Solar software for small installers

Arka 360

Arka360

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Design & simulation · Web

A 3D solar design, proposal and lead-management platform, originally Indian and now selling into the US with an attached permit-plan-set and PE-stamp service arm.

Aurora Solar

Aurora Solar Inc.

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Design & simulation · Web

Cloud residential solar design-and-sales platform that turns satellite/LIDAR imagery into a 3D roof model, a shaded production estimate and a signable proposal in one session.

Bodhi

Bodhi

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Customer experience · Web

A white-labelled homeowner communication and project-tracking layer that a solar installer buys and puts its own brand on, to cut cancellations and escalations and to generate reviews and referrals after the sale.

Coperniq

Coperniq Inc.

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Operations & PM

A multi-trade contractor operating system — sales, projects, service, dispatch, cashflow and AI agents in one product — of which solar is one of five named trades.

Demand Manager (LightWork)

Demand Manager

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Compliance & rebate · Web

An Australian certificate aggregator and AFSL-holding trader whose free LightWork apps (Commercial, Residential, Solar) capture the compliance evidence for ESC, VEEC, STC, PRC and REPS claims, monetised through an undisclosed success fee on the certificates it creates and trades.

Dividend Finance

Fifth Third Bank, National Association, dba Dividend

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Financing platforms

A US residential solar, storage and home-improvement point-of-sale financing programme for contractors, operated by Fifth Third Bank, N.A. under the Dividend trade name and delivered through a contractor portal at `partner.dividendfinance.com`.

EagleView

EagleView Technologies

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Imagery & remote survey · Web · iOS · Android

A property-imagery and measurement business that sells solar contractors per-property roof reports — geometry, pitch, azimuth, obstructions, shading, TSRF and Solar Access Values — plus an auto-generated PV design product on top of them.

Easy PV

Midsummer

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Design & simulation · Web

A UK-only, MCS-oriented solar design and sales tool that is free at the base tier and £35/month for Pro, published by a solar wholesaler — so the kit list it produces drops straight into a trade order with live pricing and next-day delivery.

EnFin

Qcells (Hanwha)

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Financing platforms · Web

A US residential-only solar financing platform operated by Qcells, delivered as a fully digital partner portal with a published three-step installer onboarding process, a prequalification-then-application flow, and preferential pricing on projects that use Qcells equipment.

Compliance & rebate · Web · iOS · Android

Australian STC/compliance platform that captures installation evidence in the field, validates it against scheme rules, creates the certificate, and pays the retailer for it — Formbay is the software *and* the certificate agent in the same transaction.

GoodLeap

GoodLeap, LLC (formerly Loanpal)

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Financing platforms · Web · iOS · Android

A US residential point-of-sale financing platform for home-improvement and solar/storage contractors, delivered as a dealer web application (Origin™), iOS/Android field apps (GoodLeap Pros) and a documented financing API, sitting on top of GoodLeap's own lending and lease/PPA programmes.

Green Energy Trading

Green Energy Trading Pty Ltd

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Compliance & rebate · Web · iOS

An Australian certificate aggregator that pays installers and trades for STCs, VEECs, ESCs, PRCs, LGCs and ACCUs across solar, batteries, hot water, air conditioning and lighting — with a free job-management portal and field app attached.

GreenLancer

GreenLancer Energy, Inc.

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Permitting & plan sets · Web

A Detroit-based marketplace and managed service that sells permit-ready PV plan sets, PE stamps, utility interconnection applications and field repairs, delivered by a vetted network of engineering firms plus an in-house interconnection team.

HelioScope

Aurora Solar Inc. (acquired Folsom Labs, 2019)

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Design & simulation · Web

Cloud commercial-and-industrial PV design and simulation tool — rooftop, carport, ground mount and storage in one project — sold per seat, with a stated accuracy target relative to PVsyst and a PVsyst export on the top tier.

