What CheckTow monitors, how alerts work, and what the service does and does not do.
CheckTow is a parking ticket alert service for New York City drivers. You add the license plates of the vehicles you drive, and CheckTow checks NYC Open Data records for them every day. When a new parking ticket is issued, a penalty date is coming up, or your balance puts a vehicle at risk of a boot or a tow, CheckTow alerts you.
From NYC Open Data, the public record the City of New York publishes for parking tickets, including payments, penalties, and judgments. CheckTow is not part of, or endorsed by, the City of New York.
Scan the license plate with your phone camera, or type the plate number in. Your first scan is free and does not need an account.
In New York City, a vehicle can be booted when its owner owes $350 or more in parking ticket judgments, and a booted vehicle can be towed if the debt is not settled. CheckTow tracks your total and warns you as it approaches that line.
By push notification and email, plus a weekly summary. You choose which channels you receive in the app settings.
No. CheckTow is an alert service. It tells you about tickets and deadlines with the details you need, and you pay or dispute with the City of New York directly.
Your first plate scan is free and does not need an account. Ongoing monitoring needs a subscription, and the plans and prices will be shown in the app stores when CheckTow launches.
Company details and contact information are on the CheckTow company website.