Install solar and want homeowner requests in the ZIP codes you serve?

What's in each request

You get the job the homeowner picked (a new system, battery storage, panels off for a roof job, a repair, an inverter, cleaning, an EV charger, an inspection, utility paperwork and permits, a ground mount or a removal) and the ZIP code, plus their name, phone and email, the time they sent it and the consent wording they agreed to. The consent covers one installer, by phone call and text, and it names SolarPanelMatch.

Tell us when you apply if a referral partner places calls for you, because the consent wording covers a partner acting for the installer that receives the request.

What you pay

You pay a per-request price for every request we deliver, set when you apply; this page quotes none. There's no contract, and we take no share of the job, so the customer is yours to quote and the homeowner pays you. When you can't take more work, you can pause delivery by job or by ZIP code, whenever you like.

What a solar request looks like when it arrives

Each homeowner asked about one specific job. Some won't answer, some will have signed with someone else, and our guides tell every reader to compare more than one quote, so a request never means you're the only installer they talk to. We make no promise about how many requests come in, or that any request becomes a job.

The license we expect

In Michigan we expect an electrical contractor license, which the Skilled Trades Regulation Act (MCL 339.5701 and 339.5737) requires for electrical contracting. The act's definition of electrical wiring includes generating equipment, so we tell homeowners to ask for your electrical contractor license number, and LARA's electrical permit application asks for the electrical contractor's State of Michigan license number. LARA says Detroit issues its own licenses and registrations, so if you work there, ask the city's BSEED office whether a state license alone is enough.

In California we expect a contractor holding a CSLB A, B, C-10 or C-46 license, and a salesperson who sells your jobs needs a home improvement salesperson registration unless the buyer starts the sale at a fixed retail storefront. We stop sending requests to any company we find working without a license its job requires.

Applying takes one email

To apply, email support@solarpanelmatchusa.com with your company name, your license number and class, the jobs you want and the ZIP codes you serve. Your license number stays on file with us. Keeping it isn't a check we run for any homeowner, and it promises homeowners nothing about you; we may call to confirm your details.

What we ask of every installer, on every request

• Make your first call from a line that shows your company's name, and say who's calling right away.
• Put the quote in writing with the total cost including financing, the system size in kW DC, the cost per watt before any incentive and the panels and inverter by make and model.
• Say who files the utility application and who pulls the permit, and give your license number the first time you're asked.
• Don't describe solar as free, as a way to end the electric bill or as available with no upfront cost.
• If a homeowner asks not to be called again, take them off your list and let us know.