Simplify room-wise electricity billing with smart prepaid meters. Let tenants recharge through QR codes while you track electricity usage, balances and collections from one dashboard.
The usual problems
If you still collect electricity after the DISCOM bill lands, this is the usual week.
Staff visit rooms to record meter readings, delaying electricity billing and adding work for small PG and hostel teams.
Without clear room-wise readings, tenants question their charges and owners struggle to justify every bill.
Generator usage and shared-area electricity costs get mixed into the main bill, making tenant charges harder to explain.
The main utility meter shows total consumption, not how much electricity each PG or hostel room uses.
When residents delay payments, outstanding electricity charges build up before the next utility bill arrives.
When room-wise consumption is unclear, owners risk absorbing electricity costs that should be recovered from tenants.
Challenges
Owners need to recover costs, wardens manage readings and payments, and tenants want to verify the charges on their bills.
Owner
Without room-wise readings, owners struggle to recover electricity costs and explain tenant charges.
Staff collect readings when the utility bill is already due.
Generator and shared-area costs get mixed into the main bill.
The main meter cannot show what each room actually used.
Caretaker / Manager
Room readings, payment follow-ups, and monthly billing add to daily duties.
Manual readings take time across every floor and room.
Overdue tenant payments carry into the next billing cycle.
Tracking readings, balances, and payments means more paperwork.
Tenants
Without clear room-wise readings, tenants struggle to verify their electricity charges.
Tenants cannot easily verify how their bills were calculated.
The property bill does not show each room’s consumption.
Late readings leave tenants unsure of their final dues.
The ideal run
A simple process to track room-wise usage, calculate electricity charges, and collect payments with clear records.
Track each room’s electricity consumption separately from shared areas, with automatic readings for clear usage records.
Use meter readings and the applicable tariff to calculate each tenant’s electricity charges and maintain transparent billing records.
Collect prepaid recharges before electricity is consumed, or recover postpaid dues on time to maintain cash flow and reduce payment follow-ups.
What Should You Do?
Chasing tenants for electricity money after the monthly bill arrives is a hassle. With Qube, every room has its own meter, tenants can recharge their balance, and owners can keep an eye on readings without going room to room.
Know how much electricity each room or space uses. Keep tenant consumption separate from common areas instead of splitting one utility bill.
Let tenants recharge before using electricity, or bill long-stay residents and departments later. Run both billing methods on the same platform.
See electricity usage, outstanding balances, and collections on one dashboard. Spend less time updating spreadsheets and reconciling records.
Set Happy Hours, Happy Days, and Happy Weeks to prevent automatic power cut-offs during selected nights, weekends, and holidays—even when the balance is low.
Scheduled grace periods do not wipe out electricity dues. Usage remains recorded, and outstanding amounts can be collected through the next recharge.
Owners, property staff, and tenants can refer to the same usage records. Fewer spreadsheets, fewer conflicting numbers, and clearer billing discussions.
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Meter every room, flat, apartment or just high usage appliances like ACs & Geysers
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Most rooms go live with installation in 10–15 minutes with a plug-and-play smart prepaid submeter
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Apply common area charges on shared appliances like Kitchen, Laundry, Lift, Pumps, Corridors, etc.
And many more
On-device billing keeps the room account going without internet, and cuts power at zero balance.
Alerts cover recharges, a low balance, and a room running harder than usual.
Balance prediction uses the room’s pattern, so the stay does not run out by surprise.
Share that room’s usage and history with a link, instead of a phone argument.
Diesel can take a higher tariff than grid power, so the PG recovers the extra cost.
A predefined shared charge deducts from each meter, so the corridor is not folded into one room.
Hourly usage stays on the meter and syncs when the PG network is back.
Room-wise usage shows the heavy room before the month is closed by hand.
UrbanStayz used Qube prepaid meters across 110 rooms and reported stopping about ₹3.2 lakh a year in leakage. That is a published case study, not a slogan.
Most rooms are live in 10–15 minutes with a plug-and-play sub-meter. A 100-bed property typically finishes in two to three days with short, planned outages.
Yes. A parent can top up from another city using the QR code, the Qube tenant app, or the web portal. The room balance updates as soon as the payment succeeds.
Yes. Use prepaid for students or short stays and postpaid for staff quarters in the same dashboard.
No. The DISCOM meter remains the utility’s point of supply. Qube is a sub-meter so you can split and collect room usage from occupants.
Most PG rooms use a single-phase Qube meter. See live prices on Pricing, then Buy Now on Store. Multi-building sites can still talk to sales on WhatsApp.
Start at the meter matcher. It asks how you bill and how power reaches the building, then names the meter. Most people finish in about two minutes.
Start with 1, 2, or 3 meters from our store and test Qube on a real circuit. Your platform fee is waived for the first 45 days, so you can experience the platform, track actual results, and see the impact before scaling.Need more meters? Talk to our sales team for bulk orders and volume-based pricing.