Your jobs

Signing in lands you on Your jobs: a list of every estimate you have had from this installer, newest work first.

The figures here are illustrative.Screenshots come from a demo installer with example pricing, so every cost, saving, payback period and instalment is made up. Your own numbers come from the pricing your installer has entered.

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1. A count, or Nothing here yet if you have not finished one.
2. The address, the date you did it, and where the installer has got to with it.
3. The headline figures, so you can tell two estimates apart without opening them.
4. Start another estimate whenever you like, for a different roof or a different set of answers.

One estimate, listed. Tap the row to open it.

Finished and unfinished

Two kinds of row appear here.

A finished estimate shows the date you completed it and a status word, which is the installer’s own label for where your enquiry has got to. It starts at something like New and moves on as they work through it.

An unfinished estimate is one you started and walked away from. It shows in amber, reading “Unfinished, pick up where you left off”, and tapping it drops you back into the calculator at the point you stopped, with your answers still in place. Nothing was lost, and nobody was sent anything.

The status is theirs, not yours

The status word comes from the installer’s own pipeline, and they choose the labels. It tells you they have moved your enquiry along. It is not something you can change, and it is not a promise about timing.

Opening one

Tap a row and you get the whole thing on one page.

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1. The four figures you were shown at the time, kept as they were.
2. What this estimate assumed: every answer that went into those figures.
3. Any quotation the installer has sent you, with its line items and total.
4. Your message thread with the installer, about this job.

One job page, top to bottom. Quotations, messages and documents all live on it.

At the top: the address, the date you did the estimate, the status, and the four figures. Then everything else in order down the page.

What this estimate assumed

The most useful section, and the one people miss.

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1. What the system was expected to generate in a year, which is where the saving comes from.
2. Electricity use. This row only ever shows a yearly kWh figure, so it reads Not given unless you answered in kWh.
3. Whether the estimate included a battery.

Every answer the estimate was built on, kept with it.

The table lists the address, the roof you described, the number of panels, roughly how much the system was expected to generate in a year, your electricity use, and whether a battery was included.

One row surprises people. Electricity use shows a yearly figure in kWh and nothing else, so if you answered with a monthly bill or picked a usage band it reads “Not given”. That does not mean your answer was lost. It was used to work the estimate out; it just was not a kWh figure, and this row only shows kWh.

This is what makes an old estimate readable months later. Without it you have four numbers and no idea which answers produced them, and no way to tell whether a difference between two estimates is real or just a different guess about your usage.

At the bottom of the page there is a closing note saying these are the figures you were shown at the time, and that the installer will confirm them against a survey before anything is agreed. That is worth taking literally. See what the estimate is not.

What else is on the page

Below the assumptions, in order:

• Your quotes, if the installer has sent any.
• Messages with the installer.
• Documents, both ways.

Empty sections are quiet rather than absent, so the page looks the same shape whether you are a day in or a month in.