Welcome to our platform updates, where we'll spotlight the most impactful enhancements delivered each month across the Ocean platform. Through our continuous release cycles, our teams work to give charge point operators and e-mobility service providers more efficient tools, stronger security, and a better experience for the drivers who rely on them, so networks can keep pace with growing demand and a fast-changing market.

July was no exception. This month's release touched both the operator portal and the native mobile apps, with updates spanning fleet and location management, payment security, and app reliability. Here's what shipped.

Fleet customers can now have more than one login

Until now, fleet accounts shared a single login across the whole company. That's changed: fleet customers can now create up to 10 named user accounts per company, each with its own credentials. Operators manage this directly from the back office: adding or removing accounts, tracking invitations, and resending them as needed. Because every action is tied to an individual login, it's now traceable to the person who took it, and access follows the customer's status automatically, disabled on suspension, restored on reinstatement.

Fleet managers also get a faster way to onboard vehicles. A new "Bulk upload vehicles" option in the Fleet Portal supports up to 50 vehicles per CSV file, using the same template as the single-vehicle form, with row-level validation that flags exactly what needs fixing.

RFID payments get simpler

On the payment side, the Payter cloud solution now recognizes RFID cards directly, authorizing drivers through their Ocean account the moment a registered card is tapped. That removes the extra preauthorization step that direct-payment RFID sessions used to require, so tap-and-charge sessions start faster with one less thing that can go wrong.

This pairs with a change on the mobile app side: card payments now run through Braintree's Premium Fraud Management Tools with device data collection, adding another layer of fraud detection to every in-app payment.

More visibility into how locations are used

Operators can now define parking areas within a location, specifying dimensions and restrictions and assigning connectors to them. Parking data now sits alongside the charging infrastructure itself, giving a fuller picture of each site rather than treating parking as an afterthought.

Load management clusters also gained a new option: alongside existing strategies, operators can now select "Equal share" in the Cluster Mode setting to distribute available power evenly across a cluster.

Mobile apps: staying current, staying secure

Two changes in this month's app release matter most for how drivers experience the app day to day. It can now enforce or recommend version updates, closing off a common source of support tickets: drivers on unsupported builds are guided straight to an update, while drivers on slightly older but still-supported versions see a softer "Recommended update" prompt they can dismiss for now. Update enforcement is opt-in, so networks can phase it in on their own timeline rather than all at once.

On top of the Braintree fraud protection mentioned above, imperial locales also got a fix: distances and ranges throughout the app now display correctly in miles, matching the existing metric formatting logic.

Under the hood

This release also moves a few things forward on the integration side. The Urchin API continues its migration to v2, roaming actor endpoints now return location counts, and blocked roaming connections continue processing session updates and CDRs instead of interrupting billing mid-migration. Full technical details are available on request from your Ocean contact.

Catch you on the next wave

Every release aims to give operators sharper tools, tighter security, and drivers a smoother experience. This month, that meant simpler fleet access, faster tap-and-charge payments, and clearer visibility into how locations get used across the network. We'll be back next month with the next wave of updates.

— The Ocean Team