Use Community Charging to bill a specific user group, e.g. for workplace or residential charging
What is Community Charging?
Community Charging allows you as a CPO to offer your charging stations with special tariffs for specific user groups, like employees or residents. vaylens handles all contracting, billing and payment processing, making Community Charging a hassle-free solution for you as a CPO.
What to use Community Charging for?
You can use Community Charging whenever you want to give a specific user group access to your charging stations and don't want to have any efforts for billing your users.
You can use Community Charging:
- as an employer to bill your employees for charging their private cars
- as a landlord to bill your tenants for using your own or shared charging infrastructure
- as a company to offer your existing customers a charging service
Why should I use Community Charging?
Community Charging allows you to easily start or increase earning money with your charging stations, even in complex usecases like workplace charging or multi family home charging.
- No effort and no risk - let vaylens handle contracting, billing and payment processing for you and just receive your earnings through vaylens, directly sent to your bank account.
- Offer a cheaper tariff for your own users - and let public users still pay a regular price.
- Monetize your non-public charging stations: Community Charging works on public, semi-public and non-public charge points.
- No additional contract needed: Community Charging is fully included in our charge point commercialisation services.
How to use Community Charging?
Community Charging is currently in a pilot phase, please contact your vaylens sales contact to have Community Charging activated for you. After the pilot phase, Community Charging will be available like any other commercialisation features.
- Activate "Community Charging" as an additional access method on charging station level.
- Define a tariff for your Community Charging EV drivers
- If you want to have a specific fixed price for your EV drivers, that is cheaper than the price for other EV drivers via Direct Payment or Roaming, create a new price in the Community Charging menu. With this setting you can create a specific price that is used for Community Charging, which can be set cheaper than the CPO tariff assigned to a charge point.
- If you want to have charge-point based prices for your EV drivers, you can leave the Community charging price. The CPO tariff assigned to a chargepoint will be used for your Community Charging EV drivers.
- Invite your EV drivers by entering their email address in the EV driver menu.
- Let vaylens handle everything from here on.