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What Solar Panel Cleaning Software Costs: The $59, $89 and $199 Plans

Price is usually the first question an owner asks about software, and too often the hardest one to get a straight answer to. Here is the straight answer for SolarCleaningBossPro, what each plan includes, and how to think about whether the cost makes sense for your company.

Price Is Part of Setup

If you followed Getting Set Up on Solar Panel Cleaning Software in One Day, you did the whole setup on the free trial. At the end of the trial you pick a plan. There are three, and every one of them starts with that 14-day free trial with no credit card required.

The Three Plans

• Start — $59 a month. Includes a monthly text allowance of 500 segments sent and received.
• Pro — $89 a month. Includes 1,000 segments.
• Crew — $199 a month. Includes 2,000 segments.

Those are the only three prices. You are not billed per user, so adding a tech or an office person does not change the monthly price on its own. The full side-by-side comparison of plan limits lives on the pricing page.

What Every Plan Includes

The core of the software is on every plan. That means:

• The office: clients with many addresses, tags, custom fields and reports
• Estimates from your service list with online approval, plus website request and sign-up forms
• Panel details and access notes on every job
• Recurring plans and the Waiting List map
• The dispatch board with truck filters and auto-routing
• The tech app with route order, navigation, Start / Skip / Complete, photos and a time clock
• The customer app with the live route map, invoices and online payment
• Two-way texting and automated alerts by text and email
• Invoices with sales tax, card on file, auto-charge and past-due follow-up
• Monthly account billing for property owners

The tech app and the customer app are not add-ons. Every plan gets all three apps.

Understanding the Text Allowance

The biggest practical difference between plans is the text allowance. It is counted in segments, and both sent and received texts count. A short text is one segment; a long one may be two or more. Automated alerts (night before, when they are next, tech arrived) plus replies and two-way conversations all draw from it.

A rough way to think about it: more customers and more trucks mean more alerts and more replies. Keep alert messages short and plain and the allowance goes further. If you are near the limit every month, that is usually a sign the next plan up fits better.

What Changes Between Plans

Some owners worry that the cheapest plan is a stripped-down demo. It is not. The plans differ in the size of operation they are set up for and in the text allowance, not in whether you get the tech app, the customer app or billing. Check the pricing page for the exact limits on each plan, and pick the one that matches the company you run today. Moving up later is a simple switch.

Picking a Plan

A simple way to choose:

• Start fits most owner-operators with one truck and a growing customer list.
• Pro fits companies that are texting more customers, often with a second truck or a busy recurring base.
• Crew fits companies running several trucks with a lot of daily customer contact.

You can move between plans as you grow, without moving your data. Starting on a smaller plan and moving up later costs you nothing in setup.

Is It Worth It?

The honest way to judge cost is against what the software replaces. Most solar cleaning companies are already paying for some mix of a texting tool, a card reader, an invoicing app and a calendar, and paying again in evening hours spent typing invoices and chasing who is due.

The bigger question is what a forgotten recurring customer costs you. A twice-a-year homeowner who slips through the cracks is two cleanings a year gone, every year. If the software keeps even a few of those customers coming back, it has likely paid for itself, but run the numbers with your own prices and your own customer list. How to Choose Solar Panel Cleaning Software for Your Company covers what else to weigh besides price.

Try It Before You Pay

The 14-day free trial needs no credit card. Import your customers, set up your service list, run a few real days and then decide. To see everything the plans include in one place, visit the solar panel cleaning software overview, or compare the plans on the pricing page.