AskaCharge doesn't dictate your business model. You decide what to charge your fleet clients, how much and when. And when something goes wrong, you find out before they do — by email or Telegram.
Most EV operators think of their revenue as kWh-based income. That makes sense — it's what the charger bills. But there's another revenue layer that almost nobody exploits: charging fleet clients for access to the platform itself.
Think of it this way: you pay a monthly fee to askacharge.com for the software. Your client also benefits from that software — they see their dashboard, check their sessions, receive their invoices, manage their RFID tags. Why not charge them for that access?
The usual answer is: "because I didn't know I could" or "because I had no tools to do it." Now you do.
For each fleet client you can independently configure the following monthly fees:
There are two ways to invoice your fleet clients:
Invoices are generated automatically on the 1st of each month. If the client has a saved card in the portal, payment is also automatic — no chasing anyone.
Say you have 10 fleet clients. You charge 7 of them €30/month in software fees and €5/month per charger. The average client has 3 chargers.
That's €45/month per client × 7 clients = €315/month in predictable recurring revenue, entirely separate from energy consumption income. No extra effort required — it just arrives on the 1st of each month.
The other 3 clients can have a €0 fee — maybe they're small clients, pilots, or you simply don't want to charge them yet. The platform doesn't force you into anything.
When a charger goes offline or an anomaly is detected, askacharge.com sends a notification to the brand administrator. You have two channels:
Setup takes under 5 minutes: create a bot in Telegram with @BotFather, copy the token and chat ID into your notifications panel, and verify it works with a test message. From then on, if any charger across any of your clients goes down, you know before they do.
You can configure which events trigger alerts and through which channel. If at 2am you'd rather only hear about critical issues, that's configurable too.
Most charger management systems are sold as operational tools: connect the chargers, see the status, charge the driver. Full stop.
askacharge.com has that foundation, but adds a layer that rarely exists in the market: the ability for you, as an operator, to also become a software provider for your clients. You don't have to use it. But if you do, it completely transforms the economic profile of your business — from variable revenue tied to consumption to fixed revenue month after month, regardless of how much anyone charges.
That's called MRR (Monthly Recurring Revenue). It's the difference between a services business and a software business. askacharge.com gives you the tools to be both at once.