Figure 1 The CS-A06 in white: 8-inch display on the left, integrated card terminal on the right, six vertical slots along the top.
The global shared power bank industry has moved from network expansion to per-site economics. For operators outside China, three questions now decide whether a location stays viable: whether a customer can complete a rental without installing an application or opening an account; whether the venue is willing to place the unit on its front counter; and how quickly, and at what cost, a failure is repaired.
Relink’s answer is the CS-A06, a six-slot station that integrates the payment terminal into the chassis, reduces the return gesture to a single direction, and pushes operation and maintenance down. The design intent is not to add functions but to remove steps — to let a rental be completed on the card a customer is already carrying.
Introducing the CS-A06: A Six-Slot Countertop Station
Structure: vertical slots and counter fit
Conventional cabinets store packs flat inside a bay: a returned pack is pushed in, a rented pack emerges from the same opening, and the unit reads as a row of batteries with a display attached. The CS-A06 arranges its slots vertically: a pack is pressed down into its slot from above, and a charged pack is lifted up out of it from below. In that single movement the station completes a handover rather than a storage cycle.
Three engineering consequences follow. First, the return gesture has one direction only and can be performed with one hand, so a first-time customer needs no instruction from staff — on a busy counter, where staff have no attention to spare, that is what decides whether a rental is completed at all. Second, six packs standing side by side occupy 320 × 200 mm of counter surface, roughly the footprint of a payment terminal, so a counter yields one position without removing anything it already sells. Third, the form changes a venue’s judgement about whether the unit belongs on the counter: a matte shell, rounded edges, a display facing the queue and a straight line of slots make the object read as a counter appliance rather than shop equipment.
The vertical layout also delivers an engineering benefit as a by-product. The dust cover sits over the top openings — precisely the surface a counter splashes and dusts — and the station is rated splash resistant for that exposure.
Figure 2 A customer authorises a rental with a contactless card while the 8-inch display steps through the flow.
Payment: one card, one authorisation
The CS-A06 removes the two points at which customers abandon a QR route: the app store and the wallet. No application, no account and no pre-funded balance are required. A customer taps a contactless card, or inserts a chip card and keys in a PIN, and a charged pack leaves its slot. The process is measured in seconds: between a customer with a nearly empty battery and a fully charged pack in hand, only one touch remains.
Two terminal configurations are offered, and the difference follows acquiring rules and cardholder verification requirements rather than product tiers. The US version integrates the POS terminal into the chassis for a straight tap-and-go rental, the shortest possible path. The European version pairs the station with an external terminal so that a customer can key in a PIN when the issuing bank requires verification — a route that suits markets where strong verification is the norm better than a single tap does.
Display: eight inches of guidance and advertising
In the queue at a café the 8-inch display sits at eye level. For the venue it is owned advertising space that can carry a menu, new products and promotions; for the operator the same surface can be sold to brands as a second revenue line beside the rental itself. Publishing is remote, so content changes require neither a technician on site nor access to the machine.
The display performs two functions at once: it guides the rental (steps, pricing, return instructions) and it carries commercial content, so it does not idle between transactions.
Figure 3 The black finish, with the six independent slot modules across the top of the unit.
Figure 4 A rental completed at a café counter, with no application installed and no account created.
Specifications and Compliance
Protection is specified for the worst case rather than the average one: over-voltage, over-current and short-circuit protection, ESD protection, per-slot current limiting and power bank anti-theft, with a slot dust cover rated splash resistant. On the network side, 4G& WIFI are supported, communication with the app completes in about one second, rental data is uploaded in real time, and firmware, pricing and advertising content can all be changed over the air without a site visit.
The CS-A06 carries CE, RoHS, FCC.. certification, so a single platform can be deployed across markets; production is undertaken by specialist EMS partners including Foxconn and BYD. Certification opens access, manufacturing secures delivery, and patents supported by a service network sustain replication — the footing on which the CS-A06 becomes a cross-market platform rather than a single model, and the measure of Relink’s scale capability in shared-charging hardware.
Availability and Customization
The CS-A06 is available in black and white finishes, with logo, colour and QR code customization supported for OEM and ODM orders. Listing terms on Relink’s online store currently start at ten sets. Operators evaluating the model can request a sample unit and the current specification sheet from the Relink sales team; for a customer who prefers to validate one site first, a listing minimum of ten sets makes a trial installation practical rather than a commitment.
Looking Ahead
Relink holds that good products come from listening to the market and responding quickly. In the next phase of shared charging, competition shifts from how many sites a network covers to whether each site keeps earning — and that shift asks hardware for fewer steps, less field intervention and a clearer revenue structure.
The CS-A06 is one step in that direction. Relink will continue to invest in R&D across payment adaptation, service efficiency and venue value, so that partners can take hold of opportunities in their own markets.
Fewer steps. Broader payment reach. A clearer path to growth.
Post time: November 2026
About Relink
Shenzhen Relink Communication Technology Co., Ltd. designs and manufactures shared power bank stations, power banks and the software that runs them. Its line spans four to forty-eight slot stations, from QR-based rentals to card-payment kiosks with 43-inch displays, and it supplies operators and distributors across Europe, North America, the Middle East, Southeast Asia and Africa.
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Post time: Nov-13-2026