Gaffer for
solar thermal installers.

Solar thermal is a small install with a long tail: the glycol degrades, the pump station needs looking at, and the system quietly stops paying for itself if nobody services it. Gaffer records the solar fluid and glycol charge at commissioning, keeps the MCS certificate against the property, and books the annual service before the customer notices the cylinder has gone cold. Quote, schedule, certify, invoice and get paid — with the 12 trade documents solar thermal installers actually use already in the account.

Start free trial See the 12 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 thermal installers in Gaffer

Quote it from a template

Priced quote templates for solar thermal 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

12 trade documents ready for solar thermal installers — 8 written for this trade, 4 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 flat-plate collector 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 0Site survey and system design record completed against the property.
Day 3Quote sent from an MCS template. Accepted online with a deposit.
Day 14Collectors and cylinder in; installation record updated as the work goes.
Day 15Commissioning record and solar fluid / glycol record signed on the phone.
Day 15MCS certificate and handover record emailed as PDFs; invoice paid by card.
+12 moAnnual service reminder goes out with last year’s glycol reading attached.

Certificates & forms

12 trade documents, ready for solar thermal installers.

8 of them are written for this trade and 4 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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