Quickest way to get things started

The normal process is to plug in, then walk back to the charger and present payment. Here's a small workaround* to get the charger going a little faster by doing one less trip to the charger:

Before you grab the plug, insert your card into the chip reader. Don't worry, nothing will charge (or even pre-authorize) until you actually connect and start charging ... so if you grab the wrong plug, just get the other one.

Next, with the card in the chip reader, plug in your car. After the charger has recognized you're plugged in, it will move on to the authorization phase and immediately try to authorize your payment. You might here a few long beeps, but keep waiting.  Immediately after authorization, the charging session will begin its process.

After you see that you're car is successfully charging, you can remove your card.

* Workaround: when we say "workaround" here, we just mean this is not the way the software was designed, but when we were testing, we figured out it worked like this.