Charging with a QR code, no app
Drivers scan, see the price, pay and start from the phone browser. The page can also be added to the home screen.
Platform direction
What we are building next
Govian builds its own charging platform, so the roadmap is ours to set. This page is an honest account of what is in development and what belongs to the next product phase. Nothing here is available today, and nothing here carries a delivery date.
How to read this page. Everything below is in development or planned. It is not part of what Govian offers today, and we do not publish target dates because software estimates made months ahead are not commitments we would want a property to plan around. If a specific capability matters to your decision, ask us and we will tell you where it actually stands. What works today is described on the technology page.
In development
Carbon-savings reporting
Organisations with carbon-reduction targets need a defensible number, not a marketing figure. Govian is building carbon-savings reporting that estimates avoided CO₂e from the energy actually metered at your chargers.
Emission factors will come only from authoritative published sources such as the EPA eGRID grid-emissions data and the EPA gasoline emission factor, versioned so a past report can be reproduced with the factors that applied at the time. The calculation method will be shown rather than hidden, and reports will be exportable.
It will be labelled for what it is: an estimate, not a carbon offset and not a tradeable credit. And to be explicit, any environmental attributes from charging at your site belong to the property unless you choose otherwise.
- Avoided CO₂e per session, site, organisation and period
- Calculated from metered kWh, not from assumptions
- EPA emission factors, versioned with provenance
- Methodology shown, not a black box
- CSV and PDF export
- Carbon credits remain the property’s
Built and tested
What the platform already does
These are built and running in test on Govian’s cloud platform. Paid charging at a property starts once its chargers are installed and commissioned and Govian’s launch review is complete.
Apple Pay, Google Pay and cards
Tap to pay, or enter a card. The bank places a temporary hold and only actual use is charged.
Payments into the property’s own account
Each charge is made on the property’s own Stripe account, with Govian’s session fee recorded against the session.
Email receipts
Every completed session gets a receipt with the date, time zone, seller and support contact.
No fee when a charge fails to start
If almost no energy is delivered, the driver pays no session fee and no minimum.
Refunds and disputes
Refunds are tracked to completion, Govian’s fee is returned on refunds, and disputes are recorded against the session.
Daily reconciliation report
Every morning each session is checked against its payment, and anything unusual is flagged.
Charger monitoring and alerts
Live charger and plug status, connection tracking, and alerts when a charger goes offline. Drivers are told if a charger loses its connection.
Secure operator console
Govian’s team signs in with multi-factor authentication. Each charger gets its own unique credentials, never a shared default password.
Launch 1.0
In development for the current platform
These extend the platform property owners are buying today. Order is set by dependency, not by which is easiest to demonstrate.
Driver accounts
Built and tested, and switched on after launch. One Govian driver login that works at every property on the platform, so a driver never creates another account per site. Sign in with a code sent to email, then see your own sessions and receipts in one place. Guest QR charging stays available and stays first-class.
Driver groups and access control
Pricing and access for residents, employees, tenants, members, hotel guests, fleets and custom groups. Joining by invitation, verified email domain, access code or approval. RFID card support. Sites and chargers can be public, group-only or time-restricted, and authorised drivers can still charge while a charger is temporarily offline.
Flexible pricing
Price per kWh, per minute, as a flat session fee, or combinations. Time-of-day and day-of-week rules, seasonal and limited-time pricing, tiers by energy or duration, and separate rates for Level 2 and DC. Group pricing, discounts and promo codes.
Idle and occupancy rules
An idle surcharge once a car has stopped drawing power and a grace period has passed, slow-draw rules, session time limits and energy caps for busy sites, with minimum and maximum session prices.
Venue rules
Hotels can replace idle surcharges with a flat overnight fee, an hourly rate or nothing at all during an overnight window. Cinemas, theatres and similar venues can include parking in the charging price or offer free parking hours while charging.
Notifications
Email receipts and operator alerts are already built. Next: session started and finished messages, and warnings before an idle surcharge or time limit applies.
Operator diagnostics and reliability reporting
Per-charger OCPP message logs, remote reset, firmware update management, and reporting on uptime and session-success rate drawn from evidence the platform already records.
Property statements and portal
A monthly statement per site showing sessions, gross, processor fees, Govian fees, refunds and net, with uptime and session-success rate, refund requests and full data export.
Native driver app
iOS and Android: find a charger, scan, see the price, start and stop, live status, history, receipts, saved cards, Apple Pay and Google Pay. No stored balances of any kind. Until it ships, signed-in drivers use the web experience in the phone browser.
Launch 2.0
The next product phase
Govian Cloud is the multi-tenant product: the same platform, offered to other operators under their own brand. These capabilities belong to that phase.
Govian Cloud, white-label
Other charging operators running their own branded network on the same platform, with tenant self-service, custom domains, branded emails and per-tenant app builds.
Roaming and map publishing
OCPI-based roaming so drivers on other networks can charge at your sites, and publication to the maps drivers already use.
Reservations and waitlists
Booking a charger ahead of arrival, and queueing fairly when a site is busy.
Plug and Charge, and contactless terminals
ISO 15118 Plug and Charge so a vehicle authenticates itself, plus contactless card terminals where a site needs them.
Fleet features
Home-charging reimbursement and telematics integration for fleet operators.
Enterprise assurance
SOC 2 Type II and OCA-certified OCPP 2.0.1 ahead of enterprise sales.
Also true
Some things we are not promising
A Level 2 charger cannot see your car’s battery percentage, so “stop at 80%” is not something a Level 2 site can enforce. Idle detection works from the car having stopped drawing power instead. Battery-based limits are a DC-charging capability and are sequenced for the first DC site.
A charger also cannot stop a driver reducing the charging rate from inside the car. The remedy is pricing, not control, which is why the pricing work above includes per-hour and slow-draw rules.
Gated parking systems need either a validation code or an integration, and that is handled at the first venue that needs it rather than claimed in advance.
Want to know where something really stands?
Ask us about the capability that matters to your property and you will get a straight answer about whether it exists today, is being built, or is further out.