Parking machines in Tauranga and Mount Maunganui are being upgraded to a paperless system.
Tauranga City Council transportation manager Martin Parkes said the banking industry required the council to upgrade the credit card function on all parking machines.
"The upgrade is essential to keep the machines functioning. We're taking the opportunity to future-proof the machines at the same time by making them paperless," Mr Parkes said.
Once upgraded, the machines will no longer issue paper tickets for people to display on their dashboard display.
Customers will instead be asked to enter their licence plate number when paying at the machines. Parking officers can check each vehicle's parking status by its licence plate, a system that is already being used with the PayMyPark app.