Aurora Solar vs Solar ERP

Aurora Solar is software for designing, selling, and delivering solar projects, aimed at installers, sales teams, and channel managers. Design tools include 3D roof modeling, roof measurements, performance simulation, irradiance analysis, and ground mounts. Aurora says its AI generates 3D roof models with obstructions in under 15 seconds. Sales Mode supports customizable web and PDF proposals, interactive selling tools, and proposal activity tracking. Battery modeling covers backup, self-consumption, and energy arbitrage. Financing options include LightReach, GoodLeap, Mosaic, and Dividend, with the ability to create custom financiers. Its API can create, retrieve, and update projects and designs, and retrieve design assets, pricing, financings, and agreements. Basic costs $159 per user per month, billed monthly; Premium costs $259 per user per month, billed monthly. Both list 50 projects per month and one user. Enterprise offers custom project volume and unlimited users, with custom pricing. Design and Sales modes are listed for desktop or laptop on macOS or Windows using Chrome; web proposals are listed for specified iOS and Android devices.

Solar ERP is a web-based ERP for solar installation companies, covering sales, projects, operations, and system monitoring. Its solar sales CRM includes a 21-stage project pipeline, and operations tools cover work orders, inventory across multiple locations, fleet management, GPS-enabled timesheets, permitting, and engineering queues. It connects to Enphase, SolarEdge, and Tesla for system monitoring, with automatic syncing every 15 minutes. Solar and detach-and-reset calculators account for labor, materials, overhead, and margin and produce PDF proposals. Listed connections also include QuickBooks, OpenSolar, Podio, Nearmap, and e-signatures. The Free plan includes unlimited users, projects, and monitored systems. Pro adds AI tools, premium calculators, a customer project portal, advanced reporting, data migration support, and priority email support; it starts at $495/mo with an annual subscription. Companies with 100 or more users require a Custom plan. Enterprise adds API integrations, SSO/SAML, audit logs, advanced permissions, multi-branch support, and priority phone and video support.