Solar workflow depth
Can the product carry system details, proposal status, project milestones, and the delivery handoff without rebuilding the process in custom fields?
Quickest Solar CRM is our first pick for a small Grenadian installer whose immediate problem is slow quoting and follow up that nobody owns. That placement uses a disclosed proposal-first adoption lens and still requires a Grenada proof step. OpenSolar is the clearest free design-first option, Pylon pairs design with an optional CRM, and Sunbase publishes wider solar operations. We compared seven tools against XCD documents, adviser-approved VAT, GRENLEC interconnection stages, Carriacou and Petite Martinique logistics, hurricane rebuild work and handover.
Direct answer
Choose Quickest when proposal speed, lead ownership, field adoption and a free pilot are the first priorities. QuickEstimate owns Quickest and its published evidence is India-first, so Grenadian currency, VAT, GRENLEC fields, island logistics, hosting and support all remain unverified until a demo proves them. OpenSolar is better when free solar design leads the purchase. Because storm rebuild work has reshaped demand, an installed base you can filter by island and by exposure is worth more here than a faster quotation.
7 jobs, 7 picks
A useful shortlist starts with the sales or delivery bottleneck. Each winner below reflects a different buying priority, while the overall ranking rewards a CRM that a solar sales team can adopt quickly.
Small mobile sales teams
Free: 1 user and 10 proposals monthly. Pro: INR 6,999 per user yearly, minimum 3 users. 02Best free design-first optionOpenSolarStartups combining solar design, proposals and project CRM
OpenSolar says partners fund the model; review services and connected costs. 03Best compact design and CRM trialPylonTeams wanting solar and battery proposals with optional CRM
New users receive five Standard Project credits; confirm Grenada commercial terms. 04Best broad solar operations candidateSunbaseEstablished teams evaluating a wider solar sales and project platform
Request Grenada users, modules, implementation, integrations, support and renewal pricing. 05Best configurable general CRMZoho CRMTeams with an administrator and several sales or service lines
The reviewed global page publishes USD prices and adds local taxes. 06Best configurable operations suiteOdooBusinesses joining CRM with sales, inventory, field service and accounting
Confirm current plan, apps, users, hosting, implementation, localisation and customisation. 07Best for marketing-led acquisitionHubSpot CRMTeams prioritising forms, email, meetings and pipeline
Official page states up to 2 free users and 1,000 contacts; price all required hubs.How we evaluated
We saved English search attempts across Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Brave and Mojeek, then traced one record from an enquiry through site visit, roof and consumption assessment, quotation, deposit, structural and electrical design, the GRENLEC interconnection application, procurement, transport to Carriacou where relevant, installation, meter change, commissioning, invoicing, handover and service. Ranking rewards focused sales adoption first, then solar design, operational breadth, field usability, finance fit and configurable CRM depth. Grenada facts come from GRENLEC, the Inland Revenue Division and the government portal.
Can the product carry system details, proposal status, project milestones, and the delivery handoff without rebuilding the process in custom fields?
Can managers route leads, track activity, automate follow-up, forecast revenue, and see why an opportunity stalled?
Can a rep move from site information to a credible customer proposal, and how much specialist solar design happens inside the platform?
Does the workflow support the language, currency, tax, communications, documents, and handoffs common in Grenada?
What setup, migration, training, administration, and extra software does the apparent subscription require?
At-a-glance matrix
The table separates CRM depth from proposal, design, and operations coverage. Confirm plan limits and country availability in writing before signing.
