Gaffer for
solar installers.

Solar is an MCS paper chain: the G99 notification before, the installation certificate and consumer handover checklist after, and the Smart Export Guarantee notification that decides whether the customer ever gets paid for their export. Miss one and their tariff simply does not happen. Gaffer ships a form for each and files the lot against the property with the system design record. Quote, schedule, certify, invoice and get paid — with the 26 trade documents solar installers actually use already in the account.

Start free trial See the 26 forms

Where two names look alike they are different documents — a notification is not the certificate that follows it, and two schemes covering the same work each want their own form. If you think one is missing, or that one of these is redundant, say so and we will change the pack.

Trade packs and specialist workflows for solar installers in Gaffer

Quote it from a template

Priced quote templates for solar installers, your own price book and good-better-best options. Customers accept and pay a deposit from their phone.

Quoting & Estimating →

Do the job with the paperwork built in

26 trade documents ready for solar installers — 17 written for this trade, 9 shared with others — filled in on the phone, signed on site and emailed as a PDF before you leave.

Compliance & Certificates →

Invoice from the driveway

One tap raises the invoice from the accepted quote, nets off the deposit and sends a Pay Now link. Reminders chase for you.

Invoicing & Payments →

Rebook the renewal automatically

Certificates and services with an expiry date become next year’s work. Gaffer texts the customer a booking link before it lapses.

Automations & AI →

A worked job

A PV and battery install, end to end

This is the shape of the work in Gaffer — the same job you already do, with the hand-offs taken off your plate.

See the same job in detail

Day 0Roof survey with photos; system design record completed on the phone.
Day 2Quote with battery options sent. Accepted online with a deposit.
Day 4G98/G99 DNO notification raised from the job before the scaffold is booked.
Day 21Two-day install; scaffold inspection and working at height permit signed on site.
Day 22MCS installation certificate, battery commissioning and SEG notification emailed as PDFs.
+12 moAnnual performance check reminder brings the customer back, data already on file.

Certificates & forms

26 trade documents, ready for solar installers.

17 of them are written for this trade and 9 are shared with others — an EICR is an EICR whoever issues it. Every one is a real digital form, not a blank template.

Each one is a proper digital form: the fields that document actually needs, signature capture, photo attachments, a PDF the customer can keep, and — where it has one — an expiry date Gaffer tracks. Completed on the phone, offline if it has to be.

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