Charging network control center

EV charging station management software that runs the whole network

Most operators end up with four tools that don't talk to each other. One portal per charger brand. A spreadsheet for tariffs. A second spreadsheet for what you owe site owners. And a WhatsApp group for faults.

Sock8 replaces all of it.

It's an EV charging station management software platform — a full CSMS — that connects any OCPP-compatible charger, whatever the brand. From one console you monitor live status, control chargers remotely, price every connector differently, authorise drivers by RFID, balance load across a site, settle with your landlords, and roam with other networks.

Hardware-independent. Available as a Sock8-managed white-label cloud or hosted entirely in your own infrastructure.

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Who it is for

Who runs their network on Sock8

Charge point operators

Launching a first network or scaling past their current platform

Charger manufacturers

Shipping software alongside hardware

Fleet, workplace and destination teams

Needing access control more than public payments

Enterprises and governments

Replacing a patchwork of manufacturer portals

Network control

Complete control over your charging network

One dashboard for every charger, every brand, every site

Live status for all connectors across every location. Online, charging, available, faulted — in one view, updating as the chargers report it.

Mixed hardware is the normal case, not the exception. Aster AC units next to 180 kW DC stacks, three manufacturers, four cities, one screen.

Remote control of every charger

Fix things without dispatching an engineer.

Start or stop a session remotely
Reset a charger that's stopped responding
Change connector availability to take a bay out of service
Trigger diagnostics and pull the response

Most faults you'd send a van for are a soft reset. Do it from the console in seconds.

Over-the-air firmware updates

Push firmware to a charger, a site, or the whole fleet from the platform. Track which units took the update and which failed, then retry the stragglers.

No site visits. No firmware drift across your network.

Alerts before drivers complain

Faults, disconnections and failed transactions surface as alerts the moment they happen — not when a driver calls support. Every alert links straight to the charger's raw message log.

Networks running on Sock8 hold over 99% uptime. Not because chargers never fail, but because you find out first and can usually fix it remotely before anyone plugs in.

Pricing engine

Multiple pricing strategies, applied exactly where you want them

Your pricing model is your business model. Most platforms give you one tariff per site and call it flexible.

Sock8 lets you price at four levels at the same time:

By location — airport rates, highway rates, mall rates
By charger — the 120 kW unit earns more than the 22 kW next to it
By connector — CCS2 and Type 2 on the same station, priced separately
By user group — public, subscribers, fleets, staff, or free-for-tenants

Every commercial lever you need

Per kWh, per minute, or session-based billing
Fixed starting fees
Idle fees with a configurable grace period
Time-of-day and day-of-week rates
Private tariffs for named accounts

Tax and VAT you can actually configure

Set tax treatment per market so invoices come out right in India, Italy, the UAE or anywhere else you operate. No manual correction at month end.

Drivers and access

Driver access and RFID control

RFID that works even when the internet doesn't

Bulk import — upload thousands of cards at once, no one-by-one entry
Local authorisation lists — cached on the charger for instant tap-to-start
Offline authorisation — known cards keep working when the connection drops
Sessions sync when connectivity returns

A basement car park with poor signal shouldn't stop your fleet from charging.

Autocharge for DC chargers

Drivers plug in and charging starts. No card, no app, no tap — the charger recognises the vehicle and authorises the session automatically on supported DC hardware.

Access rules per site and group

Decide who can charge where. Public, restricted, employee-only, tenant-only, or fleet-only — set per location and enforced at the connector.

Role-based operator access

Your support team, your installers, your site partners and your finance team don't need the same permissions. Give each role its own scope, across multiple sites or multiple brands.

Smart charging

Charge more vehicles without upgrading your grid connection

Static limits

Cap the power available to a charger or a group of chargers — the straightforward way to stay inside a known site capacity.

Dynamic load management

Distribute available power in real time across active sessions, so the site uses what's spare instead of a fixed ceiling. When the building's load rises, charging power steps down. When it falls, drivers get the headroom back.

Why it matters commercially

A grid upgrade is a six-figure capital cost and a multi-month wait. Load management often removes the need for one entirely — you fit more connectors onto the supply you already have.

You can also prioritise: fleet vehicles before visitor bays, subscribers before walk-ups.

Money

Sessions, billing and settlement

Every session, from meter reading to invoice

Watch sessions as they run. Power curve, energy delivered, duration, peak output, and the amount owed — live, then archived as a complete record. Meter values, CDRs and payment status all sit on the same session. When a driver disputes a charge, the answer takes seconds.

Your payment gateway, your money

Revenue lands in your account, through your payment gateway, in your currency. Sock8 does not sit between you and your customers' money or take a cut of transactions.

Seamless settlement between CPO and site hosts

This is the part most platforms leave you to solve in a spreadsheet. Sock8 calculates what each location owner is owed from actual session data and generates payout statements automatically — per site, per period, on your agreed revenue-share terms.

With Stripe, Sock8 can execute payouts too. On other gateways you get the statement and the reconciled figures, and pay out through your own banking process. Either way, the month-end argument with your landlord disappears.

