Paying energy bills monthly on receipt

Gerry1

leonj said:

All of them let you pay on receipt of bill, they just don't advertise it!

Not all suppliers offer Variable Direct Debit.  Apparently this includes customers switching to British Gas.

Scot_39

These days I am surprised that those who are anti DD don't switch to prepay - particularly smart prepay - and pay today's on ave at cap tdcv cheaper rates by on line, standing order or phone top up.

It's iirc prepay now about £160 less than standard credit at Oct rates on average regional Ofgem tdcv use cap (and £48 less than DD ).


And I don't know about the Octopus route - but Paypoint is quoted as charging one sub meter admin it's clients an extra 3% commission on its website on a recent link I found. 

Perhaps normal suppliers like Octopus et al have to or simply do eat that cost themselves on Ofgem compliant prepay tariffs.