Westland captured utility bills from every provider without retyping them
Westland Real Estate Group, a multi-family owner and operator in Long Beach, California, used Docsumo to read and check its utility bills instead of keying them in.
A common-area electric bill for one of Westland's apartment communities arrived as a three-page PDF for August 4 to September 2. Docsumo read electric charges of $3,642.18, taxes and fees of $214.07, credits of $58.40 and an amount due of $3,797.85. The charges added up to the amount due, Westland's rules passed, the bill was ready for review, and approved data went to portfolio management by API.
Turning buildings into communities.
Westland Real Estate Group is a family-owned company in Long Beach, California, that owns and operates multi-family apartments, manufactured home communities and retail centers. It serves renters, homeowners and local small businesses, and buys underperforming buildings to renovate and hold for the long term.
- ApartmentsMulti-familyStudios to townhouses, in Los Angeles and Las Vegas.
- Manufactured home communitiesHomeownershipAffordable homeownership, mostly in Southern California.
- Retail propertiesCommercialStrip centers to supermarket-anchored shopping centers.
- apartment communities
- 65+
- manufactured home communities
- 17
- units across all divisions
- 14,000
Every provider's bills, typed in by hand.
Before Docsumo, data entry operators keyed in each bill, then scanned the entries for errors.
- Utility bills, every month
- Several service providers
- Varying bill templates
- A different layout per provider
- Operator hours spent retyping
- Keying errors to find and fix
- Utility bill data
- Portfolio management
Built around their bills.
Docsumo is an intelligent document processing (IDP) platform.
- Many providers
Every provider's layout, one format
Auto-classification recognized each provider's bill, and every template came out in the same fields.
- Data entry
Read, not retyped
Each bill's fields were captured automatically, not typed in by operators.
- Validation
Rules that checked every value
A rule-based engine validated each value in context and corrected errors.
What changed at Westland.
| Before Docsumo | With Docsumo | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider layouts | A different template for each provider | Every provider's bill in the same fields |
| Data entry | Operators typed in every bill | Fields captured automatically from every bill |
| Error checks | Found by scanning the entries again | Caught and corrected by a rule-based engine |
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