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Send your electricity, water, and rates bills securely. We take it from there.
Tariffs, readings, and charges are verified against current municipal and metering rules.
Discrepancies are identified, documented, and quantified so the recovery path is clear.
Corrections are implemented and accounts are monitored monthly so errors do not return.
OptiRate starts with a full review of your utility accounts, at no upfront cost to you.
If we find savings (and we usually do), we implement the corrections and continue managing your accounts month to month.
Two parts to our fee: a small monthly monitoring charge per account or meter so every bill keeps getting audited, and a strict success fee on savings we actually recover for you.
If we find nothing? You owe nothing.
It's a partnership, not a once-off.
Who it's for
We specialise in portfolios where the bills are too many to check by hand: multiple sites, multiple suppliers, multiple meter types. The more bills you receive, the bigger the gap between what's billed and what's actually owed.
Retail chains
Tens to hundreds of stores
Schools & campuses
Private and independent
Healthcare & pharmacy groups
Clinics, dispensaries, hospitals
Restaurant & fast-food groups
QSR, franchise networks, dine-in chains
Hospitality & leisure
Hotels, lodges, gyms, car washes
Body corporates & property funds
Bulk-meter recovery, tenant billing
5 → 500+
Sites per client
All SA municipalities
Plus Eskom Direct accounts
3 utilities
Electricity, water, property rates
Every bill checked Every error flagged
Salary costs, training, human error
Hours on spreadsheets, still miss things
Expensive once-off, no ongoing monitoring
Keep overpaying
FAQ
Yes. We cover Eskom and every municipal supplier in South Africa, including the metros (City of Johannesburg, City of Cape Town, eThekwini, Tshwane, Ekurhuleni, Nelson Mandela Bay, Mangaung, Buffalo City) and local / district municipalities.
Yes. We do not just produce a report. We draft the dispute, submit it to the supplier on your behalf, and follow it through until the correction reflects on your account.
Highly variable. Private-sector suppliers usually resolve within 3 to 6 months. Municipal recoveries typically take 6 to 12 months — sometimes longer for complex backdated claims spanning multiple tariff cycles.
Multi-site operators — retail chains, schools and campuses, healthcare and pharmacy groups, restaurant and fast-food groups, hospitality and leisure operators (hotels, lodges, gyms, car washes), body corporates and property portfolios. The more sites and the more suppliers, the bigger the error surface and the bigger the recovery.
Electricity (Eskom and all municipal suppliers), water and sewage, and property rates. We reconcile bills against the current published tariffs and supplier rate schedules.
Three parts. (1) The initial review is free. (2) A small monthly monitoring fee per account or meter for ongoing audit and account management. (3) A strict success fee on savings actually implemented — we only get paid on the recovery side once corrections are reflected on your account. If we find nothing, you owe nothing.
No. OptiRate sits alongside your existing AP and finance systems. You keep paying your supplier the way you always have; we audit, dispute, and recover in parallel.
Incorrect tariff applied, wrong supply size or demand charge, missed prorata splits across tariff changes, sewage charged on water not consumed (irrigation, top-up), property rates levied on the wrong category or valuation, estimated readings persisted past the deadline, and bulk-meter under-recovery against sub-meters.
Yes. OptiRate is independent of Eskom, municipalities, and metering companies. We act for the bill-payer.
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