Our mission
Bottle runs the deliveries, so owners don’t have to.
Our test: if an owner goes on holiday, can Bottle run the deliveries without them?
About Bottle
Delivery software for the gas and fuel trade.
LPG, heating fuel, industrial and medical gas. It is the only trade we build for.
Our vision
Gas and fuel businesses run themselves on Bottle.
We are aiming for fully autonomous.
Why we started Bottle
The software was holding the trade back.
Bottle started inside a gas business. The software on offer to the trade was not built for it, dated, and hard to work with. So we built our own: a delivery management system for LPG, heating fuel, industrial and medical gas, purpose built for the trade.
Bottle is not a jack of all trades. It serves this one industry, and we know it from the yard up. Today it does everything a distributor needs from the order to the invoice: order management, delivery planning and invoicing.
The vision is bigger. A delivery management system with AI assistance that runs the orders and deliveries from end to end, without the owner getting involved. The mission is to give every gas and fuel supplier that freedom, and to reduce how many people they need to hire.
Where we are today
How far we have got.
Here is how automated each job is today, from the order to the invoice. The line drops each time a job needs you. We want it to stay at the top.
- Automated: Orders
- Partly automated: Rounds
- Automated: Stock
- Automated: Delivery updates
- Not yet automated: Failed deliveries
- Automated: Invoices
- Automated: Overdue reminders
- Not yet automated: Disputed invoices
What happens at each job
Orders
Customers order and pay on your own Bottle Shop at any hour. A regular delivery creates each visit’s order 10 days ahead.
Automated
Rounds
Bottle plans the rounds around your drivers, delivery areas and vehicle limits. You adjust them and dispatch.
Partly automated
Stock
Loads, deliveries and returns move the stock count as they happen. A low-stock alert tells you before you run short.
Automated
Delivery updates
Customers with an email address get a tracking link when they order, then a delivery window when the driver sets off.
Automated
Failed deliveries
The driver records the failed visit and the reason. You decide what happens next.
Not yet automated
Invoices
Bottle invoices what was delivered and emails it to the customer. Weekly, monthly and quarterly invoices include cylinder rent.
Automated
Overdue reminders
Weekly, monthly and quarterly invoices can be chased automatically. You choose when reminders start and how often they repeat.
Automated
Disputed invoices
You look into the dispute. If the invoice is wrong, cancel it and issue a corrected one in one step.
Not yet automated
Videos
See each part of Bottle at work.
Short videos, about a minute each, on what each part of Bottle does.
Why only gas and fuel
We only build for gas and fuel distributors, so we can build the best delivery system for them.
We build Bottle with distributors who run rounds every day.
Every feature is made for
- Yards
- Rounds
- Drivers
- Cylinders
- Empties
- Cylinder rent
How we grow
Scale the business without hiring.
Bottle is bootstrapped and run by a small team. The question we set out to answer is how far a company can grow without adding staff. Every part of the business is built to run itself: sales, implementation, support, engineering and the work of keeping the product reliable.
The same idea is what Bottle sells. A gas or fuel distributor should be able to take on more customers and more rounds without taking on more office staff. What we learn running our own company this way goes into the product, so our customers can grow the same way.
Trades like this rarely get to invest in AI or use it. Bottle is built only for gas and fuel, so a distributor gets AI that already understands rounds, cylinders and invoices, without hiring anyone to set it up. Putting that in reach of the trade, so it can run more efficiently, grow and scale, is why we do this.
Early access is open
Tell us what keeps you at work.
Which jobs still need you every day? Your answer helps shape what we build next. Early access includes free implementation hours for setup and migration.