How to set up pricing rules

How Pricing Works

To view the Pricing page, click    in the sidebar. There are two main sections in the Pricing page: Pricing rules and Discounts. 

Pricing rules determine the cost of EV charging sessions for the EV drivers that use your chargers. Every pricing rule in ChargeLab’s system has the following attributes:

1. Rule name: Set by dashboard users to identify the pricing rule.
2. Charger Application: A list of chargers that the pricing rule will apply to. When setting up your pricing rules, you can select individual chargers or entire sites.
3. Pricing schedule: ChargeLab supports billing different prices at different times during the day or week. You can set per-day pricing, weekdays/weekend pricing, or the same pricing every day. Within each of these options, you can also customize pricing down to each minute.
4. Rate: The dollar amount that will be billed per hour spent charging, per hour plugged in, or per kWh. A kilowatt-hour (kWh) is the unit of energy used to measure EV battery capacity.

Create a Pricing Rule

• Add a new rule

  • To create a new pricing rule, click Add rule in the top-right corner of the Pricing page.

  • Choose a name for your new rule and type it into the Rule name field. The rule name should help you or other dashboard users in the future remember why this rule was created or which group of chargers it controls.

• Select the chargers

  • Click the dropdown that says Select chargers to choose which EV chargers this new pricing rule should apply to. Use the tick boxes to select entire sites or individual chargers, or search for a specific charger using the search field. There is no limit to the number of chargers you can include in a pricing rule.

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• Select the pricing schedule type

  • Next, select the pricing schedule type. If you want the chargers in this pricing rule to be free for all users, select Free. To set a unique schedule every day of the week, select Per-day pricing. For pricing that is only differentiated between weekdays (Monday to Friday) and weekends (Saturday and Sunday), select Weekdays/weekend pricing. For pricing that is the same every day, select Same pricing every day.

• Select pricing period

  • Once you’ve selected the pricing schedule type, the appropriate number of pricing period columns will appear. For example, with per-day pricing a separate column will appear for each day of the week.
  • Finally, click to add a pricing period for a specific day of the week or group of days.
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• Click Save

  • Once you are finished creating your new pricing rule, remember to click Save before exiting the window.

FAQ

• In addition to creating as many pricing rules as you need, you can edit existing pricing rules. To edit a pricing rule, navigate to the main Pricing page and click the button in the top-right corner of the pricing rule’s box.

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• Certainly - A pricing rule can be as straightforward as a fixed price throughout the day or as intricate as a combination of kWh pricing and hourly pricing for multiple time periods:

  

• ChargeLab supports as many pricing periods as you need to set detailed time-of-use pricing schedules. For each pricing period, choose a rate, start time, and end time.

• Using the Add pricing period pop-up, you can also duplicate a pricing period across multiple days or group of days by clicking the tickboxes in the Save to row