Billing & receipts

Automate charging billing.

OB7 prices every charging session with your tariff, issues the receipt in your name and collects the payment automatically.

Stadtwerke MusterstadtReceipt

05/09/2026 · Rathausplatz 3

Energy · 32.0 kWh
€14.40
Parking fee · 30 min
€1.50

Total

incl. 19% VAT

€15.90

Paid with Apple Pay

Your logo, your sender. OB7 does not appear on the receipt.

100%

White-label

Your logo, your colours, your sender details. OB7 does not appear on any document.

0 min

Manual work

From session end through price calculation to document and payment collection, everything runs automatically.

Traceable

Tax & numbering

Tax rate frozen per session, separate number ranges for invoices and credit notes.

Reliable

Payment collection

Pre-authorisation for guest chargers, automatic retries for failed direct debits.

Billing Streams

Three paths, one billing process

Whether a guest at the QR code, a regular with a charging card or a company car fleet: OB7 creates the matching document and collects the payment.

Guests without registration

Ad-hoc charging via QR code

For occasional drivers and passers-by at any charge point: no app, no registration.

  • Receipt as PDF, by email and for download right after charging
  • Pre-authorisation, for example €40; the remainder is released after the session
  • Apple Pay, Google Pay, PayPal and credit card through your payment provider
Paid and receipted after the session ends
Regulars with a charging card (B2C)

Registered customers and charging cards

For regulars with a customer account, charging card or driver app.

  • Collective invoice per cycle, for example at month end, or from a set amount
  • Collection by SEPA direct debit or the stored credit card
  • Charging history and receipts in the driver app
Several sessions, one invoice
Business customers and company cars (B2B)

Employee and fleet charging

For depots, company cars and site partners with their own conditions and central billing.

  • Own tariffs per customer group, for example employees or fleets
  • One collective invoice to the company instead of individual expense receipts
  • Every session documented per charging card, for the accounting team
Bill companies in one go

Tariffs

Tariffs your customers understand

You set the energy price, free minutes and parking fee. OB7 bills every charging session accordingly, easy to follow for customers and customer service.

  • Price per kWh

    Separate for AC and DC or by charging power.

  • Free minutes

    Parking is free for e.g. 180 minutes, only then a parking fee applies.

  • Day and night times

    For example no parking fee between 10 pm and 6 am.

  • Prices per site or customer group

    Own prices for individual sites, employees or fleets.

Example: one charging session

Min 0
  • Charging€0.45/kWh
  • Free parking€0.00
  • Parking fee€3.00/hr

Price

€0.00

White-label documents

Your document, your brand

Receipts and collective invoices carry your logo, your colours and your company details. You adjust the templates yourself in the eMSP backend.

Your Logo
1

Ad-hoc charging session

Payment via Apple Pay

Stadtwerke Musterstadt GmbH

Invoice number: SWM-2026-000412

Date: 05/09/2026

Thank you for charging with Stadtwerke Musterstadt. Here is your receipt.

Invoice amount2
Net (19%)€13.36
VAT 19%€2.54
Total amount€15.90

Charging sessions

3
DateLocationEnergyDurationAmount
05/09/2026Rathausplatz 3, charge point 232.0 kWh3 hrs 30 min€15.90

Price derivation

Energy: 32.0 kWh × €0.45 = €14.40

Parking: 30 min beyond 180 free min × €3.00/hr = €1.50

Start fee: €0.00

Paid with Apple Pay. €40.00 pre-authorisation reconciled, remaining balance released.

Stadtwerke Musterstadt GmbH · Musterstraße 1 · 44135 Dortmund · VAT ID DE000000000

4

Sample document with fictional data.

1

Your logo and sender

The receipt comes from you, with your logo, your colour and your company details.

2

Amount at a glance

Net, VAT and total are right at the top.

3

Every session itemised

Date, location, energy, duration and amount, plus how the price adds up.

4

Legal details in the footer

Address, bank details and registry entry come from your template.

