Capitec Electricity Purchases (App / Internet)

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Hi Guys, first time poster :)

I have been toying with the idea of moving all my banking to Capitec for a while now. Their latest introduction of electricity purchases in the app and online might finally push me over the wall. However, I cannot seem to add my meter number as a beneficiary. I live in Seapoint and get electricity from City of Cape Town.

I do not want to use USSD to buy electricity, the idea is to on the first of every month have a scheduled prepaid electricity purchase go through with the token sent to my phone, much like my prepaid airtime on their platform.

Has anyone with CoCT electricity managed to get this working. Do we know if there is a list of supported service providers/municipalities?

Thanks.
 
dhlotter said:
Hi Guys, first time poster :)

I have been toying with the idea of moving all my banking to Capitec for a while now. Their latest introduction of electricity purchases in the app and online might finally push me over the wall. However, I cannot seem to add my meter number as a beneficiary. I live in Seapoint and get electricity from City of Cape Town.

I do not want to use USSD to buy electricity, the idea is to on the first of every month have a scheduled prepaid electricity purchase go through with the token sent to my phone, much like my prepaid airtime on their platform.

Has anyone with CoCT electricity managed to get this working. Do we know if there is a list of supported service providers/municipalities?

Thanks.
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You cannot do electricity debit orders that is all manual
 
Maybe I didn't explain well.

I am on prepaid electricity at home. I can buy prepaid electricity from FNB, but cannot load my meter/prepaid number to Capitec. City of Cape Town provides my power. Has anyone with a prepaid meter, getting electricity supplied by City of Cape Town, successfully added it to their Capitec profile?

Once added to Capitec as a beneficiary, you can schedule future payments. This is what I want.
 
dhlotter said:
Maybe I didn't explain well.

I am on prepaid electricity at home. I can buy prepaid electricity from FNB, but cannot load my meter/prepaid number to Capitec. City of Cape Town provides my power. Has anyone with a prepaid meter, getting electricity supplied by City of Cape Town, successfully added it to their Capitec profile?

Once added to Capitec as a beneficiary, you can schedule future payments. This is what I want.
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You can't add electricity as a scheduled/future dated or recurring payment. As it's not a beneficiary.
 
thanks, can we focus on the only sentence in my post with a question mark. has anyone with coct electricity successfully added it as a beneficiary to capitec.
 
http://www.capetown.gov.za/en/rev/Pages/Payment-channels.aspx

Electronic Funds Transfer

As a City of Cape Town customer, you must register with your bank for internet banking. To register, visit your bank’s website:

www.absa.co.za
www.standardbank.co.za
www.fnb.co.za
www.nedbank.co.za
www.capitecbank.co.za

The City is listed as one of the bank’s beneficiaries and therefore you do not require its bank details. You will find the City listed as a beneficiary under the bank’s Listed Beneficiaries - type in City of Cape Town Municipality and the details will pop up.

In the reference field, enter your municipal, nine-digit, account number as a reference. Only this number must be entered, with no spaces between the digits. The bank’s system will not accept any other number as a reference. Thereafter, you can enter the amount you would like to pay.
 
Right at the bottom of that website link I sent above there's the following:

"Purchasing prepaid electricity tokens

To purchase prepaid electricity tokens, visit the electricity website"

It has a link which if I click on requests log in details that I don't have.
 
dhlotter said:
thanks, can we focus on the only sentence in my post with a question mark. has anyone with coct electricity successfully added it as a beneficiary to capitec.
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Corvus said:
http://www.capetown.gov.za/en/rev/Pages/Payment-channels.aspx

Electronic Funds Transfer

As a City of Cape Town customer, you must register with your bank for internet banking. To register, visit your bank’s website:

www.absa.co.za
www.standardbank.co.za
www.fnb.co.za
www.nedbank.co.za
www.capitecbank.co.za

The City is listed as one of the bank’s beneficiaries and therefore you do not require its bank details. You will find the City listed as a beneficiary under the bank’s Listed Beneficiaries - type in City of Cape Town Municipality and the details will pop up.

In the reference field, enter your municipal, nine-digit, account number as a reference. Only this number must be entered, with no spaces between the digits. The bank’s system will not accept any other number as a reference. Thereafter, you can enter the amount you would like to pay.
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Hope this helps answer your question specifically regarding how to load it as a beneficiary.
 
dhlotter said:
thanks, can we focus on the only sentence in my post with a question mark. has anyone with coct electricity successfully added it as a beneficiary to capitec.
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It's not a beneficiary.

Thats the clue.


Go to prepaid, select electricity, enter meter number.
 
Corvus said:
Right at the bottom of that website link I sent above there's the following:

"Purchasing prepaid electricity tokens

To purchase prepaid electricity tokens, visit the electricity website"

It has a link which if I click on requests log in details that I don't have.
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thanks boss. i will phone coct in the morning to see whats going on and where the link is suppose to take us. will report back if i get more information.
 
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dhlotter said:
Hi Guys, first time poster :)

I have been toying with the idea of moving all my banking to Capitec for a while now. Their latest introduction of electricity purchases in the app and online might finally push me over the wall. However, I cannot seem to add my meter number as a beneficiary. I live in Seapoint and get electricity from City of Cape Town.

I do not want to use USSD to buy electricity, the idea is to on the first of every month have a scheduled prepaid electricity purchase go through with the token sent to my phone, much like my prepaid airtime on their platform.

Has anyone with CoCT electricity managed to get this working. Do we know if there is a list of supported service providers/municipalities?

Thanks.
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I discourage customers to agree to the installation of Prepaid meters as it gives City unreasonable control.

You will note from the information below that On 1 June 2023 I paid R900 on the Capitec App for:

Electricity Token: 0564 3991 7476 5977 9212

Receipt No: 444004215439

Meter: 07163232510

Amount: R900.00

VAT: R0.00

Units: 272.3 kWh

I want to know Why did I only receive 272 units? Even with the price increase and being billed at the highest block rate, I should have received at least 685.44 units.

Why the discrepancy.

Where did the other 413 units go?

This is a 300% increase in the price of electricity.
 
GROWL7 said:
I discourage customers to agree to the installation of Prepaid meters as it gives City unreasonable control.

You will note from the information below that On 1 June 2023 I paid R900 on the Capitec App for:

Electricity Token: 0564 3991 7476 5977 9212

Receipt No: 444004215439

Meter: 07163232510

Amount: R900.00

VAT: R0.00

Units: 272.3 kWh

I want to know Why did I only receive 272 units? Even with the price increase and being billed at the highest block rate, I should have received at least 685.44 units.

Why the discrepancy.

Where did the other 413 units go?

This is a 300% increase in the price of electricity.
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Which city are you in? I don't think that 685 units for R900 is possible, not even under Eskom direct billing.
 
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