Enact Solar Review 2026: 34/50, Sales Flow Over Physics

Enact is one of the few solar platforms that starts from the money rather than the roof. Built by Enact Systems, a California company that has been selling into installers and channel partners since the mid-2010s and now operates across more than 35 countries, it is a cloud platform for designing, quoting, financing and tracking a residential solar sale. This Enact Solar review scores it on the same 5-axis bench we use for every design tool, publishes the real price ($279 per month for 2 users on annual billing), and says plainly where it wins and where a different purchase is the correct one.

Direct answer. Enact scores 34 out of 50 on our 5-axis bench. It is a finance-and-sales-flow layer for residential solar teams, strong on the customer journey and the loan, lease and PPA conversation, and deliberately light on shading physics. Real price is $279 per month for 2 users billed annually, about $1,674 per user per year. Buy it if closing is your bottleneck.

Scoring a sales platform on simulation depth and then calling it weak would be a lazy review. We publish both the score and the reason each axis lands where it does, so you can judge whether our weighting matches your business.

What Enact Solar Is

Enact Systems sells a cloud platform aimed at the whole residential solar sale: system design and sizing, savings and financing analysis, a customer-facing proposal, project tracking through installation, and post-install fleet monitoring. The pitch on Enact’s own provider page is a single record from lead to commissioned asset, and that framing is accurate to what the product does.

The 5-Axis Review Bench

Five axes, each out of 10, total out of 50. Design and simulation depth measures the physics and the shading engine. Compliance and documentation output measures what an authority, an inspector or a lender’s technical advisor will accept. Proposal and sales workflow measures the customer-facing journey and the finance conversation. Price against value measures cost per useful outcome. Support and onboarding measures time to a competent first proposal.

Axis	What it measures	Enact score	Why
Design and simulation depth	Shading engine, obstruction modelling, yield physics	5 / 10	Scores low because Enact is not competing here. Sizing is adequate for a residential sale, not for a challenged yield claim.
Compliance and documentation output	SLD, BOQ, permit set, lender-grade report	5 / 10	Also not the product’s job. Engineering output arrives via the separate PVCAD plug-in, not the core platform.
Proposal and sales workflow	Customer journey, finance options, e-sign, tracking	9 / 10	Its actual competitive ground, and it is strong.
Price against value	Cost per useful outcome across a real team	7 / 10	Published, predictable, but per-seat cost rises fast past two users.
Support and onboarding	Time to first competent proposal, training	8 / 10	Support and training included with the subscription.
Total		34 / 50

That first pair of caveats matters. Penalising a sales-flow tool for shallow simulation without saying so would misrepresent the product. Enact is optimising for the money conversation and the customer-facing journey, and on that ground it scores a 9. Read the total as 34 out of a possible 30 on the axes it is actually contesting, plus 10 more it did not enter.

Pricing

Enact publishes its rate card, which is worth crediting because most of this category does not. The figures below come from Enact’s installer pricing page as listed in 2026.

Plan	Annual billing	Monthly billing	What you get
Design and Proposals	$279 per month, 2 users	$299 per month, 2 users	Solar plus storage design, custom proposals, API support, unlimited residential projects, 10 commercial projects per month
PVCAD plug-in	$267 per month	$347 per month	AutoCAD-based engineering. Requires your own AutoCAD licence
PVCAD plus AutoCAD bundle	$333 per month	$433 per month	Same, with the AutoCAD licence included
Asset Management	Not publicly listed	Not publicly listed	Fleet monitoring, inverter integrations, ROI tracking, performance alerts

The core tier works out at roughly $139.50 per user per month, or about $1,674 per user per year, on annual billing with two seats. Enterprise deployments are quoted and we could not confirm a published figure for those, or for Asset Management.

Two costs are easy to miss. The PVCAD plug-in is a separate line item, not an upgrade, and it needs AutoCAD unless you take the bundle. Second, if you want real shading analysis behind the proposal you are buying a design tool as well, and our solar design software pricing guide shows what a two-tool stack does to a five-person team’s budget.

What Enact Solar Does Best

The money conversation. This is what Enact is optimising for and it is genuinely good at it.

A residential solar sale is not lost on shading assumptions. It is lost on the second page of the proposal, where the customer works out whether the monthly loan payment is smaller than the bill it replaces. Enact builds that comparison properly: loan, lease, cash and power purchase agreement scenarios side by side, with escalators, incentives and a year-by-year cashflow the homeowner can actually follow. That is the part of the product we rate highest on our bench.

The second strength is the continuous record. Design, proposal, signature, project status through installation, then fleet monitoring afterwards. Most installers stitch that across three tools and lose the thread at each handoff. Enact keeps one customer record from first quote to performance alert, which makes the post-install service conversation and the referral ask far easier.

The third is international reach. Operating across more than 35 countries with multi-currency and multi-incentive handling is unusual in a residential sales tool, most of which are built for one market. The IEA’s renewables tracking shows how fast the distributed rooftop segment is growing outside the traditional US and European markets, and a platform that already handles several currencies has a real advantage selling into those.

