EV Charging Billing
Monetize your EV charging network through extremely flexible billing and robust monthly settlement with business partners.
Driivz’s highly configurable billing engine enables EV charging network operators to scale and monetize their networks with competitive business models tailored to many different drivers. Advanced reporting capabilities streamline billing processes for accurate monthly settlement with business partners without external tools, reducing costs and increasing ROI.
Extremely flexible billing
Build tariffs, plans, and promotions to suit any driver with the most extensive list of billing parameters available on the market today
Unmatched cost visibility
Network operators: Easy access to invoices
Easily find invoices based on customer, status, date range, and more. Get a detailed cost breakdown by rate for any charging session.
Fleets: Detailed transaction report
Slice and dice transactions across multiple parameters and instantly see both aggregated and per-session costs. Track home-charging costs for easy reimbursement to drivers.
Drivers: Invoices at their fingertips
Give drivers clear visibility into all their charging session costs with white labelled invoices issued directly from the platform. Invoices show detailed cost breakdown and can be downloaded through the mobile app or web portal.
Optimize monetization
Incremental authorization
Validate a driver’s ability to pay for EV charging by repeatedly requesting incremental approvals from the payment provider as costs accumulate. Ensure secure, uninterrupted charging while eliminating declined payments.
Partial pre-authorization
Enable charging sessions even if a driver’s available credit is below the full authorization amount. A smaller, configurable minimum is approved to initiate charging until costs reach the pre-authorized limit.
Robust and error-free monthly settlement
Hosts and partner networks
Billing reports detail each transaction, segmented per host or partner operator roaming on the network, enabling simple and accurate monthly settlement with all business partners.
Roaming hubs
Validate settlement reports from roaming hubs using transaction reports generated from CDRs which are all registered directly on the platform.
Payment processing
Easily process payments with out-of-the-box integration to most industry-standard payment gateways.
Industry Proven
In addition to supporting high volumes of transactions and roaming reconciliations, the billing system’s flexibility and support for variable tariffs and partner discounts was another deciding factor in our selection of Driivz.
Håkon Vist, CEO of Recharge
Attract fleets and automakers
Support all fleet EV charging scenarios
Support fleet drivers at the depot, at home, and on-the-go. Public charging sessions are billed directly to the fleet operator, while home charging sessions for take-home fleets are reimbursable with full transparency for both the fleet and the driver.
Help automakers drive EV sales
Enable automakers boost EV sales and build brand reputation with no-pay plans that can run for any duration. The automaker is billed monthly for the “free” charging sessions.
Support international growth
Simplify EV charging across borders
Support multiple currencies, flexible tax management, and multiple industry-standard payment gateways to enable EV charging across international borders.
Fight EV charging fraud
Prevent loss of revenue from EV charging fraud by adjusting credit card pre-authorization amounts to account for country-specific risk factors.
Billing reports and revenue analytics
Out-of-the box reporting
One-click reporting for billing, payments, invoices, transactions, cost breakdown, VAT and more.
Revenue dashboard
Analyze how revenue is affected by geo-location, billing plans, and dozens more parameters to help you make sound business decisions that drive profitability, backed by data.
The 2025 State of EV Charging Network Operators Report
Learn about:
- The biggest challenges EV charging network operators face in 2025.
- How they rate their ability to scale.
- Their top investment priorities for a better EV charging experience.
…and more.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is EV Charging Billing?
EV charging billing is the process by which EV charging providers monetize their charging networks. With flexible pricing options, service providers can offer a variety of plans for EV charging based on factors like charging speed (kW), energy (per kWh), time (per minute), time of day and more. They can also include fixed charges like flat fees, transaction fees and parking fees. EV charging billing also encompasses how drivers pay for charging sessions including credit cards, debit cards, pre-payment, immediate payment, and monthly post payment.
What is an EV Charging Billing solution?
An EV charging billing solution manages all aspects of billing operations, including pricing, payment processing, invoicing, reporting and analytics, and settlement with multiple business partners such as hosts or service providers roaming on the network. By offering flexibility in each of these domains, the solution gives service providers tools to formulate a variety of business models and compete in the market. To support cross-border networks, the solution should also support multiple currencies and country-specific tax management.
How do I optimize EV billing?
There are two aspects to optimizing EV charging billing. The first involves giving service providers a large number of parameters to work with, giving them extreme flexibility to offer various pricing plans, and incentives such as coupons or discounted charging. The second aspect is about streamlining work with businesses and eRoaming partners by enabling easy, error free monthly settlement. Flexible and streamlined EV charging billing is key to maximizing revenue, maintaining great partnerships, and ultimately, improving ROI.
How flexible is the billing engine to create different tariffs and plans?
Driivz’s flexible and robust billing solution offers the most comprehensive set of parameters network operators can use to formulate creative plans and tariffs that will attract the widest variety of subscribers and scale their business. These include rating by kWh or time, static and dynamic cost factoring, time-of-use tariffs, flat/minimum/transaction fees, maximum charging allowance by time, energy or cost, parking fees, a variety of options for overtime penalties, reservations, coupons, membership plans for fleets, free charging promotions for Automotive OEMs and more.
How does the platform handle charging and tax requirements in different countries?
The system can manage multiple currencies to support multi-national, cross-border charging networks. Charging sessions are billed according to the local currency and tax requirements of the charger’s physical location, however, the driver receives an invoice with charges converted to their home currency.
Which payment gateways do you support?
Driivz offers out-of-the-box integration with multiple industry-leading international payment gateways. Based on commercial discussions, Driivz may implement a custom integration to support an additional payment gateway.
Would I need an external system to provide white-labeled invoices to drivers and business partners?
No. Driivz enables service providers to provide white-labeled invoices to drivers and business partners directly through the platform without needing an external system.
What security measures do you take to ensure privacy of the billing data you have?
Driivz uses a comprehensive security framework that encompasses people, processes, tools, and ongoing training to protect the platform and help network operators comply with privacy regulations. These include encryption and cryptographic controls, role-based access control, secure coding tools and practices, secure data storage and processing, compliance with OCPP security protocols, and more.
How do you prevent fraudulent EV charging transactions?
Driivz billing engine enables the service provider to specify higher credit card authorization rates for charging transactions in countries where credit card fraud is more prevalent to reduce the number of unpaid charging sessions. In addition, RFID fraud is addressed in different ways. For example, the platform can prevent simultaneous charging by monitoring abnormal usage or unreasonable energy consumption, or through RFID encryption.
Does the platform support no-pay plans that help OEMs with EV sales?
Driivz’s billing engine enables OEMs to offer “non-paying plans” in which drivers can charge “for free” on the OEM’s partner network for any specified period of time. During that time, the OEM is billed on a monthly post-paid basis for those charging sessions.
Does your billing engine support the scale of large international EV charging networks?
Driivz is a pioneer in EV charging management and has over ten years of experience powering some of the largest EV charging networks globally. Deployed in more than 30 countries worldwide, and used by over 4.5 million drivers, Driivz’s billing engine offers the most extensive list of parameters available on the market today, giving network operators extreme flexibility to build tailored tariffs, plans, products, and promotions that large-scale international networks would need to attract a wide variety of drivers and grow their business. Supporting multi-national, cross-border networks and designed for the largest deployments, Driivz’s billing engine is highly scalable and regularly handles hundreds of millions of events.