Every session is metered to whoever plugged in. The charger knows who used it and how much they took, so the electricity becomes a line the business can account for rather than one that quietly grows.
Putting an outlet in the lot is easy, and it is also how a business ends up paying to run a car it does not own. There is no record of who charged, when, or how much.
A managed charger identifies the driver before it delivers anything, meters the session, and produces a figure per person per month.
That turns it into a decision somebody can actually make: absorb it as a staff benefit, recharge it to a tenant, or charge visitors. All three work once the number exists.
The metering is the part that matters. An outlet in a wall can record none of this, which is the whole difference.
What you get
What a managed charger does that an outlet cannot
The hardware is the small part. What it knows is the reason to fit this rather than an outlet.
It knows who is plugged in
Staff, tenants and visitors identified before charging starts, so a session has a name attached rather than being anonymous consumption.
Energy metered per session
The session records how much each driver took, when, and for how long, which is the figure everything else depends on.
Bill it, absorb it, or split it
The same charger supports a free staff perk, a cost recharged to a tenant, or a paid visitor space, and which applies is a setting rather than a different product.
Load shared across the site
Chargers give way to the building rather than competing with it, so adding one does not mean upgrading the incoming supply.
Managed from the same console
It appears with the network, the cameras and the doors rather than in a separate portal with its own login.
A record of every session
The log serves expense claims, tenant recharges, and the question of how much the charger actually gets used.
The equipment
One unit, on a wall or a post
The unit mounts on a wall where there is one and on a stand where there is not. The connector is the standard one.
Wall or post mounted, for a staff or visitor space
How it works
How the work runs
01
Where the cars actually park
The survey settles which spots, how far they sit from the panel, and whether the cable run crosses anything that makes it expensive.
02
What the supply has spare
Incoming capacity is measured against what the building already draws. Load sharing usually avoids an upgrade, but it is checked rather than assumed.
03
Fitted and on the network
The charger is mounted, wired by an electrician, and joined to the site so it reports alongside everything else.
04
The billing rule set
Who charges free, who is recharged, and what a visitor pays are agreed and configured before it goes live.
Yes, the supply side is electrical work. What the charger needs is specified so an electrician can quote it; the network and configuration side is not.
Usually not. Load sharing lets the charger back off when the building is busy, which is what avoids the upgrade. It is checked against the actual supply first.
More than most people expect, because they share the available capacity rather than each demanding a full allocation. The supply figure sets the ceiling.