Driving Better Customer Engagement for a Leading Solar Energy market platform with a Python-Powered Web Application

About the Client:

Our client is a San Francisco, California-based market platform that provides solar energy solutions for commercial buildings.

Their AI-powered platform makes it quick and simple for commercial building owners to find solar project developers at the lowest price. The solar aggregator has pre-qualified solar installers, suppliers, and financial partners to speed up the purchase process.

The platform also supports installers and suppliers by offering them value-added software and services. And provide expert solar project teams for on-site oversight.

Key Challenges

For meeting their goals, the client needed a web application for reporting purposes. The key challenges that the company was facing included:

• Our client’s data was stored on multiple third-party databases. Their platform struggled to fetch the right data when requested by end-users. The data had to be easily accessible for authorized users.
• The company was dealing with confidential data that had to be kept safe and secure.
• One of their major asks was to build a seamless online marketplace that could help the commercial building owners find new solar energy solutions with fast, accurate designs and pricing and help solar panel installers acquire more customers.

Business Needs Synopsis  

The client’s basic requirement was a web application that could be used primarily for report generation.

The experts at SynergyTop were given the responsibility to develop a robust, scalable, secure, and user-friendly application that generates multiple reports to help commercial building owners with insights (cost comparisons between different solar service providers) to make informed decisions in choosing the right solar service provider.

Our client’s business needs from the app included:

• For a comfortable user experience, the application required a user-friendly UI/UX design.
• One-click data accessibility for authorized users. The users should be able to find the list of projects and related details with ease.
• The app should be robust and scalable and should not falter or have performance issues if the traffic increased or the user base expanded.
• Also, there was a requirement to develop an app that can be modified to add more features in the future.

SynergyTop’s Solution

After learning in detail about the goals of the company and clearly identifying the challenges involved, the team of expert developers at SynergyTop earmarked the following solutions for the project:

• Our developers ensured scope for third-party integration. This was primarily because third parties were already involved in handling the data for the company. DynamoDB was the database of choice for storing all third-party data.
• With robust reporting functionalities, we ensured that all the parties using the application are always updated about the latest updates.
• Options and provisions for exporting the CSV/Excel files with selected data were added.
• A secure Oauth2 login functionality was added to provide safe access to the application.
• The Falcon admin dashboard and web app template were integrated. The powerful AngularJS-powered admin dashboard further helped add functionalities to meet the user’s needs.

WordPress Maintenance Services

Other than developing a web app for our client, we were also entrusted with the responsibility of offering ongoing maintenance services for their WordPress website. The services include:

• Site-wide security checks to ensure that our client’s website is safe from hackers and malware.
• WordPress, themes, and plugin updates on the client website to ensure that all the latest features are available and there are no gaps or compatibility issues that can cause the site to break.
• Checking and fixing broken links to maintain the ranking of the client website. 
• Technical SEO for better keyword ranking.

Business Benefits

Upon implementation of the solutions as discussed the solar energy market platform was able to achieve the following business benefits:

• The end-users of the app can easily find details about any project with just one single click. Details like Key Project Milestones, Weekly/Daily Report, Open Items, Documents, Summary, Contacts, etc. are shown in the app itself. The user experience almost doubled with the Python-powered web app.
• The application has a secure login which ensures that there is no unauthorized access. Our client was now safe from data security threats or privacy violations.
• The company can now help its clients more effectively in finding solar solution providers. With the use of the web app, our client was able to successfully expand their user base by 10% within the first 6 months.
• The project was completed by the SynergyTop team in record time and with great accuracy, which helped save time and cost for our client.
• With our WordPress maintenance and technical SEO services, our client’s website is always up-to-date and ranks on the first page for 100+ keywords.

About SynergyTop

SynergyTop is a leading IT services company that provides future-ready digital solutions and enables digital commerce for its enterprise customers. Our certified digital and domain experts deliver custom digital solutions on website UX/UI, mobile application, PWAs, and E-Commerce; managed cloud services and custom ERP development.

Founded in 2014 and Headquartered in San Diego, SynergyTop has delivered over +200 websites, +50 mobile applications, and +100 eCommerce platforms for small and medium-size customers from Retail, Healthcare, Solar Power and Energy, Construction, and Manufacturing Industry. We have received many industry awards and recognitions from leading publications. Combining our unmatched experience, fast-paced execution ability, and passionate team of domain experts, make us the partner of choice for our customers in their digitalization journey to grow and prepare for the future.

Write to us at info@synergytop.com