If you are looking for a PrePaid Electricity Meter to replace your municipal meter, please refer to your local council/municipality. You need to do this through them. The meters on this site are secondary (sub-meters) meters to the municipality for installation in places with tenants, multiple dwellings, townhouses and many other places, but not to replace municipal primary meters.

WATER METERS!

Some time this year we will be releasing a PrePaid WATER Meter. If you are interested in such a solution please register to the site. Registration is free and will ensure that you receive notification when we are able to take orders. As soon as we have all the details of the WATER meters we will immediately inform you and give you all the details including pricing.

For landlords and letting agents that have installed or came accords CBI PrePaid Electricity Meters and can’t get tokens or want to replace the meters since they are no longer sold or supported by CBI, please read this.

The meters on PrePaidMeters.co.za are NOT CBI PrePaid Electricity Meters, therefore we can not provide you with tokens. Some people are calling us to provide them with CBI electricity tokens. We can’t do this because these meters are on a different system all together. That said, we can help you with providing you PrePaid Electricity Meters are have internal SMS system (also called internal vending) and work with tokens and are supported and have been supported for the last 20 years.

The next question we often get is about scratch cards. Is it better to get a scratch card system instead of SMS tokens to avoid future problems of this nature?

In light of an impending 60% tariff hike in the electricity price, property owners are rapidly adopting privately owned, secondary, prepaid electricity metering solutions to help curb utility revenue collection risks on rentals.

In addition to collection of rent, landlords also have to collect revenues from tenants for utilities consumed. Unlike rental, which is due on a given date, utility collection is problematic in that utility bills are only available to landlords in the month following that in which the utilities were consumed by the tenant.

This means landlords must collect money for electricity and water in arrears, which exposes the landlord to the risk of having to collect required amounts before the bill is due to be paid to the municipality. In practice, this situation presents a risk to the landlord where the tenant may dispute the billed amounts with the landlord, or not pay as required.

Metering of electricity with secondary prepaid electricity meters is an excellent way for property investors, landlords and letting agents to avoid the risk of having to pay electricity utility bills, when tenants don't pay.

However, feedback from the field shows that prepaid electricity meters also have other benefits. Customers who have installed prepaid electricity meters, in their rental units, are telling PrepaidMeters.co.za that one of the interesting benefits of using prepaid meters is that they are directly reducing their tenant turnover.

Collecting revenues for electricity used by tenants can lead to complications for landlords, body corporates and managing agents alike. In some cases, tenants regularly neglect to pay their electricity bill or refuse to do so when they feel that their consumption is not as high as the amount they are being billed for.

Whether the dispute arises because of neglect, or a feeling of injustice, collection of arrears in such cases is a problem. Legally, the electricity supply may not be disconnected, so tenants continue to enjoy the benefits of electricity and easily build up an arrears. Landlords have no choice but to pay on behalf of the tenant or face disconnection and reconnection fees. In some cases matters may remain unresolved for an extended period of time. While the landlord tries to collect the arrears from a tenant, the utility company tries to collect arrears from the landlord and so a domino-effect of legal proceedings ensue.

For landlords, body corporates and managing agents, the solution to avoiding this problem is to install a secondary, Prepaid Electricity Meter from PrepaidMeters.co.za. The secondary Prepaid Electricity Meter is privately owned and provides a cost-effective solution with equitable benefits to both tenants and landlords.

Prepaid Meters is proud to announce the launch of its' affiliate program. This is the first affilaite program in South Africa where affilaites can earn commision on sales of Prepaid Electricity Meters.

Prepaid Meters affiliates earn 5% NET (before delivery and VAT) commission on all purchases resulting from their referrals to the prepaidmeters.co.za website. Affiliates also earn comission on all sales from returning customers.

Prepaid Meters provides each affiliate with a unique identification number that enables affiliates to track performance and for resulting sales commission to be credited to their affiliate account. Prepaid Meters makes monthly payouts to affiliates on all successful sales by Electronic Fund Transfer.

Prepaid Meters takes care of order all the transactional issues, order completion and customer service for affiliates, leaving them free to market the products available. The company also provides marketing materials, in the form of brochures, affiliate logos, banner ads and email stationary to help affiliates better promote prepaidmeters.co.za.

"Our cheapest meter, and the one for which we have most demand, generates a R30 commission." states Sean Wheller, director for Prepaid Meters. "Now if a business with a database of 10, 000 people, or website a website with 10, 000 unique visitors, markets our products and 10% of referrals are converted to sales of this meter, it amounts to R30, 000 in commission for that affiliate. Since this is largely an untapped market, the income potential for our affiliates is unlimited."

Prepaid Scratch Cards are a solution suitable for large body corporate and property management companies. Prepaid Scratch Cards enable sustainable management of the revenue cycle associated with buildings, complex and town house schemes. Prepaid Scratch Cards enable electricity to be sold at any retail outlet, managing agent or body corporate representative.

Domestic appliance operating costs

Before considering ways and means of reducing your electricity account one should first consider the cost of operating the various types of domestic appliances.

The following table details the average cost of electricity consumed by the various electrical appliances used in the home. (KWh cost is based on 31 cents average).

Ensuring that tenants pay for the utilities they use is often a cause for concern and a troublesome task for body corporates and landlords. It's not uncommon to find landlords that are lumbered with having to pay utility bills for tenants.

PrepaidMeters.co.za, in conjunction with Ekhwesi, a leading developer of prepaid utilities management solutions is proud to bring to you a cost-effective and efficient solution to the problems of prepaid electricity in rental units.

While it is possible for body corporates and landlords to demand that tenants open the relevant utilities accounts, in many cases tenants are loathed to do so and will seek alternative accommodation above having to open municipally accounts. This problem is especially prevalent in low-cost areas where the typical tenant is non-affluent.

Our prepaid solutions provide a better way to buy electricity and manage both consumption and payment of electricity used in these situations.

Many prepaid solutions require tenants to visit a point-of-sale or a website in order to buy prepaid electricity tokens. Other prepaid systems used a recharge card which tenants must load into the meter when they top-up. These cards often get damaged or lost. Such systems are outdated and have proven to be problematic for tenants that find it difficult to visit a point-of-sale or do not have access to a computer in order to make purchases.

Our prepaid meter solutions use state-of-the-art cellular technologies so that tenants can buy prepaid electricity tokens using any cellular device capable of sending an SMS. This ensures that tenants can buy electricity 24-hours a day wherever they are. The entire process requires three easy steps and takes less than a minute to complete. Simply send an SMS to 35446 with the meter number and the amount of electricity required and in you will get a response message containing an electricity token for the value requested.

No fuss, no travel, no damaged or lost cards. Just quick, easy, cost-effective and reliable service.

Knowing how much electricity is used is not an on-demand thing. Electricity bills are often only sent out in the month after the electricity has been used and often will not arrive until the middle of that month. This delay can be frustrating.

With our prepaid solutions, a wide variety of electricity purchase and consumption reports are just an SMS away. Simply send an SMS and you will receive a response message containing a mini statement with the following information.

• Meter Number
• Current Accumulation ( purchases for the current month) XX KW/h,
• Purchase Limit (loaded for your meter)
• Available KW/h for the month : (Purchase limit – Current Accumulation)
• Arrears value
• Previous month usage: total in KW/h

Why wait until next month before you know how much electricity you have used.