About ByeFine

ByeFine (one word, said “bye fine”, also written Bye Fine) is a UK website for drivers who have been sent a parking ticket or other penalty notice. You send a photo of the notice. ByeFine reads it and tells you, free, whether it is worth challenging and why. If you go ahead, it writes the appeal in your name and files it with whoever issued the notice, for one fixed fee. It lives at byefine.com and opened to drivers in October 2026. Trusted by over 2,000 road users.

What it does

• Reads a photo or PDF of a notice into its facts: who issued it, what kind of notice it is, the reference, the dates and the way to challenge it.
• Gives a free verdict, with the grounds and the last day to challenge, before asking for anything.
• Writes the appeal from what the notice shows and what you tell us, and nothing else. Every letter is checked against both before it goes.
• Files the appeal with the issuer, through the issuer’s online form or the appeals address it publishes, and is built to file it once only.
• Acts for you only with your permission: before anything is filed you tick a box that lets ByeFine send your appeal in your name and receive the replies. We record when you gave it, and you can withdraw it before it is sent.
• Shows you the case on your own case page, from the verdict to the issuer’s decision.

What it costs

The check is free. A first appeal is £6.99, paid once, with a full refund if we cannot file it. If the issuer asks for more evidence we send it, and if it refuses an appeal we filed we take it to the independent adjudicator or appeals service for free, once you say yes; taking on a refusal of an appeal you made yourself is £9.99. There is a monthly plan at £9.99 a month for unlimited first appeals for one car, under fair use, and £4.99 a month for each family car added. The prices page has every figure; there are no others.

Notices it takes on

• Council parking tickets
• Private parking charges
• Bus lane penalties
• Yellow box and banned turns
• ULEZ and Clean Air Zones
• Rail, tram and bus penalty fares
• Tolls and crossing charges
• Speeding tickets (a letter you send yourself)
• Red light, phone, insurance and other police tickets (a letter you send yourself)
• Any other penalty with a written way to challenge it

Not for us: court summonses and criminal charges, Single Justice Procedure notices and requisitions, police penalties that are not about driving, council tax liability orders, TV licensing prosecutions, court stage documents such as an Order for Recovery (we do not handle those at the moment), and anything where the only route is a court hearing.

How the AI is used

Anthropic’s Claude reads the notice, drafts the appeal and checks the draft against the notice and your answers, under business terms that do not let it train on your data. People on the ByeFine team file the appeals that cannot be filed automatically, read the issuers’ replies and record each outcome. ByeFine is not a law firm, does not give legal advice, never appears at a hearing or takes part in court proceedings for you, and cannot promise a result: the issuer, or the adjudicator, decides.

Who is behind it

ByeFine is an online service. Contact: support@byefine.com.

ByeFine is independent. It is not connected to any council, parking company, tribunal, the DVLA or the police, and it is not part of any other appeal service. Questions go to support@byefine.com.

Guides

The guides explain, in plain English and with their sources, how each kind of notice works in England and Wales. The current ones:

• How to challenge a council parking ticket
• How to challenge a private parking charge
• How to challenge a bus lane penalty
• How to challenge a yellow box or banned turn penalty
• How to challenge a ULEZ, Congestion Charge or Clean Air Zone penalty
• How to appeal a parking ticket
• How to write a PCN appeal letter
• What to do about a Notice to Owner
• Appealing to POPLA or the IAS after a private parking company says no
• Appealing to the Traffic Penalty Tribunal or London Tribunals after a council says no
• Ways to appeal a parking ticket: free routes and paid services
• How ByeFine decides whether a ticket is worth fighting, and what it refuses to write
• Penalty fares on trains, trams and buses: how to challenge one
• Toll and crossing charges: what to do about a penalty
• Other penalty notices: what can be challenged and what cannot
• Speeding tickets: how to challenge a Notice of Intended Prosecution
• Red light, phone, no insurance: how to contest a police fixed penalty notice

Reviews

Every review on the reviews page is from a driver who paid for an appeal, asked once whatever the outcome, and published good or bad. We show no ratings, win rates or customer counts anywhere else, because we do not invent them.

For developers

The same checks and filing are available to software through a REST API and an MCP server, so a fleet system or an AI assistant can check a notice and go ahead with an appeal on a driver’s behalf.

Press and partners

In one line: ByeFine is a UK service that reads a parking ticket or penalty notice from a photo, says free whether it is worth fighting, and for £6.99 writes and files the appeal. The logo is at byefine.com/logo-512.png. The name is written ByeFine, with a capital B and a capital F.

Elsewhere: Instagram, TikTok, X, Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn and Trustpilot.