Bolink Club

What Bolink Club does

Bolink Club (泊链联盟), legally Shenzhen Bolink Software Co., Ltd. (深圳泊链软件有限公司), is a privately held Chinese software company founded in 2015 and headquartered in Shenzhen. It operates a multi-tenant cloud-based PaaS parking platform (泊链 PaaS 停车平台) with a 99.99% SLA, deployed across more than 30 Chinese cities. The platform integrates license plate recognition (ALPR), seamless payment, parking guidance, and open APIs that connect multi-vendor hardware including PDA devices, parking space detectors, guidance systems, and video poles, enabling a 'one-code access' (一码通行) interoperability standard. Around the core PaaS, the company offers four modular product lines: a cloud service health dashboard (健康看板), data reporting and compliance integration with city-level regulatory platforms (数据上报), EV charging pile selection and joint operations with mainstream charging providers (充电桩选型与联合运营), and a Bolink Cloud (泊链云) value engine that provides a customer decision cockpit with 5-year profit modeling.

The company serves three primary customer verticals: city-level government and municipal parking authorities (e.g., Tongchuan city managing 15,000 parking spaces), residential property management (e.g., a Changsha community of 421 units), and commercial real estate (e.g., an 800-unit Shenzhen commercial complex). Documented enterprise logos include Tencent, Alibaba, Vanke, Country Garden, China Resources, Poly, Longfor, and China Merchants. Its business model combines SaaS subscription revenue (PaaS platform subscriptions and compliance data services), transaction-fee revenue from EV charging joint operations, and quote-based enterprise pricing on annual contracts sold through a direct sales motion. Documented customer outcomes include a 35% turnover rate improvement, 60% labor cost reduction, 52% utilization increase in residential deployments, and 41% fiscal revenue uplift in city-level deployments.

Bolink is founder-led under CEO Yiping Yang (also Chairman and Founder). The company's only disclosed institutional capital event is a $3.8 million round in April 2018 led by Beijing Beipeng Investment Fund Management Co. No subsequent funding rounds, M&A activity, regulatory actions, or dated product launches are present in the available data, limiting visibility into post-2018 scaling cadence.

Name

Bolink Club

Legal name

深圳泊链软件有限公司 (Shenzhen Bolink Software Co., Ltd.)

Website

https://bolink.club

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Bolink Club (泊链联盟) operates a multi-tenant cloud-based PaaS smart-parking platform deployed across 30+ Chinese cities, serving city governments, residential communities, and commercial real estate operators with ALPR-based seamless payment, open hardware APIs, EV charging joint operations, and regulatory compliance reporting.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Smart Parking Software

NAICS

Parking Lots and Garages (812930)

SIC

Services-Automotive Repair, Services & Parking (7500)

akta.pro primary industry

Parking & Toll Payment/Reservation Platforms (BPAMAIAL)

akta.pro secondary industries

Parking Access & Revenue Control (PARCS) & Payment Systems (BPABAKAD), Digital Payments & Enforcement for Parking (Mobile Pay, LPR/ANPR, Citation Mgmt) (TLAJAIAE)

Keywords

• Smart parking platform
• PaaS parking software
• License plate recognition
• EV charging integration
• City parking management

Headquarters

HQ city

Shenzhen

HQ country

China

HQ region

Asia

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. PaaS平台订阅服务: SaaS-based parking platform subscription model providing multi-tenant cloud infrastructure, deployment, and maintenance services for parking operators and city-level platforms
2. 充电桩联合运营分成: Joint operation revenue sharing model with EV charging station providers, combining hardware selection, remote operations and maintenance services
3. 数据上报与合规对接服务: Data reporting and compliance integration services for city-level regulatory platforms

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Bolink Club provides a cloud-based PaaS smart parking platform supporting multi-tenant deployment across 30+ Chinese cities. The platform enables automated license plate recognition, seamless (sense) payment, open API integration with multi-brand parking hardware (PDA, parking space detectors, guidance systems, video poles, ALPR), and EV charging station joint operations. Around the core PaaS it offers a cloud health monitoring dashboard, automated regulatory data reporting, and a customer decision cockpit for 5-year profit projections.

