About Snapmyfine
Less panic. More plan.
A Council PCN does not have to ruin your week. Snapmyfine helps London drivers understand a parking ticket, keep track of the deadlines, and work out what to do next, right from their phone.
See how it works
Snapmyfine started with a frustration most London drivers know well. A PCN lands on the windscreen or through the door, and what follows is confusion: contravention codes that mean nothing, council websites that take twenty minutes to navigate, and two ticking clocks, the discount window and the deadline to act, that punish you for hesitating.
Most people end up overpaying, or paying late, or giving up on a challenge they might have won. We thought that was backwards. So we started building an app that does the hard part for you: it reads the ticket, explains it in plain English, and shows you exactly how long you have. No jargon. No false hope. Just a clear next step.
We are still building. Some of what is below works today; some of it is on the way. We would rather tell you honestly where we are than pretend the whole thing is finished.
Our mission
To make handling a Council PCN simple, honest, and stress-free, so no London driver overpays or misses a deadline out of confusion.
Our vision
A country where every driver understands their fine and their options, and where dealing with one takes minutes, not hours.
Open the app, take a picture of your ticket, and the app reads it and tells you where you stand.
Read your ticket
Our scanner reads your PCN and pulls out the details and key dates. You check what it found and correct anything before you go any further, so nothing happens off the back of a misread ticket.
Track the deadlines that count
The app reads the dates on your ticket and works out your discount window and your payment deadline, then reminds you before either one closes. The discount window is short and easy to miss, so this is the first thing we built.
Work out your options
We are building a step-by-step questionnaire that, based on your contravention code and the facts of your situation, tells you whether recognised grounds to challenge may be available, and just as clearly when they are not. It is built on publicly available information about common PCN grounds under the Traffic Management Act 2004, not on guesswork, and not on telling you what you want to hear.
Pay your PCN
We are building secure payment through Open Banking, so you can settle a fine in a few taps and get a receipt straight away. We are taking the time to build this properly rather than rushing it.
Challenge when it is worth it
If recognised grounds may apply, the app will help you put together a structured challenge letter for the relevant council. This works hand in hand with the options checker above.
When you choose to pay, Snapmyfine will initiate the payment from your bank to the council through FCA-regulated Open Banking infrastructure. We act as a payment initiation service only. That means we never hold your money, and we never store your bank or card details. Each payment is a one-off instruction you confirm yourself, for the exact PCN and amount, with no ongoing access to your account.
We would rather tell you the truth than tell you what you want to hear.
Snapmyfine is a tool for managing and drafting, not a legal service. We are not a law firm and we are not regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority, the Bar Standards Board, or any other legal services regulator. Any guidance we give on challenges is built on publicly available information about common PCN grounds under the Traffic Management Act 2004.
We do not issue, cancel, or decide fines, and we cannot guarantee the outcome of any challenge. Those decisions sit with the council or an independent adjudicator. What we can promise is a clear, calm process and straight answers at every step.
Managing fines across a fleet is its own headache. Snapmyfine helps businesses review notices, pull out the key details, and organise fines by vehicle, driver, depot, branch, cost centre, or business unit. We are building support for transfer-of-liability and nominated-driver correspondence, along with reports and dashboards so nothing slips through the cracks.
We collect and use personal data only to run the service, and we never sell it. We handle your information in line with UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018.
We use the photo of your PCN to read the ticket, and then we delete it within 7 days. We do not need it after that. The case details we pull from it — your PCN reference, the council, the dates — we keep for longer so you have a record of how your fine was handled, and so we can help if there is a dispute later.
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Get startedMost people download Snapmyfine after their first fine. You do not have to wait that long.
It is free on iOS and Android, takes seconds to set up, and is there the moment you need it. The next PCN will not catch you off guard.
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