Publishing to the roaming network
A station on Road can be made reachable to other charging networks, so drivers who belong to another provider can charge there and their charges settle back to you. This is the operator's side of roaming; this page is about how your stations get onto the network and the control you have over it.
When stations are shared
Once your provider's roaming connection is live, the platform shares your eligible stations with the network on its own and keeps them in sync: change a station, its location or its tariff, and the update is pushed out. You do not publish each station by hand.
What goes out
Two things are shared for each station:
- The location and its connectors, so partners know where it is and what it offers. Each connector is presented as its own network EVSE (the charging stations page explains that mapping).
- The tariff, so a visiting driver sees the price before they charge. A roaming fee is added to the shared copy of the tariff; the tariff your own drivers pay is unchanged.
Which stations are shared
A connector goes onto the roaming network only if it accepts roaming charging, that is, it takes cards from other networks (see access control). A station that serves only your own tokens stays off the network. Roaming reach follows from how a station is set up to charge, not from a separate publishing step.
Listed or unlisted
Each Location has a publishing mode that controls how a shared station appears, not whether it is shared:
- Public: the station is listed on public maps, so any driver on an agreed network can discover it.
- Private (the default): the station is kept off public maps, so it is not searchable, but a driver who reaches it, from its ID or a direct link, can still charge there over roaming.
Private means unlisted, not hidden. A private station is still on the network and still usable; it just does not show up on a map. This suits a site you would rather not advertise but are happy for a known driver to use.
Through Road's roaming hub
Your stations reach partners through Road's own roaming hub, which speaks the shared protocols out to other networks and to the large hubs such as Gireve and Hubject. You connect once, to Road, and never integrate with each partner or hub yourself.
Where to go next
The mechanics of joining networks, the standards involved, and how charges settle between operators live in the Roaming section. If you are setting this up, start with joining as a CPO.