Payments by Stripe · money goes to your account
ChargeMeCar gives you a live station map with connector states, tariffs, drivers, invoices and remote commands. By default a station serves only your own people – employees and invited drivers.
When you are ready to earn, connect your Stripe account in a few minutes: drivers’ money is charged in your account, the receipt carries your name, and our 2–6% fee is withheld from each payment – the rest is yours right away.
Who it is for
For companies and private station owners with one to fifteen charging points. A couple of stations is not a “small client” here – it is our primary scenario. A private individual can take payments too: with the small-enterprise VAT exemption or as a registered sole trader, whichever your country provides. Running a larger network? The same platform is available under your own brand.
A residential car park. Residents charge by invitation; outsiders have no access to the station. Want to let guests in? Enable payments: the income lands on the co-ownership’s account, and per-session reports go straight to the bookkeeper.
Stations for your tenants and staff: invite them and they charge, with no outside cars taking the spots. Guest traffic can be monetised with the same station – no second system and no in-house IT department needed.
Charging for guests is a service amenity, like parking or Wi-Fi. If the hotel sits by a motorway, enable payments for passers-by, and the station brings income even in low season.
Company vehicles charge under internal rules, visitors pay the commercial tariff. While a customer waits for the charge, the station shop’s average ticket grows.
One or two stations by the road. EV drivers plan routes by the charging map – the station brings customers to you, and charging revenue lands on your account.
A wallbox on your own driveway or five to fifteen points in a car park: some for your own cars, some for the public at a tariff. Several legal entities and networks under one account, access by RFID cards.
A larger network, your own customers, your own brand. Take the platform behind ChargeMeCar as a separate installation on your domain – with the station owners you sign up and the commission they pay you.
Pricing
Registration, the portal and station onboarding cost nothing. You pay only for what you use: 2–6% per receipt when you take payments from drivers, or €0.0216 per kWh when your fleet charges for free.
Only the people you invited can charge: employees and drivers by email invitation. The station is invisible to outsiders and takes no payments.
Drivers pay by QR code without registration or from the app – the money is charged into your Stripe account and paid out to your bank.
The rate on your receipts falls as you add stations. For an exact figure for your number of stations, use the calculator below.
While you have 3 stations or fewer, charging is free on all of them. The moment station 4 connects, EVERY station is billed, including the first 3 – the free quota is a starter allowance for small owners, not a permanent discount on part of a larger fleet. Billed per kWh of actual charging on a connector – not idle time and not the station itself. The €0.0216 rate is 4% of the DC market median price of a kWh (€0.54): in this mode the driver pays nothing and there is no receipt, so the platform’s share is taken from the market instead. The invoice is issued to the station owner: each session’s cost is debited from the organisation’s prepaid balance in the portal – drivers pay nothing in this mode.
Platforms of this class charge a fixed monthly fee per charging point on top of a transaction fee, and aggregators route revenue through their own balance and pay out on a schedule. Here it is 2–6% and direct settlement, with no subscription and no per-port fee: the money never enters the platform’s accounts at all – it is charged in your Stripe account right away.
The fee scale is fixed in the contract. Electricity, Stripe’s fees and VAT are your usual costs; the calculator below accounts for them too.
Money flow
The key difference between ChargeMeCar and aggregators is the path the money takes. A payment is charged directly in your Stripe account; our fee is withheld from it at that very moment and the rest is yours at once – your money never sits on our balance. Here is the whole path, step by step.
A passing driver scans the QR code on the station and pays by card with no registration – the ad-hoc payment the EU’s AFIR regulation requires at points below 50 kW. A regular one charges from the app, with a saved card and history. Either way the payment is charged in your Stripe account.
Visa · Mastercard · Apple Pay · Google PayThe platform creates the payment on your behalf through Stripe Connect – Stripe’s standard interface for platforms – as a direct charge in your account. It is a regular payment of your business, not a transfer through somebody’s internal balance.
Stripe transfers the funds to your bank account the way it does for any online business – on its standard payout schedule. Our 2–6% is withheld from each payment at the moment it is charged; the monthly statement itemises it per session for your bookkeeping – nothing is debited from you separately.
Stripe fees ≈ €0.39 · Platform fee €0.54 · Yours ≈ €8.07After every session the driver receives a Stripe receipt issued from your account, with your business name on it. VAT is your own affair – the standard rate of your country, or none if you are under the small-enterprise exemption; the platform stays out of your tax reporting.
Your station’s payment page opens: the tariff, the pre-authorisation amount, the pay button. No app installs – the scenario for passers-by.
