SolarPlus is what happens when a design tool is built inside one regulatory market and stays there. It is Australian, founded in 2012, and its centre of gravity is not the 3D roof or the yield engine but the pile of compliance evidence an Australian solar retailer has to produce for every job. On our bench it scores 37 of 50, the highest compliance and documentation score of the three tools we benched in this wave. It also carries a pricing detail that most comparison articles get wrong, including some that quote it in Australian dollars: SolarPlus publishes its plans in US dollars, from $135 per month on annual pre-pay. This review covers what the capacity-based pricing model actually costs, where the Australian specialisation pays for itself, and the reader who should buy something else.
Direct answer. SolarPlus is Australian solar design, CRM and compliance software founded in 2012. Plans are published in US dollars at $135, $260 and $450 per month on annual pre-pay, metered by installed capacity rather than project count. It scores 37 of 50: strong compliance output and CRM, mid-tier simulation depth. Best for Australian installers and retailers. In our view it is hard to justify outside Australia and New Zealand.
The pricing point is worth pausing on before anything else, because it changes the comparison for an Australian buyer at current exchange rates and several sources online have it wrong.
What SolarPlus Is
SolarPlus is a combined design, quoting, CRM and compliance platform for solar and battery installers. Its own about page states the company was founded in 2012 by Glen Morris, who is chairman, and Laurie Kane, who is managing director, and that “SolarPlus was established in partnership with the Smart Energy Council,” Australia’s independent industry body.
The published usage figures are worth reading carefully, because the vendor states two different sets on two different pages. The about page states over 1,700 solar sales companies have quoted more than 450,000 systems worth over $4 billion. The homepage states “4,900+ users around the world” who have “quoted 500,000+ systems worth more than $5 billion.” Those are consistent if the first counts companies and the second counts individual user accounts, and we report both rather than picking the flattering one.
Functionally, the product covers:
- Customer management, with lead tracking and calendar integration.
- Site and energy assessment, on site or remote.
- Design, with a RoofMap panel layout tool and 3D visualisation.
- Financial and energy modelling, including battery sizing and a Smart Energy Simulator covering hot water, load shifting and EV charging.
- Proposals from customisable templates.
- Compliance workflow, with installer job packs, commissioning checklists and job safety analysis.
That last item is the reason the product exists, and it is where the score is earned.
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| Axis | What it measures | SolarPlus | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design and simulation depth | Yield modelling, shading, storage behaviour, bifacial and loss detail | 7 / 10 | Genuine modelling depth for storage and self-consumption. We found no P50/P75/P90 report presented as an output. |
| Compliance and documentation output | Standards checks, connection diagrams, handover packs, rebate handling | 8 / 10 | The best axis, and the reason to buy it. |
| Proposal and sales workflow | Proposals, CRM, integrations, templates | 8 / 10 | CRM is built in rather than bolted on, with Hubspot and Xero integrations. |
| Price against value | Total cost for the work delivered | 7 / 10 | Fair, with a capacity meter that punishes some businesses and rewards others. |
| Support and onboarding | Documentation, help centre, training | 7 / 10 | A public help centre with detailed rebate articles is a good sign. |
| Total | 37 / 50 |
Verdict. SolarPlus is a compliance platform that designs, not a design platform that files compliance. Judge it on paperwork removed per job and it scores very well. Judge it on yield defensibility and it does not.
Pricing
SolarPlus publishes its pricing, and the important detail is the currency. The published pricing plans page quotes every tier in US dollars, including on the Australian-facing site. Several comparison articles quote SolarPlus in Australian dollars. Fetched during this review on 2 August 2026, the page does not.
| Plan | Annual pre-pay | Billed monthly | Capacity included (three-month average) | Users |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | $135 USD / month | $150 USD / month | 900 kW commercial or 300 kW residential | 5 designer accounts |
| Pro | $260 USD / month | $300 USD / month | 2 MW commercial or 700 kW residential | 10 designer accounts plus free installer access |
| Complete | $450 USD / month | $520 USD / month | 3.9 MW commercial or 1.3 MW residential | Unlimited user accounts |
| Enterprise | Contact for quote | Contact for quote | Unlimited | Unlimited |
Source: SolarPlus pricing plans page, fetched 2 August 2026. Annual pre-pay saves 10 to 13 percent against monthly billing depending on tier.
