ARKA 360: The Ultimate Toolkit for Solar Installers

Create on-site solar proposals using sales mode to draw roof faces, set edge types, add obstructions, and place panels. Calculate generation and generate a shareable sales report in minutes.

Learn to upload and place a custom image in ARKA 360’s design studio, adjust rotation, scale, and opacity, and update the map in 3D and 2D CAD views.

Learn to design a flat roof by outlining the area, configuring base height, azimuth, and parapet height, setting setbacks, adding polygon obstructions, and reviewing the design in 3d mode.

Learn to design a complex pitched roof quickly using the Arca 360 smart roof tool, tracing corner points, snapping to 90°, and adding gable and hip dormers.

Use the pen tool in ARCA 360 Design Studio to sketch a roof in 3D with Google 3D data, auto-fit height, tilt, and azimuth, then tweak 2D alignment.

Automate roof design with the AI Roof Design feature in Design Studio, in beta and best for simple roofs, with 3D viewing and NPS feedback to fine-tune or switch manual.

Explore solar access and irradiance maps to design efficient arrays. Identify low-generation modules via subarray, optimize with the slider, and visualize roof irradiance with color-coded maps.

Add microinverters to a solar design, select the EC8 plus, assign panels, and create color-coded AC branches with combiners, labeling each branch for clear wiring.

Add a string inverter, choose a 15 kilowatt unit, and connect modules and strings across mppts. Organize strings by mppt, account for shading, tilts, and azimuths, and adjust as needed.

Add optimizers to your arka 360 solar design by configuring inverter and modules, updating the string range, creating strings, and viewing the attached optimizers in the SLD.

Learn to use the sun simulation feature to view shadow patterns across the day and year with the slider or play, enabling optimized panel placement for solstice designs.

Create design profiles to tailor residential, roof, or commercial solar projects in the design studio. Customize defaults for modules, shading, units, setbacks, and proposal pages.

Generate PV reports for the US using our Power Gazebo proposal, detailing technical specifications, installation steps, estimated production and offsets, energy savings, and environmental benefits.

Explore the Power Gazebo proposal for a custom solar gazebo system, detailing product features, system layout, technical specs, energy production estimates, installation steps, and federal ITC benefits.

Tailor a Power Patio proposal by toggling shade and financials, translating to Spanish, and assembling pages from cover to installation roadmap, highlighting costs, benefits, and ITC eligibility.

Learn how to generate and share a web proposal with pricing, consumption data, a 3D rooftop model, shading analysis, and key project details for customer review and soft signature.

Learn to share and download proposals with clients, edit the email body, and send the proposal, or download a PDF to combine with other documents.

Modify your proposal and translate it into Spanish using the language dropdown and update button, converting the entire document from English to Spanish.

Learn how to create customizable proposals with editable text and images, dynamic placeholders that fetch content, and page controls—shuffle, hide, add pages, and apply templates for a solar installer proposal.

Create a battery-only proposal in seconds by choosing ESS only, adding a Tesla Powerwall, and calculating backup duration for essential loads and pricing incentives.

Explore the Arca 360 consumption feature to select utility rates, craft custom tariff plans, and input consumption data from monthly bills, green button data, or API sources for energy management.

Explore flat tariff rates and options like net metering, feed in tariff, and net billing to understand simple, transparent energy costs and smarter decisions.

Learn time-of-use rates to save money by shifting energy use to peak and off-peak times, using predefined or custom time-of-use options and seasonal adjustments to optimize energy and reduce bills.

Explore time of use rates to save money by adjusting usage to peak and off-peak hours across seasons, using predefined TOU tariffs or creating custom rates in ARKA 360.

Input your average monthly electricity consumption and monthly usage for each month in ARCA 360 to create a custom profile that reflects your energy usage for analysis and optimization.

Use ARCA 360 to examine your current energy usage and a future profile, plan changes like EV or new appliances, and see how costs may be affected.

Arca 360 offers pre-existing daily profiles to understand hourly energy usage, and supports custom profiles to define hourly consumption, pinpoint peak times, and reveal savings opportunities.

Upload your consumption data into ARCA 360 using Green Button Data, downloading XML or CSV from your utility, then verify the upload and review the energy usage insights.

Upload consumption data to ARCA 360 using spreadsheet interval data, with date, time, and electricity values. Let ARCA 360 analyze the data to provide energy insights.

Upload a user's consumption data via Utility API by authorizing access, selecting a utility, and sharing account details, energy usage, bills, and services to generate daily and monthly profiles.

Learn how ARCA 360's storage feature saves on bills by optimizing battery dispatch against TOU rates, using solar during peak periods and grid charging during off-peak.

Configure a partial home backup in ARCA 360 to keep essential appliances powered during outages by editing the default list—refrigerators, lights, and medical devices—and calculating backup duration from total consumption.

Set up a full home backup in arka 360 to achieve energy independence by specifying backup duration and selecting battery manufacturer, model, and quantity using your consumption profile.

Configure adders and discounts for a residential solar design using pricing and financing, manage adders, and create new ones with flat rate, per panel, or per watt options.

Learn to add and manage incentives in ARCA 360 for residential solar, including the auto applied federal ITC and custom incentives across fixed cost, system cost, production, and size.

Learn to add and manage loan financing in ARKA 360 by configuring four loan types—bullet, mortgage style, interest only, and no payment—and adjust principal, rate, duration, and pricing.

Explore configuring PPA and lease financing within ARKA 360, including upfront payments, rates, escalation, and templates, and visualize annual cash flow and monthly payments for residential projects.

Connect your Good Leap account with ARCA 360 to access Good Leap loans for designs and configure pricing and financing with auto-calculated payments and auto pay discounts.

Learn to place and customize a solar sales proposal in ARKA 360, from the design tab's order form and rate settings to modules, storage, pricing, incentives, and final submission.

Order permit packages in ARCA 360 by selecting the system type and battery, then complete the site survey with mandatory roof, module, inverter, and electrical details.