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How it works

How electricity bill comparison actually works.

From bill upload to ranked results in under 30 seconds. Here's exactly what happens.

Written by Tom · last updated · sources: AER, Energy Made Easy

Avg time
30s
Account
None
Plans checked
All listed*
Emails collected
0
The four steps

From upload to ranked result.

No account, no follow-up calls, no commission-sorted results. Just an answer in about thirty seconds.

01

Upload your bill.

Drag and drop a photo or PDF of your electricity or gas bill, or forward it to [email protected]. We accept any format, a phone photo is fine. No account or sign-up needed.

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02

We read your rates.

We extract only the numbers that matter: your energy retailer, tariff rates, daily supply charge, usage (kWh or MJ), billing period, and distribution zone. We use your bill only to work out your location, usage and rates, and never store your name, street address, or account number.

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03

Live government data comparison.

We fetch current plans directly from the government's energy plan registry, the same database retailers are legally required to publish to. Your usage is applied to the eligible plans in your network zone, so the savings figure reflects your actual bill, not a generic estimate.

Government registryLive dataYour zone only
04

Ranked result.

Plans are sorted by estimated annual cost based on your real usage. The best deal we track goes first, not the plan that pays us the biggest referral fee. Filter by solar, concession card, green energy, or business ABN. Switch directly from the result page, or take the plan details and go to the retailer yourself.

Solar filterGreen energyConcessionBusiness ABN
What we look at

We read the numbers, not the identity.

Two short lists, what we read from your bill, and what we never store.

✓What we read

  • Energy retailerto compare
  • Fuel typeelec or gas
  • Usage (kWh / MJ)cost calc
  • Tariff ratescost calc
  • Daily supply chargecost calc
  • Billing periodannualise
  • State + zonematch plans

✕What we don't

  • Your namenot needed
  • Your street addresslocation only, never stored
  • Your account numbernever stored
  • Your emailunless you ask
  • Your phonenot needed
  • The original filenever stored
Methodology

Inside the calculation.

What happens between your bill landing and a saving figure coming back. Six steps that keep the comparison apples-to-apples and the ranking honest. (Privacy of the scan itself is covered above, this section is about the maths.)

Compare, normalise, rank

Applied on every comparison
✓ Live government data · No commission sort
① Rate normalisation
All tariffs → one annual figure
Flat, time-of-use (peak / shoulder / off-peak) and demand tariffs are projected to the same yearly cost basis so plans across different rate structures compare cleanly.
② Your usage applied
Real bill → real estimate
We take your billing-period kWh / MJ and annualise it across each plan's rate windows, not a generic “average household” figure that'd hide your real saving.
③ Network zone match
Pinned to your distributor
Plans are matched to your DNSP (Ausgrid, Powercor, Energex, etc.), not the whole state, so each rate shown is one the retailer can actually offer at your address.
④ Solar netted
Feed-in credit subtracted from cost
If your bill shows solar export, each plan's feed-in tariff is applied to your export volume and netted off the comparison total, so high-FiT plans are visibly cheaper.
⑤ Channel dedup
Best price per supplier
Retailers often publish 5–10 near-duplicate variants of the same plan (controlled-load tiers, billing channels). We collapse these and show only the cheapest version per supplier.
⑥ Plan freshness
⚠ 90d flagged · ✕ 180d dropped
Plans not refreshed in 90 days are shown with a stale marker. Past 180 days they're excluded entirely. Most retailers update weekly via the government's energy plan registry.
*“All listed” means every current plan the government registry publishes for your zone. Plans with stale pricing (step ⑥) and plans you would need to opt into (solar, a concession card, or a business ABN) are set aside by default, so the ranking reflects deals you can actually switch to; turn on the matching filter to include them. Conditional plans (solar bundle requirements, intro periods that reset) are flagged on the result with a visible warning. Estimates assume your usage stays the same, always verify the final rate on the retailer's Energy Price Fact Sheet before switching.
Your next move

Ready in thirty seconds.

Three things you can do right now. No form, no email, just an answer.

01 · 30 sec

Upload your bill

Drop a PDF or photo of your latest electricity or gas bill. We'll read the rates and run the comparison while you wait.

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02 · 5 min

Read the FAQ

Common questions about accuracy, switching, plan eligibility, and how we handle your data.

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