One representative bill, read for you or typed in:
- AI extractiondrop a PDF, JPG or PNG bill, then approve each section in a short review. Pro plan and free trial.
- Bill Periodbilling month, days in the bill, and Flat rate or Unbundled entry.
- Unit Price Modeon an unbundled bill, type rates in c/kWh or $/kWh to match how the bill prints them.
- TOU windowsMatch bill timings suggests retail windows (timings only, never prices); network windows load from the tariff.
- Demand chargesflat or seasonal rates, billed as a monthly peak, a 12-month ratchet or only some months.
- Network Tariff Reviewon Recommendation: where the site sits on its network tariff after install, and what else it could be on.
Check the live bill summary against the real bill. If the totals are far apart, a rate or a unit is wrong.
Bill Data is where the site's tariff goes in. Everything downstream prices against it: the savings, the payback and the demand reduction a battery can earn. You enter one representative bill. The fastest way is to drop the bill and let Amperage read it, then check what it found.
Start with AI extraction
Drag the customer's bill onto the Bill extraction card, or click to browse. A PDF works, and so does a JPG or PNG photo of the bill. The card shows its progress as it goes: reading the bill, analysing its structure, extracting the charges and verifying the totals.
When it finishes, the card says Extraction complete, names the retail plan it recognised, and lists anything worth a quick check. Then a review bar walks you through the form one section at a time (Bill Period, the rate sections, Daily Charges, Export and so on). Check each section against the bill and press Approve & next, then Finish review on the last one. You can restart the review from the card at any time.
AI extraction is on the Pro plan, and available during the free trial. Without it, every card below can be filled in by hand.
Bill Period
The Bill Period card sets the billing month and year and the Days in Bill. A quarterly bill can carry its real day count, such as 92. It also sets the entry mode:
- Flat rate: one energy rate plus a supply charge. Use it for simple bills.
- Unbundled: the bill split into retail, network, environmental and market charges, with time-of-use periods and demand charges. Most commercial bills need this.
On an unbundled bill, Unit Price Mode chooses whether you type rates in c/kWh or $/kWh, to match how the bill prints them. It applies to every section below. Tick Bill values are GST inclusive if the bill's figures include GST.
Flat rate bills
The Flat Rate card takes the energy rate and supply charge, with room for additional charges. Add the feed-in tariff on the Export Tariff card.
Unbundled bills
An unbundled bill is entered across these cards:
- Retail Charges: the energy rates the retailer charges, by time-of-use period.
- Environmental Schemes: green scheme levies such as LRECs, SRECs, STCs and VEECs.
- Network Charges: pick the network tariff, then adjust its schedule and rates. This card also holds the demand charges.
- Market Charges: the AEMO market operator fees.
- Daily Charges: fixed daily supply and service charges.
- Other Charges and Export Tariff: anything left over, and the feed-in tariff for solar exports.
The bill summary beside the form adds it all up as you type. Compare its total with the bill. If it's far off, a rate or a unit is wrong.
Time-of-use windows
Peak, shoulder and off-peak rates only mean something once the hours are set. Retail and network windows each have their own schedule, set with the Set schedule button on the Retail Charges and Network Charges cards. Once a schedule is set, the button shows its name instead.
- Retail windows. Match timings opens the Match bill timings picker. It ranks common retail timing patterns against the periods on the bill and suggests the closest. Picking one fills in the windows; it never sets a plan or its prices. Your rates stay the ones from the bill.
- Network windows. Browse templates lists the network's published tariffs, with the one matching this bill marked. Loading a tariff brings in its windows and rates, which you can then adjust.
Demand charges
Demand Charges sit inside Network Charges. Set them as Flat or Seasonal (different rates in summer and winter), and set how each one is billed:
- Monthly peak: each bill charges the highest demand that month, so it resets every bill.
- 12-month peak (ratchet): each bill charges the highest peak of the last 12 months, so one spike sets a year of bills.
- Only some months: no demand charge outside the months you pick.
You can also set the hours each demand charge is measured in. When a bill carries an extra summer or winter demand charge on top of the main one, extraction puts it under Additional Demand Charges; it only counts in the totals once its timing is set. Demand charges matter: on many commercial sites they are where a battery earns most of its keep.
After the recommendation: the network tariff
Once an Analysis has run, the Recommendation page shows a Network Tariff Review card. It shows where the site sits on its network tariff after the system goes in, and what else it could be on. Each alternative is marked as one the customer can elect, one the network assigns, unverified, or not eligible, with the network cost today and after install. The figures are network charges only, worked out from the network's published prices on the site's metered usage. They are indicative, and any switch goes through the retailer and the network.