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Turning Australia’s Rebate Maze into One Connected Run

A single platform that carries an Australian clean-energy job from first enquiry to design, quote, install, compliance and a lodged government certificate — without leaving the system.

Client
SwiftRebate
Service Line
Application Development
Industry
Renewable Energy & Rebate Compliance
A coastal home with rooftop solar panels, a heat pump and a battery system

Objective

Build one platform that runs an Australian clean-energy retailer’s entire operation — lead capture, solar and HVAC design, quoting, e-signed contracts, field installation, inventory and government rebate lodgement — replacing a patchwork of spreadsheets, paper job packs and disconnected portals.

Key challenges

  1. 01Rebate rules are unforgiving — STC, VEEC, Solar Victoria and ESV each carry their own eligibility maths, deeming periods and registry formats, and one wrong field gets a claim rejected weeks after the install.
  2. 02Field work was paper-based — serial numbers, compliance photos and customer sign-off were captured on paper at site, then re-keyed in the office days later, sometimes never.
  3. 03The quote and the contract disagreed — pricing, energy yield and rebate figures were recalculated in several places, so the number on screen did not always match the customer’s PDF.
  4. 04Nothing was joined up — sales, design, procurement, installers, drivers, finance and compliance each worked in separate tools, with no shared view of a single job.
Rows of solar panels and wind turbines at sunset

Our solution

  1. 01

    Platform

    One operations platform, end to end

    Built a single operations platform on React, NestJS and PostgreSQL — 131 backend modules and 1,331 APIs spanning CRM, design, quoting, jobs, inventory, finance and compliance.

  2. 02

    Field app

    Built for installers & drivers

    Delivered a React Native field app — 106 screens for installers, dispatchers and drivers, with OCR serial capture, geo-tagged compliance photos and on-site customer signature.

  3. 03

    Registries

    Wired straight into the registries

    Wired the platform straight into the registries — CER REC Registry, Solar Victoria, the Victorian VEU scheme and EnergySafe Victoria — so certificates lodge from the same record the installer completed.

  4. 04

    Accuracy

    One number, everywhere

    Made every energy and money figure server-authoritative — one engine feeds the design screen, the PDF and the invoice, so they cannot drift apart.

Technology stack

  • ReactJS
  • React Native
  • NestJS
  • PostgreSQL
  • AWS

Key outcomes

  1. 01

    Paperless Field Operations

    job packs, serial capture, compliance evidence and customer sign-off all completed on the installer’s phone.

  2. 02

    Registry-Ready Compliance

    digitally signed lodgement to the CER REC Registry, plus Solar Victoria, VEU and ESV — with a full audit trail behind every claim.

  3. 03

    20+ Integrations

    Google Solar, NREL PVWatts, Xero, MYOB, QuickBooks, firma.dev e-signature, Dialpad SMS and Meta & Google Ads, working as one workflow.

  4. 04

    600,000+ Lines Shipped

    lines of production code shipped across web, mobile and backend.