visitor spaces, a separate whitelist category can be configured for those. Residents can register visitors for visitor spots without having any access to the reserved-resident categories. More on how the whitelist system works is in the article Managing the licence plate whitelist.
An ANPR camera at your car park entrance is the technical requirement. Most standard cameras — Axis, Hikvision, Bosch, Dahua — are compatible. If a barrier is already in place, Revtek connects to it. If not, one can be added as part of the installation.
What you do not need: a separate resident app, an additional system running alongside your existing management platform, or an IT team to run it. For more on what parking management looks like for your specific complex — including pricing — see the residential complexes page and the pricing page.
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