TradesSolar Installers

Build a Solar Business That Pays You ProperlyYou have the accreditation and the crew. What you need now is the margin, the systems and your weekends back.

This is for the owner of a solar business. You hold the accreditation, you quote the jobs and you still carry the paperwork, the STC claims and the callbacks. Here is how to build a business that holds its margin without you on every roof.

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The week this is about

Running A Solar Business Looks Like This.

You are quoting at 11pm after a full day on the roof

The crew knocks off at four and you start the second shift: proposals, the DNSP connection application that has to be lodged before work starts, and the STC paperwork from Tuesday's job. The quote the customer wanted this morning goes out at midnight.

Every lead you buy costs more and closes less

You are paying comparison-site prices for exclusive residential leads, then sitting third in a stack of quotes where the only question anyone asks is price per watt. So you shave the price to win the job, and the margin walks out of the door with it.

A callback from a job you did three years ago

The inverter drops out on a system you installed three years ago, the customer rings you and not the manufacturer, and you send a van across town for nothing. Every one of those trips comes straight out of a job you already priced too thin.

Stay on that road and you are running a bigger business every year for the same money, with more warranty exposure, more compliance and less of your own life in it.

A trade business owner working alone at the kitchen table late at night, laptop open and paperwork spread across the table, work boots and tool bag by the door

How we help

Nine Ways We Help Solar Installers.

Every one of these is a way solar business owners get out from under the business and start running it properly. Start wherever it hurts most.

Training

Solar Business Training

Structured training that turns what solar installers know on the tools into a business that runs properly.

Coaching

Solar Business Coach

Greg Allan in your corner, holding solar installers to the plan. By application.

Systems

Solar Business Systems

Systems solar installers build on their own data, so the work runs properly without them standing there.

Software

Solar Business Software

Software solar installers build on their own data, instead of renting tools built for every trade at once.

Business apps

Solar Business Apps

The simple screens solar installers build for their crew and customers, on their own data.

AI for Solar Businesses

AI agents that do the office work for solar installers, their way, so people stay on customers and the crew.

Marketing and leads

Solar Business Marketing

How solar installers get the phone ringing with the jobs worth having, not just the cheap ones.

Pricing and profit

Solar Business Pricing

The number solar installers should actually be charging, worked out properly rather than guessed.

Hiring and team

Solar Business Hiring

How solar installers build a crew that does it right without being watched.

A trade business owner watching his child play sport on a Saturday morning, coffee in hand and phone face down — Nights and weekends back

A trade business owner and his partner in the kitchen looking at a tablet showing the numbers going up — Work that actually pays

A trade business owner shaking hands with a new apprentice in the work yard — A good hire who stays

A trade business owner standing calmly in the yard while his crew load two utes behind him — Out of the middle of everything

Worth knowing

Two Things Every Solar Installer Running A Business Should Know.

Accreditation for rebate-eligible solar moved from the Clean Energy Council to Solar Accreditation Australia in 2024, and accredited installers must earn 100 CPD points every 12 months.

Source: Clean Energy Regulator and Solar Accreditation Australia

The federal Cheaper Home Batteries Program started on 1 July 2025 and was expanded to $7.2 billion in December 2025, with further rule changes taking effect from 1 May 2026.

Source: Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, Cheaper Home Batteries Program

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Why Greg

You speak to the owner who has already done it.

Greg built Response Electricians in Perth into a 30+ staff business with 1,950+ five-star reviews. A general manager runs it.

He has trained 9,000+ trade business owners across Australia and New Zealand.

He grew a coaching company to 35 staff, a CEO and 15 coaches, then cut it back so every owner deals with him directly.

Most coaching companies hand you to a salesperson, then to a coach who has never run a trade business. Here you get the owner.

Read how Greg built a trade business that runs without him

What changes for you

The old way. The new way.

Illustration: a trade business owner standing over three office staff buried in paperwork at night. — The old way
More customers meant more people doing the computer work, and more wages nobody invoices.

Illustration: a tradesman shaking hands with a homeowner in her driveway, his phone showing jobs quoted and invoiced. — The new way
You stay with your customers and your team. The office stops landing on you.

The old way

More jobs. More paperwork. Less of the owner left.

Most trade businesses grow the same way.

More jobs means more quoting, invoicing, chasing and scheduling.

None of it gets paid for.

So the owner does it at night, after a full day on site.

Or hires an office person to do it.

The office grows. The wages grow. The margin does not.

And the owner is still the one everything waits on.

Where we take you

More work. More profit. More of you left.

The phone rings with the jobs you want, at the price you set.

You grow when you're ready, never faster than the business can carry.

Every job is priced to make money, so the busy months show up in the bank.

The best tradies in your area want to work for you, and they stay.

The chasing, the paperwork and the 9pm admin stop landing on you.

The business runs the day. You pick which parts of it you're in.

Bigger, without the headaches. Getting bigger stops meaning getting busier.

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Questions

Solar Installers Ask Us These.

Do I still need Clean Energy Council accreditation to install solar?

No. Since 2024 the accreditation scheme for rebate-eligible installs has been run by Solar Accreditation Australia, appointed by the Clean Energy Regulator, and accredited installers must earn 100 CPD points every 12 months. Keeping that current is admin, not strategy. What we train owners on is everything the accreditation does not cover: pricing, systems, marketing and building a crew.

How do I stop competing on price per watt?

You change what the quote is about. Price per watt only wins when nothing else on the page is different, so build a quote that names the standards you install to, the warranty process, the grid connection work you handle and who answers the phone in year five. The Profitable Pricing Masterclass walks owners through that build.

Is this useful if I run a solar business in New Zealand?

Yes. New Zealand has no STC scheme, and registration sits with the Electrical Workers Registration Board plus the Mains Parallel Generation endorsement introduced in July 2024, so the compliance detail differs. The business problems do not. Pricing, hiring, systems and lead generation work the same way, and the Tradies App is free for trade business owners in Australia and New Zealand.

I am flat out installing. When would I actually do the training?

Around the work. The Learning Hub sits in the Tradies App at $199 a month, so lessons happen in the ute between jobs or on a Sunday morning. Start free on the app and add what you need.

Straight answers

Answers for Solar Installers.

A new question from solar business owners, answered every day.

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Every answer for solar installers

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