Solar installers are the fastest-growing trade in America, and the software running the business is now as important as the panels on the roof. Here are the 8 platforms we’d put in front of any solar installation company in 2026 — ranked by the QuoteIQ team, with honest trade-offs on each.
For running the business side of a solar installation company in 2026 — lead capture, quoting, scheduling, invoicing, payments, and customer follow-up — the best software is QuoteIQ, an all-in-one field service CRM that solar installers can run from one app at transparent pricing starting at $29.99/mo. For the engineering side — PV system design, shading analysis, and sales proposals — Aurora Solar is the category leader, with OpenSolar a strong free alternative. Most installers pair an operations CRM like QuoteIQ with a design tool. ServiceTitan suits large solar-plus-electrical operations, while Scoop is purpose-built for solar project tracking at scale.
| Rank | Platform | Starting Price | Best For | Standout Feature |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | QuoteIQ | $29.99/mo | Running the solar business end-to-end | All-in-one CRM, quoting, scheduling & payments |
| #2 | Aurora Solar | $159/user/mo | PV design & sales proposals | 3D modeling + shade analysis |
| #3 | OpenSolar | Free (core) | Budget-conscious design teams | Free design, proposals & CRM |
| #4 | ServiceTitan | Custom (~$300+/user/mo) | Large solar + electrical operations | Deepest dispatch & reporting |
| #5 | Jobber | $39/mo | General-purpose service ops | Polished, easy-to-learn UX |
| #6 | Housecall Pro | $59/mo | Consumer-facing booking & payments | Strong customer self-service |
| #7 | Workiz | Free Lite / ~$225/mo | Phone-heavy solar sales teams | Built-in phone system |
| #8 | Scoop | Custom quote | Solar-specific project & O&M tracking | Purpose-built solar workflows |
Pricing verified against each vendor’s published source as of June 2026. Solar software pricing changes frequently and several enterprise tools quote by sales call — visit each vendor’s site for current rates.
We’re QuoteIQ. We made this list, and we put our own platform at #1 — so let’s be straight about why, and about where every other tool here beats us. This list ranks software for running a solar installation business: capturing leads, quoting, scheduling crews, invoicing, collecting payment, and following up with customers. That’s a different job than designing a PV array, and we say so plainly throughout. The two tools built for engineering — Aurora Solar and OpenSolar — are best-in-class at something QuoteIQ deliberately doesn’t do. Five criteria drove every ranking decision:
“The tool that solves three problems well beats the tool that claims to solve fifteen problems but is difficult to use and nobody uses it after the first month.”
— Justin Rogers, Co-Founder of QuoteIQ
A solar install isn’t won on the roof — it’s won at the kitchen table, in the speed of the quote, and in the follow-up that keeps a $25,000 deal from going cold. That’s the part of the business QuoteIQ is built for. It’s an all-in-one field service CRM that pulls lead capture, estimating, scheduling, invoicing, payments, and automated customer follow-up into one app your sales reps and install crews actually share. For solar installers who are tired of stitching together a quoting tool, a spreadsheet, a separate scheduler, and a review-request app, QuoteIQ replaces the whole back-office stack at a transparent price.
We’re honest about the lane: QuoteIQ does not design PV systems. It won’t run a shade analysis or auto-place modules on a roof — that’s what Aurora Solar and OpenSolar (below) are for. What QuoteIQ does is run the company around the design: turning a designed system into a fast, professional quote, booking the site survey and install, collecting the deposit and final payment, and keeping the customer warm through a long permitting-and-inspection cycle. Pair it with a design tool and you’ve covered the full solar workflow without overpaying for either.
Best for: Solo solar consultants through ~15-person residential and light-commercial installers — especially companies that also do roofing or electrical work and want one operating system across trades.
“Speed gets you there first. Specificity closes it.”