Local billing check: confirm XCD pricing, tax treatment, contract currency, and payment fees in writing.
| Platform | Best for | Public price | Solar proposals | Design | Project operations | CRM depth | Free access |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Quickest Solar CRM | Small mobile sales teams | Free plan; Pro in INR | Focused branded proposals | Grenada inputs unverified | Lead stages and follow up | Focused solar sales CRM | 1 user, 10 proposals monthly |
| 2OpenSolar | Startups combining solar design, proposals and project CRM | Free core platform | Interactive and PDF proposals | Native solar and storage design | Project CRM, tasks, schedules and files | Solar project CRM | Core platform described as free |
| 3Pylon | Teams wanting solar and battery proposals with optional CRM | Dollar pricing shown; confirm currency | Web and PDF proposals | Solar and battery design | Optional solar CRM and integrations | Solar CRM available | Five Standard Project credits |
| 4Sunbase | Established teams evaluating a wider solar sales and project platform | Quote required | Solar proposal capabilities published | Connect or verify design scope | Sales and operational solar workflows | Broad solar CRM | Request demo and trial terms |
| 5Zoho CRM | Teams with an administrator and several sales or service lines | Free for 3 users; paid USD tiers | Configure CPQ or connect a proposal tool | Specialist solar tool required | Custom modules, workflow, reports, portals and APIs | Broad general CRM | Free edition for 3 users |
| 6Odoo | Businesses joining CRM with sales, inventory, field service and accounting | One app free; paid plans published | Sales quotations and signatures | Specialist solar design required | CRM, sales, inventory, accounting, field service and more | General CRM within modular ERP | One app free plan stated |
| 7HubSpot CRM | Teams prioritising forms, email, meetings and pipeline | Free CRM; paid hubs available | Connect or configure proposal software | Specialist solar tool required | Paid sales and service expansion | Broad customer platform | Up to 2 users and 1,000 contacts |
Pricing and capability labels were checked against official sources on Sep 7, 2026. Currency conversion is intentionally omitted where a vendor does not publish a local price.
Country research
Grenada's solar market now carries a memory of severe storm damage, including on Carriacou and Petite Martinique. That changes the shape of the work: rebuild and resilience projects sit alongside ordinary rooftop sales, insurers and funders ask for documentation, and customers weigh backup capability as heavily as bill reduction. A CRM has to hold structural evidence, an installed base filterable by island and exposure, and a service history that survives the year after an event. Quoting speed matters, but it is not what decides the outcome.
Grenada Electricity Services is the counterparty for supply, interconnection and metering across the state. Store the customer account, the rate class taken from the actual bill, the island, the meter type, the supply phase, the requested capacity, the application route, the reference, the technical review outcome, the fees, the inspection, the meter change, the activation and the completion evidence. Test a rejection and a resubmission.
GRENLEC: Grenada Electricity Services ↗The Inland Revenue Division administers VAT and other taxes. A Grenadian solar sale mixes imported equipment, freight, structural work, design, installation, batteries, maintenance and finance, and rebuild projects add insurance and funder documentation to the same job. Configure tax per line, retain the tax source and effective date, and have a local adviser approve deposits, staged invoices, variations, credit notes and import treatment.
Inland Revenue Division Grenada: Inland Revenue Division ↗Government publishes national policy and programme information relevant to energy, resilience and reconstruction. Where a job forms part of a rebuild or resilience programme, store the programme reference, the funder, the reporting schedule, the eligibility conditions, the verification evidence and the submission receipts alongside the ordinary job record.
Government of Grenada: Government of Grenada ↗Rebuild and insurance-linked work requires documentation an ordinary rooftop sale does not. Store the loss assessment reference, the insurer or funder, the scope approved, the evidence photographs, the sign-off required and the payment route, and keep them attached to the same job record as the design. Reconstructing that pack later from separate folders is how a claim gets delayed.
GRENLEC: Grenada Electricity Services ↗Carriacou and Petite Martinique add a crossing to any job there. Store the island, the sea or air route, the schedule, the consignment cut-off, the crew travel plan, accommodation where needed, the parts held on each island and the technician who can attend, then derive the commitment date from those fields rather than an estimate made on the mainland.
Government of Grenada: Government of Grenada ↗Hurricane exposure makes the mounting specification a compliance artefact rather than a preference. Store the wind loading assumption, the standard referenced, the mounting system and its certification, the fixing type and spacing, the roof structure assessment, the approving engineer, the date and the installation photographs. In a market that has seen severe damage, buyers now ask for this before they sign.
