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Best answer by Blastoise186

Updated on 29/07/25 by Ben_OVO

If you have a traditional Pay As You Go meter then there is no online account access, as the meter must be topped up via a card/key. If you have a Pay As You Go smart meter, then you can top up via the OVO Top Up App. This makes life a lot easier than topping up with a key or card. You can read more about booking a free smart meter appointment here.

Hi ​@Andrew Burton ,

Online Services such as MyOVO are NOT available for PAYG Customers - those tools only work for Pay Monthly. Please use https://ovoenergypayments.paypoint.com and the OVO Energy Top-Up app instead.

If you desire having an online account, you’ll need to call 0330 175 9669 and ask to be migrated to Pay Monthly.

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Blastoise186
Super User
Super User
December 29, 2024

In that case, you’ll have to go elsewhere to get the answers you seek. We’ve given you too many chances to provide us with information that we needed and you refused to provide it. We are not prepared to give advice to anyone who wastes our time like that.

If you ARE the affected Landlord/Tenant in this matter and you have - as we suspect - already been through the Energy Ombudsman with the outcome being that they ruled in favour of the Supplier, then you’re at an impasse. Your two options are therefore this:

  • Accept it as a Game Over scenario since you’ve exhausted the entire Complaints Process, pay the debts off, sort out a new account in the new tenants name and then switch to Pay Monthly
  • If you still feel strongly about this matter, escalate the it to the Courts and have a Judge make the final decision - be warned that if you lose, it could cost you dearly

We’re done here. Farewell.

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Rank 4
December 29, 2024

Spooked ya.

The jury is out ......Imposters or genuine forum advisors.

No hard feelings, you've fooled 99%, not bad.

Emmanuelle_OVO
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Retired Moderator
December 30, 2024

Hey ​@Andrew Burton 

We have five forum moderators Bradley_OVO Emmanuelle_OVO Abby_OVO Shads_OVO & Chris_OVO.

You’ll see from our profile’s we have a green ‘OVO’ marking that shows we’re employees. All OVO employees that have forum accounts would have a username ending in _OVO & the same banner.

Nukecad & Blastoise are really active & helpful community members with specialist areas of expertise. They are entirely independent & free to express whatever opinions they like & are indeed critical of OVO when they feel there has been an injustice or something isn’t working as it should. 

The forum is intended to be a safe space for all:
 


Please let me know if you have any questions about our house rules or guidelines 🙂

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weedug
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Rank 2
October 27, 2025

can't each person be able to dowload the app and sign in with the account holders details and then each top up individually through the app that way you can see all the top ups?

Blastoise186
Super User
Super User
October 27, 2025

@weedug yes, that is possible. 

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Newcomer
March 3, 2026

Why can I not see my whole history, when I try to register accounts for gas and electric just says does not support prepayment accounts, surly I should be able to still see what I'm paying and how much usage.

Have a ovo top account but even this is not correct information and lots of top ups not showing.

Just because I pay as you go I should still have all my account details to check.

Abby_OVO
Community Manager
Community Manager
March 3, 2026

Hey ​@Rippedoff79 

 

The app for Pay as you go is different from that of pay monthly energy accounts as the pay as you go system works on a completely different system so the account can’t be set up in the pay monthly app.

 

As you’re on Pay as you go, we don’t send out frequent bills, but you will get an annual statement to show all top ups and usage throughout the year.

 

You can view some of your details in the pay as you go app, if there’s anything you can’t see that should be there or are looking for something it isn’t showing, the Support Team should be able to help with any of this information. Additionally, if you think something is incorrect, the Support Team can also assist with getting this fixed.

 

We do also have a helpful topic on the Forum which I’ve linked to below:

 

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