💰 Real numbers
The meter is capacity, not projects. Starter's 300 kW residential allowance is roughly 30 to 40 domestic systems a month at typical Australian system sizes, across five designer accounts. Model your monthly kW, not your monthly job count.
That capacity model is the thing to understand before you pick a tier. A residential retailer selling 8 kW systems and a commercial installer selling one 500 kW roof consume the allowance at completely different rates, and the three-month averaging softens a lumpy month rather than removing the ceiling. Businesses with seasonal spikes should model their worst quarter, not their average one. Our solar design software pricing guide works through per-seat, per-project and per-capacity models side by side.
What SolarPlus Does Best
Australian compliance automation, which is the whole thesis. The vendor describes the platform as shipping design compliance checks against Australian standards and Clean Energy Council guidelines, auto-generated connection diagrams, retailer terms and conditions, and handover documentation it describes as AS/NZS 5139 ready. None of that is an endorsement of the software by the CEC, Standards Australia or any other body, and accreditation still sits with the installer. Assembling that evidence pack by hand for every job is the single largest administrative cost in an Australian install business, and removing it is worth more per month than any yield model improvement.
STC integration done properly, including battery STCs. Small-scale technology certificates are the mechanism by which Australian rooftop solar is discounted at the point of sale, and getting the arithmetic wrong is a commercial problem rather than a technical one. SolarPlus’s own Australian battery rebate support page documents the battery STC calculation as usable capacity multiplied by the STC factor for the current year, rounded down, with the line item priced as certificates multiplied by certificate price plus GST where applied, and it notes that GST on STCs is a point of sale discount rather than part of the GST on the system sale. That is the level of specificity a retailer’s finance team needs, published openly.
Storage and load modelling. The Smart Energy Simulator models hot water, load shifting and EV charging alongside battery charge and discharge including backup. In a market where batteries are now attached to a large share of new residential quotes, that is not a peripheral feature. See our solar plus storage design software guide for how rarely this is done well.
CRM in the same product. Lead tracking, calendar integration, Hubspot and Xero integrations. For a retailer running 10 designers, not stitching a CRM to a design tool is a real saving.
Commercial modelling that goes past residential. Bifacial gain modelling, yield factor controls, upgrade modelling and full savings assessment sit above what a pure residential proposal tool offers. Our commercial solar design software guide covers where that ceiling sits.
A public help centre. Detailed public articles on rebate handling are a proxy for support quality, and a good one.
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Where SolarPlus Falls Short
It is an Australian product, and outside Australia and New Zealand most of its value evaporates. The compliance intelligence, the rebate arithmetic and the standards checks are the reason to buy it, and none of them apply in Europe, India or the United States. This is the same trade Easy PV makes in Britain, which we cover in our Easy PV review.
No P50/P75/P90 yield report that we could find. SolarPlus does high-resolution modelling, and as of August 2026 we found no P50, P75 and P90 report with itemised soiling, thermal and spectral losses in the form project finance teams usually specify. For financed commercial work you will likely pair it with a simulation package. Read the PVsyst review for what that requirement looks like, and our solar shading analysis software guide for the difference between estimating and finance-grade shading.
The capacity meter is a genuine risk for commercial installers. One large project can consume a quarter’s allowance. The three-month average helps and does not remove the exposure, and Enterprise pricing is quote-only, so the point at which the model stops working for you is also the point at which you lose price transparency.
US dollar pricing for an Australian customer base. Paying in USD means your software cost moves with the exchange rate while your revenue does not. That is a real budgeting annoyance, not a feature complaint.
No drone or as-built capture that we could find. Site verification is manual in the workflow we reviewed. See the Scanifly review.
Utility-scale work is out of scope. Terrain-driven layout optimisation at hundreds of megawatts belongs to other tools, covered in our RatedPower review and PVcase review.
⚠️ Watch out
Check your worst commercial month against the plan's kW ceiling before signing an annual pre-pay. Capacity meters bite hardest exactly when business is good.
Who Should Buy SolarPlus
The reader for whom SolarPlus is the right purchase, ahead of every other tool on this site including our own sister product:
You are an Australian solar retailer or installer doing residential and light commercial work, quoting somewhere between 200 kW and 1 MW a month, with a sales team of five to fifteen people. Your real cost is not design time, it is the compliance and handover paperwork per job plus the STC arithmetic on every quote, and both of those are legislated rather than optional. You sell batteries on a large share of quotes and the rebate treatment has to be right. Nobody in your pipeline has ever asked you for a P90 number.
