R1.4M
recovered for a multi-site retailer over a year of verified bills
The Augos platform rebuilds your bill from your actual usage and tariff, then compares it to what the utility charged and flags every difference in rands and %, in real time.
Utility bills, whether from Eskom, a municipality or a landlord, are complex. There is no standard format, and nothing to verify them against.
Bills alternate between estimated and actual meter reads, then true up across overlapping periods, leaving no clean reference point to verify against.
Rates shift between high and low-demand seasons and reset with each annual increase, so the price per unit never stays still.
Peak, standard and off-peak rates change by the hour and by the day, so the same kilowatt-hour costs more or less depending on when it was used.
Maximum-demand and notified-demand charges are billed on a single peak interval, where a short spike can set the cost for the whole month.
We install billing-accuracy meters, so you have a verified set of readings. The platform pulls your tariff from our database and builds the bill the way it should be. You enter the figures from your invoice, and straight away you see whether the bill is correct and ready to pay, or needs a closer look.
We break down the whole tariff and show how the bill is built, down to the line causing the variance.
Every Eskom and municipal tariff, kept current, so yours is always applied correctly.
Your usage as it happens, not weeks later, so you can act before the next bill.
Tariff and billing specialists on hand to help with queries and disputes.
| Charge line | Estimate | Utility bill | Variance | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Energy (kWh) | 842,180 | 842,310 | +130 | Verified |
| Network & capacity | 198,400 | 198,400 | 0 | Verified |
| Demand (NMD penalty) | 20,700 | 61,900 | +41,200 | Action |
| Estimated read | 3,690 | 22,090 | +18,400 | Action |
| Reactive (kVArh) | 14,300 | 14,300 | 0 | Verified |
| Total | 1,079,270 | 1,139,000 | +59,730 | Action |
Verifying a utility bill normally takes specialist knowledge of meters and tariffs. Augos simplifies and distils it into a few clear steps, so anyone in your business can verify every utility bill.
State-of-the-art metering, brought online with a guided activation app, streaming your usage straight to the platform.
When the invoice arrives, before you pay it, open a new reading period and enter the billed figures.
The platform does the hard work and returns a clear, easy-to-read variance report, so it is obvious when action is needed.
Every bill is verified against your measured data before the invoice is authorised, so you hold or query a wrong one instead of paying it and chasing it later.
Over and under-billing both count, and in South Africa claimbacks run up to 36 months, so past mistakes are still recoverable.
Export the line-by-line comparison and the measured data behind it, structured to put in front of your supplier or municipality.
Augos billing specialists help you read the variance and take it to the supplier, so you are not chasing it on your own.
Illustrative · representative figures, pending verified case data
Source · Augos customer case studies · figures as published
Set your monthly electricity spend, then pick an error level. Each reflects how often we see that variance across our client base, and shows what it could be costing you. An estimate, not a quote.
One Nova meter on each incoming supply. A once-off for the hardware, then a fixed monthly fee per measured point. No percentage of what's recovered.
CTs and installation materials may be required to complete the hardware install.
Bill Verification is one of a full suite of reports and tools in the Augos Energy Intelligence platform, all included. Start with the bill; the rest is ready when you are.
For the technically minded. Every figure on this page traces back to the Augos Nova, a billing-accuracy meter, independently calibrated and traceable to national standards.
Technically, yes, with a modem on your meter or a data feed pulled into the platform, but that adds cost and complexity for a weaker result. Instead, we have made the Augos Nova so affordable that fitting one is usually cheaper than adding a modem to the meter you already have, and it gives you far more: calibrated, dispute-grade data, remote switching and extra inputs.
No. Bill Verification is a fixed monthly fee per measured point, whatever it finds, so you keep everything it recovers.
Often, yes. In South Africa, billing claimbacks can reach back up to 36 months, so once we have your measured data, historic errors can still be disputed and recovered.
Under-billing cuts the other way. A utility can recover what it under-charged going back up to 36 months, so a bill that looks cheap now can land as a large back-bill later. Because Augos measures what you actually use, you see the gap as it builds and can make provision for the claim, rather than being caught out.
No. The full suite of reports and tools comes with the platform. You pay a fixed monthly fee per measured point, not per module, so the rest is there to use whenever you need it.
It follows your billing cycle. The meter goes in quickly, but a bill can only be verified once we have measured a full supplier billing period against it, so the first verified bill typically lands four to six weeks after install.
Yes. The data is yours to run the dispute yourself, or our billing specialists can take on the full verification and dispute process on your behalf, as a scoped add-on priced to the work involved.
Yes. Pricing scales per measured point, and a whole portfolio runs under one platform, so every site is verified the same way.
A billing expert will walk you through it, on your own tariffs and bills.