Services · Ecommerce development · EV charging booking sites
Codeeo handles EV charging booking website development Birmingham operators use to sell reserved charging time online. We build the site where a driver, a van fleet or a hotel guest picks a bay, sees the tariff in pence per kWh, pays a deposit or holds a card, and gets a confirmed slot. It suits depots off the M6, car parks near the NEC and the airport, and city centre hubs inside the Clean Air Zone.
A booking site is not a replacement for pay as you go at public chargers. It covers the cases where a slot has value: shared depots, destination charging, event days and trade accounts. Our team works with Birmingham clients remotely, with discovery and reviews held by video call.
200+ companies servedFrom a first store to an ADX listed developer
What the booking site includes
Charging is awkward to sell by the slot. A session can run long, a car can overstay, a charger can fault halfway through, and the final energy figure is only known at the end. So the booking site has to hold a card without guessing the total, release a bay when someone fails to arrive, and settle the bill against what the charger reports.
For Birmingham clients that usually means three groups on one site: trade users such as van fleets and licensed taxi drivers who book regularly, visitors heading to the NEC, Resorts World or the airport who book once, and staff at workplace sites who need fair access to a small number of bays. The features below are the ones we scope most often, and we only build the ones your estate needs.
A live grid of bookable bays per site, drawn from your charge point management system, showing connector type, power rating and accessible bays. Slots can be fixed lengths or energy based, with buffer time between bookings so a late finisher does not block the next driver at a busy Digbeth or Jewellery Quarter hub.
Drivers book a bay that suits their car, not just any free charger.
The site places a pre-authorisation when the slot is booked, then captures the real amount once the charger reports energy delivered. Strong Customer Authentication runs at the first payment, and saved cards are set up properly so later overstay or energy charges can be taken without a second challenge.
You charge for what was used, and the driver sees why.
Rules you control in the admin: a deposit for event day bookings, a cut off after which a cancellation is not refunded, and an automatic release when nobody plugs in within a grace period. Each rule appears in plain words before payment, which matters under the Consumer Contracts Regulations.
Fewer empty reserved bays and fewer disputed refunds.
Company accounts for logistics firms around the M42 and taxi operators in the city, with several drivers per account, monthly invoicing instead of card payment, spending limits per vehicle and recurring weekly bookings for night charging at a depot.
Regular users book in seconds and finance teams get one invoice.
NEC exhibitions, concerts at Utilita Arena and matches at Villa Park or St Andrew's change demand sharply. The admin lets you open bookings further ahead, add deposits and shorten maximum sessions for chosen dates, then return to normal settings automatically.
Busy days fill in an orderly way instead of a queue at the gate.
Email and SMS confirmations, a reminder before the slot, directions to the right car park level, and a message when charging ends so the driver moves the car. These are service messages; marketing opt ins stay separate to keep PECR straight.
Drivers arrive at the right bay and leave on time.
Birmingham is a city of many languages. The booking flow can carry translated labels and help text for languages such as Urdu, Punjabi or Polish where your customers need them, while tariffs and terms stay consistent across every version.
More of your actual customers can book without help.
When the charge point management system flags a fault, the site moves affected bookings to another bay or refunds them, and tells the driver straight away. Your helpline team sees the same record, so nobody has to rebuild the story from a phone call.
A broken charger costs one refund, not a complaint thread.
Every completed session produces a receipt showing the site address, bay, start and end times, energy delivered, unit price and VAT. Business drivers can add a company name and download a VAT invoice for expenses, and fleet accounts receive a monthly statement instead of a stack of single receipts.
Drivers claim expenses without emailing your support team.
One back office for sites, tariffs, bookings, refunds and occupancy, with exports for VAT returns and for any reporting you owe to a landlord or council partner. Roles keep site staff, finance and support to the tools each of them needs.
Your team runs the booking side without a developer.
Who this suits
Plenty of chargers never need a booking system. Drivers turn up, tap a card and leave. The cases below are different: there are fewer bays than users, the user is a regular, or the visit is planned around something else such as a flight, an exhibition or a shift. If your situation looks like one of these, a booking site usually pays its way. If it does not, we will say so in discovery and point you to a simpler setup.
Distribution businesses near the M6, the M42 and the Aston and Tyseley industrial areas often share depot chargers between their own vans and subcontracted drivers. A booking site gives each company a recurring overnight window, settles the energy against the right account, and shows the depot manager which bays are free before the morning run. Disputes about who unplugged whom become a matter of reading the log.
Recurring slots and monthly invoices per company.
Guests and exhibitors travelling to the NEC or Birmingham Airport want to know a charger will be free when they arrive. Bookable destination charging can sit on your own site or link from the room booking confirmation, with a card hold, a clear overstay rule and a reminder the evening before. Your front desk stops fielding calls about whether a bay is taken.
Booking linked to the stay or the event date.
Hackney carriage and private hire drivers licensed by Birmingham City Council lose income every minute they wait for a rapid charger. A hub operator can sell booked slots during peak shift changes while keeping some chargers open for pay as you go. Trade accounts, fleet operator invoicing and short, strict slot lengths keep the hub turning over.
Short slots and trade accounts for licensed drivers.
City centre employers around Colmore Row, Brindleyplace and Paradise often install a handful of chargers for a large workforce. A booking site with fair use rules, such as one booking per person per day and automatic release after a no show, ends the morning race for bays. Staff can pay through salary arrangements you set, or by card, and visitors can book too.
Fair use rules instead of first come, first served.
Working together
Codeeo has delivered 200+ projects across the UAE and the US, with a team of 80+ across Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi, and is rated 4.7 from 23 Google reviews. We do not have a Birmingham office. We work with clients in the city remotely, holding discovery, design reviews and testing sessions by video call, with shared boards so your operations, finance and IT people can follow progress. Your site staff do the on the ground checks during testing, guided by a script we write with them.
A defined build with a deadline
We agree what the product has to do, write it down with a price and a date, and build exactly that. Changes are priced before they are made, not discovered on the invoice.
A product that keeps evolving
Named engineers who work your hours, join your standups and stay on the codebase. You direct the backlog; we own the quality of what ships.
Something live that needs looking after
A monthly block of hours for improvements, fixes and the small requests that otherwise wait months. Unused hours carry for a quarter.
Technology
We usually build on a modern web framework with a booking and payments layer connected to your charge point management system over its API. Card payments run through a UK acquirer that supports pre-authorisation and Strong Customer Authentication. Hosting is chosen with UK GDPR in mind.
01Web
02Commerce
03Data and cloud
04Marketing and tracking
It depends on the number of sites and how ready your charger data is.
A single destination site with one payment model moves quickly. A multi site estate with fleet accounts, event day rules and a charge point management system that needs work on its API takes longer. We agree timing in discovery after we have seen your chargers, tariffs and payment provider, and the plan we send names each stage and what has to be ready from your side for it to start. Rolling out one Birmingham location first usually shortens the path to revenue.
Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.
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