Pre paid meters

Prepaid Electricity and Water Sub-Meter Suppliers in Gauteng and Western Cape

 

Say goodbye to late electricity payments, non-payment of electricity bills, disputed electricity bills, monthly meter reading fees by Meter Reading Companies and so much more… Our prepaid meters are the ideal solution for the Landlord and tenant alike.

 

With no restriction on the number of meters, we can install per property ePrepaid is your solution for letting of residential homes, cottages, flats, multiple unit complexes, industrial and commercial properties. ePrepaid, the prepaid electricity meter suppliers in Cape Town and Johannesburg.

 

Collect your tenant’s electricity in advance with ePrepaid’s Sub Electricity Meters. ePrepaid’s Sub Electricity Meters do not replace council meters. Our meters work on a sub-meter basis which is ideally suited for landlords, Body Corporates, and property management agents.

Electricity bills - How non-payment affects Landlords and Body Corporates

 

In today’s hard economic climate the idea of people not being able to pay their electricity bills has become over the last 5 years so common that we all have friends, family and business associates who have either been unable to pay their bills, been Blacklisted, put onto Debt Review or been put into liquidation.

 

This is having a knock on effect on property owners due to non paying tenants. These non payments range from not paying their utilities to blatantly refusing to pay the rent and refusing to move out. To compound this it is no secret that the legal system, by far, favours tenant over Landlord, Estate Agent, Body Corporate and Trustee rights. Time and again, tenants come up trumps and landlords remain liable for their electricity bills and the cost of eviction – not to mention the lost revenue during this period.

 

 

 

Landlords

 

Landlords and investors all over the country continually run the risk that a tenant will run up high electricity bills and leave them with a hefty sum to pay at the end of the lease. After non-payment of rent, non-payment of electricity bills is the next major risk landlords face.

 

The problem is compounded with tenants who also do not pay their rent sum to pay at the end of the lease. After non-payment of rent, non-payment of electricity bills is the next major risk landlords face.

 

The legal costs attached to evicting a tenant are high enough, trying to also recover amounts for an unpaid utility bill just makes the matter worse.

 

 

 

 

 

Estate Agents

 

Estate agents who manage properties for their clients often find themselves in a frustrated position when the tenant stops paying either the rent or their electricity bills. The landlord then starts pushing on the Management agent to get the money in and the Tenant starts ducking and diving or getting plain nasty about some aspect of their character, professionalism or disagreement with something that makes him/her feel that they have the right to withhold monies from the landlord and the agent (in contravention of their Lease Agreement), leaving a frustrated, exasperated and irritated management agent.

 

 

 

 

Body Corporates / Trustees

 

Many residential and commercial properties are owned in sections or areas by multiple owners, each owner owning one or more sections with the dwelling complex or building structure. In such arrangements there is usually a body corporate that is comprised of a number of owners. The role of the body corporate is to provide for governance of the scheme and taking care of various environmental and financial issues surrounding the operation.

 

In such environments it is common for the property to be supplied utilities on bulk-basis. Typically a single meter system is employed to calculate the overall consumption of all the sections and the common property area of the complex or building structure. Following this there may or may not be additional sub meters.

 

 

 

 

Estate Agents

Retail and office parks may operate on a sectional basis where each section of the complex is owned by a different owner or they, more often than not, are owned by a single owner who then lets the various sections of the complex to commercial tenants. The situation regarding risk in such an environment is not far removed from that of the Property Investors circumstances and that of the problems faced with revenues collection management by a Body Corporate.

 

In both situations the owner of the property or the section remains liable to settle mortgage installments and utility bills or face penalties. Late or non-payment of rent or utilities can present significant risk to the property owner, increasing costs and reducing profitability.

 

 

For Municipal or Eskom prepaid electricity meters please contact your local municipality.

 

SINGLE AND 3 PHASE, DOMESTIC PREPAID METERS WITH TAMPER STATE DETECTION

The BEC23PLT are single phase, domestic electricity prepaid meters with a disconnection switch, designed for reliability, accuracy and ease of use. It is an ideal unit for retrofit or new installations in domestic homes.

 

Prepaid Water Meters and Water Limitation Meters

 

Wall Mount

complete unit: includes – housing, water meter (Kent) and WMD (the prepaid water measuring device) + wireless UIU.

 

 

This unit is installed wherever the unit’s incoming water supply is located. A section of the existing pipe is removed and the complete unit is installed in its place. The unit is sold complete with a wall mounted enclosure and a wireless UIU (keypad).

 

WIRELESS KEYPAD

 

 

Above Ground Box includes – Ground mounted housing, water meter (Kent) and WMD (the prepaid water measuring device) + wireless UIU.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The meters are capable of being programmed to release restricted amounts of water per day (as well as topping up with water credit tokens from EasyPay).

 

You can choose to use the programmable features in the meter, or control strictly as a prepaid meter i.e. they have water flowing until their credit runs out and they must again top-up with a token. Should you wish to re-programme meters in the field you would need to purchase a special laptop with the required programming software. If you wish to use as a standard prepaid meters this terminal is not required.

 

 

These are the same meters that have been installed at the municipalities for many years, however the prepaid component is a new feature that has recently been added.

 

This makes it ideal for the sub-meter market (to partner our electricity meter). Vending takes place on the same ePrepaid back-end and you can now attach both a water meter and electricity meter to a UNIT.

 

Both configurations will operate on any of ePrepaid’s existing vending platforms.

 

The unit can be installed by any qualified plumber or by one of our recommended installers.

Water Limitation software for Prepaid Water Meters

 

ePrepaid Utilities offers a very unique service through our subsiduary Tap-Off where we are able to load Water Limitation software onto our Pre-Paid Water Meters as well as any Pre-Paid Water Meter that has been purchased from another metering company.

 

Water Limiting software enables body corporates and Landlords to control excess spending on water and avert fines from the City of Cape Town for excessive usage of water. The software allows for the setting of a daily/monthly allocation for each unit in a complex to ensure that all residents are keeping to their daily allocation of 50 Litres per person per day!