HONK Brings Flexible Parking Payment to Penn State

UNIVERSITY PARK, PA, January 28 2025 – HONK, North America’s leading provider of contactless payments for parking, is excited to announce its recent launch at Penn State’s University Park campus. Students, faculty, staff, and visitors now have greater choice and flexibility in how they pay for parking on campus. 

HONK offers drivers a range of payment options: 

• HONK App, which can be downloaded on iOS or Google Play for a personalized payment experience. 

• Tap to Pay, which works by scanning a QR code on parking signage for instant payment, no account or registration required. 

• Text to Pay, where a text of the location code to the number provided enables instant payment via SMS. 

Using HONK’s mobile software solutions, drivers can now find and pay for parking with ease. User-friendly features include the ability to select a preferred payment method (Apple Pay, Google Pay, PayPal, and all major credit cards) and extend a parking session remotely. The new system also eliminates the need for cash, coins, and expensive hardware. 

“By expanding the parking payment options on campus, we’re not only making parking more convenient, we’re making the school environment less stressful,” said HONK CEO Michael Back. “A more streamlined parking process frees up the Penn State community to focus on what really matters—their education and the campus activities they enjoy.” 

 

About Penn State University 

Penn State is a multi-campus, land-grant, public research University that educates students from around the world and supports individuals and communities through integrated programs of teaching, research, and service. 

Our instructional mission includes undergraduate, graduate, professional, continuing, and extension education, offered through both resident instruction and distance learning. Our educational programs are enriched by the talent, knowledge, diversity, creativity, and teaching and research acumen of our faculty, students, and staff. 

 Our discovery-oriented, collaborative, and interdisciplinary research and scholarship promote human and economic development, global understanding, and advancement in professional practice through the expansion of knowledge and its applications in the natural and applied sciences, social and behavioral sciences, engineering, technology, arts and humanities, and myriad professions. 

As Pennsylvania’s land-grant university, we provide unparalleled access to education and public service to support the citizens of the Commonwealth and beyond. We engage in collaborative activities with private sector, educational, and governmental partners worldwide to generate, integrate, apply, and disseminate knowledge that is valuable to society.