{"id":6168,"date":"2022-11-08T09:50:49","date_gmt":"2022-11-08T08:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monta.com\/uk\/?post_type=help-center&#038;p=6168"},"modified":"2025-10-28T08:25:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T07:25:53","slug":"create-cost-price-group","status":"publish","type":"help-center","link":"https:\/\/monta.com\/en\/help-center\/create-cost-price-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Apply cost tracking to charge points"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Cost tracking can be done on both paid and unpaid charges. It is applied per charge point or on a Charging Site level. For paid charges, you can compare the revenue from the charge session to the cost to calculate your profit margin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cost tracking will not create an actual transaction in your Wallet. The cost calculation can be seen in <a href=\"https:\/\/monta.com\/uk\/help-center\/export-charges-monta\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/monta.com\/uk\/help-center\/export-charges-monta\/\">charge session exports<\/a> and in the detailed charge screen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Create a Cost group<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>You first need to create a Price Group for tracking the cost. Please note that the Cost Group can only be applied on charge points and Charging sites within the Team. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Select the <strong>Price Groups<\/strong> tab in the Team<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Click on <strong>+ Add new price<\/strong> and select <strong>Cost price<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Select between the <a href=\"https:\/\/monta.com\/uk\/help-center\/price-groups-ev-drivers\/\" data-type=\"help-center\" data-id=\"2632\">type of pricing <\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Name the price and add the amount\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>For Fixed price, you can add an <a href=\"https:\/\/monta.com\/en\/help-center\/build-hourly-tariff-price\/\" data-type=\"help-center\" data-id=\"6799\">hourly tariff<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>For Spot price, you can choose between 60- or 15-minute intervals, add an <a href=\"https:\/\/monta.com\/en\/help-center\/build-hourly-tariff-price\/\" data-type=\"help-center\" data-id=\"6799\">hourly tariff<\/a>, or advanced prices or settings<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>See how the price is added up and click on <strong>Save<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<div>\n  <script async src=\"https:\/\/js.storylane.io\/js\/v2\/storylane.js\"><\/script>\n  <div class=\"sl-embed\" style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:calc(48.63% + 25px);width:100%;height:0;transform:scale(1)\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"sl-demo\" src=\"https:\/\/app.storylane.io\/demo\/buy5eyd53a4a?embed=inline\" name=\"sl-embed\" title=\"Interactive product demo\" aria-label=\"Interactive product demo\" allow=\"fullscreen\" allowfullscreen style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%!important;height:100%!important;border:1px solid rgba(63,95,172,0.35);box-shadow: 0px 0px 18px rgba(26, 19, 72, 0.15);border-radius:10px;box-sizing:border-box;\"><\/iframe>\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Cost tracking on a charge point<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>You can select to apply a Cost Group per charge point within the Team. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Select the <strong>Price Groups<\/strong> tab in the Team<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Click on the settings and select to apply the Price group<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Select the charge points or Charging sites and click <strong>Apply<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<div>\n        <script src=\"https:\/\/js.storylane.io\/js\/v1\/storylane.js\"><\/script>\n        <div class=\"sl-embed\" style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:calc(54.10% + 27px);width:100%;height:0;transform:scale(1)\">\n          <iframe class=\"sl-demo\" src=\"https:\/\/app.storylane.io\/demo\/7jnhu2j4jmgj\" name=\"sl-embed\" title=\"Interactive product demo\" aria-label=\"Interactive product demo\" allow=\"fullscreen; camera; microphone\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:1px solid rgba(63,95,172,0.35);box-shadow: 0px 0px 18px rgba(26, 19, 72, 0.15);border-radius:10px;box-sizing:border-box;\"><\/iframe>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Cost tracking on a Charging site<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>You can start tracking the cost on an entire Charging site at once. This means that all charge points will have the same Cost price. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Open <strong>Charge points<\/strong> from the side menu and select <strong>Charging sites<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Open the site and navigate to the <strong>Details &amp; Settings<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Click on Apply cost group<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Select a Cost price or create a new price group\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>You can select to recalculate the cost of all charges with this select Cost price<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Click on <strong>Continue<\/strong> and then <strong>Save changes<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<div>\n        <script src=\"https:\/\/js.storylane.io\/js\/v1\/storylane.js\"><\/script>\n        <div class=\"sl-embed\" style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:calc(54.10% + 27px);width:100%;height:0;transform:scale(1)\">\n          <iframe class=\"sl-demo\" src=\"https:\/\/app.storylane.io\/demo\/b74ajrrq0lxz\" name=\"sl-embed\" title=\"Interactive product demo\" aria-label=\"Interactive product demo\" allow=\"fullscreen; camera; microphone\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:1px solid rgba(63,95,172,0.35);box-shadow: 0px 0px 18px rgba(26, 19, 72, 0.15);border-radius:10px;box-sizing:border-box;\"><\/iframe>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Start tracking the electricity cost for charging on your charge points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":26315,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"help_cat":[310],"help_tags":[412],"class_list":["post-6168","help-center","type-help-center","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","help_cat-pricing-functions","help_tags-hub"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/help-center\/6168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/help-center"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/help-center"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"help_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/help_cat?post=6168"},{"taxonomy":"help_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/help_tags?post=6168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}