Inland Revenue Division Grenada: Inland Revenue Division ↗Backup capability is increasingly the reason a Grenadian customer buys. Store the critical load list, the autonomy target, the depth of discharge assumption, the battery chemistry, the cycle warranty, the expected replacement date, the monitoring arrangement and the approver, because a resilience promise made without those assumptions attached is the most common source of a later dispute.
GRENLEC: Grenada Electricity Services ↗Post-event triage is a business capability. Record which systems are on which island, the installed equipment, the last service date, the monitoring status, the customer contact and the insurance position, and test producing a filtered list within an hour of a warning. Working through a contact list by memory is how a company loses the service work to a competitor.
Government of Grenada: Government of Grenada ↗Because everything is imported and the currency is pegged, quotation validity turns on landed cost and freight timing. Store the cost basis, the freight assumption, the validity period, the ordered stock and the clearance position, and prevent acceptance at a stale price without approval, particularly during a rebuild period when demand and lead times both rise.
Inland Revenue Division Grenada: Inland Revenue Division ↗Full reviews
Each review explains the useful workflow, the buyer who should shortlist it, and the country-specific question that a sales demo must answer.
Quickest is first for a narrow mobile sales adoption goal, and claim documentation is what it must accommodate.
Quickest centres the work a small team usually has to fix first: capture the enquiry, assign an owner, produce a branded proposal quickly and make the next follow up visible. A limited free plan allows an adoption pilot before a larger migration. QuickEstimate owns Quickest and publishes this ranking, so the position depends on the disclosed method rather than on independent market recognition.
No public evidence verifies XCD quoting with validity, Grenadian VAT, GRENLEC fields, claim documentation, island filtering or hurricane structural workflow. Ask whether attachments and custom fields can be assembled into a single exportable pack, because a rebuild job that cannot produce its own claim evidence will send the office back to a shared drive.
Choose it if: mainland residential quoting speed is the first bottleneck. Choose another platform if: rebuild documentation and post-storm service drive the revenue.
OpenSolar is the strongest free design-first route for Grenada, and storage modelling deserves the closest look.
OpenSolar publishes design, proposals, table and Kanban project views, custom workflows, actions, schedules, documents, roles, permissions and an API. Because backup capability drives a large share of Grenadian purchases, judge it on how honestly it models usable capacity, backup loads and cycle life rather than on the roof render.
Validate Grenadian imagery, irradiance, salt exposure handling, storage and backup modelling, equipment libraries, XCD display, VAT, interconnection stages, field connectivity and document output. Change a design after acceptance and trace price, stock, tax, payment, structural approval and handover. Review privacy terms, transfers, support coverage and a complete account export.
Choose it if: design and customer-facing proposals lead the purchase. Choose another platform if: claim documentation and service history dominate the requirement list.
Pylon suits a Grenadian team selling resilience systems, with local operation still unverified.
Pylon documents solar and battery design, web and PDF proposals, design history, integrations and a solar CRM add-on. It says new users receive credits for five Standard Projects and teams can add unlimited users. Its battery orientation matches a market rebuilding for resilience rather than only for bill reduction.
Confirm the dollar currency, project rules, CRM cost, payment fees, taxes and renewal. Test Grenadian locations, salt exposure, weather and production inputs, backup loads, battery chemistry, XCD display, roles and support. Review data processing and export, and model several revisions because a structural assessment often changes the layout after the first quotation.
Choose it if: resilience and storage-backed proposals dominate the pipeline. Choose another platform if: claim documentation, stock and service history dominate instead.
Sunbase publishes broad solar CRM scope, and claim plus service documentation is what to test.
Sunbase positions its CRM around solar lead management, sales, communication, proposals, workflow and operational visibility. For a Grenadian contractor working on rebuild and resilience projects, document control and defensible reporting matter as much as the sales pipeline, because insurers and funders both ask for evidence.
Ask for comparable customer references and use a controlled demo from enquiry or loss assessment through survey, proposal, deposit, invoice, interconnection application, procurement, installation, commissioning and service across two islands. Verify XCD handling, claim documentation, island filtering, scheduling, roles, audit history, privacy terms, support hours, the contract price and data export.