Where Enact Solar Falls Short

The limitation is real and it is worth naming precisely, without pretending it is a design engine that failed.

Shading and engineering depth is thin. The core platform sizes a system and produces a credible production estimate for a straightforward residential roof. In our use we did not see it do what an hourly module-level shading simulation does, which is resolve a chimney’s shadow across a specific string on a specific afternoon in December. On a clean south-facing roof that gap does not matter. On a Mumbai row house with a water tank and a neighbour’s parapet, it does, and the proposal number can come out optimistic.

The moment a buyer gets technical, the workflow forks. Any sophisticated homeowner and effectively every commercial buyer will eventually ask what the P90 yield is and what soiling loss was assumed. Those questions come back from a second tool, which means a callback rather than an answer on the call.

Engineering output is a separate purchase. PVCAD is a good AutoCAD-based product and it is a distinct subscription with its own AutoCAD dependency. A team that expected permit-ready drawings in the base tier will be surprised.

Per-seat economics get worse with growth. Two seats at $279 a month is reasonable. The same rate applied across eight sales reps and two designers is a different budget conversation, and it is one where bundled annual platforms start winning.

Verdict. Enact is a good product judged by its own goal. It sells solar, it does not engineer it. If you already have engineering covered and your problem is conversion, it is a sound purchase at a published price.

Who Should Buy Enact Solar

The reader for whom Enact is the right call, over SurgePV, is a residential sales organisation of two to six people whose engineering is already handled, either by an in-house designer on a separate licence or by an outsourced design partner, and whose deals are decided by financing.

That reader is common in the US, Australia and increasingly in Europe. If your close rate moves when the loan comparison improves, and your designs are already produced elsewhere, buying a design engine you will not use is waste. Enact wins that comparison and we would not talk that buyer out of it.

A second genuine fit is a multi-country channel or dealer network. If you support installers in four markets with four currencies and four incentive regimes, the multi-country handling is worth more than an extra point of shading accuracy.

A third is an installer who wants to sell service after the sale. Because the same record carries into fleet monitoring, the platform supports a recurring service revenue motion that a pure design tool does not.

Working out what your stack should cost? Compare a sales-first tool against a bundled platform in our ranked guide to the best solar design software, or talk to our engineering team about how we split design and sales tooling on real projects.

Who Should Not

1. 1
   Anyone whose yield numbers are being challenged. If a lender, a technical advisor or a C&I client is questioning production, you need an hourly module-level simulation, not a better proposal.
2. 2
   Teams doing heavily shaded urban rooftops. On our bench the obstruction modelling did not resolve water tanks, parapets and neighbouring buildings at close range the way an hourly engine does.
3. 3
   Indian installers running PM Surya Ghar volume. We found no native subsidy slab or [DISCOM](/glossary/discom) logic in the published feature set. See our India proposal software ranking for tools that carry it.
4. 4
   Utility-scale developers. Wrong category entirely. Look at terrain-aware ground-mount tools instead.

If you are in that group, the migration paths are covered in our Enact alternative comparison and in the ranked residential solar design software guide. Three sibling reviews cover Enact’s closest competitors on the same bench: our Solargraf review, our Pylon review and our Aurora Solar review for the design-first alternative.

Enact Solar vs SurgePV

Disclosure, stated plainly. SurgePV is a sister product of Heaven Green Energy and we run it on our own EPC work. That gives us first-hand operating detail and a commercial interest at the same time. Both are true, and the table below names SurgePV’s weaknesses in the same rows as its strengths.

Axis	Enact	SurgePV	Honest call
Financing scenarios (loan, lease, PPA)	9	7	Enact. Deeper finance modelling and better lender integrations.
Customer-facing proposal journey	9	8	Enact, narrowly, on the education-led narrative.
Shading and hourly simulation	5	9	SurgePV. 8,760-hour module-level shading is a different class of answer.
Engineering output in base plan	3	9	SurgePV. Enact needs the separate PVCAD subscription.
Published price	$279 per month, 2 users	$1,299 per user per year	Roughly comparable per seat. Neither hides it.
Post-install fleet monitoring	8	4	Enact. SurgePV is a design and proposal platform, not a monitoring one.
Drone or as-built capture	✗	✗	Neither. Scanifly owns that job.
Structural stamping	✗	✗	Neither. Both need an engineering partner.
Racking component database	Moderate	Thin	Enact. SurgePV’s racking database lags its module and inverter data.
Brand recognition	Since the mid-2010s	Thin since 2025 launch	Enact. SurgePV is new and buyers do ask.

Read that honestly and the split is clean. If the sale is decided by money, Enact wins. If it is decided by the number on the production line, SurgePV wins, because the proposal is generated from the same file as the shadow analysis rather than from a lighter estimate. SurgePV also loses outright on monitoring, on brand age and on racking data, and it does not attempt drone capture or stamping.

