Lotably vs. SpotHero

What SpotHero is

Acquired by Uber in April 2026, per Uber’s quarterly SEC filing.

Where Lotably is different

• Payments land in your Stripe, not in a remittance

  Drivers who book on SpotHero pay SpotHero, which remits to sellers later; its page for independent sellers says payouts arrive by ACH about 7 to 10 days after the start of each month. With Lotably, every payment is a direct charge on your own Stripe account, so the money is yours from the moment the driver pays.

• No service fee on your drivers

  SpotHero’s terms say it may charge drivers a service fee on certain transactions, retained by SpotHero, and the amount isn’t published. By default, Lotably adds nothing on top of your posted price. Our fee comes out of what you collect online.

• Enforcement is built in

  SpotHero’s seller FAQ says it isn’t responsible for enforcing parking in listed spaces and can’t arrange towing. Lotably’s officer app scans plates from any phone, checks them against your permits and paid sessions, and issues photo-evidence citations drivers pay online in about 30 seconds, with warnings, booting, and towing records when you need them.

• Permits, billing, and guest passes in one place

  SpotHero sells monthly parking reservations, but its site doesn’t describe permit management. Lotably runs your monthly roster with a self-service portal and Stripe billing by card, ACH, or net-14 invoice, and residents can issue their own guest passes.

• Your brand, not a marketplace listing

  When drivers book through SpotHero, they book in SpotHero’s app or website. Lotably gives you a branded site at yourname.lotably.com, so your tickets, receipts, and payment pages carry your name.

• Sign up today, with published pricing

  Operators join SpotHero through a sales lead form, and it doesn’t publish its commission or operator fees. Lotably is self-serve: sign up online, set up the same day, and choose Free ($0 a month plus 12% of online payments) or Starter ($99 a month for up to 25 lots, plus 5%).

Side by side

When SpotHero may be the better fit

If your main goal is filling empty spaces with drivers who are already searching, especially around events, airports, and downtown garages, SpotHero’s marketplace reaches an audience Lotably doesn’t have. We have no consumer app or driver network. Drivers can book a daily pass for a later day on your lot’s pay page, but only drivers who already know your lot will find it there. Lotably is the system you run the lot on, so many operators will want a marketplace listing for demand and Lotably for enforcement, permits, and day-to-day collection.

Switching, or running both

You don’t have to choose. Keep listing on SpotHero for demand and run the lot on Lotably. Lotably doesn’t connect to SpotHero today, so reservations don’t flow in automatically. Where a reservation includes a plate, you can add it as a paid session by hand or by CSV import so officers don’t cite the driver, and if you have API access to your reservation data, we build the connection at no extra cost (the vendor may charge for API access). Your monthly roster imports by CSV.

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