We at eMabler want to wish all of you Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas! Due to the holiday season we will be introducing a brief production deployment freeze to mitigate possibilities for incidents during the holidays. The production deployment freeze will take place between 20th of December 2024 and 3th of January 2025. During this freeze we won't be introducing new features to our production environments.

We have a lot of interesting things under development and we cannot wait to bring these to you during the year 2025. Until that we wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Years!

Tariff engine improvements​

We will release a big tariff engine improvement in the beginning of January 2025. The improvement will streamline tariff handling between OCPI and regular charging sessions and will add support for all price elements for both charging session types. Invoicing related price elements will still be handled separately.

This improvement will change the way spot prices are handled internally and from this release forward the sites that have spot price tariff connected will need to have timezone set under "Location". No other changes are required.

🪄 Enhancements​

Express​

Receipt is now downloadable after the session has finished! In case you have forgotten to give your email address during the charging session you can still retrieve the receipt manually after the session from Express.

🐛 Bug fixes​

Express​

• Fixed credit card verification getting stuck to "loading" at times

eMabler UI​

• Fixed DLM showing wrong amperage consumption to some sockets

🪄 Enhancements​

OCPI​

In our previous OCPI implementation, we utilized routing headers introduced in OCPI version 2.2 whenever they were provided. However, to address compatibility issues with certain partner integrations, we have updated our implementation.

When using OCPI 2.1.1, the following routing headers will now be ignored:

• OCPI-to-party-id
• OCPI-to-country-code
• OCPI-from-party-id
• OCPI-from-country-code

🪄 Enhancements​

eMabler UI​

• Added merchant reference to Express charging statistics to allow referencing sessions between eMabler and Fung
• Added a link to charger's Express page to prevent the need of copy-pasting the URL to the browser's navigation bar

🐛 Bug fixes​

• Fixed "Edit tariffs" modal not opening sometimes with OCPI integrations

It has come to our attention that some third-party QR code readers redirect users to malicious websites after scanning the QR code. We recommend avoiding the use of any 3rd party QR code readers and only trusting the device's native QR code scanning features, such as ones built in to the device's own camera app. These 3rd party QR code readers might show ads in a misleading way that will make the user click on the ad instead of the actual link or redirect users to wrong websites.

Our payment solution Express never asks for payment details before it has verified that the charger has been properly connected to your vehicle.

Read more from here: Avoid the use of 3rd party QR code readers

🐛 Bug fixes​

API​

• Resolved an issue where socket names were unintentionally cleared during the automatic status update for offline chargers. This issue has been fixed, and we apologize for any inconvenience caused by this.
• Fixed GET /authorise/user/external/:externalId endpoint not responding with proper values for IntegratedExternalIds fields.

🚀 New features​

Updated tariff page​

• New simplified page design for managing tariffs. More emphasis on the most important part, the price elements!
• New tariff page also has some quality of life upgrades, like the ability to duplicate price elements for easier tariff management.
• We released the tariff price element restriction support (for OCPI only currently) for our API a while back and now that is also supported in the eMabler UI.

More flexibility for the Excel import tool for sites​

• You asked for it and we delivered: you can now link existing sites as parents for new sites created with site Excel import!
• Our Excel template also supports dates in Excel native way now, so you shouldn't encounter date formatting issues anymore when using the Excel import functionality.

🐛 Bug fixes​

eMabler UI​

• When opening a single CDR, the details view now shows the currency with the prices
• With some chargers the "Used amperage by phase" chart didn't match the actual values given by the DLM, which is now fixed

API​

• Sites which have DLM configuration set at some point can now be deleted
• Other small bug fixes

OCPI​

• General bug fixes

🪄 Enhancements​

Express​

Added support for chargers which do not support disabling "remote start" authorization. At least some Zaptec charger models where affected by this, but they are now supported!

🚀 New features​

Set Restrictions on Price Elements in Tariffs for OCPI Transactions (only for OCPI)​

We have introduced the ability to set restrictions on price elements in tariffs through the API. This allows you to specify weekday, time, and date restrictions for different tariffs.

For example, you can set different tariff price elements for specific time slots from Monday to Tuesday.

Example:

• Weekdays: Monday to Tuesday
  • Time: 09:00 - 17:00
    • Tariff: 0,10 EUR/kWh
  • Time: 17:00 - 20:00
    • Tariff: 0,20 EUR/kWh

If someone starts charging their vehicle at 16:45 and ends at 17:15, the kWh used before 17:00 will be charged at 0,10 EUR/kWh, and the kWh used after 17:00 will be charged at 0,20 EUR/kWh.