How it works
From the driver's tap to a receipt the tax office accepts.
A single charge has to satisfy a card network, a charging protocol, and a tax authority — systems that were never built to agree. Here's the conversation Bolt runs so you don't. Scroll to follow the current.
Act I · Authorize
01 · At the terminal
The driver walks up — Bolt's already on the terminal.
On the hardware you already run, they pick a connector and an amount. No app, no account, AFIR-ready from the first touch.
AFIR · any terminal02 · Authorize
They tap. We pre-authorize the amount they asked for.
Through your bank's app on the terminal — a hold sized to the charge, not a frozen wall. Your bank stays yours; the money never touches us.
EMV · your acquirerAct II · Charge
03 · Start
We start the session on your CSMS.
Over OCPI, on whatever back-office you already run. You migrate nothing.
OCPI 2.3.004 · Monitor & stop
We watch it live and stop at the requested amount.
Your CSMS streams the session to Bolt; we cut it the instant the driver's number is hit. No overshoot, no guesswork.
OCPI · liveAct III · Settle
05 · Receipt
We pull the compliant fiscal receipt from invoicing.
Country-correct and tax-signed — the data-flow the standard leaves open, closed. A receipt the tax office accepts, not just a PDF.
fiscal signature06 · Capture
We capture the exact amount delivered.
Only what the driver used — back through the terminal to your acquirer. Card-present economics, not card-not-present markups.
EMV · captureAct IV · Close
07 · Confirm
We tell invoicing the payment cleared.
Receipt, session, and payout reconcile themselves — no month-end spreadsheet hunt.
reconcile08 · Deliver
The driver gets a receipt the tax office accepts.
The signed fiscal document lands with the driver. One tap in, one compliant charge out.
one tap, doneOne layer, the whole charge
Eight hand-offs. One integration. None of them yours to build.
Every operator who solves this alone wires the same conversation between the terminal, the bank, the CSMS, and the tax authority — then maintains it forever as each standard moves. Bolt is that orchestration, built once and kept current. Your bank stays behind your terminal; we never touch the money.