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A charger takes no cards by itself: pair a terminal or platform checkout with a payment service and the platform that ties payment to the session.
Only where a document names your site — NEVI-funded U.S. corridor stations must accept contactless with no membership. Elsewhere it is a contract term or a business decision.
Monitor uptime through the platform your chargers report to: fault alerts, per-port reports on a fixed routine, counted the way your programme defines it.
Offer at least one no-account route — contactless card payment — plus an account route such as an app or RFID card. NEVI-funded sites must take contactless.
A charging app holds your account and payment method, authorises the session, then captures the final metered amount when you unplug. Here is the flow.
Yes. RFID cards, contactless payment or free access can run a station with no driver app at all. What changes is billing, records and remote control.
Commercial chargers are managed in layers: charger firmware, a management platform, a driver app and a payment service. Most billing sites need the platform.
There is no published per-port price for charging software. Your real cost is arithmetic: four quote fields, your port count, and one division.
You can usually switch platforms without replacing OCPP chargers. What moves is configuration and lists; accounts, apps and history are the hard part.
If your charging provider announces it is closing, the chargers are rarely the emergency — your records are. Use the notice period to get them out.
