A Complete Guide to Our Solar Software Platform

As residential and commercial solar are becoming more popular, installers need robust tools to manage projects effectively in order to satisfy demanding customers. Enact Solar offers installers its cutting-edge solar design and proposal software to streamline and elevate every aspect of an installer’s workflow.

The Enact Solar Design Software can accelerate operations from initial design through ongoing maintenance. With Enact, solar installers can save time while delivering spectacular installation and customer service.

Who is the Enact Solar Design Software For?

The Enact Solar Design Software was developed to streamline solar installation design, proposals and sales. Directly, this means the Enact Software was made to simplify and speed up the sales process for solar installers.

Enact was created in 2014 for teams of solar installation professionals around the world. Enact enables the fast, accurate design of custom solar and energy storage systems in over 35 countries.

Whether you’re a small solar installer business or have a large sales team, your business can benefit from Enact from initial design to long-term asset management. In an all-in-one cloud-based software, users can generate custom proposals, integrate their CRM, manage documents and monitor system performance.The best way to see if Enact is the right solar solution for your team is to sign up for a free, live demo with a team-member. Our global team can help show you the ropes and identify how the Enact Solar Design Software can accelerate your business.

Simplified Solar Design for Faster Layouts

The Enact Solar Design Software is a sophisticated tool that allows installers to easily and efficiently create residential and commercial solar projects. Enact uses modern Digital Surface Model (DSM) and Google Solar technology to build 3D and 2D models of rooftops in seconds. The DSM feature can automatically compute roof height, pitch and orientation. This automation saves installers time by removing the need for human measurements, allowing them to focus on optimizing designs for maximum energy production.

Enact also has a shading analysis function that recommends the optimal panel locations based on typical obstacles — such as chimneys, vents and trees. Shading analysis allows installers to credibly offer systems with optimum efficiency to customers. The Enact Platform also allows users to easily evaluate alternative layouts, panel types and equipment sets. By running multiple scenarios, installers can identify the most cost-effective and efficient solution for each project.

Enact makes the design process both precise and adaptable, allowing installers to finish projects faster without sacrificing quality.

Maximizing Savings with Accurate Solar Forecasting

When it comes to increasing sales — it’s best to show and not tell. Homeowners and businesses ultimately prioritize the utility savings from solar. Some may also value energy production and independence.

Enact’s software assists installers in providing reliable, data-driven energy-generation and financial savings projections for 25 years — the typical length of the solar panel warranty. These projections can help satisfy your customers.

The Enact software considers several site elements — roof measurements, property orientation and shading from surrounding objects. This enables installers to provide customers with a realistic idea of the predicted energy output from their solar panels, allowing them to see their potential energy savings and production.

For projects involving battery storage, Enact’s software goes a step further by simulating charge-discharge cycles to ensure the storage solution is as efficient as feasible. This tool assists installers in sizing the optimal battery storage solution for customers, making their investment even more appealing.

Enact empowers installers with these strong forecasting capabilities, allowing them to provide customers with precise estimates that instill confidence in the long-term advantages of their solar system.

Generate Customizable Solar Proposals

With today’s competitive market, a well-designed professional proposal can make all the difference. Installers who use Enact can quickly generate customer-ready proposals — speeding the sales process. Enact simplifies proposal generation in a way that helps installers make a strong first impression with the following features:

• Customizable Templates: A variety of templates are offered on the platform that can be personalized to an installer’s brand — including custom colors, logos, fonts and data visuals. This allows installers to represent their brand while providing visually-appealing proposals.
• Flexible Pricing Options: Enact provides customizable pricing templates that allow installers to update costs based on location, materials  and the type of project. This flexibility ensures that each proposal is not only as accurate as possible but also competitive.
• Financing Options: Enact allows its customers to provide a range of financing options — including lease, loan and Power Purchase Agreements. This allows the installer to offer financing options that work for their business.
• Extensive Tariff Database: Users can pull local rates from any zip code in the U.S. and identify billing structures for current and proposed designs. Enact’s comprehensive database of local tariffs keeps users on our platform and offers essential information. For recent tariff changes or locations without tariff information, users can input their own tariff information on the platform.

