Joining the Road network as a CPO

A Charge Point Operator (CPO) connects to the Roaming Hub to make its locations reachable by eMSPs and their drivers. How you connect depends on your setup.

Peer-to-peer with Road's eMSP

Connect your CPMS to the hub through a peer-to-peer agreement with Road's eMSP, using the standard OCPI MSP-CPO handshake (OCPI 2.1.1). Your locations join Road's eMSP network and become visible on Road's maps and apps, and Road's cardholders can charge at your stations. The agreement is between you and Road's eMSP, and transactions settle directly between the two of you.

To set up a peer-to-peer connection, contact the roaming team at [email protected].

Hub connection

To reach every eMSP on the Road network rather than Road's eMSP alone, connect to the hub as an extension of your own network (OCPI 2.1.1). The hub takes your location data and broadcasts it to every eMSP on the network, keeping your own party ID so your branding and identity are preserved. Your locations become reachable to the cardholders of all those eMSPs, a much larger pool of drivers.

Here the agreement is between you and the hub. Transactions settle between you and Road, and Road in turn settles with each eMSP as if the charge came from Road. You reach Road's full set of eMSP agreements while keeping your own identity.

To set up a hub connection, contact the roaming team at [email protected].

Roaming-as-a-Service (no party ID)

If you have no party ID or existing roaming agreements, Road can run roaming on your behalf. Both the peer-to-peer and hub modes are available; the difference is that Road broadcasts your locations and CDRs under its own party ID.

To set up Roaming-as-a-Service, contact the roaming team at [email protected].