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Mobile App Developer for solar companies: fewer redesigns, fewer install-day surprises, and customers who always know what happens next.

15+
Years Experience
100+
Projects Delivered
6
Countries Served
$25M+
Revenue Enabled
The starting question

What a store app can do for Solar Companies

A solar customer's journey is long: a quote, a survey, an installation, and years of generation to watch. An app for a solar company earns its place when it gives customers a clear view of that journey on a phone: where their installation stands, what it is generating, and what to do when something looks wrong, without a phone call that interrupts an installation team, and without a customer left wondering whether their panels are working.

The build covers the customer journey, not the installation itself. Design, engineering, and installation stay where the company already runs them. The store app handles the moments around them: quotes, surveys, installation updates, generation monitoring, and support, with data coming from the systems the company already runs, so a customer is never shown a different version of their installation.

Companies whose customers happily follow progress by email, or whose installations are few enough that a call covers them, do not need a store app, and that is said before scoping. Where customers repeatedly call for installation updates, where generation questions consume support, or where referrals depend on customers who cannot see their own savings, an app starts to make sense. <a href="/contact.html">Talk through the Solar Companies app idea</a> before any scope is agreed, and the fit is tested honestly first.

What is included

What you get for Solar Companies

  • Installation progress customers can follow — A plain view of quote, survey, installation, and handover, with next steps, so customers stop calling for the same update in different ways.
  • Generation monitoring on the phone — Generation and usage shown plainly, so a customer can see whether their system is working, without a separate monitoring login they forgot.
  • Survey and installation photos — Photos from survey and installation, per property, so a customer can see the work, and the company has a record of what was installed.
  • Support requests with system data — Support requests sent in the app, with system details attached, so a fault is diagnosed from data, not from a customer's description alone.
  • Referrals from happy customers — A simple referral path for customers who can see their own generation, because a customer who cannot see savings will not refer a neighbour.
  • Store listing and handover — App Store and Play listings prepared for a solar company, with code, store accounts, and a maintenance note handed over in the company's name.
Connections, not copies

The Solar Companies stack, respected

The app connects to the CRM, design, and monitoring systems the company already runs, because customers, designs, and generation data live there. Where a connection exists, installation progress and generation in the app match the company's own records. Where a system is closed, the app works from scheduled exports, and that limit is agreed before anyone promises live generation data. A second customer record that the team must maintain by hand is treated as a failure, because it will drift, and drift becomes a customer shown the wrong installation status.

Testing is done with real customers, on their own phones, including the cases that break trust: a customer with two properties, a system that stops generating, an installation moved at short notice. Store review is planned around location and energy data, since the listing must explain honestly what the app shows and why, and rejections are answered as part of the work.

How a build proceeds

How the Solar Companies work proceeds

  1. Follow a customer end to end

    A real customer journey is followed from quote to generation, and the app is scoped to the moments where customers wait, call, or worry.

  2. Prototype the installation view

    A customer checks installation progress and generation, on a real phone, before anything else is built. If the view needs a call to understand, it is redesigned.

  3. Connect solar systems, then submit

    CRM, design, and monitoring systems are connected or exported, tested with a small customer group, and submitted to both stores with privacy material complete.

  4. Launch to one cohort first

    One cohort's customers use the app first, through a full installation cycle, and fixes land before other customers adopt it.

The working relationship

The case for a direct Solar Companies build

  • Built for the long customer journey: Quote, survey, installation, and generation are shown as one journey, because a solar customer lives with that journey for years, not weeks.
  • Generation customers can see: A plain generation view, on the phone, replaces a separate monitoring login a customer forgot, and a support call that starts with I think it is not working.
  • No second customer record: Installation and generation data come from the systems the company already runs, so customers are never shown a different version of their system.
  • Support from data, not description: A support request arrives with system details attached, so a fault is diagnosed from data, not from a customer's guess.
  • An email test comes first: If email already serves customers well, that is the recommendation. A store app starts when installation updates and generation visibility earn it.
What people ask first

Common Solar Companies questions

Do we need both iPhone and Android versions?
Yes, in most cases, from one cross-platform codebase, because customers carry both. A single-platform launch would leave half the customer base out.
How is this different from an app developer?
An app developer builds browser-based software and internal tools. A mobile app developer builds store apps for phones, with device features, offline use, push notifications, and App Store and Play distribution. For solar, that decides whether customers follow an installation from a home-screen app or from a web page.
What if Apple or Google reject the app?
Rejections are common and usually fixable: a privacy answer, a permission explanation, a metadata change. Resubmission and fixes are part of the engagement, not an extra.
Can the app work without signal?
Installation progress and key information are cached on the phone where possible, so a customer can read them without a live connection. Live generation data needs a connection, and that limit is stated plainly in the app.
What do you need from us to start?
A real customer journey to observe, the CRM, design, and monitoring systems the app must connect to, a small customer group willing to test the first release, and the company's support requirements, agreed before design.
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