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Roaming is what lets a driver who belongs to another network charge at your station and be billed correctly for it. OCPI is the open interface that carries the locations, the tariffs, the live status and the records between the two sides. Idle capacity becomes revenue without you signing up every driver yourself.
Talk to us about roamingConnection runs over the OCPI 2.2.1 three-step handshake, verified end to end with a real partner. You publish your locations and tariffs; within the agreement a partner can also send a remote start to one of your connectors.
Every roaming session produces a charge detail record — who charged, where, how long, how much energy, at which tariff. Sessions and CDRs are held together, so a dispute is answered from the record rather than from a spreadsheet exported afterwards.
Cross-network charging leaves both sides owing each other. Settlement runs against the same records the invoices are drawn from, so the closing figure is produced by the system instead of being agreed by hand at month end.
Roaming is per agreement: which partner sees which locations, at which tariff, with which rights. Your brand stays in front of the driver.
Yes, and that is exactly what OCPP is for. If the chargers speak OCPP, changing platform is in essence repointing an endpoint: the devices stay, the software behind them is swapped. The same route works from the platforms known in the market — AMPECO, Virta, Monta, be.ENERGISED, has·to·be, ChargePoint, EVBox, GreenFlux — and in the other direction too; an open protocol is open precisely so that you are locked in to neither a hardware nor a software vendor. Tariffs, users and opening balances are imported by us, and the old system's history can be kept as an archive.
OCPP connects a charger to its management software. OCPI connects two networks to each other. One is about running your own hardware, the other about letting another operator's drivers use it — you need both to roam.
A charge detail record: the settled account of one session — location, connector, start and end, energy, duration and the tariff applied. It is what roaming partners bill each other from, so it has to be produced by the system rather than assembled later.
No. Locations are published per agreement, so you can open a site, a region or a tariff group and keep the rest closed.