Session history, saved cards, RFID tags, notifications. Installs on a phone in one tap – no app stores.
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Calculator
Including electricity, Stripe’s fees, our fee and VAT. Pick your country and profile, move the sliders – the numbers update for your conditions.
The estimate is approximate. Prices, electricity costs and utilisation depend on the station’s location; market assumptions are from public sources as of 14 September 2026. Income tax is not included – check exact figures with your accountant.
Net income after all deductions, and months to recover the station
Step-by-step onboarding
Every step is a short action in the portal, in the station settings or on Stripe’s side. Own fleet – three steps, payment acceptance – five. Either way with no managers, calls or waiting.
Email and password – under a minute. The portal opens right away: station map, live sessions, tariffs, clients, invoices, the OCPP journal.
Stripe accounts from any country are accepted – there is no list. Without one, the “Connect with Stripe” button takes you through Stripe’s own sign-up: business or personal details, identity check, bank account (IBAN). Most accounts are verified within minutes; some countries ask for extra documents and take a day or two.
The “Connect with Stripe” button in the “Billing” section opens Stripe’s consent screen: sign in to your account (or finish creating it), allow the connection – and you return already connected. Payments switch on as soon as Stripe enables card charges on your account.
In the station’s web interface enter your personal connection address – you can see it in the “Stations” section after clicking the “Connect a station” button. Save the settings and restart the station: it comes online within a minute. Any station with OCPP 1.6 or 2.0.1 will do.
wss://ws.chargemecar.com/ocpp/[your-code]/[station-id]In the “Tariffs” section set prices per charging mode and service: kWh or minute, waiting, idle, reservation; the hourly schedule is on the next tab. The driver sees the tariff before charging starts, and the money for it is charged in your Stripe account.
What you get
Four systems that come with the station. Everything listed already works in the portal – it is the product, not a roadmap.
White-label CSMS
For charging networks, energy companies, station manufacturers and fleet operators: the platform behind ChargeMeCar as a separate installation on your domain, with your logo, colours, legal entity and payment account. ChargeMeCar itself is one such brand – everything you can open from this site is what you get under your own name.
| Criterion | ChargeMeCar | White-label CSMS |
|---|---|---|
| For whom | Companies and private owners with one to fifteen charging points | Charging networks, energy companies, station manufacturers, fleets, developers |
| Brand and domain | ChargeMeCar, chargemecar.com | Yours, on your own domain |
| Installation | The shared ChargeMeCar service | Your own – hosted by us or on your servers |
| Your customers | You run your own stations and drivers | You also sign up station owners – and the platform commission is yours |
| Getting started | Self-service: a station connects in about 15 minutes | A briefing, then a guided launch |
| Price | Published tariffs – see Pricing | An individual proposal after the briefing |
Context
A CSMS (Charging Station Management System) turns charging hardware into a working service with a map, tariffs, payments and receipts. If you are still deciding whether to invest in charging infrastructure – this section is for you.
Accepts OCPP 1.5, 1.6 and 2.0.1 – one language for stations of any age and make. Roaming over OCPI 2.2.1/2.3.0: publishing your stations to partner networks is live, accepting partner tokens and commands is in rollout – the status of every line is on the CSMS page.
Charges the payment in your Stripe account, takes cards, Apple Pay and Google Pay, handles refunds – through Stripe Connect.
The receipt goes to the driver from the station owner’s Stripe account, in the owner’s name. VAT follows the owner’s own status – the platform is not a party to it.
One-off QR payment without registration – or a personal account in the app: history, saved cards, RFID tags, notifications.
Funds frozen before charging starts, card limits, driver checks – with no operator involved.
Connection monitoring, dropped-link handling, session recovery, reports – the portal does the routine itself.
Every infrastructure layer has a ready solution you simply plug into. A CSMS is the same kind of layer – for charging stations.
It connects Stripe or Adyen – and accepts every bank’s cards plus Apple Pay and Google Pay.
It joins Amazon or Zalando – and sells across Europe without its own warehouse.
They connect to ChargeMeCar – and get ready infrastructure: the portal, the driver app, payments and receipts. No own servers and no development team.
Who stands behind it
ChargeMeCar runs on a production-grade charging station management platform – an official release, in production, with every function described in an open API reference. The portal and the driver app are open to look at – before registering.
The service is provided by an EU company. The contract is signed directly, with no intermediaries, under French law.
