HBS provides the possibility to choose from three different pricing models while creating Authorization/Reservation Service Offers: “Standard”, “Flexible/Dynamic” and “Product Pricing”.
- “Standard”: If you have only one default price.
- “Flexible/Dynamic”: If you have more than one price, e.g. distinguish your price based on time or EVSE, select pricing model.
- “Product Pricing”: Facilitates creating different pricing products.
To offer a new Service please click the “Create New Offer” button in the “Business Contract” section. You access a new page, enabling you to enter the settings for your service offer.
Create your new service offer in 3 steps.
1. Choose the Offer Type
First, please choose a Service type in "Pick a Service type". This is a mandatory field.
- Choosing“Authorization” will allow charging sessions at your charge points for partners that subscribe to this offer.
- Choosing “Reservation” enables the end customers of partners that subscribe to your offer to reserve your charge points.
Second, please choose between “Offer to all Partners” and “Offer To Specific Partners” who you want to send an offer to. This is a mandatory field.
- Offer to all Partners: This Service Offer will be sent to all potential subscribers including later added Partners.
- Offer To Specific Partners: This Service Offer will be sent only to selected partners.
2. Provide Details For Your Offer To The Network
You choose a name for the offer that will help you recognize your services offered. You determine the run-time by selecting “Valid From” and “Valid To”, and you set the rules for cancellation.
The table below shows you detailed information on every field.
Optional: You can also upload a PDF-file specifying additional Terms & Conditions (Please note: Pricing data needs to be given in a structured way as CSV uploads for flexible dynamic or in the product pricing configuration section. It is not sufficient to provide tariff information via PDF).
3. Choose A Pricing Model For Your Offer
When you specify your pricing model, you have three options to select from. “Standard”, “Product Pricing” and “Flexible/Dynamic”.
Select “Product Pricing” as pricing model.
A product definition window for entering Product Details appears.
Adding multiple Products in a Service Offer
By clicking on the “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 copy an already defined product, please use the “Copy” button. All details are taken over exactly, except for the Product ID which has to be unique.
If you want to delete a Product within a Service Offer, just click on the “Delete Product” button of the respective product definition field.
Details of fields that compose a Pricing Product
Following table will give you information about a single pricing product.
One single product comprises of at least 5 up to 12 different fields
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Field Name |
Mandatory (M) / Optional (O) |
Description |
Field Type |
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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) |
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2 |
Product Name |
O |
Product Name is defined by a short description of your product |
String (50 Character) |
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3 |
Current Type |
O |
The options are:
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Drop down List |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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9 |
Currency* |
M |
List of different currencies. By default the currency is been set to Euro |
Drop down List |
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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
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Positive Integer. For eg 1, 2…etc |
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11 |
Charging Session Validity (kWh) |
O |
Positive Integer or 3 digit decimal number. For eg 0.001 |
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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.
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"
2. Extract Product information from Service Offers.
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.
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”
2. Extract Product information from Service Offers.
Please note: You have to direct to the Detailed View of an offer to extract the product information.
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.
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”
2. Extract Product information from Service Offers.
Please note: You have to direct to the Detailed View of an offer to extract the product information.
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 €
Publish the Offer
Once all of the mandatory input got provided, the “Publish” button on the right hand side of the bottom panel is enabled, indicating that you are ready to go to publish your Service Offer and make it available for the EMPs to subscribe to.
The next article provides you with information about how to cancel a service offer.