For each of your intercharge DIRECT enabled charging points you can define specific products. This way, you can eliminate very long charging sessions in heavily trafficked areas or offer incentive promotional rates.
The combination of following payment services are possible:
- You can use only Paypal for Prepaid and/or Postpaid products.
- You can use only Stripe for Prepaid and/or Postpaid products.
- You can use Paypal & Stripe together for Prepaid and/or Postpaid products.
TIP: It is completely up to you how many different charging products you would like to offer as part of your sales strategy. But when naming the products, please make sure not to use more than 30 characters to enhance visibility on mobile devices with small screens.
Details of prepaid products:
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You can define tariffs with Start Fee (one time fee for eg 1 Euro) + Fee per charging session duration (for eg 10 Euro for 120 mins)
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You can create one or more prepaid product for a single change point
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Key point: The exact amount of product is deducted BEFORE start of a charging session
Process Diagram for a prepaid product
Examples: Possible combination of tariffs (for one charge point) are shown in following table
Assumption: In following example you have set Currency as Euro
EVSE ID |
Start Fee |
Product Name |
Charging Duration |
Price for Charging Duration |
CP1 |
0 |
Free |
10 |
0,00 |
CP1 |
1 |
AC_3.7_Short |
25 |
1,00 |
CP1 |
1 |
AC_3.7_Medium |
60 |
5,00 |
CP1 |
0 |
AC_3.7_Long |
90 |
10,00 |
CP1 |
0 |
AC_3.7_Longest |
300 |
30,00 |
Details of postpaid products:
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You can define tariffs with Start Fee (one time fee for eg 1 Euro) + Energy consumed (price/kWh) + parking/Standing fee (price/min)
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You can define a Reservation amount for each postpad product
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You can create one or more postpaid product for a single change point
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Key point:
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To use postpaid products, ideally CPO must send the CDR right after the charging session ended
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The Reservation amount defined by you will be reserved before starting the charging session.
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The exact amount of product will deducted AFTER the charging session is finished (CDR rating will be done before
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Process Diagram for a postpaid product
Examples: Possible combination of tariffs (for one charge point) are shown in following table
Assumption: In following example you have set Currency as Euro
EVSE ID |
Start Fee |
Product Name |
Parking/Standing Fee (Price per Minute) |
Price per kWh |
Max Reserved Amount (Currency) |
CP1 |
2 |
PostPayment_3.7_1 |
0,10 |
0,50 |
30,00 |
CP1 |
2 |
PostPayment_3.7_2 |
0,00 |
0,79 |
30,00 |
CP1 |
0 |
PostPayment_3.7_3 |
0,10 |
0,50 |
30,00 |
CP1 |
0 |
PostPayment_3.7_4 |
0,00 |
0,01 |
1,00 |
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