Solar design inside the system that runs the job
Pin the roof. Glow pulls high-resolution imagery, finds the roof faces, lays the panels out from your own catalogue and builds the production estimate, in the project your team already runs the job from.
Glow is solar design built into Payaca. It is in limited release, with a small group of installers running it on real jobs.
It is not a design tool bolted onto a CRM. The roof, the quote, the materials, the purchase orders, the survey and the service plan are the same project.
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The roof
Pin the roof. Glow pulls high-resolution imagery, finds the roof faces and lays the panels out.
Move the panel count and the layout redraws, keeping the highest-yielding panels first. North facing faces can be excluded with one setting.
The catalogue
Pick the kit from a full catalogue of panels, inverters and batteries, with technical data and the manufacturer's datasheet attached, so the proposal carries the right spec sheet without anyone hunting for a PDF.
It is your catalogue. The products you actually fit, at your prices.
The estimate
The estimate carries the production figures, worked from the orientation, pitch and shading of the actual roof, with a shade factor on every array.
The shade factor is not a box someone ticks later. Glow assesses shading on each roof face, from the horizon in the surface model and the objects near the property, and attaches the sun path chart to the estimate. Redraw a face by hand and the document states that array was not assessed.
Then it stops being a design tool
The kit on the design becomes the priced items on the proposal. The items on the proposal become the materials list for the job. The materials list becomes purchase orders to your suppliers at their prices, or a draw from your own stock at real cost. The margin on the job is live from the day it's quoted. The survey, the install schedule and the service plan sit in the same project, and Agent Dave, the AI built into Payaca, builds the automations between them.
A design tool gives you a roof and a PDF. This gives you the roof, the quote, the materials, the orders, the books and the job.
Then ask Dave
Ask Dave for the design from the chat and he runs the roof analysis and creates the draft design and estimate on the project. He can talk through the generation and savings numbers, and reason about a bigger battery against fewer panels.
It is the same agent that builds your automations, edits your document and email templates, and answers questions from your account data.
What's included
What Glow does, from the pin on the map to the purchase order.
Pin the roof
Drop a pin on the property. Glow pulls high-resolution imagery, finds the roof faces and lays the panels out. North facing faces can be excluded with one setting.
Your own catalogue
Panels, inverters and batteries with their technical data and the manufacturer's datasheet attached, so the proposal carries the right spec sheet without anyone hunting for a PDF.
Production estimate
The production estimate, worked from the orientation, pitch and shading of the actual roof, with a shade factor on every array.
Shade assessed per roof face
Glow assesses shading on each roof face, from the horizon and the objects around the property, and puts a shade factor on every array. The sun path chart is attached to the estimate. Redraw a face by hand and the document states that array was not assessed.
Materials, orders and margin
The kit on the design becomes the priced items on the proposal, the materials list for the job, and purchase orders to your suppliers or a draw from your own stock.
Glow is in limited release
It's a limited release. Book a call and we'll switch it on.
Frequently asked questions
- What is Glow?
- Glow is solar design built into Payaca. You pin the roof, Glow pulls high-resolution imagery, finds the roof faces and lays the panels out, and the design becomes the priced items on the proposal, in the same project your team runs the survey and the invoice from.
- Can I use Glow now?
- Glow is in limited release with a small group of installers running it on real jobs. Book a call and we'll switch it on for your account.
- How is shading assessed?
- Automatically, on each roof face. Glow assesses shading from the horizon in the surface model and the objects near the property, puts a shade factor on every array and attaches the sun path chart to the estimate. Redraw a face by hand and the document states that array was not assessed.
- Where does the equipment data come from?
- From a catalogue of panels, inverters and batteries built from manufacturers' datasheets, with the technical data and the datasheet attached to the product, so the spec sheet goes out with the proposal.
- Do I still need my design tool?
- For solar, Glow does the design and the estimate. The OpenSolar integration is unchanged and keeps working, so you can run both.
- What happens after the design?
- The kit on the design becomes the priced items on the proposal, the proposal becomes the materials list, and the materials list becomes purchase orders to your suppliers or a draw from your own stock at real cost. The margin on the job is live from the day it's quoted.
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