For that business, SolarPlus at $135 to $450 US a month is the correct purchase and a generic international design platform is not, because the generic platform will design a beautiful array and leave your compliance officer exactly where they were. That reader is real and we are naming them plainly.
A second reader: New Zealand installers, who inherit much of the AS/NZS standards framework and get most of the same benefit, with the STC layer being the part that does not apply.
Who Should Not Buy SolarPlus
Anyone outside Australia and New Zealand. The specialisation that makes it good is the specialisation that makes it irrelevant elsewhere. Our best solar design software roundup ranks the internationally usable tools.
Financed commercial and utility EPCs. You will need a simulation engine that outputs the methodology your financier names, so start with the PVsyst review or the HelioScope review.
Commercial installers with lumpy megawatt-scale volume. The capacity meter works against you. Confirm your worst quarter against the ceiling before committing.
Indian installers. As of August 2026 we found no PM Surya Ghar subsidy workflow and no DISCOM (distribution company) net metering tariff library in the product. Our solar design software India comparison covers what fits that market.
Single operators. Five designer accounts on the entry plan is generous, and paying for a compliance and CRM platform you use twice a week is not.
SolarPlus vs SurgePV
Disclosure, stated plainly: SurgePV is a sister product of Heaven Green Energy and we run it daily on our own EPC projects. That is first-party operating experience and a commercial interest at the same time. Read the table with both in view.
| Axis | SolarPlus | SurgePV | Honest read |
|---|---|---|---|
| Australian compliance (CEC guidelines, AS/NZS handover, job packs) | Native | Not an Australian-specific workflow | SolarPlus, decisively. |
| STC and battery STC arithmetic | Native, documented publicly | Not offered | SolarPlus. |
| 8,760-hour simulation with P50/P75/P90 | Not presented as a product output | Every paid plan | SurgePV. |
| SLD and BOQ | Auto-generated connection diagrams | Native auto-generated SLD and BOQ | Close. SurgePV on BOQ. |
| Storage and load modelling | Smart Energy Simulator, hot water, load shifting, EV | Storage modelling included | Roughly level. |
| CRM | Built in, Hubspot and Xero integrations | Proposal-focused | SolarPlus. |
| Pricing model | Capacity metered, $135 to $450 USD per month | $1,299 per user per year on the 5-user plan | Depends on your kW per seat. Run both. |
| Currency exposure for an Australian buyer | USD | USD | Neither. |
| India workflow (PM Surya Ghar, DISCOM tariffs) | Not offered | Native | SurgePV. |
| Brand track record | Founded 2012. Its about page describes a partnership with the Smart Energy Council | Launched 2025, thin brand recognition | SolarPlus. |
| Drone or as-built capture | Not offered | Not offered | Neither. |
| Structural stamping | Not offered | Not available | Neither. |
| Racking database | Australian market depth | Thinner than its module and inverter libraries | SolarPlus, for Australian racking. |
SurgePV’s weaknesses are named in that table deliberately. It launched in 2025 and carries far less brand recognition than a platform trading since 2012 that describes a Smart Energy Council partnership on its own about page, it has no drone capture, it does not do structural stamping, and its racking database is thinner than its module and inverter libraries. It also has no STC engine, which for an Australian retailer is not a small gap.
The dividing line is geographic and then technical. If you sell in Australia and your pain is compliance, buy SolarPlus and do not overthink it. If you sell outside Australia, or a lender is going to name your yield methodology, or you need a defensible P90 alongside the proposal, it is worth pricing one platform that covers both jobs against two that each cover one. That is the case for SurgePV’s simulation engine sitting under the same proposal.
How Heaven Green Energy Uses This In Practice
We are an EPC before we are a software opinion. Our design team runs SurgePV daily across residential, commercial and industrial work out of Gujarat, on a project mix that is roughly two thirds residential and light commercial by count and about a third industrial by capacity.
SolarPlus is not in our stack for the obvious reason: we do not install in Australia. What we study it for is the compliance model. Australia’s rooftop market runs on a legislated evidence trail, and SolarPlus’s answer is to make the evidence a by-product of the design rather than a separate task. India is moving the same direction as PM Surya Ghar documentation and DISCOM net metering requirements tighten, and any Indian platform that treats subsidy paperwork as an afterthought will be rebuilt within two years. Our net metering glossary entry sets out the Indian version of that paperwork chain.
