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Reserved charging for London blocks, car parks, hotels and van hubs, paid online.

Codeeo offers EV charging booking website development London businesses use when a charger is scarce and worth reserving. We build web platforms where residents in a block of flats share a few basement chargers fairly, where car park customers add a charging bay to their parking booking, and where hotel guests and delivery fleets pay for a confirmed slot. Prices, holds, refunds and receipts run through one system connected to your chargers.

In a city where most drivers have no driveway, the hard part is not the charger. It is deciding who gets it, when, and on what terms, and then billing it so nobody feels short changed. We work with London clients remotely, with discovery and design reviews by video call.

Built for
Managing agents, build to rent landlords, car park operators, hotels and charge hub owners across Greater London.
Typical timeline
Set after discovery, once buildings, bays, billing routes and the payment provider are confirmed, and written into a staged plan you approve.
What you own
Code, resident and customer records, tariff settings, booking history and the payment provider relationship, all in your own accounts.
Rated
4.7 / 5 from 23 Google reviews

200+ companies servedFrom a first store to an ADX listed developer

Modon
Majid Al Futtaim
HP
Belkin
Dulsco Group
OneClickDrive
Hanayen
HMS
Clocksprings
Ghezlan

Platform features

The booking and payment tools London charging sites ask for.

London charging problems are mostly about space. A residential block may have twelve chargers for two hundred flats. A car park in Zone 1 sells parking by the hour and wants to sell charging on top. A van hub in Park Royal or Barking needs every bay working at night. The booking platform has to divide that space fairly and bill it correctly.

Each feature below solves one of those problems. We pick the set that fits your buildings and customers, connect it to the charge point management system you already run, and keep the admin simple enough for a concierge, a car park supervisor or a hub manager to use without training manuals.

Explain your project
  • Resident bay sharing

    Residents of a block log in, see the shared chargers in the basement or podium car park and book a window. Fair use limits, such as a cap on weekly hours or one active booking per flat, stop a few early adopters taking every slot as more neighbours switch to electric.

    Shared chargers serve the whole building, not the first few drivers.

  • Service charge and resident billing

    Energy used by each flat can be billed by card, or exported per unit so a managing agent adds it to service charge or rent statements. Rates, standing rules and VAT settings live in the admin, and residents see a running total in their account.

    Electricity used by one resident is not paid for by everyone.

  • Parking plus charging bookings

    Car park operators can sell a parking stay with charging included or added as an extra. The site shows the full price before payment, combining parking and energy, so the headline figure includes every mandatory fee as the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 requires.

    Charging becomes an add on you can sell, not a free perk.

  • Hotel guest reservations

    Hotels from Kensington to the City can offer a charging bay with the room. The guest books by date, the bay is held for arrival, and the cost lands on the room folio or a card. Concierge staff can move a booking if a guest arrives late.

    Guests know a charger is waiting before they set off.

  • Overseas card acceptance

    Visitors arrive with cards from Europe, the US and further afield. We work with your acquirer so international cards, Apple Pay and Google Pay go through, Strong Customer Authentication runs where the card issuer requires it, and amounts are always shown in pounds sterling.

    Tourists and business travellers can pay without calling anyone.

  • Night windows for delivery vans

    Last mile operators reserve overnight charging blocks across several vans at once, with each van tied to a registration and driver. If a van returns late, the booking holds for a grace period, then releases. Invoices group sessions by depot and by client contract.

    Vans leave each morning charged, with costs split by contract.

  • Rapid slots for licensed cab drivers

    Taxi and private hire drivers licensed by Transport for London can book short rapid slots at a hub during busy periods, with licence details stored against the account if you offer trade rates. Slot lengths stay tight so a hub keeps turning over.

    Drivers spend less of their shift waiting for a charger.

  • Waiting lists and swaps

    When a building or hub is full, drivers join a waiting list and get a message if a slot opens through a cancellation. Residents can also offer their booked slot to a neighbour, with the swap logged so billing follows the person who actually charged.

    Cancelled slots get used instead of sitting empty.

  • Access and parking rules per bay

    Each bay carries its own rules: barrier codes sent with the confirmation, height limits for vans, bays reserved for Blue Badge holders, and time limits that match the car park's own regulations. Drivers see these before they pay, not after they arrive.

    Fewer drivers stuck at a barrier or in the wrong bay.

