Checking You Have The Best Electricity Plan - Beat Your Bill (Beatyourbill.com.au)

bethepro on 19/11/2019 - 16:57

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G'day,

This is not a deal but a new independent Australian service that allows to check whether you're getting the best deal with your current electricity provider. I am a Victorian and have used this as a way to save ~$100 per year. It's pretty nifty and relies on your uploading original PDF tax invoices/statements of your bill. It was created by two locals who have experience in the Energy sector. The free version shows you what deals (compared to your current plan) saves you <$100 per year while the premium version discloses the companies that save you >$100. Premium version is a $30 once off payment. You could possibly share a premium account with family and mates (however I am not sure if there are barriers to applying numerous properties to stop this). I should mention that it appears to be advertised for all parts of Australia (it worked perfectly for me as an Victorian) however I do not know how other states/territories work for electricity). I am not affiliated with this company at all and just wanted to exposure this site as a possible way to save a few bucks. I know with bills, even us ozbargain-ers fail to investigate what's the best for us.

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  • anonymoususer on 19/11/2019 - 16:59
    +1

    Checking You Have Shared Your Details With Us or Not?

    • bethepro on 19/11/2019 - 17:01

      Sorry - what details do you mean specifically?

  • dasher86 on 19/11/2019 - 17:03
    +1

    What's wrong using the Vic gov site?

    • bethepro on 19/11/2019 - 17:12
      -2

      Good Question - you could argue that is perfectly suitable (and free) alternative. You can use this in other part of Australia - i.e. Non-Victoria. Furthermore, its ridiculously simple and easy to compare your bill month-to-month + explains in easy steps how to transfer companies. You're right, it is $30 to access the larger savings however I a massive fan and advocate for independent and novel start-ups (especially Aussie) that try to help the everyday Australian. PLus, I feel people wouldn't use the Vic Site gov site as they're 'too lazy' and this offers a very quick and easy way of achieving the best price. Hence the support. It definitely uses the Vic Gov Site as part of its algorithm. But again, fair question.

      • ihbh on 19/11/2019 - 19:04
        +1

        novel start-ups

        nope.

        try to help the everyday Australian

        premium version? what do you get for the extra $30? … nope

        • Associatedbrucem101 @ beatyourbill.com.au on 21/11/2019 - 09:46

          Hello bethepro and ihbh,

          The main difference are that we analyse your bill, make it easy and store your bills for easy access, and we easily allow you to see how much you can save on all relevant competing offers.

          Regards, Bruce Mountain.

      • NigelTufnel on 22/11/2019 - 12:00

        I wouldn't say it is a suitable free alternative. My reading of the website is that it only provides the lower saving offers for free, you pay to see the higher saving offers.
        Victorian Energy Compare and Energy Made Easy elsewhere (other than WA), provide all offers and savings for free.

        The only benefit of this site is that it reads your bills for you and doesn't require manual input. Not sure that's worth $30/year to many people. That really eats into the savings you'll be getting. But good luck to them I guess, maybe there is a market for that…
        It also stores your bills and details, but not sure providing them with that data is really a great benefit to the consumer. Probably a good deal for them though. Free data!

        "BEATYOURBILL may use the information provided by me for research and reporting purposes"

  • kahn on 19/11/2019 - 17:11
    +3

    relies on your uploading original PDF tax invoices/statements of your bill

    LOL, get outta town!

    • bethepro on 19/11/2019 - 17:13
      -4

      If you have a login for microsoft, google, apple or facebook accounts - that's more of a concern and nothing compared to this.

  • tor on 19/11/2019 - 17:17
    +1

    What kills me is the supply charges. $100 per quarter here in QLD. If it wasn't for those our solar would have netted us money every quarter instead.

  • Bargain80 on 19/11/2019 - 17:31
    +4

    there's no way I upload my bill with personal information into a random website.
    what's wrong with entering data manually. it only takes few seconds.

    • rldowling03 on 19/11/2019 - 19:41
      +1

      Note that they also share your bill with Victoria University

      We allow your bill to be used by the Victoria Energy Policy Centre at Victoria University for academic research purposes. Its security there is protected by the University’s strict data protection standards.

      https://www.beatyourbill.com.au/founders

    • Associatedbrucem101 @ beatyourbill.com.au on 21/11/2019 - 09:44
      -1

      Hello Bargain80

      Manual data entry many customers find difficult, but in addition it requires a very great deal of knowledge to understand bills, particularly in respect of discounts and solar feed-in.

      beatyourbill.com.au is not a random website. We are very transparant and you can contact me directly through the site.

      Regards,

      Bruce Mountain
      beatyourbill.com.au

      • Garrettau on 22/11/2019 - 14:06

        How do you protect personal information?

        • Associatedbrucem101 @ beatyourbill.com.au on 26/11/2019 - 08:46

          Hi Garretau

          All our data is stored on secure Amazon servers and we use their standards of data security.Keeping your personal details safe
          is a big deal for us. That's why we've put in place procedures to secure any information collected online from misuse, interference or loss. We do this by design and do our best to prevent unauthorised access, modification or disclosure of that information. And, we continuously monitor new technologies to do our best to anticipate and block hackers.

          Regards,

          Bruce Mountain
          beatyourbill.com.au

  • Hithere on 19/11/2019 - 19:14
    +2

    The Vic Gov site is free.

    OP's recommended site costs $30 and isn't even a secure site (not a HTTPS site).

    Sounds more like an invitation to be ripped off or slammed and then spammed for ever.

    • Associatedbrucem101 @ beatyourbill.com.au on 21/11/2019 - 09:41

      Hello Hithere

      Our site is HTTPS.

      Regards, Bruce Mountain
      Beatyourbill.com.au

  • Typical16-bitEnjoyer on 19/11/2019 - 19:46
    +3

    OP's original post and response to dasher86 makes them sound like nothing but a company shill.

    • Associatedbrucem101 @ beatyourbill.com.au on 20/11/2019 - 00:47
      -1

      Hello Zeggie

      I am one of the two co-founders of Beatyourbill. I can reassure you that we are not a company shill. To be clear we have absolutely no knowledge of the person who started this strand of comments. But we were very interested to read this.I would be very interested in any thoughts you have on whether our service is worthwhile. Please do take a look and post your thoughts. Thank you, Bruce Mountain

      • Garrettau on 22/11/2019 - 09:20
        +1

        Do you guys calculate solar export in addition to usage and daily charge?

        • Associatedbrucem101 @ beatyourbill.com.au on 22/11/2019 - 10:56

          Yes, we take account of all elements of your bill.

          Regards, Bruce Mountain

          • flywire on 15/11/2020 - 18:02

            @brucem101: What do my previous bills have to do with future bills?

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