This page includes the following sections:
What is OpenSolar?
OpenSolar is an application that provides a simple, fast and powerful tool for solar professionals, available online as a cloud-based app.
The application uses fast and accurate SolarTouch design technology to create beautiful proposals in seconds, it includes roof geometry on obliques, it provides a modern, digital experience for your customers, with multiple system and finance options, online sales tools and digital product content, plus beautiful configurable PDF proposals.
OpenSolar is a full end-to-end business management toolkit, with CRM to drive business efficiencies, scale and profitability, and is suitable for both residential and commercial uses.
What is Nearmap on OpenSolar?
Nearmap on OpenSolar is a complete design plus sales toolkit that makes communicating the value of solar easier with accurate, beautiful designs supported by Nearmap premium imagery.
Nearmap brings incredible accuracy to your solar designs, allowing you to streamline the sales cycle and prove the ROI to your customers with precise energy output calculations and persuasive, beautiful proposals. It is based on Nearmap's high quality aerial imagery that captures detail unseen by satellites, and at a scale that’s simply unachievable with drone photography.
Nearmap on OpenSolar gives you superbly clear, reliable detail at every step, from design to proposal to permitting to installation.
Getting started
You need a Nearmap on OpenSolar subscription. If Nearmap on OpenSolar is not currently part of your subscription, please contact a Nearmap Account Manager about the Nearmap on OpenSolar add-on.
There are two ways to get up and running with Nearmap on OpenSolar:
- You don't yet have an OpenSolar account
First Time Log into Nearmap on OpenSolar - You already have a free OpenSolar account
Upgrade to Nearmap on OpenSolar
Before you start using Nearmap on OpenSolar, it's worth familiarising yourself with the OpenSolar interface.
Designing with Nearmap on OpenSolar
Two design modes are available to you :
- Basic design mode
Nearmap on OpenSolar Basic Design - Full design mode
Nearmap on OpenSolar Full Design
Nearmap Smarts in OpenSolar
Nearmap Oblique imagery
Nearmap on OpenSolar uses high resolution, regularly updated Nearmap oblique imagery that enables extremely accurate solar designs and energy output calculations.
Oblique Imagery in Nearmap on OpenSolar
Analyse Shading - coming soon
OpenSolar Help Center
OpenSolar's Help Center provides information on all the functionalities of OpenSolar, including an Orientation Video, the structure of the application, the different zones of the application, and FAQ.
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