Display Battery Pricing in Homeowner Contract

With OpenSolar’s contract editor, you can include battery pricing for each of your projects. This might be a requirement by your lender or state in which you do business.  

Please note that this article is focused on the “PDF” contract editor. If you are using the “HTML” contract editor instead, you may wish to explore making the switch to the PDF editor. In general, our PDF editor provides a greater selection of data placeholders and more flexibility (e.g. formulas, date formatting, etc). 

Depending on how you do model battery pricing — in the OpenSolar design tool  — you will have a corresponding solution for displaying this value in your contract. 

Price Adjustment by Component 

If you utilize a pricing scheme and include price adjustments by component, then you can do the following:

First, establish the price for your batteries at the component level (Control > Design & Hardware > Batteries > click “Edit” pencil > Price Adjustment.

Note: A benefit to this pricing configuration is that you can easily automate tiered pricing for stackable battery units.

Once you’ve done this, you will want to find the “Batteries” component pricing data placeholder in the contract editor tool. This is found in the Placeholder Menu by navigating to Payment Options > Pricing > Price Adjustments > Batteries. 

Pricing Adder 

If you capture your battery price via pricing adder, then you will need to make sure that your pricing adder is configured with the “Generic Non-Solar” price treatment.

First, make sure that you have your battery pricing established in your Pricing Adders Library. 

Once you’ve done this, you will want to find the “Non Solar Price” data placeholder in your contract editor. This is found in the Placeholder Menu by navigating to Payment Options > Pricing > Non Solar Price. 

Note: If you have additional pricing adders in your project, with the “Generic Non-Solar” price treatment applied, that are NOT related to the final battery price, then you may need to update those pricing adders.

Manual Pricing

If you roll the price of the battery in your “manual” pricing scheme, whether that be a fixed $ amount or $/W, then you will not be able to easily capture the value of the battery in your contract.

Because of this, we recommend that you utilize a pricing adder (see instructions above) for the itemized price of your battery. 

Note: If you add the price of your battery at the component level, instead of via pricing adder, the “manual pricing” scheme will also override this component pricing.