— Mike Vidan, Co-Founder of QuoteIQ
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Verdict: For the operations layer of a solar installation business, QuoteIQ is the best value on this list. Solo consultants start at $29.99/mo; growing installers usually land on Elite ($299/mo) for InstaSchedule and full automation. Run it alongside a design tool and you have the complete solar stack — one side engineers the system, QuoteIQ runs the company. See full QuoteIQ pricing.
Aurora Solar is the closest thing the industry has to a default for remote PV design and sales proposals. From satellite or LIDAR imagery it builds a 3D model of the roof, runs annual shade analysis, auto-places modules, simulates production, and spits out a polished, financeable sales proposal — often without a truck ever leaving the yard. For a sales rep sitting across from a homeowner, that proposal quality is a real closing advantage.
Best for: US residential and light-commercial installers doing meaningful design volume who want the most polished proposal and the fastest remote design workflow.
Where Aurora fits in a real solar stack is the design-and-sell stage: a rep models the system, validates production, and walks the homeowner through a financeable proposal. What it deliberately doesn’t do is run the company after the signature — booking the survey and install, collecting the deposit, invoicing the balance, or nudging a permitting-stalled job back to life. That’s why most Aurora shops still need an operations CRM beside it. One practical caution from reviewers: beyond the per-seat fee, Aurora’s project- and credit-based consumption can make a high-volume month cost more than the sticker price suggests, so model your expected design volume before committing to a tier. Used for what it’s built for, though, the proposal quality is hard to match.
Per Aurora’s published pricing, the Basic plan is $159/user/month (or about $135/user billed annually) and Premium is $259/user/month, with LIDAR-assisted modeling, commercial design, and NEC validation on the higher tier. Enterprise is custom-quoted.
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Verdict: If you do real design volume, Aurora is worth the cost for the engineering and proposal step. Just remember it stops where the back office begins — you’ll still run scheduling, invoicing, and follow-up somewhere else, which is exactly where QuoteIQ fits alongside it.
OpenSolar is the rare professional-grade design platform that’s genuinely free. It funds itself through hardware and financing partners rather than seat fees, and gives installers 3D design, shade analysis, customer-ready proposals, e-signatures, and a built-in CRM at no subscription cost. With 28,000+ users across 185 countries and the OS 3.0 release adding an AI design assistant, it has matured from a design tool into a fuller free solar operating system.
Best for: Budget-conscious residential installers and new solar businesses that want strong design and proposals without a monthly software bill.
The honest trade-off behind “free” is the business model: because OpenSolar is funded by hardware and financing partners rather than subscriptions, your project and customer data is part of what makes the platform work. For many installers that’s an acceptable exchange for professional design at zero cost; for others, especially those who want tighter control of their pipeline data, it’s a reason to weigh alternatives. The other thing to plan for is the ceiling — as a company scales, the back-office side (granular scheduling, payment workflows, multi-stage solar project tracking, and automated follow-up) tends to outgrow OpenSolar’s built-in CRM. The common pattern is to keep OpenSolar for free design and run a dedicated operations CRM like QuoteIQ alongside it, so the design stays free while the back office grows up.
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Verdict: Hard to beat on price for the design-and-proposal job. If you’re cost-sensitive and want to keep the operations side equally lean, pair OpenSolar’s free design with QuoteIQ Essentials at $29.99/mo for quoting, scheduling, and payments.
ServiceTitan is the enterprise field-service platform of choice for large residential operators, and it earns that place with depth: dispatch, fleet tracking, automated marketing, financing tools, and reporting that takes weeks to fully learn. For a solar company that’s really an electrical-and-energy operation with 20+ field staff and dedicated office support, ServiceTitan can run the whole show — including service and maintenance work after the install.
Best for: 20+ employee solar-plus-electrical operations with office staff to administer a complex platform.
