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STC claims & trading

The claim already knows everything about the job.

You designed the system here. You quoted it here. The serials came off the installer's phone here. So the STC claim shouldn't be a fresh form in somebody else's portal — it should be nineteen checks, four signatures and a lodgement.

12 Sunny St84 STCs · $3,276
GreenDeal$39.00
Bridge Selectyour rate
18 of 19 checks passed · evidence geotagged · CER CSV ready

Where the money actually leaks

Nobody loses a claim because the maths was hard. They lose it because a serial was photographed badly, a selfie was taken the day after the install, an accreditation lapsed in the middle of a job, or the same panel got claimed twice across two systems. Every one of those is knowable before you lodge — and every one of them is discovered weeks later by somebody else's compliance team.

A rejected claim is not just the certificates. It is the re-truck, the re-photograph, the customer asking why, and a deadline that keeps moving. The cheapest possible time to find a problem is while the installer is still standing on the roof.

Nineteen checks, run before you lodge

Not a "validation" that shrugs. These are the actual rules SunLedger runs against a claim, every time it changes — and here they all are, because a compliance tool that won't tell you what it checks is asking for a lot of trust.

12 Sunny St · PVD claim18 / 19 PASSED
✓Site evidence complete10 of 10 photo slots filled
✓Site photos geotaggedEXIF coordinates present
✓Photos taken at the install sitewithin 1 km of the address
✓Panel serials recorded15 read from the labels
✓Serial count matches the design15 serials · 15 panels
✓Panel serials uniqueno duplicates within the claim
✕Serials not used on another claimTSM8210394 already claimed on job 1042
✓Inverter serial recordedread from the compliance plate
✓Battery serials recordedone photo per module
✓System size within STC limitDC:AC 1.28 · under 1.33
✓Panel approved by the CECon the approved list at the install date
✓Inverter approved by the CECapproval not expired or post-dated
✓Written statements signedowner · installer · designer · retailer
✓Installation date set2026-07-28
✓Within the 12-month claim window336 days remaining
✓Installation date not in the future—
✓End-of-install photo matches install dateEXIF date equals the claimed date
✓STC count set84 · zone 4 · deemed to 2030
✓Customer NMI recordedon the customer record
✓Installer assigned & accreditedaccreditation on file, current
The one that failed is the point. A panel serial claimed on an earlier job is invisible to a form and obvious to a database — and it is the kind of thing that comes back as a clawback, not a rejection.

Evidence comes off the phone, not out of a folder

Named slots, so nobody has to remember the list — and the photos carry their own coordinates and timestamps, which is what turns a folder of images into evidence.

Solar · PVD

Ten slots, checked for completeness, location and date.

  • Check-in selfie — installer on site, start of day
  • Mid-installation selfie
  • End-of-installation selfie
  • Panel model label — module compliance plate
  • Panels installed — arrays on the roof
  • Inverter model label
  • Inverter installed
  • Meter box, open — including the back of the cover
  • Front of property
  • Certificate of Electrical Safety — COES / CCEW / CES

Battery · BTY

Its own twelve, because a battery claim is not a solar claim with an extra photo.

  • Battery module labels — one per serial plate
  • Battery installed, in situ
  • Battery labels & signage — front and sides
  • Main battery supply switch
  • Switchboard labels — inside and outside
  • Inverter model label
  • Front of property + the three selfies
  • Certificate of Electrical Safety

Four statements, signed on a phone

The owner's assignment declaration, and written statements from the installer, the designer and the retailer. Each goes out as its own link and comes back signed — no printing, no scanning, and no chasing a customer for a document they have already lost twice. A linked solar-and-battery pair carries its own second set.

One claim per certificate type, paired. A job with solar and a battery is a PVD claim and a BTY claim, linked to each other and shown as one row per customer on the board — because that is how you actually think about the job, whatever the CER needs to receive.

Lodge to your trader, or file it yourself

Three trader connectors are built in. Push the claim across, and serials, photos and status come back on their own — so the board tells you where every claim actually is, not where you last remembered putting it.

Connector

GreenDeal

Claim becomes a job, serials and photos sync across, status pulls back on a six-hourly sweep. A linked solar-and-battery pair is one GreenDeal job. Release removes it again before lodgement.

Connector

Bridge Select

Create-or-edit is idempotent per claim, so pushing again is an update rather than a duplicate. Solar, battery and combined jobs, with your own agreed rate shown beside the live feeds.

One install, one trader — enforced, not advised. All three push routes refuse if the claim or its linked sibling already carries another trader's id. Double-lodging the same install is the mistake with the worst ending, and it should not be possible to make by accident. Self-lodging instead? The CER bulk CSV exporter writes the upload file directly — byte-verified against a real accepted submission.

The maths, kept current

Zones, deeming years and the battery tiers are in the product rather than in a spreadsheet on somebody's desktop — including the change on 1 May 2026, where battery certificates moved from a flat rate to the tiered 100 / 60 / 15 % structure with its January and July steps. Installs before that date keep the old maths, because re-tiering history is how you turn a correct claim into a wrong one.

Panels, inverters and batteries are checked against the CEC approved lists as at the installation date — not today's list. A module approved last year and delisted this year was still approved on the day it went on the roof, and the claim has to say so.

Put one real claim through it

Seven days and 15 Rays — three designs' worth. Bring a job you have already lodged and see what the checks say about it.