8 articles tagged with Operations
Bulk-bought stock used to land its whole cost on one unlucky project. Payaca's Stock Locations, now live on every account, hold it at real weighted average cost until a job actually uses it.
Matt Franklin
July 13, 2026
US solar installers don't have one national permitting clock - they have as many as they have AHJs. Here's what that variance actually costs a growing install business, backed by NREL data.
Matt Franklin
July 10, 2026
Connect your AI assistant straight to your Payaca account and ask it to do real work: pull stuck jobs, bulk-update projects, draft follow-ups, build reports. Here's why we built it and the practical things install teams can do with it.
Matt Franklin
June 4, 2026
Mid-sized US solar and clean-energy installers spend two engineers a year keeping a bespoke CRM alive that handles maybe 60% of the workflow. Permits, AHJ inspections, NEM interconnection and ITC handling end up on spreadsheets. Here's the real cost of the build, and what the off-ramp usually looks like.
Matt Franklin
May 27, 2026
Decision-stage migration guide for US clean-energy installers leaving HubSpot. What imports cleanly, what doesn't, what HubSpot stays good at, and how to sequence a 4-week cutover without losing project history or AHJ permit state.
Matt Franklin
May 25, 2026
Pipedrive is the SMB sales pipeline that lots of US solar and battery installers reach for first. It does the sales side well and stops at deal-closed. A side-by-side workflow walkthrough through permitting, interconnection, ITC documentation, install and PTO.
Jamie Duncan
May 22, 2026
EV charger install businesses live or die on throughput. A practical operational playbook for teams running 40+ installs a month - scheduling density, quote speed, mobile field completion, and keeping margin tight as volume grows.
Jamie Duncan
April 28, 2026
The solar companies that thrive in 2026 won't just install panels. Here's how leading installers are diversifying into home energy companies with recurring revenue, adjacent services, and new business models.
Ben Clarke
February 27, 2026