Abstract: A method and a system provide electronic parking validation using a pay by cell parking system is disclosed. The system allows any entity to offer instant parking credit covering a portion or the whole amount of parking charges. The credit is directly applicable to the current parking charges. The system has an operational pay-by-cell parking system in place and the recipient of the parking credit is a registered customer in good standing of the system. The system comprises a suite of computer programs residing on a server for remote wireless parking management and payment. The suite of computer programs verifies a third party payment request, such a third party using a wireless or landline telephone to request access. The suite of computer programs grants or rejects such access request based on a plurality of authentication rules defined within the server resident program suite.