How Smartbills Simplifies Utilities for 375M Users with Deck

Smartbills wanted to offer its North American users a seamless experience for managing their utility bills across different providers. But scaling across multiple regions and offering real-time data access presented significant hurdles. Additionally, Smartbills aimed to provide users with valuable insights into their carbon footprint, aligning with growing sustainability demands.

The team set their sights on turning an everyday task that businesses manage — paying utility bills — into a powerful tool for driving sustainability.

Challenge

Smartbills needed a powerful data integration partner to streamline bill management across a fragmented landscape of utility providers. Key challenges included:

• Scaling across multiple regions with different utility providers, each with unique portals and data formats.
• Providing real-time data access so users could always see their latest billing and usage information.
• Quantifying carbon footprint data based on actual utility consumption, not just estimates.

Solution

By partnering with Deck, Smartbills gained access to a robust utility data platform that connects to over 375 million consumers across North America. This partnership enables Smartbills to integrate real-time data from electricity, gas, and water providers directly into the app.

• Users can link their accounts just once, gaining immediate access to their full history of usage and charges.
• The continuous data stream provided by Deck ensures that users always have the latest insights into their energy consumption.
• Sustainability data allows Smartbills to quantify and highlight the carbon impact of users' energy consumption.

Results

Expanded Reach

With Deck's extensive data infrastructure, Smartbills can now serve a massive audience of 375 million consumers, offering streamlined utility management across North America.

Carbon Footprint Insights

Smartbills envisions a future where users can easily track their carbon emissions based on their actual utility usage, empowering them to make more eco-conscious decisions.

"Unlike typical carbon footprint estimates, we're working toward providing users with real data based on their actual utility consumption. This future capability could be a game changer for those wanting to make informed environmental decisions." — Sebastien Labine, Founder & CEO, Smartbills

Simplified Bill Management

Through real-time access to utility data, users can view, pay, and automate their bills directly from the Smartbills app, saving time and reducing the complexity of managing utilities.