Recent releases sharpen the part of the platform operators feel most directly: getting paid for the energy they deliver. The headline capability protects session revenue from underfunded cards, and the rest of this edition spans corporate billing, network monitoring, roaming, regulatory compliance across several new markets, and a run of improvements to the EV driver app.
Featured update: Enable incremental pre-authorization to always collect your full session charges
Most operators authorize a card once at the start of a session and capture the real cost at the end. On a short top-up, the initial hold covers it. On a long session, high-power DC charging, or a roaming session where the final bill is hard to predict, the cost can climb past that first authorization. Some drivers know it, starting a session on a card or mobile wallet that holds just enough for the opening authorization and never the full charge. The session completes, the capture comes up short, and the operator writes off the difference.
The obvious workaround, holding a large amount upfront, creates its own problems. Drivers dislike seeing a big chunk of their balance frozen, and banks can be slow to release the unused portion of a pre-authorization, so the funds stay tied up long after the session ends. That leaves operators caught between under-securing sessions and frustrating the drivers they want to keep.
Why it matters
AMPECO can now raise a session’s pre-authorization while charging is still in progress, securing more funds before the existing hold runs out. The driver is charged for what they actually consume, not for whatever the first authorization happened to cover.
This capability was previously available only with Worldline. It now works with Stripe as well, so it reaches the majority of operators on AMPECO’s two most common payment processors. On Worldline, it also extends to supported in-app payment terminals such as Valina and Castles when AMPECO’s terminal app is in use.
How it works
As a session runs, the platform watches the cost against the authorized amount. When the remaining balance drops to a threshold you set, it automatically requests an increase from the payment provider, by an increment amount you control globally or per tariff.
If the card supports it, the new total is authorized and charging continues without interruption. If the card cannot support a higher hold, or the request is declined, the session simply stops the way it always would when an authorization is exhausted, with no error shown to the driver. The behavior applies across every way a session can start: the mobile app, the ad-hoc payment portal, RFID, AutoCharge, and Plug & Charge.
What you get
Less revenue lost to sessions that finish underfunded, and less exposure to drivers who rely on a low balance to cap what they pay. Fewer unpaid balances for your finance team to chase after the fact. Confidence on exactly the sessions where cost is hardest to predict: long dwell times, fast charging, and roaming. And control where you want it, with a per-tariff increment amount for networks that price segments differently.
Drivers on long sessions benefit too: charging is no longer cut short at the initial authorization ceiling, with a clear heads-up that more than one hold may appear on their card.
Billing and corporate accounts
Two updates give operators more control over how business accounts and post-paid plans are billed.
Corporate billing policies: Spending limits for corporate accounts used to live on each individual employee invite, which meant retyping the same value for every person. A new reusable policy now carries the per-user limit and restrictions, so you can build a small set of policies (an uncapped one for managers, a budgeted one for staff) and assign the right one to each invite. Every existing limit is migrated into a policy automatically, and the rules are enforced at session start.
Unpaid balances follow the user across plan changes: When a post-paid plan is replaced at renewal or through a mass migration, any unsettled debt now carries over to the new plan with its payment-failure history intact, instead of being dropped at the switch. Operators can change a user’s plan without quietly forfeiting money the user still owes.
Network operations and monitoring
Locations map tool with filters: A dedicated map view now helps operations teams see their network and plan field work faster by combining the spatial picture with the same filters the locations list already uses. Twelve filters plus a draw-an-area selector let teams narrow the map to exactly the sites they care about when planning maintenance or a firmware rollout, and the filtered view, including the drawn area, can be shared by link or exported.
Pricing and smart charging
Optimized pricing on charge points that use Dynamic Load Management: Operators on capacity-constrained sites can now run cost-optimized tariffs and active load management together on the same charge point. The optimized price caps the power a session draws for the cheapest charging windows, while DLM independently protects the circuit, and each session follows the lower of the two limits. Drivers still get a Boost option for full speed when they need it, and existing optimized tariffs on DLM charge points start applying automatically.
Roaming across multiple networks
Multiple roaming connections to the same operator: A network can now reach the same charge point operator through more than one OCPI source at the same time, for example, a direct connection alongside a hub, or two hubs in parallel, without duplicate operators, locations, or charge points appearing in the platform. You set which connection takes priority per operator, the platform falls back to a secondary source automatically when the primary goes quiet, and each session and billing record is tagged with the connection that delivered it.
The immediate payoff is hub migrations that no longer need a downtime window: run both connections side by side, watch traffic flow through whichever is live, and retire the old one when the new one is stable.
Compliance and regional scale
Three releases this month extend the markets where operators can meet local tax and reporting rules directly from the platform.
National data reporting for Italian operators (NAP / PUN): Pushing reporting data to Italy’s national access point through the standard OCPI format was already supported. What is new this cycle is a direct integration with PUN Italy’s proprietary API, which carries the extra data the regulation requires beyond what OCPI covers. Operators send the complete data set in a single action, with a validation step that flags incomplete records before anything leaves the platform and automatic retries if the national system is temporarily unavailable. The integration is built for Italy’s June 2026 first-phase reporting deadline.
Real-time invoice fiscalization for Serbia (TaxCore): Operators in Serbia can now fiscalize invoices in real time through the Serbian Tax Authority’s TaxCore / V-SDC system, as local law requires for retail transactions. Each invoice is signed and enriched with the official fiscal number, verification URL, and QR code returned by the authority, and the tax amounts come straight from that response rather than being calculated on the platform. It covers both individual and company invoices and follows the same proven pattern as the existing Romanian ANAF integration.
CFDI 4.0 e-invoicing for Mexico (Facturapi): Operators in Mexico can now issue SAT-compliant CFDI 4.0 documents through a new Facturapi integration, covering income invoices, credit notes, and cancellations, with the certified XML available to download. It brings compliant invoicing to the Mexican market and reuses the same fiscal document flow already running for Romania.
An elevated experience for EV drivers
Four updates this month make the white-label driver app clearer and more controllable for the people charging their cars.
Notification preferences, per type and per channel: A new Manage notifications screen lets drivers choose exactly which emails and push messages they receive, type by type, with account-critical emails like receipts and security messages always protected. It cuts notification fatigue and removes the need to contact support just to stop a particular message.
A clearer story for home charging sessions: Completed home charging summaries now show a color-coded timeline of what happened during the session, distinguishing standard charging, solar charging, boost charging, and waiting periods. A driver who sees an eight-hour session that only charged for three can finally tell why.
Invoice details before the charge, not after: Drivers can now check or add their tax and invoice details right on the Start charging screen, in context, instead of remembering to set them in their profile beforehand. That removes the after-the-fact invoice corrections and reissues that follow a wrong or missing entry. Operators turn it on with a single setting, and it works with any invoicing integration.
A help center operators can shape: Support email is now optional, and operators can add their own support links, such as a web form, a knowledge base, or a chat tool, and choose whether the help center sits in the app’s navigation bar or its menu. The labels and links are translatable per language.
What’s next
AMPECO ships updates every week, and this edition covers a selection of the releases worth a closer look. More is on the way across billing and the driver app in the coming weeks. To walk through any of these capabilities with the team, book a demo.
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