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Charging that earns the bay it occupies
Retail parking is a yield-managed asset, and a charging bay has to justify itself against ordinary parking. The good news is that a charging visit is a longer visit. The discipline is making sure the bay turns over during trading peaks and does not become all-day staff parking.
Retail & shopping centres
Does this sound familiar
Where you probably are right now
- 01You operate a mall, retail park, supermarket or high-street store with parking.
- 02Parking bays are a constrained resource during trading hours.
- 03Tenants and anchor stores have opinions about how bays are allocated.
- 04You would like charging to support footfall rather than become a project.
What gets in the way
The problems, and what answers each one
Every answer links to the feature that does the work, so you can check the claim rather than take it.
Charging bays taken all day by staff and commuters
Time-based pricing and idle fees after a grace period keep bays circulating during trading hours, with different treatment outside them.
You want to validate charging for customers who spend
Promotional credits and driver groups let you discount or comp a session for loyalty members or against a receipt, without opening the same rate to everyone.
Tenants want charging for their own customers
Each tenant can be a driver group with its own rate, or a partner with its own scoped view and revenue share, depending on how the lease is written.
Nobody in the centre team wants to run a charging network
Operate it yourself with a scoped facilities login, or host a CPO partner and take a share the platform calculates and settles — with a statement you can check rather than accept.
What changes
What you can do that you could not before
- Charging bays that turn over during the hours they need to
- Charging tied to loyalty or spend without a blanket discount
- A per-tenant arrangement that matches the lease
- Revenue and energy reporting per bay, not just per site
Commercial shape
Usage-based, no subscription
Retail charging ramps slowly and unevenly across a portfolio. Paying per session keeps a quiet centre off your fixed cost base.
How pricing worksQuestions
What people in your position ask
Can we offer free charging above a spend threshold?
Yes, through promotional credit issued to a driver or a loyalty group. The session is still recorded and priced normally, so you can see exactly what the promotion cost.
Can different tenants have different rates on the same chargers?
Yes. The rate follows the driver group rather than the connector, so a tenant’s customers can be priced differently at the same bay.
Who is responsible if a charger is damaged in the car park?
That is a matter for the agreement rather than the platform, but the session and fault history gives you a timestamped record of when the unit stopped working, which is usually what the conversation turns on.
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Real estate & facilities
Mixed-use property portfolios: one charging arrangement across malls, offices, hotels and residential assets, with clean cost recovery in each.
Parking operators
For parking operators: charging that fits an existing tariff structure, existing enforcement and existing staff, without becoming a second business.
Talk through your retail & shopping centres setup
Bring the specifics — the sites, the hardware, the constraints. That conversation is more useful than a demo.