Does it keep working when the signal drops or the power goes out?

The mobile app captures job details offline and syncs when the connection returns, which matters on sites with poor coverage and during load shedding. Nothing a technician records on site is lost because the network was not there.

What does it cost for a small Durban team?

There is a free plan for a solo operator. Paid plans start at R149 a month plus R149 per technician seat, including 15% VAT. Viewer users are free; admin seats are R99 per month on PaYu and R199 on Growth.

How do my Durban clients pay me?

Every invoice carries a Paystack payment link, so a client in Umhlanga or Pinetown pays by card or instant EFT from the message on their phone, in Rand, and the invoice is marked paid without anyone retyping a reference. Settlement reaches your bank account in two to three business days with a 1% transaction charge, and there is no separate merchant account to open. Cash and EFT payments can still be recorded against the invoice by hand.

Job card and job management app for solar installers in Durban

Omni Field is job management software for solar installers in Durban. It schedules callouts across Umhlanga, Pinetown, Westville and the rest of KwaZulu-Natal, tracks who is closest to the next job, captures a Certificate of Compliance, commissioning records and an invoice on site, and invoices in Rand. It keeps working offline when the signal or the power drops.

Built for the way Durban solar installers actually work

Humidity and salt air shorten the life of everything installed near the coast, so recurring maintenance is a larger share of the work than it is inland. A single install is a multi-day project with a materials list, a team and a paperwork trail, and running it out of a WhatsApp group loses one of the three. Omni Field puts the schedule, the technician’s location, the job record and the invoice in one place, so the job that was finished this morning is invoiced this morning.

The subtropical climate is humid year round with heavy summer rain, and coastal air corrodes fittings faster than inland, which shapes the year for solar installers here: PV installations and inverter and battery fitting do not arrive evenly across twelve months. Recurring work can be scheduled ahead of the season it belongs to, and emergency callouts can be dropped into a day that is already planned without losing the rest of it.

Areas covered around Durban

Teams using Omni Field dispatch across Umhlanga, Pinetown, Westville, Ballito, Amanzimtoti, Hillcrest and Berea, and anywhere else in KwaZulu-Natal. Jobs carry an address and a pin, the dispatcher can see which technician is nearest, and the customer gets an arrival window rather than "sometime this afternoon".

Umhlanga
Pinetown
Westville
Ballito
Amanzimtoti
Hillcrest
Berea

The work, and the paperwork that follows it

Solar installers in Durban book PV installations, inverter and battery fitting, system commissioning, panel cleaning and fault callouts. Each of those leaves site with a Certificate of Compliance, commissioning records and an invoice.

A grid-tied installation needs an electrical Certificate of Compliance and municipal registration, and installers commonly work to the PV GreenCard standard. Omni Field generates the job document from the job record itself and stores it against that job, so the copy the customer received and the copy you can find later are the same document.

A week of solar work in Durban

A working week here usually mixes booked work with whatever comes in that morning. System commissioning and panel cleaning can be planned days ahead and slotted against the technician who is already working that side of Durban. Emergency PV installations cannot, and they arrive on the days you are already full.

Omni Field keeps both on one schedule. A dispatcher can see who is free, who is nearest and what is already booked, move a job without phoning three people, and tell the customer when someone will actually arrive. Recurring work, the kind that renews quietly if you never miss it, is scheduled once and repeats.

The record follows the technician rather than the office: job notes, photographs, the customer’s signature and a Certificate of Compliance are captured against the job on site. By the time the bakkie is back on the road, the invoice can already be with the customer.

Load shedding and patchy signal

The mobile app captures job details, photographs and signatures offline and syncs when the connection returns. A technician on a site with no coverage, or working through a load shedding slot, still records the job properly, and nothing has to be re-entered from memory that evening.

What it costs

There is a free plan for a solo operator. Paid plans start at R149 a month including one technician seat, then R149 per extra seat, including 15% VAT. Viewer users are free, and admin seats are R99 a month on PaYu and R199 on Growth. Prices are shown and charged in Rand, so there is no exchange rate between the quote and the debit order.

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Questions from Durban solar installers

Does Omni Field work for a solar business in Durban?: Yes. Teams working across Umhlanga, Pinetown, Westville, Ballito and the wider KwaZulu-Natal area use it to schedule PV installations and inverter and battery fitting, dispatch the nearest technician, and send the invoice before leaving site. Prices are shown and charged in Rand.
Can solar installers produce a Certificate of Compliance from the app?: Job documents are generated from the job itself and can be emailed to the customer from site. A grid-tied installation needs an electrical Certificate of Compliance and municipal registration, and installers commonly work to the PV GreenCard standard. Omni Field stores the record against the job so it can be found later without going through a filing cabinet.
Does it keep working when the signal drops or the power goes out?: The mobile app captures job details offline and syncs when the connection returns, which matters on sites with poor coverage and during load shedding. Nothing a technician records on site is lost because the network was not there.
What does it cost for a small Durban team?: There is a free plan for a solo operator. Paid plans start at R149 a month plus R149 per technician seat, including 15% VAT. Viewer users are free; admin seats are R99 per month on PaYu and R199 on Growth.
How do my Durban clients pay me?: Every invoice carries a Paystack payment link, so a client in Umhlanga or Pinetown pays by card or instant EFT from the message on their phone, in Rand, and the invoice is marked paid without anyone retyping a reference. Settlement reaches your bank account in two to three business days with a 1% transaction charge, and there is no separate merchant account to open. Cash and EFT payments can still be recorded against the invoice by hand.