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Charging apps for a city where most drivers park on the street or in a garage.

Codeeo offers EV charging app development New York operators can run across five boroughs: apps that help a driver find a free curbside plug in Queens, start a session in a Midtown garage, or line up a fast charge between rideshare trips. Few New Yorkers have a driveway, so charging happens at the curb, in parking garages and at fast charging hubs, and the app becomes the main point of contact between your network and the people who depend on it.

We build the driver app, the garage or depot tools and the operator console together, connected to your chargers through OCPP and to partner networks through OCPI, with Con Edison territory, city rules and New York data security law considered from day one. Everything is designed to keep working when a garage has weak mobile signal.

Built for
Garage operators, building owners, co-op and condo boards, fast charging hubs and for-hire fleets across New York City.
Typical timeline
Worked out with you in discovery, based on charger models, garage access systems and fleet integrations, and written into a dated plan before design begins.
What you own
The full codebase, store accounts, operator console, integrations and all session and driver data, registered to your organization.
Rated
4.7 / 5 from 23 Google reviews

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What we build for New York

Features for curbs, garages and drivers who work behind the wheel.

Charging in New York looks different from almost anywhere else in the US. The city's curbside program, started with Con Edison in 2021 and now being expanded by NYC DOT, lets drivers pay by phone or by tapping a card. Parking garages in Manhattan and Brooklyn are adding chargers under the state's EV Make-Ready Program. The Taxi and Limousine Commission's Green Rides rule requires a rising share of high-volume for-hire trips to use zero-emission vehicles each year, which brings thousands of working drivers to public fast chargers. Each of these creates software needs: turnover at the curb, access control in garages, and speed for drivers paid by the trip. Below are the capabilities we build most often for New York, in the order clients usually prioritize them.

Explain your project
  • Curbside availability and turnover

    A map of curbside and garage chargers by borough with live port status and the parking rules attached to each spot. When a session ends, the app reminds the driver to move the car and can apply idle fees you set. Operators see which blocks have the longest waits. Drivers can also save favorite blocks near home and get a notification when a nearby curb plug frees up overnight.

    More drivers served per curb plug each day.

  • Tap, scan or app payment

    Drivers pay with Apple Pay, Google Pay, a stored card or a QR code scanned at the charger, with the hourly or energy-based rate shown first. Guest sessions need no account. Card data stays with the payment processor under PCI DSS, never in your systems.

    Any driver can charge at your plug in under a minute.

  • For-hire driver mode

    Uber, Lyft and livery drivers moving toward a zero-emission fleet need fast chargers near airports, bridges and busy pickup zones. Driver mode shows real queues, estimated wait and power available at each nearby hub, with session history formatted for tax and fleet expense records.

    Less unpaid time hunting for a charger between fares.

  • Garage access and validation

    Garage charging means a gate, an attendant and often a monthly parker. The app links charging with garage entry, validates monthly and transient parkers, and lets attendants assign cars to chargers and move them when charging finishes. Integrates with common parking management systems. Transient parkers can pay for parking and charging in a single transaction.

    Garages charge more cars with the same number of plugs.

  • Building and board controls

    For co-ops and condos, the board sets who can use building chargers, booking rules and how costs are allocated to units. Residents book through the app, and the managing agent receives monthly usage reports ready for maintenance or common charge statements. Board members get a read-only view so questions at meetings can be answered from real data.

    Fair rules that a building board can actually enforce.

  • Hub queueing

    At busy fast charging hubs a driver can join a virtual queue, leave to get food and receive a notification when a charger is free. Missed turns pass to the next driver after a short grace period, so the hub keeps moving without an attendant.

    No more cars idling in line on a narrow street.

  • Multilingual screens

    Spanish, Chinese, Russian, Bengali, Haitian Creole and other languages common in the boroughs and among for-hire drivers, selected once and applied to every screen, alert and receipt. Charger faults appear as plain instructions rather than codes.

    Drivers across Queens, the Bronx and Brooklyn understand every message.

  • Partner roaming over OCPI

    Connect your network with others through OCPI so outside drivers can charge with their own app and yours can roam to partner sites. Tariffs, sessions and settlement records are exchanged automatically and kept separate in reports.

    Your chargers appear wherever New York drivers already look.

  • Security and breach readiness

    New York's SHIELD Act expects reasonable safeguards for private information and sets notice duties when a breach occurs. We build role-based access, encryption, audit logs and an incident record into the operator console, and limit stored location history to what operations require.

