Solar Financing

One platform. Every funding option.

Seamless Home connects you to multiple solar lenders, TPOs, loans, and sell-on-our-paper, so you can match the right financing to every homeowner without managing lender relationships yourself.

How solar financing works with Seamless Home

Solar financing is how a homeowner pays for a system over time instead of in cash. Most often a TPO lease or PPA (a third party owns the system and the homeowner pays for the power), a solar loan (the homeowner owns the system and repays over a term), or selling on the provider's paper. Seamless Home gives residential solar sales organizations, installers, and EPCs access to all three across a single platform.

Instead of negotiating and maintaining separate relationships with each lender, you offer every homeowner the right product through one workflow, with funding from GoodLeap, Sunlight, LightReach, EnFin, Concert Finance, and Solrite. Multi-lender access means a homeowner who falls outside one lender's credit box can still be matched to another, so fewer closed deals stall at financing.

Federal solar tax credit status, important 2026 update

The 30% federal Residential Clean Energy Credit (Section 25D), the credit a homeowner claimed when they bought and owned a system, applied to property installed through December 31, 2025. Per the IRS, it is not available for property placed in service after that date. Homeowners purchasing a system in 2026 should not be told to expect a 30% federal credit.

Business-side credits are a separate matter. In a third-party-owned structure (a TPO lease or PPA), the provider owns the system and may claim the federal Clean Electricity Investment Credit (Section 48E) at the entity level; that has always sat with the owner rather than the homeowner, and is reflected in the pricing the provider offers.

State, local, and utility incentives are unaffected by this change and vary widely by jurisdiction. Confirm current federal, state, local, and utility incentive eligibility with a qualified tax professional and the administering authority before presenting any incentive to a homeowner. Seamless Home does not provide tax advice.

Financing flexibility, in one place

Lender-agnostic financing so you're never forced into a single product.

Multiple lenders

Access funding from GoodLeap, Sunlight, LightReach, EnFin, Concert Finance, and Solrite.

TPO leases & PPAs

Offer $0-down third-party-ownership options for homeowners who prefer them.

Loans

Match homeowners with solar loan products that fit their credit and goals.

Sell on our paper

Run qualifying deals on Seamless Home's paper when it makes sense.

No single-lender lock-in

Choose the best product per deal instead of being tied to one funder.

One workflow

Qualification and financing live alongside fulfillment in a single dashboard.

Which solar financing option fits each homeowner

No single financing product wins every deal. The reason multi-lender access matters is that the right structure depends on the homeowner's credit, tax appetite, and whether they want to own the system. Here is how the three paths compare:

TPO leases and PPAs work best for homeowners who want $0 down and no maintenance responsibility, or who don't want to own the asset. A third party owns the system; the homeowner pays a fixed lease or a per-kWh rate for the power. It is the easiest approval path and the fastest close, but the homeowner does not own the asset and long-run savings are usually lower than ownership.

Solar loans fit credit-qualified homeowners who want to own the system and capture the full lifetime savings with no lease escalator. Ownership delivers the strongest long-term economics, but approval depends on credit tier, and dealer fees on low-APR loan products can compress your margin, which is why matching the product to the homeowner, rather than defaulting to one lender, protects both the close and the deal economics.

Sell-on-our-paper gives you a funding path for qualifying deals without setting up your own lending relationships, useful when a homeowner falls outside a partner lender's box but the deal still pencils. Because Seamless Home routes deals across GoodLeap, Sunlight, LightReach, EnFin, Concert Finance, and Solrite from one workflow, you run the homeowner once and offer the strongest product they qualify for instead of losing the deal to a single lender's credit box.

For a deeper walk-through of how each structure is repaid and when to use it, see how solar financing works. To pair financing with materials, read how Direct Pay materials removes the upfront working-capital requirement on every job.

Frequently Asked Questions

What solar financing options does Seamless Home offer?+

Seamless Home offers multiple funding types through one platform, third-party ownership (TPO leases and PPAs), solar loans across credit tiers, and sell-on-our-paper options, so you can match the right product to each homeowner instead of forcing every deal into a single lender's box.

Which lenders does Seamless Home work with?+

Seamless Home connects you to a network of solar lenders including GoodLeap, Sunlight Financial, LightReach, EnFin, Concert Finance, and Solrite. You access all of them through one workflow rather than maintaining a separate relationship with each.

What is the best solar financing option?+

There is no single best option. It depends on the homeowner. A TPO lease or PPA is best for $0-down homeowners who don't want ownership or maintenance responsibility; a solar loan is best for credit-qualified homeowners who want to own the system and capture the full lifetime savings with no lease escalator; sell-on-our-paper covers deals that fall outside a partner lender's box. Multi-lender access lets you offer whichever fits rather than defaulting to one product.

What is the difference between a TPO lease and a PPA?+

Both are third-party-ownership products where a provider owns the system and the homeowner pays $0 down. With a lease, the homeowner pays a fixed monthly amount to use the system; with a PPA (power purchase agreement), they pay a per-kilowatt-hour rate for the electricity the system actually produces. In both, the third party, not the homeowner, owns the system, so any owner-side federal credit sits with the provider and is reflected in the pricing offered.

Can I offer solar financing without becoming a lender myself?+

Yes. That is the point of the Seamless Home platform: you offer TPO, loan, and sell-on-our-paper options to homeowners without setting up or underwriting your own lending relationships. Seamless Home provides the lender network and the workflow; you focus on closing the deal.

Does using multiple lenders hurt a homeowner's approval odds?+

The opposite, running deals across multiple funding sources improves approval odds. A homeowner who falls outside one lender's credit box can be matched to another lender or to a sell-on-our-paper option, so fewer qualified homeowners get turned away and fewer closed deals stall at financing.

Do I need separate contracts with each lender?+

No. Seamless Home gives you access to multiple funding sources through one platform and one workflow, instead of negotiating and managing each lender relationship yourself.

Offer the right financing on every deal.

Get in touch and we'll show you how multi-lender solar financing through Seamless Home works for your business.

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