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Best answer by Jess_OVO

Updated on 17/04/26 by Ben_OVO

 

You’ll need to get in touch with the Support Team as we don’t have access to accounts here at the Forum. Check out the details and links below for the contact details you need.

 

If you’re pay monthly the contact details are as follow:

 

Phone: 0330 303 5063 

(Opening hours are Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm)

 

WebchatChat with us

(Opening hours are Monday to Friday, 8am to 6pm,

& Saturdays, 9am to 2pm.

 

For all other contact methods, check out the full topic below:

 


 

SignVideo is a free service that connects British Sign Language (BSL) users to our advisers through an online interpreter. Their opening hours: are 9am to 5pm Monday - Friday.

 


Collections Team

 

Collections can be contacted by webchat from 8am-6pm Monday to Friday and 9am-2pm on Saturdays. You can also contact the team by phone on 0800 0699 9831 from 9am-5pm Monday to Friday. For more without contacting the team, check out the payment support tool page here.

 

Got a complaint? 


You can raise a complaint by contact Customer Support, you can find out more about our Complaint Procedure here.

 

 


There’s lots you can do yourself on the app and online account
 

 There’s lots of things you can do yourself on your online account. Give it a go and if you’re not sure, find out more via our online account tutorial collection here:

 

 

If you’ve not already got the OVO app, you can download it here for Apple, and here for Android, and manage your account from your smartphone. See OVO’s guide on our app here

 

If you want to start a switch to OVO or you’ve just moved into a property that we supply, you can get the ball rolling with setting up an account here (it’s the same page but it will work for both. 
 

 

Need some more information about something? We’d recommend OVO Help for guides and tutorials, or this forum, where we have thousands of topics about all sorts of energy questions. See this dedicated page for someone new to the forum. 
 

 

How to get in contact about my OVO Pay As You Go account
 

118 replies

Blastoise186
Super User
Super User
April 29, 2024

As mentioned, it’s 0330 303 5063, hello@ovoenergy.com and https://ovoenergy.com/help .

ALL of this stuff is listed at https://ovoenergy.com/help and https://ovoenergy.com/feedback .

I also note that the latest version of the Best Answer for this thread also links directly to a list of all active contact options.

OVO also keeps all the Forum Volunteers updated with every change to anything contact channel related. We get told pretty much the same day such changes are made - and sometimes ahead of the change - so that we can adapt rapidly. It’s well recognised that we’re able to adapt rapidly, so it’s a strategy OVO has to help make sure we’re doing things the right way.

The social channels e.g. Facebook, Twitter are just additional options for folks who prefer to use those. I hate to admit it, but some people do. There are NO plans whatsoever to sunset existing options and replace them with social media. Otherwise, we’d know about it first.

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Firedog
Super User
Super User
April 29, 2024

I see you’ve updated page 1.

 

Which ‘page 1’ are you referring to? I hadn’t noticed any particular update ...

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Blastoise186
Super User
Super User
April 29, 2024

Looks like Shads was doing some maintenance to the Best Answer on this particular thread this morning - that’s probably the update in question.

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Newcomer
May 26, 2024

It has taken 5 years to get SSE/OVO to finally organise installation of a smart meter- eventually found out why.
When they sorted the change from SSE to OVO, they wrote my e-mail incorrectly. I had absolutely no say nor input in them swapping me to OVO, it was all handled on their end.
Why were they exchanging my address by word of mouth instead of simply copy-pasting it over? 
Also learned they had incorrectly marked me as having a smart meter for both services.
Had to chase them over the course of 2 years to get 1 meter updated and the other actually installed as each time I was told ‘it will be sorted’, I heard nothing back and never had anyone contact me after to actually confirm anything.

When they updated my Electric meter, I had £20~ on it. I left it 24 hours but my credit didn’t appear on the meter and I was running out, so I activated Emergency Credit and called support. They informed me they’d set it up- a worker topped it up but didn’t reset the Emergency Credit. 

Last week, my Gas was inexplicably shut off and I had to call out an engineer to fix it- after being asked to go in and out and shut off the gas valve, turn on the gas valve, turn off the trip switches (it was a huge hassle and I got fed up and asked for an Engineer which they, very reluctantly, finally sent one). The Engineer couldn’t figure out the issue at first then changed my supply from prepayment to credit, without informing or asking me beforehand, and the £65 I had on the meter before this change is now missing.
It's been a week since I sent an e-mail about this issue and they have not replied nor made any efforts to rectify the situation.

I have made no agreement to pay so I’m unsure where or how they think they’re going to get payment so I’m not sure what’s going to happen at the end of the month (assuming that’s when they’ll try to charge me for the service I didn’t agree to)

Where can I go to get professional help with this matter or speak to someone higher up to actually fix this mess? OVO at this point owes me £65 and hell, compensation for the amount of stress caused wouldn’t go amiss because this is ridiculous.

Blastoise186
Super User
Super User
May 27, 2024

I’m still reading the rest of your post, please bear with me.

However:

When they sorted the change from SSE to OVO, they wrote my e-mail incorrectly. I had absolutely no say nor input in them swapping me to OVO, it was all handled on their end.

OVO took over SSE Energy Services from SSE Plc back in 2020, this is very well documented and was advertised for several years prior to the full migration kicking off. Everyone eventually had to be shifted - the agreement was that OVO could only use the SSE name/branding and systems for three years and the deal was that after that, the license would expire. Everyone had to be off of it by that point.

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Chris_OVO
Community Manager
Community Manager
May 27, 2024

Hey @Polites,

 

I’m sorry to read about the experience you’ve had. 

 

Have you spoken with our Support Team yet? They’ll have access to your account and the engineers notes to find out why the meter was put into “credit mode”. They’ll also be able to apply the credit you had on the pay as you go meter to your account. 

 

Did the engineer change the meter or was it left the same meter and they managed to resolve the issues you were facing? 

 

You can find our Complaint Handling Statement here, https://bit.ly/3DcsZdj, along with more information on our complaints process here: https://www.ovoenergy.com/feedback.

 

I hope this helps and you get things resolved soon! 

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Newcomer
June 3, 2024

I’ve still had no response from OVO, the credit (amount owed) on the meter has reset with the new month and I’ve had no bill, letter, call or e-mail regarding payment.

 

Until I owe them £64 or more, I’m going to sit and wait. I’ve already sent an e-mail about the issue, won’t be my fault if they don’t read them right?

(I know SSE was being changed to OVO, I’m highlighting the concern that they input my e-mail incorrectly on their end when it was previously correct.)

Chris_OVO
Community Manager
Community Manager
June 4, 2024

Hey @Polites,

 

As we don’t have access to account information here, i’d suggest contacting our Support Team who can look into this further for you! 

 

 

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Rank 1
June 6, 2024

I am one of the people who have not been able to use app to give readings for over a year. Ovo using estimates. Now found out the have over estimated by nearly 1500 units. Saying I owe the £950.

 

Can't get to speak to anyone. When I give my account number which is stated on all the emails I receive. It says my account does not exist. Help. 

Firedog
Super User
Super User
June 6, 2024

Try using webchat instead of the phone. I’ve found that the Twitter team are pretty good at problem solving, so when you DM them, it shouldn’t matter that your account no. is missing. They should be able to identify you from name, date of birth, address and postcode. You’ll need to set up an account to be able to send a DM: (1) Posts with replies by OVO (@OVOEnergy) / X

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