What any operator can do with the platform — from a hotel or restaurant with a couple of bays to a fleet or a network with dozens of locations: day-to-day network management, automatic billing and tax compliance, power sharing without construction work, and how to generate extra revenue by connecting with other operators through the Hub.
Real-time status, remote OCPP commands, multi-brand white-label. The day-to-day of running a charging network.
Tariffs per kWh, hour, session or free — with compliant fiscal receipts generated automatically on every payment.
Why a hotel, campsite, fleet or residential building can run multiple chargers without touching the electrical supply — and what the regulations say.
How to connect your network with other operators via OCPI without giving up your brand or your customer relationship.
What the end driver receives when charging on a network managed with askacharge.com: how they pay, what they see in their portal, and what they gain when roaming outside their usual network.
Pre-authorisation and exact-amount capture at the end of the session, no account or app required.
Session history, email receipts, prepaid balance and monthly subscription — all in one place.
Why the same RFID or token works on chargers from another brand within the askacharge.com Hub.
Which platform suits which network, what each one costs and what the rules actually require. Written from public data, and saying where we do not fit.
Revenue and payback calculator: energy, tariff, electricity cost, site-owner share and the real gateway fees — with what the sum leaves out stated plainly.
€20/month with unlimited chargers, what we do not charge for, the only two things we take a percentage on, and three worked examples of a real month.
Won't connect, BootNotification Rejected, keeps disconnecting, 0 kWh sessions, won't start remotely. The causes we see on real chargers and how to check yours on the test server.
Monta, AMPECO, ChargePoint, Driivz, EV Connect, ChargeLab, AmpUp, Virta, Plugchoice, Etecnic, ELVO, Pipelet, ChargeSurfing, TopazEV, ihomer and askacharge.com. Only five publish prices; we say which, and what a 10-charger network costs on each.
What a CPMS / CSMS does, how OCPP connects your chargers to it, the four pricing models with real 2026 prices, and eight questions to ask every vendor.
Price, sales cycle or region — each points to a different platform. Monta, Virta, EV Connect, ChargeLab, Plugchoice and askacharge.com, with published prices where they exist.
ChargePoint, ChargeLab, AmpUp, Monta and askacharge.com compared for the US: published price, self-service or sales-led, and the honest trade-offs of each.
MCP server, permissions, command confirmation, idempotency, webhooks and built-in agents, sourced and dated. And where Monta and AMPECO do better.
A HACS integration for chargers managed on askacharge.com: status, session energy and power, and a start/stop switch. When it fits and when the OCPP integration is the better choice.
A hands-on guide with the askacharge.com MCP server, tested in production: minimal per-command and per-location permissions, a reset confirmed in 21 seconds, and what happens when the agent steps outside its patch.
€3.99 per station versus a flat €20/month: up to 8 stations ELVO is cheaper, from 9 we are. The full maths, including the fee on each payment.
Pricing model, Verifactu/TicketBAI compliance, OCPI roaming and the driver app: where the two are alike and where they are not.
AMPECO is an excellent enterprise CSMS for large CPOs. If your network needs no minimums and no implementation project, the maths is different.
Every QR-paid charge is a simplified invoice that must be filed with the tax authority. What applies in each territory, and what happens when filing fails.
Wallbox, Alfen, Autel, Grizzl-E, V2C and Circontrol: where the setting lives, exactly what to enter and where it usually fails. Checked against each manufacturer's documentation.
When the manufacturer switches its servers off, thousands of chargers stop working. How to tell whether yours is recoverable, and how to change the OCPP URL.
How to bill fleet customers for software, per-charger, hub and support fees — and get a Telegram alert when something breaks, before they do.