Yes. Every new account runs in the “Own fleet” mode: up to 3 stations are free, from station 4 ALL stations (including the first 3) are billed at a flat €0.0216 per kWh of actual charging. The invoice goes to you as the station owner and is paid from your prepaid balance in the portal – drivers pay nothing. Only people you invited can charge; outsiders have no access. If the balance runs out, only starting new sessions is blocked – the stations stay online and the data is kept. Portal and app updates are included, with no extra charges for new features.
You do. The payment is charged directly in your Stripe account, Stripe pays the funds out to your bank account on its usual schedule, and the receipt carries your name. The platform only creates payments on your behalf through Stripe Connect – it never sees or touches your money.
They are handled in your Stripe account, like for any online business: the platform never holds the money, so it cannot refund on its own. You issue a refund from your Stripe dashboard and it goes back to the driver’s card; a chargeback (dispute) is answered in Stripe with the session data, and Stripe charges a dispute fee whether or not you win it – the current amount is in Stripe’s pricing.
It is withheld from each payment at the moment Stripe charges it: you receive the receipt amount minus 2–6%. Once a month you get a statement itemising the fee per session – a document for your bookkeeping, not a bill; nothing is debited from you separately.
Yes, the switch is automatic. While no Stripe account is connected, the “Own fleet” mode applies. Connect Stripe in the “Billing” section – new sessions are billed (2–6% per receipt) and the money is charged in your account. You can disconnect at any time – stations, data and session history are preserved.
Disconnect the Stripe account in the “Billing” section of the portal – payments through the platform stop immediately; your Stripe account and its history stay yours. No calls needed, no penalties.
Stripe Connect limits the platform to strictly defined operations on your account: creating payments, checking their status, issuing refunds. Your bank details, balance and Stripe settings are not accessible to us – Stripe’s own dashboard shows you exactly what the platform does.
Any station speaking OCPP 1.5, 1.6 or 2.0.1: the platform talks the protocol, not a make – if your station supports one of these versions, it connects. Check the connection field names in your station’s manual.
That is our primary scenario: a roadside café, a small hotel, a residential car park, a private owner with a wallbox. The terms do not depend on the number of stations, and onboarding takes the same time for one station as for thirty.
In most EU countries – yes, within the small-enterprise VAT exemption or as a registered sole trader; Stripe onboards individuals as well as companies. The income is declared under your country’s income tax rules – the calculator says so explicitly and does not model it. Check the threshold and the registration your country requires.
Yes. One account can hold several organisations – convenient when stations belong to different legal entities. Corporate clients can get their own theme, logo and domain.
The driver’s receipt is issued from your Stripe account in your name after every session. VAT follows your own status: the standard rate of your country if you are VAT registered, none if you are under the small-enterprise exemption. The platform is not a party to your tax reporting.
The ad-hoc QR payment page is exactly what AFIR (Regulation (EU) 2023/1804) asks for at publicly accessible points: pay with a common card without a contract or an app, see the price before charging. Whether your point counts as publicly accessible and which deadlines apply to its power class is a question for your national authority – the platform gives you the payment path. AFIR accepts the QR path for points below 50 kW; from 50 kW upwards the regulation requires a card terminal or contactless reader on the station itself, which the payment page does not replace.
In the portal, per station: per kilowatt-hour or per minute, waiting, idle and reservation fees, schedules by time of day and day of week. The driver sees the tariff before charging starts – in the app or on the QR payment page.
Yes. On most stations the OCPP server address is changed via the local web interface or an administrator RFID card. No firmware changes required.
Charging itself does not depend on the cloud – the station keeps working, and on most models OCPP messages are stored locally and delivered once the link is back. The portal shows the outage immediately: the offline status is real-time.
Software and payments are our territory: the station status is visible in real time, some problems are solved by a remote reboot from the OCPP Pro console, and a defect ticket moves through “Open → In progress → Resolved”. Physical repair belongs to the manufacturer or your service company; we provide diagnostics that make the engineer’s job easier.
The path of the money, and entry without managers. On most platforms revenue first lands on the platform’s own account or internal balance and is paid out on a schedule, on top of a monthly fee per charging point; here the payment is charged in your Stripe account, and we are physically unable to hold the money. Onboarding is self-service, pricing is published, and neither the contract nor the prices hide behind “book a demo”.
Support
We reply within one business day. You can also write to info@chargemecar.com.
Registration takes a minute, a station connects in fifteen. If questions come up, support replies within one business day.
Own fleet – €0 up to 3 stations · payment acceptance – 2–6% per receipt · disconnect in one click