The Easee Charger for Holiday Lets: The Billing-Ready Option (2026)

Quick answer: For a holiday let where you want to bill guests with the least hassle, the Easee Charge Max is the strongest pick on the market, because it's the rare charger with a built-in MID-certified billing meter. That removes the separate sub-meter every other mainstream charger needs for compliant billing. It supports OCPP 1.6J so it works with a platform like GuestCharge, it's compact and well built with a 5-year warranty, and it does up to 7.4kW single-phase or 22kW three-phase. The cheaper Easee Charge Lite (and the older Easee One) do not have the built-in MID meter, so if billing is the goal, it's specifically the Charge Max you want.

Most "best charger" advice treats Easee as the good-looking option, the charger you pick if aesthetics matter. That undersells it for a holiday let. The Easee Charge Max has one feature that matters more than looks for anyone billing guests, and almost no other mainstream charger has it: a billing-grade meter built into the unit. This guide explains why that matters, which Easee model you actually need, and where the trade-offs are.

Why Easee is different for guest billing

To bill a guest lawfully for the electricity they use, the reading has to come from a meter certified for billing under the Measuring Instruments Regulations 2016 (MID). Most chargers (Zappi, Wallbox, Pod Point) don't have one, so you fit an external MID sub-meter alongside at install, an extra bit of kit and an extra cost.

The Easee Charge Max has the meter built in. It's an MID Class B meter, accurate to ±1% under EN 50470-3, certified for billing in compliance with the EU Measuring Instruments Directive. In plain terms: the charger itself can produce a reading you're allowed to bill from, with nothing extra to bolt on. For a holiday let owner, that's the difference between a clean single-unit install and a charger-plus-sub-meter setup. We explain the metering rules in full in our guide to MID-meter compliance for holiday let EV chargers.

Easee even designed the unit with shared, paid use in mind. The Charge Max can grant guests access and ensure they pay for their own consumption, with an intelligent queuing system and RFID registration for fair use across multiple people. It was built for exactly the situation a holiday let is in.

Get the right model: Charge Max, not Lite or One

Easee sells more than one charger, and only one of them is the billing-ready one, so this is the easy mistake to avoid.

• Easee Charge Max — has the built-in MID Class B meter. This is the one for guest billing.
• Easee Charge Lite — the cheaper sibling, aimed at straightforward home charging. It does not have the built-in MID billing meter.
• Easee One (the older model many people still have) — also does not have a built-in MID meter; it would need an external sub-meter like the others.
• Easee Charge Pro — the multi-unit/commercial version with the MID meter, relevant if you're running several chargers across a larger site.

So if you're buying specifically to bill holiday let guests, the answer is the Charge Max (or Charge Pro for multi-unit sites). Buying a Charge Lite or One to save money and then having to add an external sub-meter usually erases the saving and adds complexity.

The specs that matter for a holiday let

• Power: up to 7.4kW on single-phase (right for most UK properties) or 22kW on three-phase.
• Connectivity: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, built-in LTE (so it can stay connected even where Wi-Fi is patchy, useful at a remote rural let), and OCPP 1.6J for third-party billing.
• Build: IP54-rated housing, Type 2 socket, integrated RCD Type A and 6mA DC fault detection (RDC-DD), so your electrician doesn't need to add a separate protective device. Compact and light.
• Warranty: 5 years, longer than several rivals, which matters for a charger you intend to keep for the long haul at a rental.
• Looks: the reason Easee gets recommended on aesthetics in the first place. It's a clean, compact unit that photographs well, which is a small but real plus at a property guests choose partly on the listing photos.

The billing picture

This is where the Charge Max is genuinely ahead for a holiday let:

• MID meter: built in. No external sub-meter to buy or fit. This is the headline advantage.
• OCPP 1.6J: supported. So it connects to a billing platform like GuestCharge, and guests can pay per kWh for what they use.
• One thing to confirm: Easee notes that some integrations may involve costs for third-party integrators, so it's worth checking the specifics of connecting your Charge Max to your chosen billing platform up front. Not a problem, just a "confirm before you buy" item.

The net result is the simplest compliant-billing setup of any mainstream charger: one unit, billing meter included, OCPP for the payment platform.

Where Easee might not be the pick

It's not automatically the right answer for every property:

• If the let has solar panels, a Zappi's solar diversion may earn its keep in a way the Easee's doesn't match, though the Charge Max does support solar charging via the Easee Equalizer. If maximising solar self-use is your priority, weigh the Zappi against it.
• If you're on the tightest budget and willing to fit an external sub-meter, a cheaper charger plus a sub-meter can come in lower, though you lose the single-unit simplicity.
• Easee's UK service network is decent but not the largest; if having the biggest possible UK support presence is your priority, that's a point for Pod Point.

What it costs

Easee chargers sit in a similar bracket to the other premium units, with the Charge Max's built-in MID meter putting it at the higher end of the hardware price, offset by the fact you're not buying a separate sub-meter. Add installation on top as with any charger. The exact figure varies by property and installer, so get a quote, but think of it as paying a bit more for the unit and saving on the sub-meter and the extra install work.

As with every charger, don't count on a grant: the EV chargepoint grant for landlords (up to £500 per socket from April 2026) excludes holiday and short-term lets, so most holiday let owners can't claim it. The payback comes from billing guests for what they use, which you can estimate with our earnings calculator.

The verdict for holiday lets

If billing guests with the least hassle is your priority, the Easee Charge Max is the charger to beat. The built-in MID meter is a genuine advantage no other mainstream charger here offers, it supports OCPP for your billing platform, it's well built with a long warranty, and Easee designed it for shared, paid use from the start. Just make sure you buy the Charge Max specifically, not the Charge Lite or the older One, since only the Max (and the multi-unit Pro) has the billing meter.

To see how the Easee compares with the other main options, see our guide to the best EV chargers for UK holiday lets. And once your charger's in, billing guests fairly for what they use is exactly what GuestCharge does; Easee is on our list of supported chargers.