Aurora Solar Alternative for Solar Companies

Aurora Designs the System. We Run the Company.

Aurora Solar is best-in-class for remote design, shading, and sales proposals - keep it for that. But it does not handle your CRM, dispatch, install scheduling, invoicing, or payments, and it bills per seat. Consolify One is the flat-rate, custom-built operating system that runs everything around the design.

The other way

Aurora Solar

Per-seat, off-the-shelf, multiple disconnected tools

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Better fit

The Consolify way

Consolify One

One flat-rate platform, custom-built around your workflow

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$0

Per-seat fees

40-70%

Avg. software cost reduction

4-8 wk

Time to launch

5-10

Tools consolidated into one

Where Aurora Stops

Great Design Software Is Not an Operating System

Aurora Solar is excellent at what it was built for. The problem is everything it was not built for - the day-to-day operation of a solar company that lives in five other tools.

01

Per-Seat Pricing Punishes Growth

Standard Aurora plans run roughly $135-$259 per user per month depending on tier and billing. Add closers, designers, and project coordinators and the bill climbs with every hire - before you have installed a single panel.

02

Design Only, Not Operations

Aurora stops at the signed proposal. It does not run your sales pipeline, dispatch crews, schedule installs, manage permits and inspections, invoice, or collect payment. That work scatters across CRMs, spreadsheets, and accounting add-ons.

03

One More Tool to Sync

When design lives in Aurora and everything else lives elsewhere, someone re-keys customer and project data by hand. Every manual sync is a chance for a wrong address, a stale price, or a missed install date.

04

Project Caps and Seat Math

Standard tiers cap projects per month and meter usage per user, so finance ends up forecasting software spend instead of revenue. Your operating system should not have a per-design meter running in the background.

Side by Side

Aurora Solar vs Consolify One

Aurora and Consolify One are not really competitors - they solve different halves of the business. Here is where each one is strong, and why most solar companies keep Aurora for design and consolidate everything else into Consolify One.

Feature
Aurora Solar
Consolify One
Remote solar design and shading
Best-in-class, NREL-validated accuracy
Not a design tool - we integrate Aurora
Sales proposals
Branded, interactive, well-reviewed
Pipeline and e-sign around Aurora proposals
Pricing model
Per user, per month (roughly $135-$259/seat)
Flat monthly rate, no per-seat charge
Add 10 staff
Bill scales with every added seat
$0 additional
CRM and sales pipeline
Not a CRM
Full pipeline, built around your sales motion
Install scheduling and dispatch
None
Crew scheduling, dispatch, and routing
Invoicing and payments
None
Invoicing, milestone billing, payments built in
Permits, inspections, and ops workflow
Out of scope
Custom-built to your install and PTO process

Aurora Solar pricing and feature details reflect publicly listed plans on aurorasolar.com and third-party reviews as of May 2026 (Basic approximately $135-$159 per user per month, Premium approximately $220-$259 per user per month depending on annual vs monthly billing, with project caps on standard tiers and custom Enterprise pricing). Figures are set by Aurora Solar and may change - confirm current pricing directly with Aurora.

What You Consolidate

Keep Aurora for Design. Consolidate the Other Five Tools.

Most solar companies bolt a CRM, a spreadsheet stack, a separate scheduler, and an accounting add-on around Aurora. Consolify One replaces that scattered layer with one custom system - and connects cleanly to Aurora so design data flows in without re-keying.

Standalone CRM (HubSpot, Pipedrive, Salesforce)Spreadsheets and shared drivesSeparate scheduling and dispatch toolsQuickBooks add-ons and manual invoicingPayment processing point toolsDisconnected reporting dashboardsConsolify One

Frequently Asked Questions

What Operators Ask Before Switching

Common questions about Aurora Solar and how Consolify One compares.

It depends on what you are trying to replace. For pure design and shading, Aurora is hard to beat and most companies keep it. What companies actually want to replace is the scattered CRM, scheduling, invoicing, and ops layer around it. For that, the strongest move is a flat-rate, custom-built operating system like Consolify One that runs everything Aurora does not - and integrates Aurora for design.

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Keep Aurora. Consolidate Everything Else.

Send us your current stack and a sketch of your install process. We will model what a custom Consolify One operating system would cost versus your current per-seat tools - and show how it connects to Aurora so design data flows straight into your pipeline, scheduling, and invoicing.

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