  • Occupancy and revenue reports

    Dashboards show bookings, no shows, energy sold and revenue by building, car park level and hour. Managing agents can share a read only view with a residents' association, and hub owners can compare reserved and open bays before changing the split. Every figure exports for VAT returns and landlord reporting.

    Decisions about new chargers rest on usage, not guesswork.

Good fits in London

Where a London charging booking platform earns its place.

Booking makes sense where demand outstrips chargers, where the same people charge every week, or where charging is sold alongside something else such as a parking stay or a hotel room. It makes less sense for on-street lamp column chargers, where drivers expect to plug in and pay on the spot. The four situations below are the ones we see most often among London clients. Each of them involves a space you control and a group of people you can identify, which is what makes rules, billing and fair access workable.

01

Managing agents and build to rent landlords

Residential developments across London increasingly include chargers in their car parks, and planning conditions often require more over time. The question residents raise first is fairness. A booking platform with resident logins, usage caps and per flat billing gives a managing agent a defensible answer, and the data shows when the building needs more chargers. Leaseholder and tenant records stay separate from marketing lists.

Fair use rules and per flat billing.

02

Car park operators

Multi storey and underground car parks near stations, shopping centres and offices can sell charging as part of a pre-booked parking stay. The booking site handles the combined price, holds a specific charging bay rather than a general space, and releases it if the driver does not arrive. Data on which hours fill up helps decide where to add chargers next.

Parking and charging sold together.

03

Hotels and serviced apartments

Visitors driving into London, including those in hired electric cars, often choose where to stay based on whether they can charge overnight. A booking option on your own website, linked to the reservation, removes doubt at the point of choice. Bays can be shared fairly between guests staying several nights and those arriving for one. Guest data from the booking stays inside the hotel's own systems and is not reused for marketing without consent.

Charging tied to the room booking.

04

Hub owners serving vans and cabs

Owners of rapid charging hubs used by delivery vans, taxis and ride hail drivers can reserve some bays for booked trade customers while leaving others open to anyone. The platform runs trade accounts, monthly invoices and strict slot lengths, and reports how the reserved share performs so you can adjust it by hour of day.

Reserved and open bays mixed by time of day.

From brief to live bookings

  1. 01Buildings and bays mappedWe record every location, bay, connector, access route and rule, from barrier codes to Blue Badge bays, so the booking site reflects how each car park actually works.
  2. 02Who pays and howResidents, guests, parkers, fleets and cab drivers each get a payment route: card hold, folio charge, service charge export or monthly invoice. Your accountant confirms VAT on each.
  3. 03Fair use and cancellation rulesWe draft booking limits, grace periods, no show charges and refund rules with you, then write them into the flow in plain English so drivers agree to them before paying.
  4. 04Charger and access integrationThe site connects to your charge point management system for availability and session data, and where possible to barrier or access systems so codes arrive with the confirmation.
  5. 05Pilot in one buildingOne block, car park or hub runs the platform first with real users. We watch where people hesitate, fix the flow, and check refunds, exports and barrier codes with your team.
  6. 06Rollout across sitesFurther locations are added in batches, each with its own rules and opening times, and your team is trained by video call to set up new sites themselves.

Technology

What we build this with.

The platform is built on a current web framework with a booking engine, a payments layer through a UK acquirer that supports holds and captures, and an integration with your charge point management system's API. Hosting and data storage are chosen to suit UK GDPR obligations, and cookie consent follows PECR so analytics and advertising tags only load once a visitor agrees.

01Web

  • React
  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • Node.js
  • Laravel
  • WordPress

02Commerce

  • Shopify Plus
  • WooCommerce
  • BigCommerce
  • Headless storefronts

03Data and cloud

  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • MongoDB
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Docker

04Marketing and tracking

  • GA4
  • Google Tag Manager
  • Search Console
  • Meta Pixel
  • Looker Studio

London charging booking questions

The number of user groups and integrations, more than the number of chargers.

A platform for one hotel car park with card payments is a modest build. A system that serves residents, visitors and fleets across several buildings, exports to service charge accounts, sends barrier codes and handles overseas cards is a larger one. The charge point management system matters too: a clean, documented API saves time. We give a written estimate after discovery, broken down by feature, so you can choose what to launch with. Ongoing hosting, support and payment provider fees are listed separately so the running cost is clear from the start.

Tell us what the business needs. We will tell you what to build first.

Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.

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PROVEN RESULTS

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