In the context of enterprise mobility, co-payment refers to an additional employee payment that employees can make for privately used company devices such as smartphones and tablets. Co-payment makes it easier for companies to retain full cost control as part of CYOD (choose your own device).
For example, under a company phone rental model such as Device-as-a-Service, the company can pay the fixed amount of 20 euros for a COPE device. For this, it can undoubtedly equip its employees with high-performance mobile devices–but this amount will not be sufficient for current high-priced flagship models from Apple or Samsung.
Employees and company share smartphone costs
However, if employees would like to use just such a top-of-the-line smartphone (such as an iPhone Pro Max or a Samsung Galaxy Ultra), they can do so through co-payment. The employee co-payment then covers the difference between the rental price and the employer's fixed amount.
Compared to today's device prices of well over a thousand euros, which a user would have to pay privately from his net salary for such a device, a co-payment of a few euros per month is easy for employees to cope with - especially since the additional payment is deducted from the gross salary. There are interfaces to the usual payroll software for uncomplicated billing.