Affiliate resource · Rental economics

A clearer view of the numbers.

Use this phone charging station revenue calculator to explore rental income, your venue arrangement, and operating costs. Change the assumptions to understand what drives your own scenario.

The starting numbers are a worked example, not typical results, an earnings forecast, or an equipment quote. Your locations, agreements, and costs will be different.

Build your scenario

Illustrative inputs

1. Stations and rentals

Number of stations

Stations operating during this period.

Rentals per station, per day

Your assumed daily average, including quiet days.

Average amount per rental ($)

The amount collected per rental, not an hourly rate.

Days in this scenario

All revenue and costs use this same period.

2. Revenue sharing

Operator share of gross rentals (%)

An editable assumption. Confirm the applicable calculation basis in your agreement.

Host compensation (%)

An illustrative venue arrangement, not a standard host rate.

Calculate host compensation from

These produce different results. Choose the basis your actual venue agreement uses.

3. Costs and initial investment

Other costs for this period ($)

The total for all stations combined. Include applicable travel, labor, service, or other costs; do not count revenue shares twice.

Total initial investment ($)

Enter your equipment and setup total. The example amount is not a quoted package price.

The method

Every step is visible.

Gross rentals: stations × average rentals per station per day × average amount collected per rental × days.
Operator share: gross rentals × the operator percentage. The remaining amount is the program share.
Host compensation: the selected gross-rentals or operator-share basis × the host percentage.
After entered costs: operator share − host compensation − other costs for the whole route during this period.
Simple payback: initial investment ÷ the positive amount remaining per modeled period. No positive payback is shown when that amount is zero or negative.

For the starting example: $360 in rental receipts produces a $288 operator share. The illustrative host receives 20% of that share ($57.60). Subtracting $25 in other costs leaves $205.40 before unentered costs. Dividing an illustrative $1,500 investment by that amount gives about 7.3 identical 30-day periods.

What this calculation leaves to you

Use rental assumptions that account for traffic, seasonality, downtime, and unpaid or refunded rentals. Confirm how fees and refunds affect your agreement's revenue-sharing basis. Include applicable taxes, financing, your time, and other expenses in your inputs if you want them reflected; the calculator does not estimate them for you.

Future periods will vary, and simple payback is not a forecast. A negative result stays negative. Revenue from selling screen space is deliberately separate because it depends on advertising sales, fulfillment costs, and agreed rights.

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