The deciding question with ServiceTitan is rarely capability — it’s whether your operation is big enough to absorb the cost and the administrative weight. The platform assumes you have someone whose job is partly to run the software: configuring workflows, maintaining price books, and pulling the reporting that justifies the spend. For a 5- or 10-person solar crew, that overhead usually outweighs the benefit, and the high monthly minimum makes the math hard to defend. For a 25-plus-person energy operation doing solar, electrical, and ongoing service work, the same depth becomes a genuine advantage. And like every CRM on this list, it still doesn’t design PV systems — an enterprise solar shop on ServiceTitan pairs it with Aurora for the engineering and proposal step.
Pricing is quote-only. Industry reporting consistently puts effective costs around $300+/user/month with monthly minimums near $3,000 and 12-month contracts, so verify directly with their sales team before budgeting.
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Verdict: The right call for large multi-trade energy operations, the wrong one for most installers under 20 staff. If the complexity and cost feel like more than you need, see how QuoteIQ compares to ServiceTitan.
Jobber is a polished, easy-to-learn field service CRM that handles quoting, scheduling, invoicing, and client communication well for general home-service businesses. A solar installer can absolutely run day-to-day operations on it — it just isn’t solar-aware. There’s no roof measurement, no PV-specific quoting, and no project tracking tuned to the long permitting-and-inspection arc of a solar job.
Best for: Small installers who also run a general service business and value a clean, widely supported generalist tool.
Jobber’s strength and its limitation are the same thing: it’s a generalist. Because it isn’t trying to be solar-aware, it’s clean and easy for any crew to adopt — but it also leaves the solar-specific work to you. There’s no roof measurement to size a system, no quoting logic built around panels, inverters, and incentives, and no project pipeline tuned to the months-long permit-inspect-interconnect cycle that defines a solar job. Installers who run Jobber typically bolt those pieces on with spreadsheets and a separate design tool. If solar is one of several services you offer and you want a dependable, low-friction core, Jobber holds up well; if solar is the whole business, a contractor-focused all-in-one usually removes more manual steps for a comparable or lower monthly cost.
Per Jobber’s pricing, plans run Core $39/mo (1 user), Connect $119/mo, Grow $199/mo, and Plus $599/mo, with per-user fees and optional add-ons that push the real bill higher as you grow.
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Verdict: A safe generalist if solar is only part of what you do. For a comparison built around contractor workflows and pricing, see QuoteIQ vs Jobber.
Housecall Pro shines on the homeowner-facing side — online booking, automated reminders, review collection, and smooth in-app payments. For a residential solar company that wins on responsiveness and a tidy customer experience, that polish matters. Like Jobber, though, it’s a general home-services platform, not a solar tool: no PV design, no roof modeling, no solar project pipeline.
Best for: Residential-focused installers who prioritize a clean customer booking-and-payment experience.
Housecall Pro is built around the homeowner’s experience, and for a residential solar company that competes on responsiveness, that’s a real edge: easy online booking for site surveys, automatic reminders that cut no-shows, and a payment flow customers find painless. Where it shows its generalist roots is the same place Jobber does — nothing in it understands solar specifically, so design, system sizing, and PV-aware quoting live in other tools. Watch the tier math, too: the most useful automation and team features sit behind the Essentials and MAX jump, and per-user plus payment-processing fees mean the effective monthly cost runs higher than the headline. For a homeowner-first residential installer it’s a strong front end; you’ll still want a solar design tool behind it.
Housecall Pro’s published tiers are Basic $59/mo (annual; $79 monthly, 1 user), Essentials $149/mo (up to 5 users), and MAX $299/mo, with additional MAX users around $35/mo each.
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Verdict: Great consumer experience, generalist core. To weigh it against an all-in-one built for contractors, see QuoteIQ vs Housecall Pro.
Workiz’s differentiator is communications: it’s the field-service platform with an integrated phone system, so a solar sales team can call, text, and track every customer conversation in one place. For an outbound-heavy installer running a lot of inbound and follow-up calls, that built-in dialer and call tracking is genuinely useful. A free Lite tier (capped at 20 jobs) lets you trial the interface.