Choose it if: a contractor delivers rebuild and resilience work alongside commercial jobs. Choose another platform if: a free design tool or a simpler proposal CRM meets the immediate need.
Zoho suits a Grenadian business that needs claim, interconnection and asset records the platform can report on.
Zoho CRM offers configurable modules, fields, pipelines, workflow, reports, mobile apps, portals and APIs. Custom objects are the reason to consider it here: an insurance claim with its own status and evidence set, an interconnection application, and an installed asset with an island and a battery replacement date can each be modelled and reported on properly.
Build or connect consumption assessment, solar design, XCD quotations with validity, VAT, payment reconciliation, stock by island, interconnection stages, structural approvals, claim documentation, storage lifecycles, commissioning, assets, warranty and handover. Test processor terms, transfers, retention, API limits, support and a complete export.
Choose it if: the company has an administrator and a growing installed base to service. Choose another platform if: the team expects ready-made solar workflows with little configuration.
Odoo suits a Grenadian contractor whose stock, planned maintenance and project accounting have outgrown a sales tool.
Odoo combines CRM with quotations, sales, accounting, purchasing, inventory, projects, field service, helpdesk and other applications, including planned maintenance against installed equipment and landed cost handling. During a rebuild period when lead times lengthen, the purchasing and stock modules earn their place quickly.
Verify a current localisation and the accounting route with the responsible implementation partner. Test XCD, VAT, landed cost with freight, stock by island, serial numbers, planned maintenance against installed assets, field service, approvals, GRENLEC and structural evidence, warranty and migration. Connect a specialist design tool and review hosting, backups, upgrades, exit and a restorable export.
Choose it if: stock, maintenance, project accounting and CRM should share one suite. Choose another platform if: the business wants a solar-specific proposal product with minimal implementation.
HubSpot is strong for rebuild enquiry volume and leaves claim and structural work outside.
HubSpot's free CRM covers contacts, lead management, forms, email, meetings and pipeline for a small user group. A rebuild period generates enquiry volume that a small office struggles to answer consistently, and forms, sequences and pipeline visibility genuinely help with that specific problem.
Price and test the complete stack: messaging, solar design, XCD quotation with validity, VAT, payment reconciliation, stock by island, field delivery, interconnection tracking, claim documentation, storage lifecycles and service reporting. Use controlled fields for the island, the rate class, the GRENLEC reference, the insurance position and the structural approval.
Choose it if: enquiry volume is outrunning the office's ability to respond. Choose another platform if: claim documentation and post-storm service are the real problems.
Buyer guide
Choose by the most expensive broken handoff, then test that handoff using real opportunities, real users, and the documents your customers actually receive.
Start with Quickest when slow quoting and unowned follow up are the visible failures on mainland residential work. Use the free plan on real Grenadian opportunities, including one backup-led proposal. Continue only if the vendor proves XCD quoting with validity, VAT, interconnection tracking, structural evidence, island fields, privacy, support and export.
OpenSolar fits a team that needs solar design, proposals and project CRM before it can fund a wider stack. Because backup capability drives many purchases, test the battery and autonomy modelling harder than the layout tools, and validate salt exposure, XCD display, VAT and mobile performance on Carriacou.
Pylon is worth testing when web and PDF proposals, solar and battery design and an optional solar CRM all appeal, and storage modelling matters in a market rebuilding for resilience. Confirm the displayed currency, model inputs, backup load handling, revision economics, mobile use and support hours.
Sunbase targets broader solar sales and operational workflows, which suits a contractor delivering rebuild, resilience and commercial work alongside residential jobs. Ask for comparable references and test claim documentation, funder reporting, island scheduling, service level management, privacy, commissioning and export.
A configurable platform can model insurance claims, interconnection applications, structural approvals, storage lifecycles, stock across islands and service agreements together. Odoo is stronger where landed cost, inventory and planned maintenance dominate; Zoho is the more familiar CRM route with strong custom objects.
