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Create a Service Offer with Product Pricing

HBS provides the possibility to choose “Product Pricing” as a pricing model while creating Authorization/Reservation Service Offers. This pricing model facilitates creating different pricing products for CPOs.

What are you looking for?

To place a new Service please click the “SUBMIT OFFER” button in the Service Offers screen. You will access a new window enabling you to enter the settings for your service offer.

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Adding multiple Products in a Service Offer

By clicking on the green “Add Product” button, another product definition window appears. Here, you can define another product within the same service offer.
Following things have to be considered:

  • The Product ID must be unique within a Service Offer. If you add multiple Products, each Product needs an own Product ID

  • You can add up to 20 Products within a Service Offer.

If you want to delete a Product within a Service Offer, just click on the circled “x” on the right top of the product definition field.

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Details of fields that compose a Pricing Product


Following table will give you information about a single pricing product.
One single product comprises of 12 different fields.

 

Field Name

Mandatory (M) / Optional (O)

Description

Field Type

1

Product ID*

M

Product ID must be unique per Service Offer. Product ID defined here has to be provided as part of the Charge Detail Record (PartnerProductID) to enable rating of CDRs

String (50 Characters)

2

Product Name

O

Product Name is defined by a short description of your product

String (50 Character)

3

Current Type

O

The options are:

  • AC : Alternating Current
  • DC : Direct Current
  • HPC-UFC : High Power Charging - Ultra Fast Charging

Drop down List

4

Country Code

O

Please type Country name (in English). Then select the appropriate country from the drop down list. It will be automatically converted into Country Code as defined in ISO 3166-1: Alpha-3 (three-letter)

Drop down List

5

Sub CPO ID

O

Please type the Sub CPO ID, drop down list of all Sub CPO which are registered on HBS appears. Select appropriate Sub CPO.

Drop down List

6

Price per Reference Unit*

M

In this field you can define the price, which is charged per reference unit per charging session Requirements: Positive integer number, not more than 3 digit decimals.

Kindly note, if you want to use only “Price Per Session” field then add “Price per Reference Unit” as zero.

Positive Integer with maximum 3 decimal digit. For eg 0.001

7

Reference Unit*

M

Standard Units for pricing the Product can be defined in this field. The Units that can be defined are “Minute” or “kWh”

Drop down List

8

Price Per Session*

M

One time fee for each valid charging session. It can be also used in combination of STD prices defined before. For various examples refer to use cases on this page

Kindly note, if you want to use only “Price per Reference Unit” field then add “Price Per Session” as zero.

Positive Integer or 3 digit decimal number. For eg 0.001

9

Currency*

M

List of different currencies. By default the currency is been set to Euro

Drop down List

10

Charging Session Validity (Min)

O

A Charging Session is a duration in which the electric vehicle is successfully connected to a Charge Point (charging or plugged in). Below you can configure the validity of a Charging session by adding minimum Session Duration (in Minutes) and minimum Energy consumption (in kWh). Only valid charging sessions can be charged/invoiced to the EMP. By default these fields are set to “0”.

Charging Session Validity (Min) and Charging Session Validity (kWh) are always used together to evaluate the validity of a charging session.

Examples

  1. If Charging Session Validity (Min) = 0 and Charging Session Validity (kWh) = 0

  • Result:- All the CDRs will be rated and charged/invoiced to EMP. There is no validity for each charging session.

2. If Charging Session Validity (Min) = 1 and Charging Session Validity (kWh) = 0.1

  • Result:- The CDRs which have session duration equal to and greater than 1 min and in which energy consumption is equal to or more than 0.1 kWh will be charged/invoiced to EMP.

3. If Charging Session Validity (Min) = 2 and Charging Session Validity (kWh) = 0.2

  • Result:- The CDRs which have session duration equal to and greater than 2 min and in which energy consumption is equal to or more than 0.2 kWh will be charged/invoiced to EMP.

Positive Integer. For eg 1, 2…etc

11

Charging Session Validity (kWh)

O

Positive Integer or 3 digit decimal number. For eg 0.001

12

Comments

O

Price information for Product ID mentioned in Comments will not be used for CDRs rating

String (100 Character)


Use Cases


Case1: Price per Reference Unit (Minute)

Setting the pricing to Price per Reference Unit, you can charge either per consumed kWh or lasted Minutes.

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How can the CDR be rated?

