Release Notes – OS 2.30.0
This release brings big wins in time-savings and flexibility. Highlights include a 50% faster CashFlow experience, Apple Pay & Google Pay for instant payments, auto-applied adders with new smart criteria, SolarApp automated permitting integration and more.
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Standalone invoices for non-solar payments
Create and send standalone custom invoices for non-solar services like panel cleaning or EV charger installs—no project or solar design required.
Faster payments from your customers with Apple Pay & Google Pay
Make transactions a breeze with Apple Pay and Google Pay—now automatically enabled for all milestones where credit cards are enabled, giving customers a faster, hassle-free way to pay. These are not available with surcharging and will only be enabled when surcharging has been turned off.
Haven’t activated CashFlow yet for your account?
Smart, auto-applied adders
Easily apply adders based on project and system parameters with new auto-apply logic—now including utility name, roof type, and roof slope criteria. Protect pricing integrity with a “lock” feature that prevents accidental removal, ensuring accurate costs and streamlined operations.
Checkout Financing – Consumer-led approach to finance in sales flow
Enable Checkout Financing on OpenSolar to let customers explore and secure solar loans independently, boosting sales with no dealer fees and a seamless, e-commerce-style experience.
Automated permitting with new SolarApp integration
Streamline your permitting process with automated reviews and instant compliance feedback—reducing permitting timelines by an average of 3 weeks and failed inspections by 29%. Seamlessly transfer project data to SolarApp, submit permit applications, and track statuses in real-time all within your OpenSolar project.
CashFlow
- 50% faster load times – Improved performance across all CashFlow pages, including customer-facing payment screens.
- Enhanced event tracking – Monitor milestone adjustments, payment changes, email communications, and invoice creation with full user details.
Speed & performance
- Optimized solar design calculations – Faster processing for solar designs and proposals.
- MCS compliance speed boost – Quicker MCS calculations for commercial projects in the UK.
- Faster Google Solar API imagery – Preloading for improved loading speeds.
Design & tooling
- Multiple battery UI update – Introduced a new selector UI for Battery Design Assistant (BDA), making it easier to add a 2nd or 3rd battery.
- Improved roof tooling – Addressed small bugs found in roof tools, ensuring a smoother and more precise panel layout experience. – Addressed small bugs found in roof tools, ensuring a smoother and more precise panel layout experience.
Mapping & imagery
- New imagery provider in Spain
– Access IGN’s orthographic (2D) imagery, solar irradiance data (heat map), and cadastral boundaries. Learn more
Security
- Identity verification with ReCheck – Securely link your ReCheck account for fast ID verification—this update lays the groundwork for future financing and customer authentication potential. Learn more
Contracts
- Geo-based filtering for auto-applied contracts – Set location-based contract rules to ensure the right agreements reach the right customers. Configure now
Fixes
- City Plumbing integration – Resolved an issue affecting account connection.
- LightReach integration – Spanish-speaking customers now receive Spanish-language contracts when proposal language is set to Spanish.
- Battery selection – Fixed an issue where selecting “NONE” on battery manufacturer didn’t clear product selection.
- Sungage integration – Improved validation to prevent application errors.
- Pricing & payments – Fixed an issue where the “Fixed Fee Per Period” unit defaulted to $ in UK orgs.
- CashFlow
- OpenBanking payments now consistently available after re-entering checkout.
- Contact first name placeholder now works in CashFlow emails.
- Fixed rounding issues in milestone pricing adjustments.
- Prevented “Next” button from getting stuck when switching between AMEX and other card types.
- Standalone invoice product descriptions now limited to 255 characters to avoid errors.
Try out the new features and let us know what you think!