Bayou launch release notes
Bayou enables software developers to get their customer’s utility data instantly. The API takes minutes to integrate, consumers authenticate their utility accounts with one-click, and developers get access to utility account, bill, and usage interval data in 60 seconds or less.
Bayou is working on significant updates to our product ahead of a public product launch in January 2024. These include:
14 instant utilities: Instant data from 14 utilities today and 90% of the US population by December 2024. Bayou can add new instant utilities in as little as one week.
Fast integration: Be live with customer utility data in 10 minutes with a re-designed dashboard, QuickStart guide and new dashboard webhook management.
One-click for customers: A re-designed form verifies credentials within 3 seconds or less and supports multi-factor authentication for instant utilities.
Fast integration
Re-designed dashboard
Dashboard Home (in development): View demo data or connect your own utility account, then invite co-workers or jump straight into the QuickStart guide.
QuickStart Guide
Enhanced comments for clarity with links to relevant documentation
Can be downloaded and run 100% within your terminal-no need to setup webhook endpoint for local testing. Just create a Bayou account and add your API key.
Python file available now, will be self-service in dashboard in Python, Ruby, JavaScript, Typescript, C#, Java
Dashboard webhook management: view and resend any webhook within Bayou’s dashboard
Re-designed Customers section of dashboard (in development): enables you to view key customer data
Updates to webhooks
The bills_ready and intervals_ready webhook events inform users when data discovery has been completed. The logic that triggers the webhooks has been updated to support edge cases and the JSON objects for both webhooks now categorizes discovered data.
New customer_must_reauthenticate webhook event informs users that a specific customer must share their credentials again
One-click for customers
Re-designed customer form (in development): will be shared when available
Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is now supported for all instant utilities