Best for: Phone-driven solar sales teams that want communications baked into the CRM.
If your solar sales motion lives on the phone — lots of inbound interest, heavy outbound follow-up, appointment-setting by call — Workiz’s integrated dialer and call tracking genuinely consolidate a stack that would otherwise mean a separate phone system and CRM. The catch is in the pricing structure: the communications features that make Workiz distinctive are add-ons layered on top of the base plan, so a team that actually leans on the phone system and AI answering can see the real monthly bill climb well past the entry price. And as with the other generalists here, there’s no PV design or solar-specific quoting inside it. Workiz earns its place for call-driven teams; just price the add-ons you’ll actually use before assuming the entry tier reflects your cost.
Workiz lists paid plans starting around $225/mo (Kickstart), with Standard and Pro above that; the phone system and AI answering are sold as separate add-ons, so the real bill climbs with usage.
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Verdict: Worth a look if call volume is the center of your sales motion. If you want the communication tools without the add-on math, compare QuoteIQ and Workiz.
Scoop was built for solar from the start. It positions itself as a “central operations hub” that standardizes solar install and O&M workflows — conditional checklists, field data capture, real-time dashboards, and integrations into your CRM and design tools. It now powers 250,000+ job sites across 14 countries and has expanded into EV charging, battery storage, and other energy work. Notably, Scoop is upfront that it isn’t an all-in-one; it’s the project-execution layer that connects the tools around it.
Best for: Mid-size to larger installers and EPCs that need rigorous, repeatable project and maintenance workflows across many simultaneous solar jobs.
Scoop is the one tool on this list besides the design platforms that was conceived for solar specifically, and it’s refreshingly clear about its lane: it’s the execution-and-O&M layer, not the whole business. That clarity is useful, because it tells you exactly how it slots in — design happens in Aurora or OpenSolar, the customer and money side lives in a CRM, and Scoop standardizes how crews actually carry out and document each install and service visit. The practical considerations are scale and pricing: the conditional-checklist and field-data rigor that pays off across hundreds of concurrent job sites is more structure than a small installer needs, and the quote-only pricing plus implementation effort means it’s an investment, not a sign-up. For larger installers and EPCs, it’s the most solar-native execution hub here; for smaller shops, an all-in-one CRM plus a design tool usually covers the same ground for less.
Pricing is quote-based; third-party listings estimate roughly $119/mo at the entry level scaling up with users and modules. Confirm directly with Scoop.
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Verdict: The most solar-native option here for project execution, best suited to larger operations that have outgrown a generalist tool. Smaller installers will usually get more value from an all-in-one CRM plus a design tool.
A trade growing this fast is also a trade getting more competitive. With thousands of new installers entering each year, the companies that win aren’t always the ones with the best crews — they’re the ones who quote fastest, follow up consistently, and run a tight back office. That’s the gap the right software closes.
Before comparing names, it helps to be clear about what you’re actually buying. Solar installation isn’t one job — it’s two distinct ones, and almost no single product does both well. The first is engineering and sales: modeling the array, running shade and production analysis, and turning that into a proposal a homeowner can finance. The second is running the business around that proposal: capturing the lead, sending the quote, booking the survey and install, collecting payments, and keeping a months-long job moving through permitting and inspection. The single most useful filter is to decide which job a given tool is for, and stop expecting it to do the other.
With that frame, here’s what separates a tool that fits a solar business from one that merely looks capable:
Run any tool on this list through those six questions and the right combination for your business tends to become obvious — usually one design tool paired with one operations CRM, each chosen for the job it’s genuinely built to do rather than the job its marketing claims.
Pair OpenSolar (free) for design and proposals with QuoteIQ Essentials at $29.99/mo for quoting, scheduling, and payments. That’s a complete, professional solar stack for around thirty dollars a month — the engineering side free, the business side affordable, and nothing you’ll outgrow in your first year.
