I've been using the Bonnet app for a little over a month,
I originally signed up for the £15 a month "Subscription" as I had found the "Firstcharge" offer and figured that for a month it would probably work out ok.
I only picked up my MG5LR 5 weeks ago so am still new to all this
The Bonnet Subscription model appears to be misleading if you don't read it properly.
It's not a subscription, its a pre-payment.
If you pre-pay £15 a month you can get electricity for 30ppkwh, if you pre-pay £35 you get the first 120Kwh for 29.1666ppkwh then additional Kwh are 29ppkwh. if you pre-pay £50 a month you pay 25ppkwh.
If you don't use everything you have pre-paid for then it carries over (indefinitely I think)
If you use more than your pre-payment then you are billed for each session at either 30ppkwh, 29ppkwh or 25ppkwh
Personally I have a couple of rapid CCS chargers locally which are included in the Bonnet app which makes it great value for me, I pay 28ppkwh at home (with Bulb) This month I have increased my Bonnet Pre-payment to £50 which means I only pay 25ppkwh at my local rapid chargers so it's cheaper than charging at home or at my local Lidl (which is further away from me and 26ppkwh)
I've also noticed that my weekend journeys (Manchester to Anglesey and back 230 Miles plus pottering around) go past enough Shell Recharge points to mean that with a little planning I never pay more than 25ppkwh which is around half the pay as you go rate (Shell recharge is around 39ppkwh or more which means the charge points are usually available as people avoid them)
I have not set up the app on another phone yet, but probably will to take advantage of their offers
They also have a referral scheme where if you use a referral code you both get £15 free charge, I have read that this can only be used 3 times but have not referred anyone yet so don't know for sure, I have also read that the referral code needs to be used within 48 hours of becoming a member but again don't have any experience of this.
My code is R9DBK
Feel free to give it a try, we might both get £15 off our next top up?
I have had a few issues at CCS chargers, all seem to be related to the App telling you to wait until you see the "Confirm connection" button (in the app to confirm you are plugged in) I just ignore that and continue and it seems to work most of the time (if it fails then disconnect and reconnect and try again, or double check if your car is charging or not, I have had 1 occasion where the app told me the connection had failed but the car continued to charge for another 37Kwh until I disconnected it so I got a decent charge for free)
The "fast" 7Kwh chargers seem to not have this issue and the "Confirm connection" button appears on the app and works fine (but the chargers near me have never given more than 3Kwh but that might have been related to the state of charge of the car not the charger)
Check the App before you commit, if there is a rapid charger on the network near you it might well be a good move to sign up, if you are a distance from a charger then it's possibly not worth it. But for me it's a brilliant solution.
Regards,
Axe