Plan additional components on an offer

Additional components are everything that belongs in the offer's bill of materials but has no technical data the simulator reads: services, non-PV hardware, and third-party trades-work. They flow into the total price and the customer's PDF but leave the simulation (yield, self-consumption, payback) untouched. This applies to residential offers.

Who this is for

Account managers and installer admins (editor role or higher, with the offers permission) planning offers that include trades-work, services, or supplementary hardware alongside the simulated PV, battery, heat-pump, and wallbox layers.

Before you start

• The offer must be in draft state. Once a signature request is sent, that snapshot is locked. To add components again, withdraw the request, let it expire, or fork to a new variant.
• Have the components ready in your components library, or add them inline. Library-first is cleaner: you reuse the price and description across offers.
• If you frequently add the same set of items, prepare an additional-components package (a saved bundle) so two clicks bring the whole set into an offer. You can also pre-select one when you first create the offer. See Create an offer.

When to use additional components

The dividing line is simple: if an item feeds the simulation, it belongs in its own planning section, where the simulator reads its technical data. Everything else is an additional component.

• Simulated — PV modules, batteries, heat pumps, wallboxes. Plan these in their dedicated sections so the yield and self-consumption math recalculates. See Plan battery storage and Plan wallboxes and EV charging.
• Additional — everything with no simulation data. Common cases:
  • Trades-work: electrician's day rate, scaffolding rental, third-party labour, site-prep.
  • One-off items: roof-tile replacement, chimney repair, custom mounting hardware.
  • Backup-power hardware (Notstromversorgung): battery-inverters with backup, transfer switches, generator interfaces.
  • Energy-management systems and gateways: SMA Sunny Home Manager, openWB controllers, smart-meter gateways, EMS hubs.
  • Monitors and displays: in-home energy displays, third-party monitoring hardware.
  • Electrical cabinets and sub-panels (Schaltschränke).
  • Pure trades quoting: non-PV projects that run through Reonic for the offer and invoicing flow.

Add additional components to an offer

1. Open the offer's Planning view.
2. Scroll to the Additional components section.
3. Click + Add to insert components one at a time, or import an additional-components package if you've prepared one.
4. Pick the component from your library, or enter a custom line with title, quantity, and price.
5. Adjust the quantity if needed.
6. Confirm the price (inherited from the library, or set inline).
7. Click Save.

The components land in the variant's bill of materials and the total price updates immediately. There's no simulation re-run.

Plan backup power (Notstromversorgung)

Backup-power hardware (Notstromversorgung, "emergency power supply") is the most common use of additional components where grid stability is a buying motivation. Add each piece as a line item:

1. The backup-power module (e.g. a battery-inverter with backup function, or an automatic transfer switch).
2. A changeover or manual transfer switch, if the installation needs one.
3. Any cabling or sub-panel hardware the electrician will install.

Backup power typically covers selected circuits (fridge, lights, internet) during an outage, not the whole house. When a customer asks how long the battery will last, give a realistic verbal estimate — it depends on battery capacity, the load during the outage, and the inverter's backup rating.

Plan energy management systems

Add EMS hardware as additional components:

• Brand-agnostic EMS hubs — SMA Sunny Home Manager, openWB controllers, third-party EMS.
• Smart-meter gateways — modules that read the utility smart meter and feed the EMS.
• Communication modules — Modbus adapters, cellular gateways, Wi-Fi extenders for the site.

Reonic plans the hardware. Configuring the EMS (e.g. prioritising the wallbox over the heat pump on surplus PV) happens after install, in the vendor's app.

Effect on the customer's PDF

Additional components appear in the bill of materials and the total price; the simulation pages (production, self-consumption, profitability) leave them out.

If an offer contains only additional components — no PV, battery, wallbox, or heat pump — the PV-specific pages (yield chart, self-consumption) have nothing to render and drop out. The economics/payback page stays in unless you turn it off. For a clean trades quote (cover, bill of materials, total, signature), turn off the economics and simulation pages in the offer's own PDF settings (on the Finalize step, under Customise pages), or ask your Reonic account manager about a trades-only PDF template.

How pricing flows

Additional components inherit their price from your components library on insertion. If you later change a library component's price, Reonic flags the inserted line and lets you refresh it to the new price with one click.

