Location access

Location access is how you control two things at a site: who can see it, and who can charge there. You set both through a location’s own settings and the tokens and vouchers that grant access to it.

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Overview

Access has two aspects, and every mechanism below controls one or both: A location’s own settings set the baseline, and tokens and vouchers layer on top to open access to specific drivers. Each mechanism has a home of its own; this page is how they fit together.

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Who can see a location

Two publishing settings decide visibility, and they work independently:

• Publicly available lists the location in Spirii Go and the maps where Spirii shares location data, so any driver can find it.
• Hidden from charging apps removes that listing without changing who can charge — a driver who already knows the site is there, and carries a valid token, can still use it.

Combined, they give three practical states: Enabled for roaming extends visibility further, publishing the location to drivers on other networks through Spirii’s roaming partners. See Roaming connection for how that works. These settings are configured on the location itself — see Location configuration.

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Who can charge

Whether a driver can start a session comes down to the token they present and the access tied to the location.

• A token — a charge key in Connect — authorises charging at any public location in the Spirii network, and on roaming networks too when the location has roaming enabled. This is the default path for a public site: any registered, active token works.
• A token group restricts a set of locations to the tokens inside it. Only those tokens can authorise there, and they can do so even when the location isn’t public — a token group always grants its members access. It’s how you make a depot exclusive to your own fleet’s keys.
• A voucher grants a driver both access and a specific rate at a defined set of locations. A driver enters the voucher code in the app, or you link it to a token, and it opens access even where the location is private. See Voucher access for the full mechanism.

Chargers can also require authentication or allow charging to start on plug-in, and support methods such as Plug & Charge. Those sit with the token rather than the location — Token authentication covers them.

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How the settings combine

The mechanisms follow a clear order of precedence, and it’s worth holding the whole picture in view, since a single setting rarely tells you who can charge. On a public location, any registered token can charge. If you’ve set opening hours, that holds during open hours; outside them, the site narrows to drivers whose token is in a bound token group, or who hold a voucher. On a location that isn’t public, an ordinary token is declined. Only two things get a driver in: membership of a token group bound to the location, or a valid voucher. For example, keep Munich DC Hub private and bind your fleet’s token group to it: your drivers charge, everyone else is turned away. Add opening hours later and the same site can open to the public by day while staying exclusively yours overnight.

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Dependencies & limitations

• Vouchers and token groups override location settings. They’re absolute grants, so a location’s public setting and opening hours don’t restrict a driver who holds one. Keep that in mind when you rely on opening hours to limit access.
• A non-public location declines ordinary tokens. Only a bound token group or a voucher authorises there; a plain registered token isn’t enough.
• Residential access works differently. Private, residential-type charge boxes use their own sharing and app-user mechanisms, set from Spirii Go rather than the location settings here.

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