Blog Articles
The PVBid Cost Code Structure
What were we thinking?! Job costing or cost codes are a super personal / company specific aspect of solar. Each company does and thinks about their costs differently and so tailoring your codes to match your company is crucial. Just like the challenges you have had,...
Helioscope and PVBid: The Design, the Wizard, and Predictive Pricing
What's new? PVBid has joined our Predictive Pricing engine with the power of HelioScope, the industry’s best design & sales software. Cool! What does that mean? Fast, tailored, and accurate pricing. An indicative project can be created in under a minute. Use your...
SPF for solar?
As an estimator, there are several nuances to every solar system that are hard to pin down. That's where the art of estimating comes into play. These nuances range from wiring best practices to how much a subcontractor will really cost to racking for the specific...
Testimonial- Conor Darby
"Since my company has been using PV Bid, I have full confidence that my sales team is accurately pricing jobs and delivering project proposals to our clients at the levels of quality and response time that I expect of them."
3 crucial aspects of solar travel costs
As Solar Power International approached, travel was on my mind. Setting up travel plans led me to thinking about the day-to-day accounting of travel for solar contractors. Interestingly enough, travel has also come up with a majority of my Estimating as a Services...
If You’re Installing PV This Year, These 4 Gotchas Will Matter
Three months in and the solar coaster is starting to pick up. The 2017Q4 SEIA Market Insight Report came out in mid December and I picked it up again to review. There, in all its glory, was a chart that exemplifies the solar growth we see throughout the year....
Helping You Keep Up with Changing Times
Well, we’re a month into the new year! Here at PVBid, we’ve started the year off really well. Our Estimating Service has been a huge hit - we even have clients who are partnering with us as their only estimators. The software is developing in awesome ways and we’re...
Solar Power World: 5 tips to keep selling solar with the rate tariff
By SPW | January 9, 2018 By: Connor English, CEO & Founder of PVBid It seems like every few years there is some new module crisis on this ride we call the solarcoaster (think the current Suniva case, or the anti-dumping case from 2014 or sillicon shortage of...
New Year, New Tools for PVBid
Happy New Year! I love New Year - it’s such a great opportunity to think about goals for the upcoming months and adjust your process, pricing, and tools. Looking at what our customers need and want, we’re extremely excited to announce we are adding a new consulting...