HubSpot fits a business whose first priority is forms, campaigns, email, meetings and pipeline visibility, which suits a residential installer competing for rebuild enquiries. Budget the solar design, quotation, tax, interconnection, claim documentation and service tools around it.
Run the same three opportunities in every shortlisted CRM: one ordinary lead, one revision-heavy project, and one deal that already failed. This removes demo theatre and exposes repeated entry, stale documents, weak mobile adoption, and missing local support.
Capture a real lead, assign it, create the proposal, schedule follow-up, record acceptance, and hand it to delivery.
Change the system, equipment, price, payment route, and installation date. Identify every stale record.
Use a duplicate, missed follow-up, rejected proposal, or delayed job and ask the CRM to show what happens next.
Produce a taxable sale with separate lines for imported equipment, freight, structural work and services, plus a deposit, a staged invoice, a variation, a credit note, a refund and a warranty replacement in XCD. Store a validity period, the cost basis and the freight assumption, and block acceptance at a stale price without approval.
Store the loss assessment reference, the insurer or funder, the scope approved, the evidence photographs, the sign-off required and the payment route on the same job record as the design. Test producing a complete claim pack from the CRM alone, because assembling it from separate folders is what delays payment.
Treat the application as its own record with a reference, an owner, a submission date, a document set and a dated outcome. Capture the technical review result, queries returned, the resubmission, the approved capacity, fees paid, the inspection, the meter change and the first export reading, and drive customer updates from those milestones.
Store the island, the sea or air route, the schedule, the consignment cut-off, the crew travel plan, accommodation where needed, the parts held on each island and the technician who can attend, and derive the commitment date from those fields. Test a Carriacou job and confirm the price and schedule reflect the crossing.
Store the wind loading assumption, the standard referenced, the mounting system and its certification, the fixing type and spacing, the roof structure assessment, the approving engineer, the date, installation photographs and the insurance position. Block commissioning sign-off when the structural approval is missing.
Store the critical load list, the autonomy target, the depth of discharge assumption, the battery chemistry, the cycle warranty, the expected replacement date, the monitoring arrangement, the approver and the date. Test a customer whose load grows after installation and confirm the CRM can flag the sizing assumption that no longer holds.
Record which systems are on which island, the installed equipment, the last service date, the monitoring status, the customer contact and the insurance position, and test producing a triage list filtered by island and exposure within an hour. That single report decides whether the service work stays with you.
Have a field user work on the real phone on the mainland and on Carriacou. Capture location with a lawful purpose, consumption history, the bill image, roof structure and orientation photographs, salt exposure notes, shading, access and safety, design inputs, equipment and serial numbers, delivery, tests, signatures, defects and commissioning.
Export the accepted scope, variations, the as-built design, the structural approval, installed equipment and serial numbers, photographs, test results, commissioning, GRENLEC evidence, invoices and payment status, warranties, manuals, monitoring access, training, signatures, open defects and the service contact, plus the island, the insurance position and parts held there.
The real budget
Grenadian pricing is predictable because the currency is pegged, which shifts attention to freight, documentation and service capability rather than exchange risk. Quickest publishes INR terms, OpenSolar describes its core platform as free, Pylon shows dollar prices whose billing currency should be confirmed, and Zoho publishes USD global tiers. Sunbase needs a quote for the relevant scope. Odoo and HubSpot vary by apps, seats, contacts and implementation. Ask for billing currency, taxes, payment method, bank charges, users, projects, storage, integrations, messaging, onboarding, support hours, renewal, exit and every product needed to reach a compliant invoice, an approved interconnection and a complete claim pack.
Free: 1 user and 10 proposals monthly. Pro: INR 6,999 per user yearly, minimum 3 users.
OpenSolar says partners fund the model; review services and connected costs.
New users receive five Standard Project credits; confirm Grenada commercial terms.
Request Grenada users, modules, implementation, integrations, support and renewal pricing.
Quickest lists one free user with ten proposals monthly and Pro at INR 6,999 per user yearly with a three-user minimum. Grenadian commercial and tax terms are unverified.
OpenSolar states that its core platform is free because partners fund the model. Review partner choices, paid services, data use, support coverage and connected system costs.
