Workplace & office charging
A staff benefit, not a second business
Employees want somewhere to plug in while they work. You want that not to turn into a spreadsheet, a queue, or an argument with finance about the electricity bill.
Priced per port, per month · No revenue share on staff sessions
The first two chargers are easy
Two chargers and a handful of drivers need no software. The problem starts at the point where more people want to charge than there are bays, and at the point where somebody in finance asks what this is costing and nobody can answer.
Both are ordinary problems. Neither is solved by buying more hardware than the building's incoming supply can actually run — which is the quote most workplaces get first, and the reason a lot of car parks have four chargers where eight would have fitted.
Four things that decide whether it stays simple
Access, capacity, cost, and who pays. Everything else on a workplace site follows from those.
Staff only, unless you say otherwise
RFID cards and app accounts decide who may charge, with per-site rules. Open one bay to visitors and keep the rest closed, on the same hardware.
More bays than the supply suggests
Dynamic load balancing shares the capacity the site actually has between the cars actually plugged in, so adding ports rarely means a new grid connection.
An answer for finance
Every session records who charged, when, how much energy moved, and what it cost. The question stops being a debate and becomes a report.
Charge for it, or do not
Free to staff, at cost, or priced — decided per site and changed whenever policy changes. Payment is collected automatically when there is something to collect.
What a workplace site usually looks like
Cars sit still for eight hours here. That single fact decides most of the specification.
- Charger type
- AC, 7–22 kW A car parked all day does not need DC. Fast charging at a workplace is money spent making a stationary vehicle finish sooner than anybody needs it to.
- How many ports
- Fewer than you think, wired for more than you fit Cable and containment are cheap while the trench is open. Adding ports later to a site with load balancing is usually a mounting job rather than an electrical project.
- Access model
- An RFID card per employee, closed to everyone else The card starts a session without the phone coming out — which matters on a wet Monday more than any feature on this page.
- Pricing model
- Free, at cost, or marked up — your call, per site Charging staff nothing is a valid answer and changes nothing about the subscription. The revenue share applies only to public paid sessions, so a closed staff car park never sees it.
One rate per port, whether or not anyone pays
A workplace site is on the Platform plan, priced per port per month, with no upfront license fee and no lock-in. RFID access control, real-time monitoring, alerts, tariffs, Stripe payments, and the driver app are all in the base platform. For a lot of offices that is the whole answer, and we would rather say so than sell you modules you do not need.
- Unlimited sites per account, paid per port installed
- Dynamic load balancing is a paid module, switched on per site and quoted as its own line
- The revenue share applies only to public paid sessions — staff charging carries none
You are not committed either way. The same account runs a free-to-staff site and a paid one, and a site opens a bay to the public without changing hardware or plan.
Platform
Priced per port, per month, with no upfront license fee. Quoted for your mix of ports and sites, in writing, within one business day.
Get pricingWhat people ask about this
Do employees have to install an app?
No. An RFID card linked to their account starts and stops a session without a phone involved at all. The app is there for the people who want the session history — which is most people who claim mileage.
What if there are more cars than chargers?
Load balancing means everyone plugged in keeps charging more slowly rather than the site tripping — but it does not queue cars or hand out slots, and there is no booking feature. Who gets a bay stays a policy decision. We would rather be plain about that than let you discover it after installation.
Can we recover the cost of the electricity?
Yes. Set a per-kWh price and the platform takes payment at the end of each session and pays it out automatically. Charging at cost rather than at a margin is a normal choice here and works the same way.
Can visitors and customers charge too?
Yes, and it does not need separate hardware. Open specific bays to public, paid charging while staff bays stay closed and free. The plan does not change; the public paid sessions carry the revenue share and the staff sessions do not.
Who can see an employee's charging data?
Only the people you give access to. Roles and permissions mean a site manager sees their own site and nothing else, and driver records can be exported or erased on request — GDPR was a design constraint here rather than something added afterwards.
Start with the car park you have
Tell us how many bays, how many drivers, and what the incoming supply is. That is usually enough to say whether the base platform is the whole answer or whether load balancing belongs on the quote.