Octopus Tracker

Archerychick

KTF said:

A new loyalty fix is available today. Not much more than the current average Tracker price for the month and you can switch at any time.

Given its coming towards the end of heating season it might be worth jumping to this as the cost difference will be minimal unless tracker drops significantly and keeping an eye on the tracker price nearer next winter.

Thank you! It works about to be roughly a £15 saving based on last years usage 

SpanishBlue

KTF said:

A new loyalty fix is available today. Not much more than the current average Tracker price for the month and you can switch at any time.

Given its coming towards the end of heating season it might be worth jumping to this as the cost difference will be minimal unless tracker drops significantly and keeping an eye on the tracker price nearer next winter.

I'm on the older 14 month fixed tariff.

There doesn't appear to be any option to change tariff on the website? (I don't have the app.)

Do you have to phone them to change tariff?

BootsMullery

What are they up to?
The March v3 only came out yesterday and I switched to it by asking via DM on X. Now I have asked if I can change yesterday's switch to this new one on v4.
What will tomorrow bring? 

ETA: ...and they have now confirmed I'm on v4 as from today after only 1 day on v3 (and previously 5 weeks on Feb v1. I missed out on March v2 as I never saw it before it finished)

SpanishBlue

BootsMullery said:

What are they up to?
The March v3 only came out yesterday and I switched to it by asking via DM on X. Now I have asked if I can change yesterday's switch to this new one on v4.
What will tomorrow bring? 

ETA: ...and they have now confirmed I'm on v4 as from today after only 1 day on v3.

The latest one is called Loyal Octopus 14M Fixed March 2025 v4

BootsMullery

SpanishBlue said:

BootsMullery said:

What are they up to?
The March v3 only came out yesterday and I switched to it by asking via DM on X. Now I have asked if I can change yesterday's switch to this new one on v4.
What will tomorrow bring? 

ETA: ...and they have now confirmed I'm on v4 as from today after only 1 day on v3.

The latest one is called Loyal Octopus 14M Fixed March 2025 v4

Yes and yesterday's version was Loyal Octopus 14M Fixed March 2025 v3

KTF

SpanishBlue said:

KTF said:

A new loyalty fix is available today. Not much more than the current average Tracker price for the month and you can switch at any time.

Given its coming towards the end of heating season it might be worth jumping to this as the cost difference will be minimal unless tracker drops significantly and keeping an eye on the tracker price nearer next winter.

I'm on the older 14 month fixed tariff.

There doesn't appear to be any option to change tariff on the website? (I don't have the app.)

Do you have to phone them to change tariff?

Yes. I could not change online so I called them up. Answered the phone within seconds and switched over valid from today.

Whilst I was on the phone I refreshed my account page and could see the changes had been applied.

Slinky

BootsMullery said:

SpanishBlue said:

BootsMullery said:

What are they up to?
The March v3 only came out yesterday and I switched to it by asking via DM on X. Now I have asked if I can change yesterday's switch to this new one on v4.
What will tomorrow bring? 

ETA: ...and they have now confirmed I'm on v4 as from today after only 1 day on v3.

The latest one is called Loyal Octopus 14M Fixed March 2025 v4

Yes and yesterday's version was Loyal Octopus 14M Fixed March 2025 v3

I've been on Version 3 since 17th March. I think it came out on 15/16th.  I've just moved to V4

Telegraph_Sam

Last time I worked it out there were only marginal differences between one version and another.  There is a case for waiting to see the effect of next month's price cap before deciding on changing back to Tracker from Fixed 14-M, or staying put

bob2302

For me it's roughly neutral for a full year, but the SC has gone up, so it's worst if I switch back to tracker before next winter. 

Slinky

Telegraph_Sam said:

Last time I worked it out there were only marginal differences between one version and another.  There is a case for waiting to see the effect of next month's price cap before deciding on changing back to Tracker from Fixed 14-M, or staying put

Whilst there's not a huge amount of difference in rates for us, (about 1p cheaper day rate, just under 0.5p cheaper night rate), the advantage of moving onto the new version of the fix is it moves your end date further into the future also. 

I have a fix on gas at the moment that ends on 1st Jan next year. It could be useful to pay the extra 2p daily standing charge, gain the 0.01p lowering in the unit rate, and also push the end date on the fix until past the end of next winter.