Reporting your finance team will accept

Energy delivered, revenue, utilisation and session counts — by site, by charger, by tariff, by period. Export it, or pull it through the API into your accounting system.

Roaming

Roaming and interoperability

Reach drivers who aren't your customers

Your chargers should earn revenue from every EV that passes, not just the drivers who downloaded your app.

OCPI 2.2.1 — direct connections to eMSPs and other CPOs
OICP / Hubject — reach the roaming hub network in a single integration
OCPP 1.6J and OCPP 2.0.1 — for the charger side of the stack
Sessions, tariffs, live availability and CDRs flow without manual reconciliation

Google Maps on both sides

For drivers — a live map showing your stations, their availability and their connector types, so people can find a working charger before they drive to it. For your operations team — every site plotted geographically, so you can see network coverage, spot gaps, and route field engineers efficiently.

Developers and diagnostics

APIs, webhooks and protocol-level transparency

Build on top of the platform

REST APIs and webhooks for chargers, sessions, users, tariffs and CDRs. Push charging data into your ERP, your CRM, your fleet system or your own app. Custom API development is available where your integration needs something specific.

The raw OCPP terminal — nothing hidden

Every message your chargers send, visible to you. Filter by action, charger or date, then export logs and replay commands.

Open the OCPP testing tool

BootNotification

Authorize

MeterValues

StatusNotification

Heartbeat

Live stream of BootNotification, Authorize, MeterValues, StatusNotification and Heartbeat, with filters and exportable logs.

When a charger misbehaves, you don't file a ticket and wait for a vendor to look at logs you can't see. You look at the logs yourself. Most platforms treat protocol data as their property. We treat it as yours.

Compatibility

Hardware independence, in plain terms

Sock8 works with OCPP-compatible chargers. Onboard a new model through BootNotification and operate it beside everything else you already run. We do not claim every charger on earth works: we maintain a verified compatibility catalogue of validated model and firmware combinations, and we'll confirm yours during validation.

Commercial model

Deployment and pricing

White-label cloud — $3,000 one-time onboarding, then $10 per active connector per month, AC or DC. Branded CSMS and driver web app included. Native iOS and Android are available as an add-on.

Customer-hosted licence — private cloud or on-premise, scoped to your infrastructure. Perpetual licence plus annual support.

An independently usable outlet counts as one connector, so a dual-outlet station counts as two.

Starting price

$3,000

One-time cloud onboarding, then $10 per active connector per month.

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Implementation

From first call to live network

1
Network discovery
Confirm charger inventory, firmware, integrations, roles, markets, and launch requirements.
2
Environment setup
Configure the deployment, domain, branding, payment scope, users, and operational rules.
3
Charger validation
Connect representative chargers and validate boot, authorization, transaction, meter, and remote-command flows.
4
Controlled rollout
Onboard sites in batches, train operators, monitor live traffic, and complete the production handover.

Standard deployments go live in seven days. Migrating an established network off an existing CSMS takes longer and runs as a phased programme so you never lose live sessions.

See how migration works

Buyer FAQs

Frequently asked questions

What is EV charging station management software?+

It is the backend platform — often called a CSMS or charge point management system — that connects to your chargers over OCPP and lets you monitor them, control them remotely, authorise drivers, price sessions, take payment, and report on the network. The charger delivers electricity; the CSMS runs the business.

Can Sock8 manage chargers from different manufacturers?+

Yes, where the charger and firmware pass the required OCPP flows. We validate specific model and firmware combinations rather than claiming universal compatibility.

Which OCPP versions does Sock8 support?+

OCPP 1.6J and OCPP 2.0.1. The exact operational profile is confirmed during charger validation.

Does Sock8 support smart charging and load management?+

Yes — both static power limits and dynamic load management that redistributes available capacity across active sessions in real time.

Can I set different prices for different chargers and users?+

Yes. Tariffs can apply by location, charger, connector, and user group simultaneously, with per-kWh, per-minute, or session billing, plus starting fees and idle fees.

How does settlement with site owners work?+

Sock8 calculates each location's share from actual session data and generates payout statements automatically. If you use Stripe as your payment gateway, Sock8 can also execute the payouts.

Does RFID work if a charger loses connectivity?+

Yes. Local authorisation lists and offline authorisation let known cards start sessions while the charger is offline, with sessions syncing once the connection returns.

Can operators update charger firmware remotely?+

Yes, over the air, to a single charger or across the fleet, with per-unit success tracking.

Can Sock8 run in our own infrastructure?+

Yes. The customer-hosted licence supports private cloud or on-premise deployment with an agreed installation and support scope.

How is connector pricing calculated?+

Per independently usable charging outlet. A dual-outlet station counts as two active connectors.

Next step

Tell us about your network. Get a deployment recommendation.

Answer a few questions about your chargers, markets, and where you want to be in twelve months. We'll recommend the right deployment model — no obligation, no sales sequence.