    Clear safeguards you can explain to a building board or a regulator.

  • Uptime alerts and remote reset

    The operator console watches every port over OCPP and raises an alert the moment one goes offline, reports a fault or fails several sessions in a row. Technicians try a remote reset first, then dispatch with the fault history in hand. Weekly reports show uptime by site and charger model, which helps when negotiating warranty repairs with manufacturers.

    Broken chargers are found by your team before drivers find them.

Who this suits

Four kinds of New York charging operation.

A Manhattan garage, a Brooklyn co-op and a fast charging hub in Queens each face different constraints on space, access and who the driver is. The app should reflect that rather than force every site into the same flow. Codeeo's team of 80+ is based in Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi, and we run discovery, design reviews and demos with New York clients by video call. Your own staff carry out on-site tests with us monitoring in real time.

01

Parking garage operators

Garages adding chargers need more than a payment screen. Cars must be moved once charged, monthly parkers need priority, and attendants need a simple tool to see which cars are charging and which are finished. We connect charging to the garage's entry and validation systems so it becomes part of the parking product rather than a separate service with its own logins and receipts. Pricing can combine parking time and energy, and the app explains both before the driver hands over the keys.

Turnover and attendant tools come first.

02

Co-op and condo buildings

Residential boards adding chargers in shared garages face fairness questions immediately. The app gives residents booking, time limits and transparent usage, while the managing agent gets cost allocation per unit and reports for board meetings. Access is tied to residency and removed when someone sells or moves out, without manual work.

Fair sharing and clean cost allocation for the board.

03

Fast charging hubs

Hubs near the airports, the Van Wyck or the approaches to the bridges serve for-hire drivers who charge daily. Speed matters more than anything: live queues, quick payment, clear power information and receipts that support expense records. Operators need uptime tracking and alerts so a broken charger is fixed before drivers learn to avoid the hub. Many hubs also need to coexist with state-backed fast charging such as NYPA's EVolve NY sites, so clear pricing and dependable service become the reasons drivers return to yours.

Built for working drivers on tight schedules.

04

Delivery and service fleets

Fleets running vans from depots in the Bronx, Brooklyn or Long Island City manage tight overnight charging windows and limited electrical capacity. The app handles depot scheduling, driver accounts, public charging on the road under one bill and readiness reports each morning. Load management keeps the depot within its Con Edison service limits. Drivers who take vans home in the outer boroughs can have home or curbside sessions reimbursed through the same account, with energy records attached.

Every van ready for the morning route.

How a New York charging app is planned and delivered.

  1. 01Site and stakeholder mappingGarages, curbs, buildings or hubs, plus who controls access at each: attendants, boards, managing agents or fleet managers. We document charger models, parking systems and payment routes.
  2. 02Flow design and testingShort flows for drivers, attendants and residents, prototyped and tested with real users in each group. Language needs are confirmed here, before design is final.
  3. 03Charger and garage integrationOCPP connections for each charger model, parking system integration where garages are involved, and OCPI for roaming partners. Each is tested against real hardware.
  4. 04Payments and recordsPricing, idle fees, receipts, building cost allocation and fleet billing are built and reconciled so every party sees the same numbers.
  5. 05Underground testingGarages often have poor signal, so we test offline behavior, retries and charger-side authorization with your staff on site and our team watching the logs.
  6. 06Launch and ongoing changesRelease to the app stores, onboarding for attendants and boards by video call, and continuing updates as new sites, city programs and rules arrive.

Technology

What we build this with.

Driver apps in Flutter or React Native, with native code where offline handling in garages or NFC needs it. Back ends in Node.js or Laravel on AWS or Azure, an OCPP gateway for chargers, OCPI for roaming, and connections to parking management and payment platforms.

01Mobile

  • Swift
  • Kotlin
  • Flutter
  • React Native

02Data and cloud

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

03Marketing and tracking

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

Questions New York operators ask us.

By mapping how cars enter, park, charge and leave at each garage first.

We start with the garage workflow, not the app screens. Who parks the car, how monthly parkers are recognized, how the charger is assigned and what happens when charging finishes all decide the features. Charger models and the parking management system set the integration work. From that we write a scope with priorities, and the timeline is agreed against it. Any custom EV charging app development New York garages commission should start this way.

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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