After the invoice

What runs automatically afterwards

Failed payments, credit notes and wallet payments: three processes your team does not have to touch.

Fixed intervals

Automatic retries

If a direct debit or card payment fails, for example due to insufficient funds, OB7 retries the collection at fixed intervals per payment method.

Your team only sees the invoices that are still open afterwards.
Own number range

Credit notes without manual work

When an invoice is cancelled, OB7 creates the credit note automatically: its own number range, its own template, as a PDF by email to the customer.

You trigger the refund with your payment provider.
No registration

Pay like everyday life

Apple Pay, Google Pay and PayPal for ad-hoc charging: drivers pay without registration and without typing a card number.

Apple Pay
Google Pay
PayPal
SEPA
+ credit card
At Stadtwerke Stuttgart, 81 % of payments run through Apple Pay and PayPal; before, everything ran on credit cards.

Accounting & ERP

Data for your financial accounting

No duplicate invoices, no manual data entry. Sessions, invoices and credit notes are structured and ready for your accounting team.

Pick your own columns

Presets:

Tap columns to add them to the export or remove them. The preview follows right away.

export-datev-2026.csv(6 columns)
Document date / start[date]Invoice number[invoiceId]VAT (%)[vatRate]VAT (€)[vatAmount]Gross (€)[gross]Payment method[paymentMethod]
2026-09-05 14:15SWM-2026-00041219%2.5415.90Apple Pay
2026-09-05 16:40SWM-2026-00041319%3.2520.34PayPal
2026-09-06 08:20SWM-2026-00041419%1.7811.17SEPA direct debit
2026-09-06 11:05SWM-2026-00041519%4.4227.66Credit card
Schema does not fit? On request we set up an export to your specification, for example for DATEV, SAP or Power BI.
Scheduled: daily, weekly or monthly

DATEV & XRechnung

Export formats for financial accounting and B2B e-invoices, straight from the eMSP backend.

CSV, XLSX & JSON

Table exports for ERP and accounting systems, with the columns you pick above.

Automatic export to your cloud storage

Export files land daily or monthly in your own S3 bucket.

Documents as a ZIP archive

All invoices and credit notes of a month as PDFs, bundled for download.

FAQs

Frequently Asked Questions About Billing

What operators and municipal utilities ask before launch.

Does OB7 bill our customers?

No. You bill your customers. OB7 calculates the price from your price configuration, creates the document in your brand and starts collection with your payment provider.

When does the customer receive the invoice?

Ad-hoc guests receive the receipt right after the CDR, by e-mail if an address is on file. Charging-card customers and employees receive a collective invoice as soon as the configured amount is reached or the cycle in days ends. Before that, OB7 waits 24 hours for corrections to the CDR.

Who is the sender on the invoice?

You. Logo, company data, tax number, accent colour and texts come from your template. OB7 does not appear on any document. Go to the eMSP backend

How are VAT and currency handled?

You enter gross prices. Tax rate and currency come from the site group and are frozen on the session. The invoice shows net, tax and gross per tax rate.

What happens if a session costs more than the pre-authorisation?

That is your setting. Either OB7 waives the difference as goodwill, or it bills the reserved amount and charges the remainder through the regular billing cycle.

What happens with failed payments?

OB7 retries the charge automatically, within fixed limits per payment method. The status of every invoice is visible in the eMSP backend. Dunning with fees is not part of the product; operators use their existing process for that. See payment methods

How do credit notes and refunds work?

When an invoice is cancelled, OB7 automatically creates a credit note with its own number and template and sends it to the customer as a PDF. You trigger the refund with your payment provider.

Is there a DATEV or XRechnung export?

Yes. OB7 delivers invoices and credit notes as a DATEV export for your accounting and as XRechnung for B2B e-invoices. You can also export sessions and document data as CSV, XLSX and JSON, with optional automatic delivery to your cloud storage.

How are business customers billed?

Business customers receive invoices like all registered customers, with the billing address on file and the same collective-invoice rule. A breakdown by cost centre or vehicle does not exist today.