Product overview

Bolink Club (泊链联盟) operates as a platform-type enterprise offering a comprehensive smart parking ecosystem. The core offering is the 泊链 PaaS 停车平台, a one-stop SaaS cloud platform supporting 30+ city multi-tenant deployment with 99.99% SLA. Around this core platform, Bolink offers four product modules: 健康看板 for cloud service health monitoring and fault alerting; 数据上报 for automated compliance reporting to city regulatory platforms; 充电桩选型与联合运营 for EV charging infrastructure joint operations; and 泊链云 (价值引擎) as a customer decision cockpit enabling 5-year profit projections. The platform integrates with various parking hardware including ALPR systems, video poles, parking space detectors, guidance systems, and PDA devices to deliver solutions spanning residential communities, commercial complexes, and city-level parking management.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Bolink PaaS Parking Platform (泊链 PaaS 停车平台) A one-stop SaaS cloud platform for parking management supporting 30+ city multi-tenant deployment with 99.99% SLA, multi-tenant isolation, and scalable city-level parking operations infrastructure.
• Cloud Service Health Dashboard (健康看板) Cloud service health dashboard providing real-time monitoring of cloud service status, fault alerting, and operational unit aggregation views for proactive infrastructure management.
• Data Reporting and Compliance Integration (数据上报与合规对接) Data reporting service that connects parking operations to city-level regulatory platforms, providing automated data collection, standardized compliance formatting, and traceable audit trails.
• EV Charging Pile Selection and Joint Operations (充电桩选型与联合运营) EV charging infrastructure joint operations service covering major charging station brands, providing selection consultation, joint investment, revenue sharing, and 24/7 remote operations and maintenance support.
• Bolink Cloud Value Engine (泊链云 价值引擎) Customer decision cockpit and value engine enabling 5-year decision profit calculation for parking and charging contracts, integrating CEO, COACH, and CFO analytical perspectives in a single dashboard.

Quantifiable outcome

• 35% average turnover rate improvement
• +6 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration5 records

AI capability4 records

Feature6 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• 主流充电桩企 (Mainstream EV Charging Providers)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerJoint operation partnerships with mainstream EV charging station providers covering station selection, joint investment and revenue sharing, remote operations and maintenance (7x24). Integration of charging services into parking platform ecosystem.
• PDA/车位检测器/诱导/视频桩/车牌识别厂商 (Hardware Integration Partners)coreTechnology or IntegrationOpen API integration partnerships with multiple hardware categories including PDA devices, parking space detectors, guidance systems, video poles, and license plate recognition systems. Enables 'one-code通行' across multi-brand equipment ecosystem.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• ETCP: One of the earliest and best-known Chinese smart-parking platforms, providing parking lots/mobile payment and centralized management software to commercial properties and cities. Highly comparable to Bolink's PaaS-centric, multi-vertical (commercial, residential, municipal) model in the same Chinese market.
• Tingjiandan (停简单): Chinese smart-parking operator offering mobile payment, license plate recognition, and centralized platform services to commercial parking facilities and property managers. Direct competitor in Bolink's core 'seamless payment + ALPR' use case for Chinese commercial real estate.
• Keytop (科拓): Established Chinese provider of parking guidance systems, ALPR devices, and integrated parking management software for malls, airports, and municipalities. Comparable as a competing integrated parking-tech platform serving Chinese city-level and commercial customers.
• Passport Parking: Digital parking platform providing mobile payments, enforcement, and permit management for cities and operators in North America. Comparable business model to Bolink's city-level data-reporting and payment platform, though Bolink extends further into hardware interoperability.
• Streetline: Smart-parking sensor and analytics platform for municipalities and universities with comparable IoT sensor + cloud platform architecture and city-customer focus to Bolink's open-API, sensor-integrated PaaS.

Broad incumbents

• ParkMobile: Large US-based mobile parking payment and digital platform serving municipalities and operators. Comparable product surface (mobile pay, platform integrations, city-level scale) but a broader incumbent rather than a PaaS specialist like Bolink.
• T2 Systems: North American parking management SaaS provider focused on universities, municipalities, and commercial operators. Comparable PaaS/SaaS shape and customer types to Bolink's 'city-level platform' segment, though geographically distinct.
• Cubic Transportation Systems: Large transportation and mobility technology incumbent offering fare collection, traffic management, and smart-parking solutions to cities. Comparable at the city-level smart-parking platform layer, though broader in scope and far larger in scale than Bolink.
• Honliv (鸿利智汇 / 捷顺科技 Jieshun): Long-established Chinese smart-parking and access-control systems provider combining hardware (barriers, ALPR) with software platforms for properties and cities. Comparable integrated offering and customer base to Bolink, but a larger, more diversified incumbent.

Regional players

• Refine (立方控股): Chinese provider of parking guidance, ALPR hardware, and integrated parking management software primarily serving parking lots and operators in China. Comparable product stack at the hardware-and-software boundary, with similar Chinese commercial/municipal customers.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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M&A

Investments

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