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🏗️ Installations

An install is not one job, it is seven waits — survey, engineering, the utility, install day, inspection, PTO, live. Most of them are somebody else's queue. This tracks all of them, tells you which one a job is stuck in, and works out whether it made money.

Ortiz · 7.7 kWStage 3 of 7
Site survey
Engineering & permits
Utility submission · 16 days
Margin28.4%
What you get

The seven waits, and the money

Stages you define

Site survey, engineering and permits, utility submission, install day, city inspection, permission to operate, system live — as shipped. Every one of them is editable per company, because no two jurisdictions run the same sequence.

A sold system cannot skip the survey

When a system sale routes here from an approved recommendation, the survey is required and the job will not advance without it. The block is logged on the record, so it is visible rather than merely enforced.

It notices what is stuck

Each stage has a normal duration, and a job that has sat well past it gets flagged — with the days on the clock, not a vague warning. Missing surveys, unmet code checks and a missing PE seal before install day are flagged the same way.

Job costing against real bills

Link the vendor bills you actually received and they roll into material cost, alongside labour and commission, against the contract value. Margin is shown as a percentage and colour-banded, so a job going wrong looks wrong.

The homeowner gets told

A stage change can email and text the homeowner a full timeline with a percentage complete — and whether each message sent or failed is written to the record. Bulk updates ask before they go out.

AHJ and utility checklists

Requirement lists per authority and per utility, with real entries for Rocky Mountain Power, PacifiCorp and Dominion out of the box, and your own added per company.

Included on Growth and Enterprise, not Starter. Linking vendor bills needs the Accounts Payable add-on.

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