Run your own charging network.
We power the software, payments, and support.
You own the hardware. You own the market. Panda licenses the platform — localized payments, multi-currency settlement, a dashboard built for operators, and the playbook that lets you skip a year of mistakes.
The opportunity
A recurring-revenue amenity business — without building software.
Power-bank sharing is a proven model with billions in transactions across Asia. The pattern is the same in NA, LatAm, and Europe: high-dwell venues, dead phones, scan-to-rent in seconds. What’s missing in most markets is a localized platform an operator can run a real business on.
Recurring, transactional revenue
Every rental is a micro-transaction. A single high-traffic kiosk can return its capex in months and keep producing for years.
Proven model, undersupplied markets
The hardware exists, the consumer behavior exists, the demand exists. What’s scarce in your market is an operator running it well — that’s the opening.
Lean, scalable, no inventory
Once a station is placed, it runs itself. No staff at the kiosk, no perishable goods, no daily reordering — just clean recurring revenue per location.
A real operating moat
The hard part isn’t the box — it’s the platform, the payments, the venue relationships, and the playbook. That moat is what you’re licensing.
How the partnership works
A clean split: you own the market, we own the platform.
No revenue surprises, no joint-venture entanglement. You run the on-the-ground business. We run the software and payment rail underneath it.
Own the hardware. Own the venues. Own the market.
- Purchase the hardware (you own it outright — not a lease, not a rental)
- Sign and manage venue contracts in your city / country
- Place, install, and maintain the stations in your market
- Field on-the-ground venue questions; we handle platform-level support
- Keep the upside as you grow — territories are real
Software, payments, support, brand, playbook.
- Operator dashboard: real-time station status, rentals, payouts, alerts
- Localized payments on local rails — multi-currency settlement
- Customer-facing apps and web flow in your operator language
- Tier-2 support in the operator’s timezone and language
- Ongoing platform updates — security, payments, features — on us
- Operating playbook from real networks we run ourselves
Why Panda
A real platform vs. the factory’s generic app.
The hardware factory will sell you the box and license you their app. Their app is generic, not localized, and (despite the assumption) not free. What you don’t get from a factory is the part of the business that actually compounds: localized payments, real support, the operator dashboard, and the playbook.
- Payments on local rails (cards / wallets / popular local methods)Localized per market — settled in local currencyGeneric, often single processor, frequently not the local rail your customers use
- Multi-currency settlement to the operatorNative multi-currency; remit in your home currencySingle currency, FX absorbed by the operator
- Operator dashboardBuilt for operators — stations, payouts, alerts, reportingBuilt for the factory — limited operator visibility
- Support in operator language & timezoneYes — local-hours support, in the language you operate inBest-effort, often async, often a language gap
- Customer-facing UI in local languageYes — localized rental flow, receipts, messagingOften English or Chinese only, awkward translations
- Brand control on the customer-facing screenOn-brand to your market; clean, no third-party adsGeneric factory branding by default
- Ongoing software updatesContinuous platform development includedOn the factory’s release cadence, if at all
- Operating playbookA playbook from running our own networks: venue acquisition, pricing, fraud, retentionNot the factory’s business
We’re not trying to talk you out of the factory. We’re here when you realize the gap between “owning hardware” and “running a business” is bigger than the bill of materials.
Payments & economics
Transactions settle to Panda. You get your cut, in your currency, on time.
The payment rail is the single biggest thing the factory app doesn’t solve for an international operator. We do.
Guest pays at the station
On your local rail — local cards and the wallets / methods customers actually use in your country.
Transactions settle to Panda
Panda is the merchant of record. We hold the processor relationships, the chargeback exposure, and the PCI scope.
Operator payout
You receive your agreed share on a recurring schedule, in your home currency, with itemized reporting per station.
Local rails per market
NA: Stripe and the major card networks. LatAm: Mercado Pago, OXXO, and regional rails. Europe: SEPA, iDEAL, Bancontact, Klarna. Updated as we expand into new markets.
Multi-currency settlement
Transactions in local currency, settlement to the operator in the currency you choose. No more FX surprises absorbed at the station level.
We carry the merchant burden
Merchant agreements, chargebacks, fraud, dispute response, PCI — all on us. You stay focused on stations and venues.
Per-rental transparency
Every transaction is visible in your dashboard — gross, fees, your share — and ties to a payout statement. No black box.
Exact revenue split and processor fees vary by market and volume. We walk through your specific numbers on the demo, against your projected venue mix.
Proof
We run this ourselves — and the receipts are big.
Before we license the platform to operators, we proved it by running our own network. Our flagship market in the Greater Toronto Area is operated directly by Panda — same software, same payment rail, same dashboard you’d get.
Across the Toronto network, we’ve delivered:
- 63,000+
- Charging hours delivered
- 20,000+
- Guest rentals processed
- 27+
- Months in continuous operation
- 3+ hrs
- Average rental duration
Vancouver and Mexico City are our two newest markets — both taken from zero to live within a month each, on the same platform, the same dashboard, and the same playbook the Toronto network was built on. That’s the point of licensing a real multi-region platform: a new market doesn’t mean a new system to figure out. Early days on rental data, but the rails, the localized payment flow, and the customer-facing UI were running the day the first station went in.
You’re not piloting unproven software. You’re licensing a system that has been load-tested across tens of thousands of real transactions — and the operating know-how that came with running it.
Markets
Who this is for.
Solo founders and small operating teams who want a real B2B amenity business — and would rather skip the year (and the capital) it would take to build the software themselves.
North America
Live and proven. Best fit for operators with an existing local business network (hospitality, vending, B2B services) ready to add a recurring-revenue line.
Latin America
High-fit market — long dwell times, mobile-heavy consumer behavior, a payment landscape the factory’s app does not handle well. Panda’s localized rails are the differentiator.
Europe
Hospitality-rich, payment-fragmented. Local-method support (iDEAL / Bancontact / SEPA-style flows) is the difference between adoption and friction.
Multi-region and multi-currency since day one. If you’re in a city we haven’t formally launched in, talk to us — first-mover territories are available.
FAQ
What operators ask before signing.
Run a real charging network. Skip the software year.
Apply now — we’ll walk through your market, your numbers, and what the first 90 days look like.
Apply to become an operator
Tell us about your market.
We review applications individually. If there’s a fit, we’ll book a demo within a couple of business days.