IronRidge Atlas

IronRidge (Enstall)

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Racking design · Web

Atlas is IronRidge's free, account-gated residential software suite — proposal, array design and permit-pack export — whose design engine exists to lay out and bill-of-material IronRidge's own racking hardware.

OpenSolar

OpenSolar Inc.

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Proposals & sales · Web

A free-to-use solar design, proposal and project-management platform funded by manufacturers, financiers, distributors and other partners rather than by the installers who use it.

CRM & lead management · Web

A UK clean-tech installer platform — CRM, job management, field service, invoicing and MCS/DNO compliance paperwork in one subscription, priced per company rather than per seat.

Planet Plan Sets

Planet Plan Sets LLC

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Permitting & plan sets

A low-cost, fixed-price plan drafting service for residential PV contractors — $249 to $499 per plan set by AC system size, with a long à-la-carte adder menu and a separate utility interconnection processing service.

PV*SOL premium

Valentin Software GmbH

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Design & simulation · Desktop

Windows desktop PV design and simulation package built around 3D shading — model the buildings, extrude them from a cadastral map, place up to 7,500 mounted modules, and get a yield forecast, a circuit diagram and a customer-facing report, for a published €845/year named-user licence.

PVsyst

PVsyst SA

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Design & simulation · Desktop

The Windows desktop PV simulation package that most lenders treat as the reference yield model — grid-connected, stand-alone and pumping systems, 3D near-shading, hourly and sub-hourly, sold as a named annual licence in Swiss francs.

Pylon

Pylon

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Proposals & sales · Web

An Australian solar and battery design and proposal tool sold per project on prepaid credits rather than per seat, with an optional per-user CRM bolted alongside it.

Reslink Energy

Reslink Technologies Private Limited

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Design & simulation · Web

A mobile-first 3D solar design and proposal platform for Indian EPCs that claims to take a rooftop from satellite imagery to a bill of materials and a signed-ready proposal without a site visit.

Solar Permit Solutions

Solar Permit Solutions

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Permitting & plan sets

A flat-rate PE-stamped plan-set service pitched at contractors, homeowners and DIY installers alike, priced publicly at $1,200 / $2,000 / from $3,700 per plan set by system size, with unlimited revisions and optional interconnection and AHJ-submission add-ons.

SolarHub CRM

Glytrix

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CRM & lead management · Web

An Australian solar CRM with design, proposals and invoicing built in, metered on a monthly token allowance rather than on seats or projects.

SubcontractorHub

SubcontractorHub, Inc.

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Dealer & sales-org · Web

A modular quote-to-install platform for multi-trade residential contractors, priced at $500/month per module with unlimited users plus $35 on every signed contract — a deliberate rejection of per-seat licensing.

Sunbase (Solar CRM)

Sunbase Data

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CRM & lead management · Web

A modular contractor platform — CRM, proposals, project management, inventory, finance and reporting — sold to solar, roofing and construction businesses as a configured bundle rather than off-the-shelf tiers.

Sungage Financial

Sungage Financial, LLC — independent; loans issued by Hatch Bank

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Financing platforms · Web

A US residential-only solar and storage loan platform for installers, delivered as an installer portal plus ten named integrations into the proposal and design tools an installer already uses; Sungage originates and services, and the loans themselves are issued by Hatch Bank.

Sunvoy

Sunvoy Inc.

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Customer experience · Web

A homeowner-facing, installer-branded portal and monitoring layer that sits on top of an installer's existing CRM and inverter fleet, sold per installed system, and aimed at turning a legacy customer base into referrals, reviews and service revenue.

Permitting & plan sets

An instant-permitting and automated code-compliance platform that building departments switch on and that permit applicants pay for per plan check — positioned as a general regulatory-compliance engine rather than a solar-only permit app.

Unirac U-Builder / U-Builder Go

Unirac

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Racking design · Web

U-Builder is Unirac's free, login-gated browser configurator that lays out an array, sizes Unirac racking to ASCE 7, and returns a BOM, an engineering report and a state certification letter — with GO as the fast quoting path and PRO as the permit-design path.