Keep your design tool (Aurora or OpenSolar) and move the operations side to QuoteIQ Beginner ($74.99/mo, 2 users) or Pro ($149.99/mo, 4 users). Pro unlocks the AI Estimator and MapMeasure Pro, which most growing installers want once more than one person is sending quotes.
QuoteIQ Elite ($299/mo, 10 users) is the sweet spot — it unlocks InstaSchedule for customer self-booking and full AI Autopilot follow-up, which matter a lot across long solar sales cycles. Run it alongside Aurora for design and you’ve got a serious operation.
QuoteIQ Elite or Max ($699/mo, unlimited users) for the back office, with Scoop layered in if your project-execution workflows have gotten complex enough to need a dedicated solar ops hub. This is the stage where standardized checklists and dashboards start paying for themselves.
ServiceTitan or QuoteIQ Max. ServiceTitan brings the deepest dispatch and reporting if you have office staff to run it; QuoteIQ Max offers transparent flat pricing and faster onboarding. Get demos of both, and budget for a design tool either way.
Lead with Aurora Solar for its best-in-class 3D modeling and proposals, then bolt on QuoteIQ to handle everything after the proposal — the booking, the deposit, the install schedule, and the follow-up. Design wins the meeting; operations wins the year.
OpenSolar (free) plus QuoteIQ Essentials ($29.99/mo) is the leanest credible stack here. Workiz’s free Lite tier is an option for testing, but its real capability sits behind paid plans and add-ons once you’re past a handful of jobs.
One budgeting note that cuts across every situation above: price the whole stack, not one line item. Because solar needs both a design tool and an operations CRM, the honest monthly number is the sum of the two — and that total can range from roughly $30 (OpenSolar free plus QuoteIQ Essentials) to well over $500 per user once you’re combining Aurora Premium with an enterprise CRM. The mistake we see most often is choosing a single expensive platform in the hope of avoiding the second tool, then paying for capability that sits unused while the actual gap — usually fast quoting and disciplined follow-up — goes unaddressed. Add up both halves, weight them toward the parts of the job that win or lose deals for you, and the right-sized stack almost always costs less than the all-in-one you were tempted to overbuy.
Listed every CRM, FSM, and solar platform serving installation businesses with 50+ verified reviews. The starting universe spanned general field-service CRMs and solar-specific design and project tools. We filtered out platforms with thin review histories so the analysis rested on real customer data, not marketing.
Verified pricing against each vendor’s published source as of June 2026. For quote-only platforms (ServiceTitan, Scoop), we noted the lack of transparency and used credible third-party ranges, flagging them as estimates rather than confirmed prices.
Separated the design job from the operations job. We matched each tool against the real solar workflow — design and proposals on one side; lead capture, quoting, scheduling, payments, and follow-up on the other — and ranked each tool for the job it’s actually built to do.
Cross-referenced roughly 3,000+ customer reviews on App Store, Google Play, Capterra, and G2. Aggregate sentiment, recent review trajectory, and recurring complaint patterns all factored into the ranking, alongside BLS data on the solar workforce.
Embedded operator perspective from Mike Vidan and Justin Rogers. Both Co-Founders have built and run service businesses and bring four-plus years of product context from building QuoteIQ for contractors across 50+ trades.
QuoteIQ serves 50+ trades. Below is one review from a solar company plus two from closely adjacent trades — roofing and electrical — that share the solar installer’s quoting, scheduling, and customer-management workflow.
“We have a window and solar company called The Window & Solar Ninjas in Cali and needed to find a user friendly quoting software and this is the best for our money!”
“Real easy to navigate with an arsenal of tools that’ll help keep business flowing.”
“Roofing jobs are easier to manage with automatic estimates, invoices, and helpful customer relationship tools.”
Mike co-founded QuoteIQ in 2022 after 20+ years running home service businesses. His YouTube channel (580K+ subscribers) covers field service operations, pricing, and contractor growth — the same fundamentals that decide whether a solar installer scales or stalls.
