What made my experience great was Ria one of you friendly, helpful and professional team members. This was my first ever journey getting finance for a project this size. She was on board with me ensu... See more
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About Solaris Finance
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In our opinion, finance is mostly used for the wrong things. Finance should be used for investment, not consumption.Not only is solar a good investment, it has the added benefit of helping the environment.
Furthermore, our sales and marketing strategy is different than our competitors. Where other finance companies our their budgets into hard-sell tactics, we invest ours in providing value to the broader solar community through our Solar Nerds (https://solarnerds.com.au/) brand.
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602 8/2 Brookhollow Ave, 2153, Baulkham Hills, Australia
- 1300 849 887
- contact@solarisfinance.com.au
- solarisfinance.com.au
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Brilliant support
Brilliant support, was very helpful and supportive at all times, nothing was too hard.
brilliant
Neil and his tam and contractors were brillliant. so professional, friendly and explained everything clearly. Neil calls me regularly to tell me how my usage is going and recommended a power company that maximises battery strength when the weather is gloomy. Overall, this is probably the most excellent customer experience I have ever had with any other company. Well done Neil & team!!!!!
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Hassle free loan
The process of obtaining a loan for solar battery was quick, easy and hassle free. The staff members were friendly, respectful and patient.
Solaris were so patient with us
Solaris were so patient with us. My husband and I were both unwell and as well not so confident with new technology. Solaris went out of their way to assist and treated us with care and respect. A special thank you to Michelle and Raf
Excellent Service and easy to deal with
Realin made the experience easy by guiding me through the process. I highly recommend them for your solar financing needs.
The process was seamless
The process was excellent . In fact I did the application on my phone and made an error , by adding an extra zero.
I received a call to query, they fixed the error, once that was done I was kept informed of the process
In particular Lori and Therese thank you for such a smooth and efficient proceess.
Staff were efficient and friendly
Staff were efficient and friendly. Process was transparent and explained well.
Great customer service with a high…
Great customer service with a high level of communication throughout
Very efficient and reliable .
Very efficient and reliable .
Explained the whole process, stress free application.
RIA LIZA BERNARDINO
Ria, Was extremely polite and Professional in all her dealings with me whilst going through the loan application process.
Very nice customer service and support…
Very nice customer service and support how to complete requirements such as documentation so on. It’s my pleasure thanx.
Ease and speed
A Broker who gies up at first hurdle
I am not one to do this usually, but the entire experience with Solaris has made me pretty mad, so I am posting a review. Two stars because they were initially easy to deal with.
I was referred to Solaris by the company we were looking to buy solar from. Firstly, they gave us no indication that they were actually a broker and not a finance company (if I knew they were a broker, I would have probably just used my own).
I am self-employed, and I contacted my solar company to reach out to Solaris to advise them of the same. They ignored the email asking for tips for a self-employed person. Once we submitted our application, we provided docs as requested (there were two applicants). They then came back and advised that as I was self-employed, it would be difficult to get approval with me on the application and that we should proceed with just my partner as the applicant. This was not acceptable to us, and we said so.
Solaris simply gave up trying because the process was too hard. We have used brokers many times, and brokers are meant to have relationships with the lenders they use to battle for the borrower to get them over the line. This is the entire reason people use brokers. If we wanted them to quit at the first speed bump, we would do it ourselves. Brokers are meant to be an inside track to the best finance deals.
Solaris simply gave up at the first difficult step. I hung up from Solaris and rang my broker, and she was able to get us pre-approval in 20 minutes, using other documents to show my self-employed income. Because our broker called a contact at the lender and asked what could be done, not just give up because it’s too hard.
We decided not to proceed with Solar and the loan due to their association with Solaris. We have now secured a quote from another solar company and will be using finance secured by our broker.
I cannot in good conscience suggest or recommend Solaris to anyone. Find a broker who will battle to get you approved. Find a broker who will not give up if it’s a challenging application. Find a broker who will do whatever it takes to get you over the line. Solaris is not a broker who will do any of this.
MY RESPONSES TO REPLY BELOW THIS REVIEW
1: I did not hang up on Michelle, I was angry that she was giving up. I advised her to Withdraw the application and ended the call.
2: No one was responding to the points in my email, the email was ignored.
3: When i said Pre Approved, what i should of said was Approved if we wanted to proceed. Thats a explanation error on my part.
4: To say "we never gave up on you, you never gave us a chance" is a laugh, Michelle Literally said the only way we could proceed was to do application in my partners name only which was not acceptable. No efforts were made to see what could be done, no alternatives were considered. I stated i had many documents that could prove my income but zero effort was made to see what could be done. This is my point SOLARIS GAVE UP AT FIRST HURDLE.
also... no missed calls on my phone so not sure who you called but it wsa not me.
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