Rebate Bus Looks Back on 2017

2017 was a great year for Rebate Bus. We accelerated our mission of simplifying the utility rebate experience for our partners. Utilities across North America want to drive the adoption of energy efficient technologies and we are focused on making the process easy and intuitive.

We view our customers as our own business partners and seek to help them build their business with access to the most comprehensive source of utility rebate data. We do that by offering access to our API, with dedicated service from our team and by developing new software for our partner’s websites that engages their customers. In everything we do we are always focused on creating an easy and intuitive experience.

As our network of partner utilities, contractors, distributors, and vendors grows we continue to iterate and evolve our platform to be able to manage and facilitate instant rebate transactions everywhere across the country. Below is a series of milestones achieved throughout 2017 that played a pivotal role in the growth of Rebate Bus.

The year began with a big push from the Rebate Bus team to quickly aggregate the release of new rebate program data across North America. With every program analyzed and added to our database, our platform grew smarter. Effective communication between our data and software teams helped develop much simpler tools used to verify specific categories of rebate applications.

The aggregated and analyzed data on our platform went to work the rest of the year to help serve an array of business support teams applying for utility rebates. This included the Rebate Bus support team, which benefitted from its own data, fulfilling utility rebate applications for scores of equipment upgrade projects. By the end of the year, the data and support team had put together more data for the platform and fulfilled more utility rebate applications than any year prior.

Lightfair 2017 could not have come at a better time for Rebate Bus. By May 2017 our team had collectively aggregated data for commercial lighting rebate programs offered from utilities across North America. Having developed our platform to deliver the common data used in a lighting rebate application (product requirements such as lumens, watts, operating hours, etc.) Rebate Bus proceeded to deliver great data to the lighting industry. Rebate Bus learned a lot from Lightfair and the experience provided our team with a valuable oppurtunity to develop many new relationships within the industry.

Much of the focus at Rebate Bus has gone towards growing our platform to primarily accommodate utility programs for LED lighting upgrades. However, with the help of our growing data support team we expanded our coverage to deliver rebates on other energy-efficient products in 2017. Our expansion began locally with our team’s proposal to Focus on Energy in Wisconsin. Our proposal was to completely digitize their traditional catalogs that showcase available utility rebate programs. As a result, our team added six new application categories including commercial kitchen equipment, process systems, agriculture, refrigeration, HVAC, and plumbing systems.

Once every program requirement was aggregated and digitally defined we worked on simplifying the customer’s experience. Now within just a series of clicks, customers are able to find incentive offers on any product.

Relationships made with utility program implementers have given Rebate Bus an in-depth understanding of verifying eligible program participants. From these relationships, Rebate Bus has been able to establish itself as the intermediary bringing together utility programs and the sale of energy efficient products. Therefore in 2017, Rebate Bus released it’s instant rebate experience for the e-commerce setting. Introducing a plugin software tool made for e-commerce vendors.

Since every online store operates using their very own e-commerce software, Rebate Bus began by developing a plugin fit for the many vendors using Magento. By September, Rebate Bus had launched its first live instant rebate tool for a lighting e-commerce vendor. The plugin works for both residential and commercial programs and is highly flexible based on the utility’s customer verification needs.

This achievement acted as a model example for how Rebate Bus brings utility programs and vendors together to deliver instant utility rebates. As a result, other vendors have signed on for our services and more are becoming interested in utilizing our software tools to deliver instant rebates.

Team Effort

Contact us at team@rebatebus.com anytime to learn more.

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