Discounts and pricing work the same as for any other component, so this guide won't repeat them — see Configure pricing and discounts for the full surface. Two points that matter for additional components:

• Rebates apply at the section or document level, not to an individual line. You can still adjust the quantity on any line, and the line total recomputes.
• On the customer's Components Overview page each component shows its unrebated list price, and any rebate appears on its own row beneath the components with the discounted total at the bottom — so the customer sees the discount transparently rather than a silently reduced line price. Check the customer-view preview before sending.

What the customer sees per line is governed by the price-display mode (grouped subtotals, every line itemized, or a single total only), not by local mode. See Things to know.

Things to know

• They stay out of the simulation but still count as cost. Additional components never appear in an energy-flow chart, and adding one never triggers a re-simulation. But Reonic treats them as real cash the customer pays, so they lower the net economic position: payback math is (yield − all costs, including additionals) ÷ years. If you're still iterating on PV or battery, plan additional components last.
• They do flow into the financing variant's total. On a financed variant, the additional-component cost is part of the financed amount, and financing partners see the gross total. Financed components use the partner's interest rate and don't always honour a flat-percentage rebate, so check the rendered PDF before sending.
• The Additional components section is editable only on a draft offer. If the section looks greyed out, the offer is finalised or signed — reopen it as a draft or fork to a new variant.
• Customer price granularity is the price-display mode, not local mode. These two are easy to confuse. The price-display mode (grouped subtotals / every line itemized, i.e. individual prices or Einzelpreise / a single total) is the only thing that changes what the customer sees in their own offer view. Local mode (Vor-Ort-Modus, "Activate local mode") is an installer-screen-only privacy toggle: it blanks prices and margins on your own device during an on-site visit so the customer can't read them over your shoulder, and leaves the customer's offer view unchanged. If you turned on local mode and the customer still sees single prices, set the price-display mode instead.
• Editing VAT and editing price are two separate rights. Setting or removing a planned component's VAT rate (e.g. dropping it to 0%) is gated independently from editing the price; most users need the price-editing right for either. If you need to set VAT without the price-editing right, contact your Reonic account manager.
• Wallbox-related hardware can sit in Wallbox or Additional. The wallbox itself goes in the Wallbox planning section so the simulator picks up the EV load. A brand-specific load-manager can live in either section; for brand-agnostic load-managers (SMA, openWB), Additional components is the cleaner home.
• The bill of materials is one shared list. PV, battery, and additional components all merge into one BOM on the PDF. The customer sees the split only if your PDF template surfaces it.
• Quantities are per-line. Sell scaffolding by the day → set quantity to days; labour by the hour → set quantity to hours. A clear title ("Electrician on-site, 8 h") reads cleanly for the customer.
• Inserting via package preserves prices. A package brings its components at their current library prices. Later changes to the package don't ripple into an offer that's already built; use the per-line refresh if you want the newer price.
• Additional components are frozen at signature. Once the customer signs, they're snapshotted in the signed variant. To change them, fork to a new variant.
• Multi-currency works the same. Additional components inherit the offer's currency (EUR, CHF, …). Workspaces in FR, UK, and CH plan them the same way as DE workspaces.
• Subsidies are handled separately. Whether an additional component counts toward a subsidy depends on the subsidy and the item, and the subsidy is handled in Reonic's subsidy workflow, not the additional-components section. Ask your Reonic account manager if you're unsure how a specific item is treated.
• For optional add-ons the customer picks at signing, use Optional components. Items in the Additional components section are always included in the total. To let the customer tick add-ons on or off at signature, use Optional components instead. See Offer optional components as an upsell.
• For a one-off item with no library entry, add a custom line. Enter a title and price inline without a library entry, and it behaves like any other additional component. If you'll add the same custom item repeatedly, promote it to a library component instead.

Related

• Offer optional components as an upsell — items the customer opts into at signature, not included in the base price.
• Plan wallboxes and EV charging — for wallbox hardware specifically.
• Plan battery storage — for battery hardware (simulated).
• Configure pricing and discounts — pricing surface for the whole offer.
• Create an offer — the broader offer lifecycle.

Need help?

• Step-by-step questions about this flow → contact your Reonic account manager.
• Feature requests or something missing → drop a note to your account manager.
• Bug reports → include a screenshot and the URL where it happened in your support email.

Last updated on August 4, 2026