Do residents have to share their phone numbers with security?

Not with a contact tag. Security, neighbours and visitors scan the sticker and the alert goes to the owner’s phone without anyone seeing the number.

What about visitors’ cars?

Visitors won’t have a resident’s sticker, so the register and visitor bays still matter. Ask visitors to leave their vehicle number with security.

Apartment parking: how to stop the “whose car is this?” calls

By the Tagwyse team · Last reviewed October 30, 2026

Keep a register of every resident’s vehicle number, agree when cars may be parked behind others and where keys are left, and give residents a way to be reached that doesn’t mean sharing numbers in a WhatsApp group. Most blocked-in problems in apartment car parks come from not knowing whose car it is.

Why apartment car parks get blocked

Many apartment buildings in Colombo and the suburbs have fewer bays than cars, tandem bays where one car parks behind another, and visitors who park wherever there’s space. When the car behind yours belongs to someone you’ve never met, you end up asking the guard, knocking on doors or waiting.

Five things that help

A vehicle register at the security post: flat number, vehicle number and a contact route for each resident’s car. Update it when people move in or out.
Visitor rules: visitors park in marked visitor bays, or leave their vehicle number and the flat they’re visiting with security.
Tandem bay agreements: residents who share a tandem bay agree who parks behind whom and when.
A key rule: where the building allows it, cars that block others leave a key with security.
A contact tag on every resident’s car, so anyone in the car park can alert the owner directly, even at night when the office is closed.

Why not just a WhatsApp group?

A building WhatsApp group works until it has two hundred members. Every resident’s number is visible to everyone, including people who have moved out, and an urgent message about a blocked car gets lost between notices about water cuts. A car QR sticker sends the alert to one person: the owner of that car.

A notice you can put up

“Blocked in? Scan the QR sticker on the windscreen to alert the owner. No sticker? Ask security, who keep the resident vehicle register.” Short, and it works for visitors too.

Managing a building and want stickers for every resident? Contact us: one yearly plan covers every vehicle in a household.

Questions people ask

Do residents have to share their phone numbers with security?: Not with a contact tag. Security, neighbours and visitors scan the sticker and the alert goes to the owner’s phone without anyone seeing the number.
What about visitors’ cars?: Visitors won’t have a resident’s sticker, so the register and visitor bays still matter. Ask visitors to leave their vehicle number with security.