Huddle reads water bills from every supplier into one standard format
Huddle Utilities, a UK bills company for shared houses, uses Docsumo to read the water bills it pays instead of typing each one into spreadsheets.
A metered water bill for a shared house: one two-page PDF for 1 March to 31 August 2026. Docsumo reads water supply charges of £164.38, wastewater charges of £187.52, a credit of £26.40 from the last bill and an amount due of £325.50. The amount due adds up, Huddle's rules pass, the bill is ready for review, and approved data goes to Huddle's bills spreadsheet in Excel.
Shared-house bills in one simple payment.
London, UKHuddle is a UK bills company for shared houses. It bundles gas, electricity, broadband, water and TV into one monthly payment, pays the suppliers and splits the cost, so each housemate pays only their share. It serves students, renters, landlords and letting agents.
- Utility packagesB2CGas, electricity, broadband, water and TV, split between housemates.
- Energy plansIn-house100% renewable electricity from its in-house energy supplier.
- Property professionalsB2BBills-included and referral schemes for landlords and letting agents.
- students use Huddle
- 10,000+
- homes supplied with renewable energy
- 20,000+
- years in business
- 11
Every bill payment waited on the typing.
Before Docsumo, bill operators typed each water bill into spreadsheets.
- From regional suppliers
- One account per home
- Issued to Huddle
- A different template per supplier
- Every field typed by hand
- Typos crept into the sheets
- Payments queued behind data entry
- Supplier paid
- Bills spreadsheet
Built around their water bills.
Docsumo is an intelligent document processing (IDP) platform.
- Many suppliers
Every supplier's bill, one format
Every water supplier's layout comes out as the same set of fields.
- No typing
Details captured, not typed
Docsumo captures each bill's details, so operators no longer retype them.
- Faster payments
Bills ready to pay sooner
With the typing gone, the team fast-tracks bill payments for customers.
What changed at Huddle.
| Before Docsumo | With Docsumo | |
|---|---|---|
| Data capture | Operators typed in every bill | Captured by Docsumo from each bill |
| Supplier templates | A different layout from every supplier | One standard format in their sheets |
| Bill payments | Waiting on manual data entry | Fast-tracked for customers |
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