How listings get onto Evova, and what Verified means
An open directory is only useful if you can tell what's been checked and what hasn't. This page sets out exactly how installers end up listed, what we review before a listing goes live, and what our Verified badge does — and doesn't — mean.
How installers get listed
Evova is an open directory. Listings come from two places: installers who apply to be listed, and businesses we find ourselves from public sources — the business's own website, public business listings, and official records like Companies House. We build each listing from facts those sources state publicly: business name, website, the services and areas they advertise, and the accreditations they claim.
No listing goes live automatically. Every sourced listing sits unpublished until it has been reviewed against the checks below.
What we check before a listing goes live
The review is about one question: is this a real, active business that genuinely installs EV charge points? Listings that fail are not published, and businesses that turn out not to be EV installers are kept off the directory permanently.
What the labels mean
Being listed is not an endorsement. A standard listing means the business passed the review above — nothing more. That's why unclaimed, unverified listings carry an Unverified label, and why accreditations on them are shown as "Stated": they're what the installer claims on their own website, which we haven't independently checked.
The Evova Verified badge is different. Before awarding it we actually check: Qualifications & certifications · Insurance cover · OZEV approval (for grant work). Verified means those documents and registrations were real when we checked them — it isn't a guarantee of workmanship, and it can't be bought without passing the checks. Where an installer pays to be Featured, that placement is labelled as such and is only available to installers who hold the Verified badge.
If it's your business
Installers can claim their listing free of charge to correct details, add information, and apply for verification. If you'd rather not be listed at all, use our removal request form — we acknowledge requests within 5 working days and action them within 10, and a removed listing stays removed: our sourcing process is built to never re-create it.
What we never do
We never write or fabricate reviews, we never label a listing Verified without running the checks, and installers can't pay us to rank above better-matched competitors in your search results. If you believe a listing breaks any of this, email hello@evova.uk — how we handle content more generally is covered in our editorial policy.
The pre-publish checks
A real EV offering
The business's own website shows genuine EV charge point installation work — not just general electrical services with a keyword bolted on.
An active business
Where the business is a registered company, we match it to an active Companies House record and check the registered details line up with who they say they are.
The right identity
Trading name, website and location all describe the same business. Lead-generation sites posing as local installers don't get listed.
Sensible coverage
The areas a listing appears in reflect where the installer actually says they work.
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