Compare

ReDesk versus the six tools you use today

We do not publish head-to-heads against named competitors — they go stale and they rarely help. What we can compare honestly is the shape of the problem: one record against a stack held together by exports.

The job

ReDesk

Point tools, stitched

System design

Roof modelling, string layout, shade study

ReStudio solves the array in the browser against your own installation rules, and the drawing set regenerates on every change.

A desktop CAD seat one person knows, plus a separate PV tool. Revisions are re-drawn by hand.

Pricing a job

Component prices and lead times

The bill of materials prices itself from live supplier rate cards, with margin and landed cost visible per line.

A pricing spreadsheet updated when someone remembers, and a phone call to check availability.

Winning the work

Proposal and approval

A branded proposal generated from the design, with version history and approval thresholds enforced.

A Word template copied from the last deal, and a discount approved over a message.

Buying materials

Purchase orders and receipt

One bill of materials splits into supplier purchase orders, tracked back to the project and received by serial.

Separate POs raised in accounting software with no link to the job they belong to.

Running the install

Crew, SOP and evidence

The field SOP runs on mobile, offline, with geotagged photo evidence gating each step.

A printed job sheet, a WhatsApp group, and photos that live on somebody’s phone.

Paying for work

Milestones and subcontractors

Payments release automatically when evidence passes review, over AutoPay, BBPS or eNACH.

Invoices chased by email, advances paid on trust, disputes settled from memory.

Telling the customer

Status and expectations

A white-label app shows the customer their milestones, their payments and their live generation.

A status call every Tuesday, and an email thread nobody can find in month four.

Monitoring the fleet

Generation and faults

One normalised view across every inverter brand, with faults triaged to a likely cause and part.

Six vendor portals with six logins, six schemas and no comparable definition of underperformance.

Handling a claim

Warranty and AMC

Coverage is a verifiable credential on the asset; the claim opens with its evidence already attached.

A shared drive folder, a scanned invoice, and an argument about which batch the panel came from.

Knowing your margin

Job costing

Labour, travel and materials post to the project as they happen, so drift is visible on the day.

A month-end reconciliation that tells you what went wrong four weeks after it went wrong.

Proving compliance

Audit and security

SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, an audit log of every state change, and regional data residency.

Data spread across personal drives, personal phones and tools nobody has reviewed.

Getting your data out

Portability

Full export of projects, documents, telemetry and audit logs in open formats, on demand.

Whatever each vendor allows, in whatever format they choose, if they allow it at all.

The right-hand column describes the common pattern we see when teams run a CRM, a CAD tool, spreadsheets, a messaging group and two vendor portals side by side. Your setup may be better than this — tell us where and we will say so.

Being straight with you

When ReDesk is the wrong choice

You do fewer than two installs a month

A spreadsheet and a good WhatsApp habit will beat us on total cost. Come back when the coordination starts hurting.

You only need one of the seven

If you want monitoring alone and nothing else will ever move onto the platform, a dedicated monitoring vendor may serve you better.

You need on-premise deployment

We run as a hosted service with regional residency. We do not ship a self-hosted build, and we will not pretend otherwise.

Switching

Two weeks, one project at a time

Nobody moves a live portfolio in a weekend. We start with one new project and let the old system finish what it started.

Week one

Load your world

Catalogue, rate cards, drawing templates, SOP and crew list, imported with you on a call.

Week two

Run one real project

Quote, order and schedule an actual job end to end, with us watching the first gate close.

Month two

Move the pipeline

New enquiries start in ReDesk. Historical projects import in bulk or stay where they are — your call.

Always

Your data stays portable

Full export on demand in open formats, so leaving is as easy as arriving. That is the point.

Bring your current stack to the call

List what you pay for today. We will tell you honestly which parts we replace, which we integrate with, and which you should keep.