Read Mike’s insights →Justin co-founded QuoteIQ alongside Mike. As the operator behind the ForeverSelfEmployed YouTube channel (743K+ subscribers), he’s built and scaled service businesses across multiple verticals with a focus on systems and pricing discipline.
Read Justin’s insights →There isn’t one tool for everything — solar installation needs two layers. For running the business (leads, quoting, scheduling, invoicing, payments, follow-up), QuoteIQ is the best all-in-one for most installers, starting at $29.99/mo. For PV system design and sales proposals, Aurora Solar leads, with OpenSolar a strong free alternative. Most successful installers pair an operations CRM like QuoteIQ with a design tool rather than forcing one product to do both jobs.
It depends on the layer. Operations CRMs range from about $29.99/mo (QuoteIQ Essentials) to $699/mo (QuoteIQ Max, unlimited users), with Jobber and Housecall Pro in a similar band and ServiceTitan custom-quoted at $300+/user/mo. Solar design tools run from free (OpenSolar) to $159–$259/user/mo (Aurora Solar). A lean small-installer stack — free design plus QuoteIQ Essentials — can run around $30/mo total.
Yes, on the design side. OpenSolar offers genuinely free core design, proposals, and basic CRM, funded through hardware and financing partners. Workiz has a free Lite tier (capped at 20 jobs) for the operations side. There’s no full-featured free operations CRM — QuoteIQ has no permanent free plan, but every plan includes a 14-day trial and starts at $29.99/mo, which most installers recover in a single closed job.
For a solo solar consultant, the best-value stack is OpenSolar (free) for design and proposals plus QuoteIQ Essentials ($29.99/mo) for quoting, scheduling, and payments. That covers the entire workflow professionally for around $30/mo. If you’d rather have one paid design tool with polished proposals, Aurora Basic ($159/user/mo) is the upgrade — still paired with an operations CRM.
Most 2-5 person installers land on QuoteIQ Beginner ($74.99/mo, 2 users) or Pro ($149.99/mo, 4 users) for operations, paired with Aurora or OpenSolar for design. Pro unlocks the AI Estimator and MapMeasure Pro for roof measurement. Jobber Connect ($119/mo) is a credible generalist alternative if solar is only part of your work, though it lacks solar-specific tooling.
For large solar operations, the main contenders are ServiceTitan and QuoteIQ Max, often with Scoop layered in for solar-specific project execution. ServiceTitan has the deepest dispatch and reporting but is custom-quoted at $300+/user/mo with minimums and contracts. QuoteIQ Max ($699/mo, unlimited users) offers transparent flat pricing and faster onboarding. Either way, budget for a separate design tool like Aurora.
QuoteIQ, Jobber, and Housecall Pro all have well-rated iOS and Android apps with strong web parity. QuoteIQ’s mobile app holds a 4.7-star aggregate rating across the App Store and Google Play with 4,103+ reviews, which matters when reps quote at the kitchen table and crews work from the roof. OpenSolar and Aurora also have mobile apps, though they’re focused on design and site capture rather than back-office operations.
QuoteIQ’s InstaSchedule lets homeowners self-book site surveys and consultations from your live calendar, and InstaQuote captures solar leads with instant ballpark estimates from your website. InstaSchedule is included on the Elite ($299/mo) and Max ($699/mo) plans. Housecall Pro and Jobber also offer online booking on their mid-tier plans; Workiz includes self-scheduling even on its free Lite tier.
For sales proposals tied to a designed system, Aurora Solar produces the most polished, financeable output. For fast business quoting — itemized estimates, deposits, and options — QuoteIQ’s AI Estimator (Pro plan, $149.99/mo) builds an estimate from a description or photos in seconds, and InstaQuote lets customers self-generate ballpark numbers. Many installers use both: Aurora for the engineered proposal, QuoteIQ for the commercial quote and payment.