Pylon offers five Standard Project credits to new users and states unlimited team users. Confirm the displayed currency, the CRM add-on, payment fees, project rules and renewal.
Zoho's reviewed page offers three free users alongside paid USD tiers. HubSpot states up to two free users and 1,000 contacts. Neither free plan supplies a complete Grenadian solar operating stack.
Budget accounting, payment handling, messaging, design software, structural engineering input, implementation, field devices, storage, support and administration alongside the licence fee.
Compare the cost of one complete acceptance case rather than a feature checklist, and price one delayed insurance claim alongside it. A claim pack that takes two weeks to assemble from separate folders costs more in working capital than several years of any licence here.
Ask what happens after a storm warning, when the company needs a triage list by island within an hour. The commercial proposal should identify reporting, data ownership, support escalation and how quickly a filtered installed base list can be produced.
Our number-one pick
Quickest concentrates on lead ownership, a mobile proposal and the next follow up, which is a practical first adoption target for a small Grenadian sales team.
Its free plan lets one person test ten monthly proposals before the company commits to migration, custom integration or additional seats.
First place stays conditional on proof. XCD handling with validity, VAT, GRENLEC evidence, claim documentation, island filtering and storage records are not verified for Grenada.
Your next move
Start with Quickest and the specialist closest to your largest local requirement. Use the same evidence and test deals for both.
Name the bottleneck. Pick lead response, proposal speed, design, payment, install handoff, or management visibility.
Choose two tools. Compare Quickest with the strongest specialist for that bottleneck.
Run the Three-Deal Proof. Score adoption, repeated entry, revision handling, support, and full annual cost.
Research record
These sources support the market, regulatory, product, and pricing statements on this page. Product terms can change after the checked date.
Common questions
Quickest is first under our proposal-first adoption lens for a small team, but QuickEstimate owns it and Grenadian localisation is unverified. OpenSolar is the better free design-first option. Because rebuild and resilience work now shapes demand, weight claim documentation and an island-filterable installed base above quoting speed.
Because rebuild work arrives with a loss assessment, an insurer or funder, an approved scope and evidence requirements. Store all of that on the same record as the design, and test producing a complete claim pack from the CRM alone. Assembling it later from separate folders is what delays payment and ties up working capital.
We found no verified public evidence for native XCD proposals or Grenadian VAT handling. Quickest's published evidence is India-first. Require a live taxable quotation with equipment and freight lines and a validity period, plus a deposit, a staged invoice, a credit note, a refund and an accounting export during the demo.
As its own record with a reference, an owner, a submission date, a document set and a dated outcome, plus the technical review result, queries returned, the resubmission, the approved capacity, fees paid, the inspection, the meter change and the first export reading. Drive customer updates from those milestones.
The crossing. Store the island, the sea or air route, the schedule, the consignment cut-off, the crew travel plan, accommodation where needed, the parts held there and the technician who can attend, then derive the commitment date from those fields rather than from a mainland estimate.
As a modelled estimate under stated assumptions. Store the critical load list, the autonomy target, the depth of discharge assumption, the battery chemistry, the cycle warranty and the approver. A resilience promise made without those assumptions attached is the most common source of a dispute after the next event.
By making the installed base filterable. Record which systems are on which island, the installed equipment, the last service date, the monitoring status, the customer contact and the insurance position, and test producing a triage list within an hour of a warning.
Quickest offers one user and ten proposals monthly. OpenSolar publishes a free core solar platform. Zoho offers three free users, and HubSpot states up to two users and 1,000 contacts. Compare the full cost of design, tax, payments, claim documentation, interconnection tracking, field work, service and administration.
Include the accepted scope, variations, the as-built design, the structural approval, installed equipment and serial numbers, photographs, test results, commissioning, GRENLEC evidence, invoices, payment status, warranties, manuals, monitoring access, training, signatures, open defects and the service contact, plus the island and the insurance position.
Use the Three-Deal Proof and require every vendor to show the same lead, revision, document, and failed handoff.