Residential Solar Job Closeout App

It’s the final stage of a residential solar installation project. It involves conducting thorough inspections and tests to ensure system functionality and safety, obtaining necessary approvals and connections from local utility companies, finalizing all documentation and permits, educating the homeowner about the system’s operation and maintenance, activating the solar system, and offering follow-up support.

Job closeouts are the final and arguably most crucial phase in a solar job. They’re the last step you take before you can move on to new projects, and the last impression you leave with a customer. They’re also, without a doubt, the most sensitive phase of a residential project. Generally speaking across renewables, construction, and other industries, an inefficient JCO can significantly diminish project performance.

An inefficient and incomplete Job Closeout for a residential solar installation can cause various issues such as reduced system performance, safety risks, legal and regulatory non-compliance, customer dissatisfaction, and complications with warranties and insurance. Additionally, poor coordination with utility companies may lead to grid interconnection delays, affecting the system’s overall effectiveness and the homeowner’s benefits from the installation.

Software such as Scoop offers configuration flexibility that empowers your project managers to standardize documentation processes and mandate exactly what is needed to pass an inspection for any given job, adapting automatically to specific regional and customer requirements.

The right software also empowers your whole team to perform their portions of the process with a mobile and desktop accessible, industrial strength app that is designed for ease of use. This means your field teams are able to view, document, and capture key project information from anywhere–even offline.

Other features that simplify solar project job closeout are:

• Configuration flexibility: empower your project managers to mandate steps and data asset collection for every phase of a project to ensure every piece of data, measurement, documentation and images are exactly what is needed to pass inspection.
• Innovative global data fields: necessary text and picture data that is captured throughout the work process is stored centrally for throughout the whole project, and available when needed during closeout.
• Conditional adaptive logic: that helps your various project checklists, required photos and JCO steps adapt automatically to the type of project, AHJ and utility requirements ensuring a flawless JCO despite the complexity.
• PDF report wizard: effortlessly generate a ready-to-submit report that includes all relevant measurements and pictures.
• Report automation: transmit the PDF report to stakeholders automatically via email (or API integration where available) when the JCO checklist is complete.