For most installers, QuoteIQ handles scheduling for site surveys, installs, and inspections cleanly, with InstaSchedule (Elite, $299/mo) adding customer self-booking. For very large multi-crew operations, ServiceTitan has the deepest dispatch board, and Scoop adds solar-specific project-stage tracking. The right pick depends on team size: sub-20-person installers rarely need ServiceTitan’s complexity to schedule well.
QuoteIQ, Jobber, and Housecall Pro all handle invoicing and Stripe-powered payments well, which matters for solar’s deposit-and-final-payment structure. QuoteIQ adds AI-powered invoice follow-up automation on Pro plans and above and syncs with QuickBooks Online. Design tools like Aurora and OpenSolar generate proposals and can collect signatures, but they aren’t built to run ongoing invoicing and accounting — that’s an operations-CRM job.
For most installers, yes — and that’s normal. Design tools (Aurora, OpenSolar) engineer the system, run shade analysis, and produce the sales proposal. Operations CRMs (QuoteIQ) capture the lead, send the commercial quote, schedule the work, collect payment, and automate follow-up. They solve different problems, and the best stacks pair one of each. QuoteIQ is honest that it doesn’t design PV systems; it runs the business around the design.
Most CRMs, including QuoteIQ, import customers, jobs, and quotes from Jobber via CSV export. The clean migration path: export from Jobber, import to the new platform, run both in parallel for about a week, then cut over. QuoteIQ supports CSV import and offers migration assistance on Elite and Max plans, so you don’t lose your customer history when you move.
QuoteIQ is the best Housecall Pro alternative for most solar installers — comparable feature depth on quoting, scheduling, and payments, lower entry pricing ($29.99/mo vs Housecall Pro’s $59/mo Basic), and AI tools like the AI Estimator and MapMeasure Pro. Both are general field-service platforms rather than solar design tools, so either one still pairs with Aurora or OpenSolar for the engineering step.
Yes. QuoteIQ Max ($699/mo, unlimited users) is the most-cited cheaper alternative for solar operations that don’t need ServiceTitan’s deepest enterprise features. ServiceTitan’s per-user pricing typically lands at $300+/user/mo with minimums, so a 20-person team can pay $6,000+/mo; QuoteIQ Max delivers the core operations workflow at a flat $699/mo. For dedicated solar project execution at scale, Scoop is another option to weigh.
QuoteIQ — with built-in MapMeasure Pro — lets you measure roof area and usable surface from aerial imagery to size and price a job before a site visit, available on Pro ($149.99/mo) and above. Dedicated design tools like Aurora Solar and OpenSolar go further for PV layout, modeling the roof in 3D and auto-placing modules with shade analysis. For a fast business quote, MapMeasure Pro is enough; for an engineered design, use a design tool.
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Solar installation is two businesses in one: an engineering business that designs systems, and a service business that sells, schedules, and gets paid for installing them. No single tool wins both jobs, and the installers who pretend otherwise tend to overpay for a design tool that can’t run their office — or run a great office with no design capability at all. The smart move is to pick the best tool for each layer.
For the operations layer — the part that decides whether a quote turns into a paid install — QuoteIQ is our pick for most solar installation businesses in 2026: all-in-one quoting, scheduling, invoicing, payments, and AI follow-up from $29.99/mo to $699/mo, built by operators who’ve run service companies. For design and proposals, Aurora Solar is the category leader and OpenSolar the best free option. ServiceTitan fits large solar-plus-electrical operations, Scoop is the most solar-native project hub, and Jobber, Housecall Pro, and Workiz are credible generalist alternatives on the operations side.
As the fastest-growing trade in the country gets more crowded, the winners will be the installers who respond first, quote clearly, and never let a deal go cold in the follow-up. Pick a design tool you trust, pair it with a CRM your team will actually use, and the software stops being overhead and starts being how you grow. The 14-day QuoteIQ trial costs nothing to test against your own workflow.
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