How it works
Three steps to your numbers, about two minutes. If you switch, that part happens on the retailer's own sign-up, whenever suits you.
Step one
Add your bill.
The PDF from your retailer, every page of it. One bill is enough to start.
Step two
Here's what we read.
Your retailer, your billing period, what you used and what it cost. If a figure looks wrong, you correct it before we price anything.
Then three quick questions: solar, battery, concession card. Each one says plainly why we ask.
Step three
Every published plan, priced on you.
We price the published plans available at your address against your real usage, and sort them with the cheapest for your household first. We sort rather than recommend, so the order is arithmetic and the choice stays yours. Switching opens your details prepared for you to check and carry across. Nothing is sent to a retailer until you say so.
Where the plan data comes from
Retailers' published plan data, the Product Reference Data they lodge under the Consumer Data Right. It is public data that anyone can read, and it is the same source that powers Energy Made Easy everywhere except Victoria, which has its own comparison service. We use the public data only. We are not an accredited data recipient and we never ask for your CDR consent.
It covers the national electricity market. Not Western Australia or the Northern Territory, which sit outside it.
Broadband
Coming. We won't launch it until we can do it from live, verifiable plan data, the standard we hold ourselves to for energy.
What goes into the yearly figure.
Every plan is priced the same way: its own published rates, on one household's usage, for a year. Two kinds of plan need a word about how they get there.
Plans with a membership or subscription fee
The fee is part of what the year costs, so it is in the yearly figure. We add the amount the retailer publishes, once, exactly as published. Amber Electric's membership is $300 a year and it moves that plan's figure by $300, not by $330: the published amount already includes GST and we do not charge it twice.
Plans priced on the wholesale market
A wholesale plan has no fixed usage rate. What its retailer lodges in the register is an illustration of what the last twelve months came to, and that published figure is what we price the year on, at the same usage as every other plan. The row says so, and we do not state how far it sits from the regulated reference price, because that comparison needs two firm numbers and here there is one.
Every published plan in your market, ranked on your own bill, including the ones that pay us nothing.