For strata managers

Charging your building can actually approve.

Every other option starts with a quote, an electrician and a general meeting. Volty starts with the power points already in your carpark.

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What changes for the building

Volty is a billing service, not an infrastructure project. That difference is the whole product.

No hardware, no works approval

Nothing gets installed, so there is no procurement, no electrician and no capital works vote to lose. Approving Volty is a decision about billing, not building.

Residents pay for their own power

Each session is charged to the driver at the rate you set, so EV charging stops quietly coming out of the common-property electricity bill.

Revenue settles to the owners corporation

Funds go to the building’s own merchant account. Volty takes a small platform fee per session and never holds your money.

An end to the fairness argument

Every kilowatt-hour is attributed to the car that used it. No more splitting a mystery line item across owners who do not drive an EV.

No liability for equipment

You are not maintaining chargers, insuring them or replacing them in five years. There is nothing on the wall that belongs to you.

Live in days, not budget cycles

Set a rate, mark where charging is allowed, hand residents an invite code. A building can be billing the same week it decides to.

What setting it up actually involves

Four steps, and none of them require a tradesperson.

1
Create the building
Add the building in the strata console with its address and bank details. That creates a merchant account in the building’s name so charging revenue settles directly to it.
2
Set your rate
Choose a rate per kilowatt-hour. Most buildings set it a little above what they pay so the common-property bill is covered rather than subsidised.
3
Mark where charging counts
Drop a boundary around the carpark. Volty only bills a session when the car reports it charged inside that boundary, so a driver charging at work is never billed to your building.
4
Invite residents
Share the building’s invite code or print the poster the console generates. Residents join themselves — you never have to onboard anyone manually.

The questions committees actually ask

Do we need a general meeting to approve this?: Volty does not alter common property, so in most buildings it is a decision about offering a billing service rather than a works approval. Your strata manager should confirm against your own by-laws, but there is nothing to install and nothing to consent to structurally.
What if a resident disputes a charge?: Every session shows the start and end time, the energy delivered and the rate applied, and each driver gets a receipt. The console shows the same record on your side, so a dispute is a matter of reading the session rather than guessing.
Who pays if the electricity price changes?: You do, in the sense that you set the rate and can change it whenever you like. New sessions use the new rate; sessions already running keep the rate they started on.
What happens if a card fails?: The session is still recorded and the driver is notified so they can retry with another card. The building sees it in the console as unpaid rather than silently losing the revenue.
Does this work in a building with no EV owners yet?: Yes, and it is the cheapest time to switch it on. There is no hardware sitting idle and no monthly cost, so a building can be ready before its first resident buys an EV.

“I think the biggest selling point is that it provides a practical EV charging solution without the cost and complexity of installing dedicated charging infrastructure. It also removes the administrative burden of tracking electricity usage and recovering costs from residents.”

Leah T — Building Manager, Sydney

Bring Volty to your building

Tell us about your building and we'll be in touch as we roll out — or book a time and we'll walk you through it.