Show the Financial Benefits of Solar

The Enact Solar Design Software provides robust financial analysis tools for installers to evaluate the viability of their projects. The platform accounts for a variety of factors — including energy production, electricity rates, system cost, government incentives and financing options. 

By using these crucial features, users can clearly determine the details that matter to their customers. Using Enact’s solar proposal software — installers can identify project return on investment (ROI), payback period and projected savings.

Navigating Complex Rate Structures with Ease

Electricity rate structures are becoming increasingly complex. For installers in California, NEM 3.0 offered a complex change to solar proposal generation. Enact’s platform simplifies these challenges for installers beyond our extensive tariff database.

In projects related to net billing, the Enact Software predicts savings for different usage scenarios. Energy storage alternatives calculate a number of potential savings made during peak evening hours, enabling customers to determine with clarity the benefits of a solar-plus-storage system under net billing.

Enact empowers installers to present customers with actual relevant financial projections that ensure more soundly based decisions.

Seamless Integration with Existing Sales Tools

There are also a number of other customer relationship management (CRM) systems that solar installers use to manage leads, projects and communication. Enact is designed to easily integrate with existing workflows:

• API Connectivity: Enact’s API allows for integration with popular CRM systems — like HubSpot or Zoho — for easy lead and design data flow between platforms. This makes it seamless to synchronize data and manage projects from within a central system.
• E-Signature Integration: Enact integrates with services like DocuSign for streamlined contract signing and easy remote proposal approval by customers. This alone will quicken closings and create a much smoother customer experience.

Installers can also continue using their tools of choice, now empowered with seamless connectivity thanks to Enact, to maintain an efficient and lean workflow.

Continuous Innovation and Reliable Support

Enact is committed to remaining at the forefront of the solar business by always innovating to assist installers in attaining success. The platform releases software upgrades on a regular basis to keep up with industry changes and installation demands, ensuring that Enact is ready to face new problems and integrate cutting-edge technology.

Enact has a dedicated customer success staff available to help with any concerns or technical difficulties. This team guarantees that installers can fully utilize the platform’s features and capabilities.

By emphasizing continuous improvement and proactive customer service, Enact promotes itself as a dependable, long-term partner for solar installers wishing to grow and flourish.

Real Results for Solar Installers

Enact empowers solar installers with an all-in-one, flexible and reliable solution. Enact brings together advanced design tools, accurate forecasting, easy proposal generation and integrated fleet management to empower installers to operate more efficiently, shrink overhead and enhance customer satisfaction.

While Enact does the math, optimizes the layouts and manages the data, installers can focus on quality installs. In an industry where efficiency and customer satisfaction need to be nothing but the best, Enact is in it for success amidst an exponential renewable energy market.

With solar demand at an all-time high, Enact helps installers step up, work smarter and keep their eye on the ball: premier solar installations contributing toward a cleaner, greener future.

Frequently Asked Questions:

1. Where can installers use the Enact Solar Design Software?

Solar installers around the world use Enact’s software to grow their business and tackle increasing demand for solar and energy storage. We have users in over 35 countries — included by not limited to the United States, Europe, the Middle East and the Asia-Pacific regions.
To see if you can use Enact in your country, sign up for a free demo with our global team of experts.

2. Is the Enact Solar Design Software offered in multiple languages?

Yes, the Enact software has English, Spanish and German interfaces to equip installers around the world. While the solar design and proposal software is only offered in those three languages — users can also generate their own custom templates and documents in their native language. This can help users generate sales proposals in their customers’ language and improve satisfaction.

3. What types of projects can I use the Enact Solar Design Software for?

Enact was designed primarily for residential, commercial and industrial projects. Installers can use the Enact software to offer residential and commercial customers with fast, accurate proposals for solar energy and battery energy storage systems.

Written by Content Marketing Associate, David Bartle and Marketing Intern, Kannika Chouhan