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7 AI tools for residential solar installers
Written by Wanna AI. Checked on 20 Oct 2026, refreshed every 30 days. Wanna is our product and is in this list. Prices are US dollars and change; open each link before you decide.
Short answer. If you own a residential solar company with one to four crews, the work splits five ways: designing a roof layout and a proposal for each lead, running jobs and crews after the contract is signed, answering the phone while you are on a roof, asking for the review once the system is on, and keeping your name in front of the neighborhood. Aurora Solar and OpenSolar are written for the first one. Housecall Pro and Jobber are general field service software for schedules, quotes and invoices. Goodcall answers calls, NiceJob asks for reviews, and Wanna chooses what to post and offer this week and drafts it for your OK. Posts and offers are not Wanna's alone: Jobber, Housecall Pro and NiceJob each list a marketing add-on or feature for them (see By job). The seven are alphabetical, not scored.
How we chose
Each vendor's own pages describe work a solar installer does, or are for a general tool a solar installer could use. Prices were read on each vendor's own pricing page on 20 Oct 2026 between 02:48 and 02:55 UTC, with the billing term the page gives. OpenSolar shows no price page: its own pages say the software is free. We read pages and ran none of these tools except Wanna.
The seven
| Tool | What it does | Price, read 20 Oct 2026 | Honest minus |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aurora Solar | Solar design and sales software: roof modeling, panel placement, shade and performance simulation, financing and bill comparisons, web and PDF proposals, contracts with e-signature; lists a database of 25,000+ US permitting jurisdictions | Basic 159 a month per user billed monthly (135 a month billed annually, 1,620 a year). Premium 259 (220 annually, 2,640 a year), adds LIDAR-assisted modeling, shade reports and battery modeling. Both plans: 50 projects a month. Enterprise: custom per project, contact sales | Design and proposals: we saw no crew schedule or job invoices on its pricing page. The annual plans carry a one-year commitment. AI-assisted site models are listed under Enterprise, not Basic or Premium. We saw no trial on the page |
| Goodcall | An AI phone agent that answers your calls and is billed by the number of different customers it serves, not by minutes | Starter 79 a month for 100 unique customers, then 79 cents each. Growth 129 for 500, then 26 cents. Scale 299 for 2,000, then 15 cents. A free demo agent; you pay when you connect a number | It answers calls and can book them; it holds no quotes, proposals or invoices. More new callers in a month raise the bill |
| Housecall Pro | Field service software: online booking, scheduling and dispatch, estimates and invoices, a sales proposal tool and a lead pipeline; add-ons include an AI answering service called CSR AI and Campaigns for text, email and postcard campaigns | Basic 79 a month (59 billed annually), 1 user. Essentials 189 (149 annually), 5 users. Max 329 (299 annually), 8 users, 35 a month for each extra user. 14-day trial, no card. CSR AI: no price on the page | General field service software: we saw no solar design, shade analysis or financing on its pricing page. Low intro offers (1 to 3 months) sit beside the list prices |
| Jobber | Field service software: quotes, online booking, scheduling, invoices and online payments. Add-ons include a Receptionist for calls and texts, a Pipeline for leads and a Marketing Suite that makes a marketing plan and content for you to approve | Core 49 a month, 1 user (29 billed annually). Connect 139 (99 annually), adds automated client reminders and follow-ups. Grow 199 (149 annually). Plans for 5, 10 and 15 users cost more. Add-ons on top of a plan: Receptionist 29 a month, Pipeline 49, Marketing Suite 99. Plus, 499 a month with 5 users (399 billed annually), includes them. Savings offers end 30 Oct. Free trial, no card | General field service software: we saw no solar design, shade analysis or financing on its pricing page. Receptionist (29 a month), Pipeline (49) and Marketing Suite (99) are add-ons that raise the monthly bill; Plus, which includes them, is 499 a month with 5 users (399 billed annually) |
| NiceJob | Review requests by text and email, review widgets for your site, auto-posting of reviews to social (Starter) and email campaigns with AI-written copy (Pro) | Starter 75 a month. Pro 125, adds Repeats (rebooking reminders), referrals, AI-written review replies and AI-written email campaigns. Sites add-on 99 a month plus a 199 setup fee. No contracts, 14-day trial | Reviews, customer messages and an optional website: no design, no quotes, no schedule. Replies and campaigns start at Pro |
| OpenSolar | Free solar design, proposal and project software: an AI auto-designer called Ada, customizable proposals, e-signature and online payments, hardware ordering with a bill of materials, a built-in CRM with project workflows and a calendar, integrated finance options | Free of charge, per its own pages. It says it is paid for by partners: product makers, finance companies, distributors and permitting companies. Permitting and engineering packages are ordered inside the software; we saw no price for them | Free means the money comes from partners in the flow, so read which hardware, finance and permit offers appear in your proposals. Its CRM page describes project workflows and a calendar; we saw no route planning on it. We did not read a price for plan sets |
