How private move-request stickers work

A move-request sticker is a small piece of paper with a large job: let a stranger ask you to move, without either of you handing over a phone number.

If you have never used one, the flow can sound like more technology than a car park deserves. In practice it is four steps, all in the phone browser.

1. Scan the QR

Every enrolled vehicle has a sticker. Point the camera at it the way you would at a restaurant menu.

You do not need the EMSHI app. There is not one for this. A normal camera preview should offer to open a page on emshi.app.

If the preview shows a different domain, or a payment site, stop. That is not this product. (There is a separate note on parking QR scams.)

2. Check the plate

The page shows the registration, and often the look of the car — make, model, colour — when that was collected.

This step exists because car parks are rows of similar metal. Confirming the plate is how you avoid nudging the wrong driver. If it does not match, you scanned the wrong sticker or the sticker is stale. Do not send the alert.

3. Send the alert

One tap. EMSHI sends the message through its own channels (SMS to the person who can move the car). You are not opening your native SMS app to a number you found on the dash. You are not looking at their identity.

The blocked driver does not create an account to do this. That is the whole point. People who are late will not register.

4. Watch the status

You should see that they have been told, and later whether they are on the way or the car has been moved. If nothing happens, the system sends one automatic reminder. It does not spam them into oblivion.

On a workplace sticker, you may later be offered a site escalation contact — still not a public number. On a personal Driver sticker there is no reception desk behind the product. One reminder, then you are in the same human world as before: wait, find a person, or change plans.

Either side can mark the car as moved. The person who got the text can say they are on the way, that they have moved it, or that they cannot. The idea is a closed loop, not an argument in a comment box.

What you never see

• Their mobile number.
• Your mobile number, on their side.
• A social profile.
• A live map of anyone’s phone, unless a specific product mode says otherwise — EMSHI’s public move flow is a request, not a tracker.

Privacy here is not a slogan on a homepage. It is the reason the sticker can exist in a workplace without becoming a staff directory on every windscreen.

Driver sticker versus workplace sticker

Driver is your own car. You print one QR, stick it on, and you are the person who gets the text. Free to issue during launch. No traditional account. Get a sticker.

Organization is a site that has a car park. Facilities (or whoever runs the place) issues stickers to staff, assigns who is responsible for each vehicle, and can set an escalation number for when the usual person does not answer. How that programme works.

The scan is the same. The difference is who is behind the QR when you are standing there holding a coffee.

What the sticker should say out loud

The printed line is “Am I blocking you?” — not a brand lecture, not a phone number. The QR is the action. The registration is the check. A faded watermark is there so it still looks like an EMSHI sticker if someone peels at the corner.

If you print from a random QR website and write your number under it, you have built the dashboard note again.

If you are the one who might block someone

You will not remember to leave a note on the days you are rushed, which are the days you park badly. A permanent sticker is the version of good manners that still works when you are late.

Print it. Put it low on the passenger side of the windscreen or wherever your site already puts permits, as long as a blocked driver can see it without climbing on the bonnet. If the code is ever compromised or you lose the printout, regenerate it so the old square stops working.

That is the whole mechanism: a camera, a plate check, a tap, a private text. The rest is parking etiquette, which no QR code can invent for you.