What the public systems page does
The public systems page turns selected installed systems into a live, customer-facing portfolio. Visitors can browse real installations, explore them by community, review fleet totals, and see the combined impact of the systems your company has chosen to publish.
Publishing is optional for every system. A system remains private until an authorized user or the associated customer deliberately makes it public.
What visitors can explore
The public portfolio includes three views:
- Systems: A browsable directory of published installations.
- Map: Published systems grouped geographically with community-level performance totals.
- Impact: Fleet-wide energy production and estimated environmental equivalents.
Visitors do not need to sign in. The page can be shared directly or added to the company’s customer-facing navigation.
Public portfolio totals
The page summarizes the published fleet using:
- Number of public systems
- Total installed capacity
- Lifetime energy generated
- Total panel count
- Number of represented communities
Only systems marked public contribute to the public totals and impact figures.
What a public system can show
A public system card can show:
- A customer-approved display name
- City, state, province, or regional location
- Installation month and year
- Current monitoring status
- Lifetime generation
- System capacity
- Panel count
- A selected cover photo or video
The public system page can provide more detail about that installation, including production and environmental results supported by the available monitoring data.
What stays private
Customer consumption data is never shown to public visitors. It remains available only to the customer and authorized company users when the connected monitoring provider supplies it.
The map receives rounded coordinates rather than full-precision installation coordinates. Public cards use regional location information. Even so, review the public page before sharing and use a customer-approved display name instead of personally identifying wording.
Make a system public as a staff user
- Open Systems.
- Find the installed system.
- Open its edit or public settings.
- Confirm the system title, location, capacity, panel count, installation date, and monitoring data.
- Select an appropriate cover image or video.
- Enable the public setting.
- Save the system.
- Open the public page and review the result.
The Systems workspace also provides bulk controls for publishing or unpublishing selected systems. Use bulk publishing only after reviewing the records for privacy and presentation.
Let the customer control visibility
An associated customer can open their system settings and choose whether the installation appears on the public installations page. The settings explain which performance details are shared and which information remains private.
This gives customers a clear opt-in decision. A customer can make the system private again without removing the internal monitoring record.
Choose a public display name
Use a display name that is useful without identifying the homeowner. Examples include:
- Halifax 12.4 kW Rooftop
- Annapolis Valley Ground Mount
- Community Centre Solar Project
- South-Facing Residential Array
If the title is left blank, Powerlily may use available location or system information as a fallback. Set the title deliberately before publishing.
Add public photos and videos
System settings allow the customer or authorized team to upload installation media. Choose the best image or video as the system’s cover from the staff system editor.
Before using media publicly, check for:
- Visible house numbers
- Vehicle licence plates
- People who did not consent to publication
- Documents, labels, or screens containing private information
- Neighbouring properties that should be cropped out
Sort and browse the public fleet
Visitors can sort published systems by newest installation, most energy generated, or largest capacity. This helps the same portfolio serve customers looking for recent work, strong long-term performance, or systems similar in scale to their own project.
Use the public map
The map plots systems that have usable location data. Visitors can select communities and review the number of systems, combined production, and installed capacity represented in each area.
If a public system is missing from the map, confirm that the system has valid coordinates and a usable city or region. A system can still appear in the public list even when its map data is incomplete.
Understand the Impact view
The Impact view starts with lifetime generation reported by public systems and calculates illustrative equivalents such as gasoline avoided, cars off the road, coal not burned, homes powered, oil displaced, and carbon emissions avoided.
These are estimates based on published conversion factors. They are useful for explaining scale, but they should not be described as separately measured environmental outcomes.
Customize the public systems page
Open system settings to choose the public page title. You can also enable the Systems link in the customer-facing navigation and customize its label through the company theme and navigation settings.
Use language that fits the company’s brand, such as Our Installations, Solar Portfolio, or Systems in the Field.
Create public system collections
Collections group selected systems into a focused public portfolio. A collection can have its own title, description, cover image, slug, and publication status.
Use collections for:
- Residential installations
- Commercial projects
- Ground mounts
- A specific community or branch
- A particular equipment family
- Projects completed during a campaign or year
A published collection only shows member systems that are themselves public. Adding a private system to a collection does not expose it.
Embed an individual system page
The customer’s system settings provide iframe code for embedding the live system page on another website or blog. Copy the generated code and place it in a page that permits iframe embeds.
The system must remain public for outside visitors to view it. Test the embedded result on desktop and mobile after publishing.
How customer referral links work
Each eligible customer has a personal referral link. The link opens a branded quote-request form that identifies the referring customer and the company.
When a visitor submits the form, Powerlily:
- Creates a new lead for the company
- Records the referring customer
- Sets the lead source to identify the referral
- Records the intake channel as referral
- Notifies the company team
- Sends a referral-used notification to the referring customer
This keeps the referral attached to the lead instead of relying on a salesperson to remember who introduced the customer.
Share a referral link from the client portal
- Sign in to the client portal.
- Find the referral area.
- Select Copy to copy the personal link.
- Share the link directly with the prospective customer.
The referral link is customer-specific. Do not replace its token or reuse another customer’s link.
Show the referral link on a public system
A customer can optionally enable Show my referral link on my system page. When enabled, the public system page includes that customer’s referral call to action.
The referral option is separate from public visibility. The system can be public without showing a referral link, and the referral link remains hidden by default.
Referral form information
The referral form can collect the prospective customer’s name, email, property address, phone number, average monthly power bill, project message, and supported uploads. The submitted information becomes part of the new lead.
The form includes bot protection. Customers should still share links with people who genuinely requested information and should not post private prospect details themselves.
Referral rewards
The public system settings may explain that a customer could be eligible for a referral reward. The link and attribution record do not by themselves define or guarantee a reward.
Your company should publish clear referral terms covering eligibility, qualifying events, payment timing, exclusions, and any applicable tax requirements.
Public portfolio checklist
- Confirm that public sharing is intentional.
- Use a non-identifying display name.
- Review the location shown on the card and map.
- Remove private details from photos and videos.
- Verify capacity, panel count, and installation date.
- Confirm that monitoring data is current.
- Open the page while signed out.
- Test the system card, map marker, and mobile layout.
- Enable the referral link only when the customer wants it shown.
- Review public systems periodically and unpublish unsuitable records.
Troubleshooting
A system does not appear on the public page
Confirm that the system is marked public and belongs to the correct company. Save the record, refresh the public page, and check whether a filter, sort, or pagination view is hiding it.
A system appears in the list but not on the map
Confirm that the installation has valid coordinates and regional location data. Correct the installation address and save the system again.
The public system has no image
Upload an installation photo or video and choose it as the system cover in the staff edit page. Uploading media alone does not necessarily make it the cover.
The public totals look too low
Only published systems contribute. Check whether eligible systems are still private and whether their capacity, panel count, and production totals are populated.
The customer cannot find their referral link
Confirm that the user is an associated client account with an active referral token. The personal link is available from the client dashboard and supported system settings.
The referral call to action is missing from a public system
Confirm that the system is public, Show my referral link on my system page is enabled, and the associated customer has a valid referral link.
A submitted referral is not attributed correctly
Confirm that the prospect used the referring customer’s full link and did not navigate to a general lead form. Open the lead and review its source, intake channel, and referrer.
A private system appears inside a collection editor
A system can be selected internally without becoming public. The public collection page excludes member systems that are not published.
Related guides
- Installed Systems, Monitoring, and Service
- The Client Portal
- Managing Leads: List, Board, Filters, and Insights
- Creating Lead Forms and Capturing Website Leads
- Themes and the Theme Builder