| Wanna | Reads your site, proposes the week's tasks, drafts posts, ads and letters; posts and ads wait for your OK | Free: 10 credits after setup, enough for one task. Starter 20 a month, 200 credits, about one task a day. Growth 49, 5,000 credits. Scale 149, up to 5 companies. Each extra social account is 13 a month; Starter includes 1 | Early: 4 companies, 0 paying (live). Not solar software: no system design, proposals, permits, scheduling or call answering, and no solar case study |
By job
System design and proposals: Aurora Solar and OpenSolar are the two built for it. Aurora charges per user per month and caps each plan at 50 projects a month; OpenSolar is free and lists a CRM, e-signature and payments in the same product. Housecall Pro lists a sales proposal tool, but it is not a solar design tool. Scheduling and crews: Housecall Pro and Jobber; OpenSolar lists a project calendar linked to each project. Missed calls: Goodcall; the Receptionist add-on from Jobber; Housecall Pro's CSR AI add-on. Review requests after install: NiceJob focuses on them. Local posts and offers: several tools here do some of it. Jobber's Marketing Suite (99 a month add-on) makes a marketing plan and content you approve before it goes out. Housecall Pro lists a Campaigns add-on for text, email and postcard campaigns, with no price on its pricing page. NiceJob's Starter plan auto-posts your best customer reviews to social, and its Pro plan has Broadcasts, email campaigns with AI-written copy. Wanna's difference is where it starts: it works from your website and needs no job software, and it drafts the next post or a slow-week offer for your OK. Related: local service businesses and construction companies.
What Wanna is and is not
Wanna drafts. Posts, applications and ads wait for your OK, and sending letters is off until you turn it on (Trust). On the live page at 02:50 UTC on 20 Oct 2026: 4 companies of people, 0 paying, MRR 0 dollars, 27 tasks done in 7 days, 0 things that went outside. We have no solar results to show. Wanna does not design a system, write a proposal, file a permit, schedule a crew or answer a call.
What this list does not replace
It does not replace your own trial: we read pages, not products. A software layout does not replace a site visit, an engineer's review of the roof and the electrical service, or the plan set and stamp your jurisdiction asks for. No tool replaces your electrical and contractor licenses, the permit and utility interconnection approval for each system, your insurance, or safe work at height. A drafted proposal, claim about savings or reply still needs your review before the customer sees it, and any production or savings figure should come from your own design, not from this page. Ask each vendor for its terms before customer details go in, including its rules on call recording and texting. See the limits of a self-running company.
FAQ
What are the best AI tools for solar installers? We do not rank them. The By job section sorts the seven by task, and the table gives each price as the vendor shows it.
What is the best software for a small residential solar company? Aurora Solar and OpenSolar are the two written for solar design and proposals; Housecall Pro and Jobber run schedules and invoices for many trades. We ran none of them, so try one on a lead you have already quoted.
Is there free solar design software? OpenSolar says its software is free of charge and is paid for by partners. Read which partner offers show up in your proposals, and check what permit and plan set orders cost.
How much does solar design software cost? Aurora Solar shows Basic at 159 a month per user billed monthly and Premium at 259; OpenSolar shows no price because it says it is free. Add-ons, extra users and project caps can change the bill.
Can AI design a solar system from an address? OpenSolar says its AI, Ada, auto-designs multiple systems from your design preferences, and Aurora lists automated panel placement and AI-assisted site models. We did not test either, and a design from imagery still needs checking against the roof on a site visit.
Can AI answer my solar company's phone while I am on a roof? Goodcall is built for it, from 79 a month. Jobber lists an AI receptionist as an add-on at 29 a month, and Housecall Pro lists CSR AI with no price on its page. We ran none of them, so test one on your own call types, including a caller who asks what a system costs.
Can AI send review requests to my solar customers? NiceJob lists review requests by text and email from 75 a month. Wanna does not send review requests.
Can AI write posts and offers for my solar business? Several tools in this list do part of it. Jobber's Marketing Suite (99 a month add-on) builds a marketing plan and content you approve, Housecall Pro has a Campaigns add-on for text, email and postcard campaigns, and NiceJob Pro has Broadcasts with AI-written email copy while Starter auto-posts reviews to social. Wanna drafts posts, ads and letters from your website, needs no job software, and waits for your OK before anything goes out. We did not test any of them on a solar company. Check any price, incentive or savings claim before it is published.
Do I need design and scheduling software if I use Wanna? Yes. Wanna does not design a system, write a proposal, schedule a crew or take payments.
Is Wanna software for solar installers? No. It helps an owner choose and draft the next marketing task. It is our product, so its minuses are in the table.
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