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Business electricity, compared properly.

Upload a business electricity bill and see the plans your business can actually sign up to, ranked on your own usage. Plans that come with conditions are listed separately, with the catch spelled out — not quietly ranked, and not quietly hidden.

Check your business bill What it does

Free, no card. Not available in Western Australia or the Northern Territory, where retailers don’t publish their plans to the Consumer Data Right.

Who it’s for

“Business energy” is two different problems.

They get talked about as one thing. They aren’t — the data source, the pricing model and the buying process are all different, and only one of them is something an app can do well.

Small business Large commercial & industrial
Roughly Under about 100 MWh a year — shops, cafés, clinics, workshops, small offices Above that — manufacturing, cold storage, large retail, multi-site groups
How it’s priced Published retail offers, the same way households are Bespoke contracts, tendered to retailers, often linked to wholesale
Is the data public? Yes — retailers publish business plans to the Consumer Data Right No. Nothing is published. Prices exist only inside a tender
How you buy Compare offers, sign up online, much like a household A broker runs a tender, you review offers, then negotiate
Can Switchbuddy do it? Yes — live now No, and we won’t pretend otherwise

If you’re in the right-hand column, an app is the wrong tool. There is no public data set to compare against, so anything that claimed to would be making it up. Tell us anyway on the form below — we’d rather point you at someone useful than sell you something that isn’t.

What it does

A free bill check, today. More to come.

Every business electricity plan Australian retailers publish arrives in the same nightly feed as the household ones — over 6,000 of them. Switchbuddy Business reads your bill, works out which of those your site can take, and prices them on your usage.

Live now

What you get today

  • Your bill, read for you. Upload a PDF or a photo. We read the rates and usage — and whether those rates include GST, which business bills often don’t.
  • Business plans, not household ones. Every business electricity plan published to the Consumer Data Right, refreshed nightly, filtered to your site’s area.
  • Only plans you can buy are ranked. Retailers attach conditions to business plans — meter type, usage bands, an ABN, a membership. Where we can’t confirm your site meets them, the plan goes in a separate “worth a call” list with the condition quoted.
  • Two quick questions. Whether your site has a smart meter and whether you have an ABN. They roughly double how many plans we can rank for you.
  • GST both ways. Prices shown GST-inclusive, as your bill shows them, with the ex-GST figure beside each one.
Being built

What’s next

  • Demand charges costed. Priced against your recorded peak kW. Until then, demand plans are listed with the catch, never ranked.
  • More of the bill read. Network tariff codes first — they unlock more plans than anything else on the page — then NMI detail and demand in kVA.
  • Ongoing bill checks. Every new bill checked against your contracted rates, and a warning before your benefit period or contract ends.
  • More than one site. Today it’s one site per account. Six shops should be six sites, each with its own contract date.
  • For bookkeepers. One login for all your clients’ sites.
The line that gets skipped

Demand charges are where the money hides.

A demand charge bills you for your single highest half-hour of the month, scaled up across every day in it. Run three ovens at once for one lunch service and you pay for that spike all month.

It means two businesses using identical total kilowatt-hours can pay very different amounts, and it means a plan with a lower usage rate can easily be the more expensive one. Compare on usage alone and you get the answer backwards.

That’s why Switchbuddy Business never ranks a demand plan yet. A bill doesn’t show your peak half-hour, so a price we worked out would leave the charge out and look cheaper than it is. Instead, every demand plan at your site is listed separately, with that reason beside it. Costing them properly is next.

Same site, same kWh, two plans Illustration
Plan A — 28.9¢/kWh, no demand charge
Usage, 2,400 kWh
$693.60
Demand
—
Monthly
$693.60
Plan B — 21.4¢/kWh, $14.90/kW
Usage, 2,400 kWh
$513.60
Demand, 18.2 kW peak
$271.18
Monthly
$784.78

Plan B has the cheaper headline rate and costs $91 more a month. A comparison that ignores the demand line recommends it.

Talk to us

More than one site? A stack of client bills?

Multi-site businesses, bookkeepers managing clients’ bills and sites on a demand tariff are what we’re building for next. Tell us what you run and we’ll come back to you.

No obligation, no sales call. We’ll only use what you send to build the business product, and to contact you about it.

Prefer email? Write to support@switchbuddy.com.au and tell us the same things.

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Start with one bill

Upload your latest business electricity bill and see what else your site could be on. It takes a couple of minutes and costs nothing.

Check your business bill How it works