7.2.1.4: Check for Advanced Parking Lot Payment

This process shall be responsible for checking to see if the required parking lot charge payment has already been made. The process shall determine the existence of an advanced payment for the parking lot charges by comparing the received payment information with that in the store containing the list of advanced payments. If the payment has already been made then the process shall remove the requirement for local billing and remove the record of the advanced payment from the store. Details of each payment transaction shall be sent by the process to another process with the payment information received from the driver removed.

This process is associated with the Parking Management Center physical object.

This process is associated with the following functional objects:

• Parking Account and Fee Management

This process is associated with the following data flows:

• advanced_charge_transactions
• advanced_parking_payment_update
• billing_for_charges_needed
• parking_lot_charge