  1. Extract information about Product ID from “PartnerProductID” field in Charge Detail Record:
    Product ID used is "DE-AC_11"

    SessionID 6b20b2ab-8a41-49ce-99c5-f49e5e0c12f0
    PartnerProductID DE-AC_11
    OperatorID DE*CP1

    Session Start

    		 Jan 1, 2020 15:30:00
    Session End
    		  Jan 1, 18:30:00

    MeterValue Start

    		  
    MeterValue End  
    Consumed Energy (kWh)  

  2. Extract Product information from Service Offers.

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  3. Check the Charging Session Validity. Only the CDR with Session duration equal to or greater than 2 minutes AND/OR Consumed energy equal to or greater than 0.1 kWh are valid charging sessions.

    Session Duration:
    Session End (Jan 1, 18:30:00) - Session Start (Jan 1, 2020 15:30:00) = 180 Minutes

    Energy Consumed:
    No information.

    Charging Session Validity Check:
    Session Duration (180 Minutes) > 2 Minutes
    (As there is no information about Energy Consumed in CDR charging session validity (kWh) cannot apply)

    The Charging Session is valid based on Session Duration check.

  4. Calculation of the Price without tax.

    Total Price without Tax = (Session End- Session Start) * Price per Minute + Price per Session

    = 180 mins * 0.17 €/Minute + 0 = 30.60 €

Case 2: Price per Reference Unit (kWh)

Setting the pricing to Price per Reference Unit, you can charge either per consumed kWh or Minutes spent.

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How can be the CDR rated?

  1. Extract information about Product ID from “PartnerProductID” field in Charge Detail Record:
    Product ID used is “FR-AC_3.7”

    SessionID 73f10d2f-bf55-4f78-817f-a38d919e8685
    PartnerProductID FR-AC_3.7
    OperatorID FR*ATP

    Session Start

    		 Feb 23, 2020 18:30:33
    Session End
    		 Feb 23, 2020 23:21:15

    MeterValue Start

    		  150098.22
    MeterValue End  150142.78
    Consumed Energy (kWh)  

  2. Extract Product information from Service Offers.

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  3. Check the Charging Session Validity. Only the CDR with Session duration equal to or greater than 2 minutes AND/OR Consumed energy equal to or greater than 0.1 kWh are valid charging sessions.

    Session Duration:
    Session End (Feb 23, 2020 23:21:15) - Session Start (Feb 23, 2020 18:30:33) = 05:09:18 (Approx. 310 Minutes)

    Energy Consumed:
    Meter End Value (150142.78) - Meter Start Value (150098.22) = 44.56 kWh

    Charging Session Validity Check:
    Session Duration (310 Minutes) > 2 Minutes AND Energy Consumed (44.56 kWh) > 0.1 kWh

    The Charging Session is valid based on Session Duration and Consumed Energy check.

  4. Calculation of the Price without tax.

    Total Price without Tax = (Session End- Session Start) * Price per Minute + Price per Session

    = 310 mins * 0 €/Minute + 12 = 12 €

    Case 3: Combination of Reference Unit & Price per Session

    Setting the pricing to Price per Reference Unit, you can charge either per consumed kWh or lasted Minutes.

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    How can the CDR be rated?

    1. Extract information about Product ID from “PartnerProductID” field in Charge Detail Record:
      Product ID used is “FR-DC_50”

      SessionID b53db089-4939-4955-a0ae-3e6b99c4de68
      PartnerProductID FR-DC_50
      OperatorID FR*ATP

      Session Start

      		 Dec 12, 2019 18:30:33
      Session End
      		 Dec 12, 2019 23:21:15

      MeterValue Start

      		 720098.05
      MeterValue End 720157.97
      Consumed Energy (kWh)  59.92

    2. Extract Product information from Service Offers.

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    3. Check the Charging Session Validity. Only the CDR with Session duration equal to or greater than 2 minutes AND/OR Consumed energy equal to or greater than 0.1 kWh are valid charging sessions.

      Session Duration:
      Session End (Dec 12, 2019 23:21:15) - Session Start (Dec 12, 2019 18:30:33) = (Approx. 310 Minutes)

      Energy Consumed:
      Meter End Value (720157.97) - Meter Start Value (720098.05) = 59.92 kWh

      Charging Session Validity Check:
      Session Duration (310 Minutes) > 1 Minutes AND Energy Consumed (59.92 kWh) > 0.1 kWh

      The Charging Session is valid based on Session Duration and Consumed Energy check.

    4. Calculation of the Price without tax.

      Total Price without Tax = (Session End- Session Start) * Price per kWh + Price per Session

      = 59.92 kWh * 0.255 €/kWh + 10 = 25.28 €

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