The second thing we take from it is the capacity-metered pricing idea, which we think is honest even where it is inconvenient. A tool’s cost tracking the value of the work it produced is more defensible than per-seat pricing that charges the same for a designer doing 4 kW roofs and one doing 4 MW rooftops. The International Energy Agency’s solar PV analysis shows the residential and commercial rooftop segment growing faster than software vendors have adapted their pricing to.
For clients who need Australian-standard or Indian-standard engineering documented and stamped rather than estimated, we point them at Heaven Designs’ civil and structural engineering service, and for battery sizing before a storage quote goes out, the QBits Energy hybrid battery sizing guide is what our own team checks against.
For readers on the buying side rather than the building side:
- Residential Solar: 1 to 10 kW rooftop with PM Surya Ghar handled start to finish.
- Commercial Solar: 10 to 100 kW with ROI modelling and depreciation planning.
- Industrial Solar EPC: 100 kW+ turnkey.
- Solar Calculator: subsidy and 25-year savings in 60 seconds.
Other evaluations in this series: OpenSolar review, Enact Solar review and Sunbase review. The category overview is our solar design software pillar, and the market page is solar design software Australia.
Frequently Asked Questions
How much does SolarPlus cost in 2026?
SolarPlus publishes four tiers in US dollars. On annual pre-pay, Starter is $135 per month, Pro is $260 and Complete is $450, with Enterprise quoted on request. Billed monthly the same tiers are $150, $300 and $520. Plans are metered by installed capacity on a three-month average rather than by project count: 900 kW commercial or 300 kW residential on Starter, 2 MW or 700 kW on Pro, and 3.9 MW or 1.3 MW on Complete.
Is SolarPlus priced in Australian dollars?
No. Despite being an Australian product, the published pricing plans page quotes every tier in US dollars. Several comparison articles state an AUD range, which does not match what the vendor publishes. For an Australian buyer that means the software cost moves with the AUD to USD exchange rate, so budget with some headroom.
Who owns SolarPlus and when was it founded?
SolarPlus states on its about page that it was founded in 2012 by Glen Morris, who serves as chairman, and Laurie Kane, who serves as managing director, and that the company was established in partnership with the Smart Energy Council, Australia’s independent industry body. The company is Australian.
Does SolarPlus handle STC rebates?
Yes, including battery STCs. The vendor documents the calculation publicly: usable capacity multiplied by the STC factor for the current year and rounded down, with the quote line item priced as certificates multiplied by certificate price plus GST where applied. SolarPlus also notes that GST on STCs is treated as a point of sale discount rather than as part of the GST on the system sale, which is the detail retailers most often get wrong.
Does SolarPlus check designs against CEC guidelines?
The vendor describes design compliance checks against Australian standards and Clean Energy Council guidelines, auto-generated connection diagrams, retailer-ready terms and conditions, and handover documentation it describes as AS/NZS 5139 ready. That is the vendor’s implementation of published guidance, not an endorsement or certification of the software by the CEC or any other body. Software cannot make an installation compliant by itself, because accreditation sits with the installer, but it can make the required evidence a by-product of the design rather than a separate task.
Can SolarPlus produce P50/P90 yield reports?
Not as far as we could tell. SolarPlus does high-resolution energy modelling with bifacial gain and yield factor controls, and as of August 2026 we found no P50, P75 and P90 yield report with itemised soiling, thermal and spectral losses in the format project finance teams usually specify. Financed commercial projects generally call for a dedicated engine such as PVsyst, HelioScope or SurgePV alongside it.
SolarPlus or SurgePV, which should I choose?
Choose SolarPlus if you sell in Australia or New Zealand and your bottleneck is compliance paperwork, STC arithmetic and CRM. Choose SurgePV if you need 8,760-hour simulation with P50 to P90 bands, native SLD and BOQ output, or India workflows such as PM Surya Ghar and DISCOM net metering. SurgePV launched in 2025, has no drone capture, no structural stamping and no STC engine.
Does the capacity limit reset each month?
The published allowances are stated as a three-month average, which smooths a single heavy month rather than removing the ceiling. A business with seasonal peaks should model its busiest quarter against the plan’s kW allowance before committing to annual pre-pay, since exceeding the allowance is a tier upgrade conversation and Enterprise pricing is quote-only.
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