How a solar job actually runs, start to finish
Plain-English answers to the questions that decide how fast a project moves: milestone schedules, PTO holdbacks, utility timelines, and what your funders actually require.
How a job runs
What happens after the contract is signed
The stages between a signed residential solar contract and permission to operate: site survey, design, permitting, interconnection, install, inspection, and PTO, and which ones your office can actually speed up.
Read Software categoriesSolar operations software vs a solar CRM
A solar CRM is built to win the sale. Solar operations software is built to deliver the job after it is sold. Most installers need both, and confusing them is why the post-sale work ends up in spreadsheets.
Read TPO milestonesTPO milestone payments, explained
How TPO solar pays installers: contract pays nothing, most (80 to 90 percent) releases at install, 10 to 20 percent waits on PTO. What M1, M2, M3 mean.
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