SunWiz on OpenSolar

SYDNEY, Australia, 3 March 2020—  OpenSolar and SunWiz today announced an exciting new partnership that will provide Australian solar retailers a comprehensive toolkit of software, service and support for growing their business.

SunWiz, led by Warwick Johnston, has long been an Australian leader in professional solar training, solar quoting software and market intelligence. In its 10-year history, SunWiz has assisted over 1400 solar businesses, contributing to the amazing success story that is the Australian solar industry today.

OpenSolar, co-led by Adam Pryor and Andrew Birch, provides the world’s leading software platform for solar professionals: a complete digital tool kit to scale solar sales. OpenSolar brings together remote solar design, digital sales proposals and an enterprise management tool. A growing list of independent service and product providers – including Nearmap, Solar Outlet, LG Electronics, REC Group, Fronius, Enphase, Solar Analytics - also leverage the OpenSolar platform to better serve solar professionals.

By combining the forces of a world-leading solar platform and highly experienced solar service provider, OpenSolar and SunWiz will together drive rapid growth of Australian solar businesses and deliver a thriving solar industry.

OpenSolar will provide the underlying platform, CRM, Project Management, Solar Design and digital sales toolkit, including marketing collateral and service offerings from our partner organisations. The OpenSolar platform is free and will always continue to be provided for free to the solar retailer/installer community.

SunWiz will provide premium value-added services to accelerate your solar business, including consulting, customised sales proposals, premium training and support, and benchmarking market intelligence to solar retailers across Australia. SunWiz will continue to support its existing PVsell software userbase, who can choose to continue to use PVsell or be assisted by SunWiz in transitioning to OpenSolar. PVsell will no longer be accepting new clients.

Together the service offering will enable clients to effectively, rapidly, and profitably grow their solar businesses, through extracting maximum value from impressive software platform plus experienced guidance in rapid implementation of best-practice solar business operation.

OpenSolar will also serve as a platform for SunWiz to offer its value-added training and market intelligence services to users in other international markets supported by the OpenSolar platform.

Warwick Johnston will join OpenSolar’s advisory panel, joining Nick Lake and Nigel Morris, who bring a fabulous wealth of Australian solar knowledge into the community we serve.

Together with our clients and partners we are combining our energy, focus, and experience to accelerate solar sales, to match the transformational pace demanded by today’s climate challenge.