How Heaven Green Energy Uses This In Practice

Our residential work in Gujarat is not decided by financing the way a Californian sale is. PM Surya Ghar changes the shape of the conversation, because the subsidy is a direct benefit transfer into the consumer’s bank account after commissioning rather than a discount on our invoice, and the MNRE subsidy structure does most of the persuasion that a loan comparison does in the US.

That is exactly why we do not run an Enact-style tool as our primary platform. Our binding constraint is a different one: dense Ahmedabad and Surat rooftops with water tanks, staircase headrooms and adjacent buildings, where a monthly-average production estimate is wrong by enough to matter. On a recent 6 kW install in Rajkot, an hourly shading run put annual yield about 9 percent below the simple estimate because a neighbour’s parapet clipped one string every winter afternoon. Quoting the higher number would have produced a happy signature and an unhappy year two.

So we design in SurgePV, run the customer sales motion through QuickEstimate’s proposal generator where a CRM-shaped workflow fits better, and send permit and detailed drawing work to Heaven Designs rooftop detailed engineering. If your market is finance-led rather than subsidy-led, that ordering would reasonably flip, and Enact would sit where SurgePV sits for us.

Here is how the delivery side connects for customers reading this:

• Residential Solar covers 1 to 10 kW rooftop systems with PM Surya Ghar handled for you.
• Commercial Solar covers 10 to 100 kW with ROI modelling and accelerated depreciation planning.
• Solar EPC services covers turnkey design, supply and commissioning.
• Solar Calculator gives you subsidy and savings numbers in about a minute.

For anyone comparing the finance layer across platforms, our net metering glossary entry explains the billing mechanism the savings model depends on. This Enact Solar review lands where the evidence puts it: a well-built sales and finance layer, scored fairly at 34 out of 50, and the right purchase for a specific and sizeable group of installers.

Frequently Asked Questions

How much does Enact Solar cost?

Enact publishes its rate card. The Design and Proposals tier is $279 per month for 2 users on annual billing, or $299 per month billed monthly, which is roughly $1,674 per user per year. The PVCAD engineering plug-in is a separate $267 per month on annual billing and needs your own AutoCAD licence, or $333 per month for the bundle that includes AutoCAD. Asset Management pricing is not publicly listed and requires a quote.

Is Enact Solar good for shading analysis?

Not on our bench, and it is not trying to be. Enact sizes a system and produces a credible production estimate for a straightforward residential roof, which is what a sales conversation needs. We did not find hour-by-hour resolution of an obstruction’s shadow across a specific string. On a clean unshaded roof the difference is small. On a dense urban rooftop with water tanks and neighbouring parapets it can be several percent of annual yield, so pair it with a design engine.

Enact Solar vs Aurora Solar: which is better?

They optimise for different bottlenecks. Aurora is a design platform with strong roof modelling and shading, and its proposal output is secondary. Enact is a sales and finance platform whose design is adequate rather than deep. If your deals are lost at the financing page, Enact. If they are lost when someone challenges the production number, Aurora or another design-first tool. Many teams that can afford both run one of each.

Does Enact Solar work in India?

It is sold internationally across more than 35 countries and can be used in India, but we found no native PM Surya Ghar subsidy slab logic, ALMM module list flagging or state DISCOM net metering rules described in its published feature set as of August 2026. On that basis, expect that compliance work to stay manual for your team, and check the current feature list before you assume otherwise. For Indian residential volume, an India-native platform is likely to remove more steps per proposal.

Is Enact Solar worth it for a small installer?

For a two to six person residential team whose engineering is already covered and whose deals turn on financing, yes. At about $1,674 per user per year the tool needs to add roughly one extra closed job a year to pay for itself, which is a low bar if the finance presentation genuinely improves. For a small team that has no designer and expected the platform to also produce engineering drawings, it is not worth it, because PVCAD is a separate subscription.

What is the commercial project limit on Enact?

The Design and Proposals tier allows unlimited residential projects but caps commercial projects at 10 per month, per Enact’s published pricing page in 2026. That cap is the clause growing teams hit first, usually when a residential business starts taking small commercial and industrial enquiries. Higher tiers and enterprise deployments lift it, and those are quoted rather than published.

Does Enact include monitoring after installation?

Yes, through the Asset Management tier, which is a separate product with pricing available on request. It covers fleet monitoring, inverter integrations, savings and return tracking, performance reports and alerts. This is one of the areas where Enact is genuinely ahead of most design-first platforms, because the same customer record carries from the original quote into ongoing performance, which supports a service revenue motion.

What does Enact score on your review bench?

34 out of 50. It scores 9 on proposal and sales workflow, 8 on support and onboarding, 7 on price against value, and 5 each on design and simulation depth and on compliance and documentation output. Those last two score low because Enact is not competing on them, and we say so rather than treating it as a failed design tool. On the three axes it actually contests, it scores 24 out of 30.