How can I change my email address on my OVO account?

• I can't get access to my account details, profile, bills, etc. I would like to change an email address as the old one on there is no longer active and also view usage.
• I have been receiving bills now since January/February, all of them consistently around £60. I received one today for £111 and wondered why this has gone up so much, especially considering it's the summer and the electric heating hasn't been switched on in months.

Welcome to the forum @joegilliver1988, I've popped you post here and edited out your account number to keep your personal information safe.

Check out the answer below on how to change your email address.
 

Hi @aldo.4symbols
If your myovo account has gone livehttps://my.ovoenergy.com/login you can edit the email under "profile".
If its not up and running yet you can call customer service free (Note, you'll be amazed how quick they answer having switched from Scots) on 0330 303 5063, they may need your partner there to give consent to the change.
Or better still, contact ovo on their Facebook page - just have your account number, date of birth and postcode to hand :)
Hope this helps, if there anything else I can help with along the way please don't hesitate to get in touch,
Best wishes,
Bumblebee :)

it sounds like you have recently given us a reading resulting in the most recent large bill, if you've not given a reading in a while we use estimates to produce your statements. When we then get a reading we need to bill you up to date and catch up with potentially under estimated usage.

If this doesn't sound right, please get in touch with our team. You can send us a message on Facebook, Twitter and our Help Centre has online chat. Or you can give them a call, our Customer Care team are here 9-5 Monday-Friday on 0330 30 5063.

Hope this helps!

Due to hacking I’ve had to change my email address, but Ovo are not responding to letter email or phone calls. 

Hi @Harley1 and I’m sorry to hear of the hacking!

You can still log in using the email address that was hacked, it still works as a log in details. Once you’re logged in you, you can update the email address on your online account via the profile section here:

https://account.ovoenergy.com/profile

When you change the email address on your online account, it should update the email address linked to the account that agents see when you contact our Support team. If you think the change wasn’t made, our this be be done via an online chat.

I recently changed ISP and updated the log in details for my OVO account with my new email address. I have just received an email telling me about changes to my direct debit, but it was sent to my old email address (which fortunately is still working). I phoned to query why this had happened and it turns out that OVO have their own internal contact system and updating the email address on your log in details, doesn’t update the email address they use to contact you. There is no way that customers can do this themselves because it is an internal system. Surely this is barking mad - is there anyone who changes their email address, but wishes to be contacted on their old email address?? Perhaps there is?

Hi @James Ross,

I’m sorry for the issues you’ve had.

When a customer changes their email via the online account, it should change it for both their contact and log in address.  I’m not sure what happened with your account and why the email address didn’t change. 

Maybe there’s more than one contact on the account and the other contact has your old email? That’s just a guess, but our Support team will be able to take a look and make sure the correct email address is linked up.

We’ve got a great guide here with more information:

Thank you for your feedback.

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Hi @zhansaya best not to put any private or personal info on here as this is a public forum 

You can change the email address associated with your OVO account on your profile page. However, it’s not clear what you mean by the title of your post. You may need access to the old account in order to prove to the site that you are who you say you are. I can’t be sure of this, because I haven’t tested the Edit email function.

Hey @zhansaya,

Welcome to the OVO Online Community,

If you’re unable to change your email address via the Online Account or have lost access to that email address, you can contact Support. 

Hope this helps. 

Emails getting sent to wrong email address.

correct one on account details.

I’ve spent nearly 3 hours trying to get an answer on chat! Think there’s only one person dealing with messages. Anyone else has same

problem. Want to get an answer

to why they are sending

emails saying need to pay bill

within 14 days yet it was paid over a

week ago. So not happy. Phone just as bad

Hey @IChap55,

Really sorry to hear this,

I’d advise calling Support on 0330 303 5063, they’ll be able to look into why you’ve been receiving these emails incorrectly and update your email address. 

Keep us posted with how you get on. 

Emmanuel-OVO - tried yesterday, the wait was almost as long as chat. Finally wrote them an email to which I’m waiting on an answer

@IChap55 vote for this if you don't think OVO has sufficient capacity in their support team

Hi,

I am changing Intwrnet providers, so my old email address will no longer be in use.

I have changed it on my account, and verified the link on my new email, but I can't log into my Ovo App. Can anyone help and tell me why I can't log into my app?? I am ready to pull my hair out!!! 

Also, I can't seem to change my email address on my forum account, can anyone tell me how to do this please??

Many thanks in advance for solutions to these issues

Tracy 

Hi @Caino1978 ,

For your Forum Account, please ping an email over to forum@ovoenergy.com from your registered email address requesting that it be updated. A forum moderator will be able to help with that.

As for the app, it takes time for your account to update. Try again this Friday and it should work!

I have just changed the mail address on my account and I cannot now log into my account, I recieved an email to my new email address to verify but when I opened the link it said it had expired. Is there anyone on here that can help me with this? thanks in advance.

Hi ​@highnoon1966 ,

I’m afraid we can’t fix that from here as the Forum can’t access your account.

Please contact OVO via the options in the thread below - this sounds like one for the Tech Team.

Hey ​@highnoon1966,

As Blastoise mentioned, we can't access accounts because we're a public forum. But if you click on the link provided, our friendly Support Team will be more than happy to help you get everything sorted out and back to normal.

Thank you for the replies, after a conversation with a support team member I ended up having to revert back to the old email BT email address I was previously using on my account and it now works as before. I tried changing it again to my Gmail email address and once again it didn’t work correctly so I once again went back to old BT email address. Very odd as I can’t understand why it doesn’t seem to like me changing to a Gmail email address.

​@highnoon1966 that’s very strange, as our systems are set up to work predominantly with Gmail.

Would you have an old, disused OVO account that was linked to that Gmail address? If so, the email address being linked to the old account could be the problem.

The other issue could be that, when you change the email address, you’re not verifying the new email address (when an email address is changed, an automated email is sent requesting to verify the new address. If it’s not verified then this can cause issues).

Thanks ​@Ben_OVO I treid again just now and it all worked perfectly, I’m certain I did the exact same steps previously when it didn’t work. I have no idea why it worked this time but I have now switched over to the gmail address and it’s workin online and on ovo beyond app.