01Ebook
What to Demand From a Charging Platform
An evaluation checklist written from the buyer’s side
What you get
Takeaways
- The questions that separate real protocol support from a compliance claim
- How to test data portability before you sign, not after
- Commercial terms that quietly create lock-in
- A scoring sheet that weights what actually matters at your scale
Contents
- 01
How to run the evaluation
Who to put in the room, how long to take, and the one test that tells you more than the rest combined.
- 02
Protocol and hardware
Certification versus self-declaration, which OCPP profiles are implemented, and how vendor quirks are handled.
- 03
Money
Whose merchant account, how refunds work, how settlement is calculated, and whether the ledger reconciles.
- 04
Data and exit
What you can export, in what format, how fast, and whether you need to ask. Test this during the evaluation.
- 05
Operations
Remote capability, fault decoding, firmware management and what a real incident looks like.
- 06
Security and compliance
Tenant isolation, credential handling, audit trails and which certifications are held rather than planned.
- 07
The scoring sheet
Weighting the answers for your stage — a first-site operator and a four-state network should not score the same things.
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