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Oct 22, 2024 2:42 PM UTC
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Charges for paper bills

Charges for paper bills

Updated on 27/02/25 by Bradley_OVO - We have now made the decision to put the introduction of charges for paper bills on hold indefinitely.

https://www.ovoenergy.com/help/article/how-do-i-go-paperless
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What's happening?

 

We're introducing a £1.50 monthly fee for customers who choose to have paper bills.  

 

This change will be live and visible on December bills, which will give customers time to choose Paperless Billing if they want to.

 

We’ll be writing to our current Paper Billing customers to let them know about these changes. We'll send customers a QR code, which will take them to a form where they can select paperless billing going forward.
 

Are there exceptions to this?


Yes, the following customers will stay on paper bills with no charge:

  • Customers on the Priority Services Register (PSR)
  • Customers who receive Adaptive Comms
  • Customers who we think should be on the PSR
  • Customers who might potentially be financially vulnerable

We won’t ask these customers to choose to change to Paperless Billing.

28 replies

Nukecad
Super User
Super User
Nov 14, 2024 12:15 PM UTC

Hhaa, so it's a seperate ‘go online’ link in the letter, and not in your account at all.
(I've always been paperless with SSE/OVO so I didn't get a letter).

For others who have had the letter regarding going paperless and are struggling to find it:

Click here to bring up the 'Go Paperless' form.

You will need:- your account number, the security code from your letter, and of course an email address for OVO to send paperless communications to.

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Rank 2
Nov 14, 2024 12:29 PM UTC

The letter has “The quickest way to go paperless is to tell us online” in large bold print. The section below with the URL is printed small and faint. My old eyes just didn’t register it. The people at OVO who produce these things should take into account that many customers are elderly and may not see so well. I think it’s called being inclusive.

Newcomer
Nov 19, 2024 1:57 PM UTC

It should be simple.

In your Ovo profile you can select how you want marketing communications from Ovo.

You can select email & unselect any others. Ideally this should ensure everything goes paperless.

However, from past experience with Ovo, I suspect that this is not how Ovo have set this up.

 

Blastoise186
Super User
Super User
Nov 19, 2024 2:08 PM UTC

​@ovocustomer2024 not the same thing. That’s for Marketing stuff only. TBH OVO doesn’t really send that stuff by post anyway.

http://hello.ovoenergy.com/paperless is the way to go if you want to switch to paperless billing.

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Newcomer
Dec 10, 2024 6:38 PM UTC

Where on my account can i see if i am on the paperless billing option.

Blastoise186
Super User
Super User
Dec 10, 2024 7:58 PM UTC

Hi ​@pete 1 ,

It won’t show on the online account, but OVO Support can check - and change - the settings for you. Just ask via Live Chat at https://ovoenergy.com/help and they’ll do the rest.

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Newcomer
Dec 11, 2024 6:28 PM UTC

Thanks for the info, chat did as you said, I will see the result on next bill.

Abby_OVO
Community Manager
Community Manager
Dec 12, 2024 9:09 AM UTC

Hey ​@pete 1 

 

I’m glad to see Blastoise186’s advice was helpful and you managed to get that sorted with the Support Team.

 

Thanks for the letting us know how you got on sorting that.

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