Reloading of money-storing cards in single space parking meters

A removable single space parking meter mechanism comprising:

• a card reader for reading a payment card, and reading from and writing to a parking card a monetary value;
• a communication module for communicating with a remote system;
• a memory for storing instructions;
• and
• a processor for executing the instructions, when executed by the processor, the instructions configuring the removable parking meter mechanism to provide a method of loading or reloading the monetary value to the parking card, the method comprising:
• reading account information from the payment card using the card reader;
• receiving an indication of the monetary value to load or reload onto the parking card;
• communicating with the remote system using the communication module to authorize a transaction using the payment card's account information for the monetary value;
• receiving an indication of whether the transaction of the payment card was successful or not;
• and
• attempting to load or reload the monetary value to the parking card when the transaction was successful.