PM Surya Ghar Vendor Login and Registration for Installers

As of 26 September 2026, a solar installer can pursue PM Surya Ghar vendor registration at state level or national level. The right route depends on where the business can install and maintain residential rooftop systems, not on which application looks faster.

MNRE’s current process calls this vendor registration. Earlier documents also use the terms registration and empanelment.

The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy’s vendor-registration notice names REC Limited as the national registering authority. It also continues the earlier state-registration process through the relevant state authority. Before arranging a performance bank guarantee, or PBG, verify the current instructions with that authority. A dated PDF should not be treated as a bank instruction.

Homeowner checking a vendor, not registering one? Use the homeowner guide to finding and verifying a PM Surya Ghar vendor. This page is for installers.

State or national registration: choose before preparing documents

State registration suits an installer that can serve and maintain projects within one state. National registration suits a business with genuine multi-state delivery and service capacity. The wider badge carries a much larger PBG requirement in the MNRE process document, so it should not be chosen for appearance alone.

MNRE documents checked on 26 September 2026 state the following:

These figures come from MNRE’s 2022, 2023, and 7 May 2024 memoranda referenced in the current notice. They can be amended. Confirm the amount, beneficiary, prescribed wording, validity, claim period, issuance method, and submission route before asking a bank to issue anything.

Do not assume an old Phase II certificate needs a fresh application without checking. The 7 May 2024 memorandum deemed earlier Grid Connected Rooftop Phase II vendors registered for PM Surya Ghar. It also carried their existing documents, including bank guarantees, into the new scheme process. The registering authority must confirm how that transition applies to the firm’s current record.

The registration workflow an installer can safely follow

Portal labels and field sequences can change. That makes the safest order authority first, paperwork second, PBG last. This guide therefore does not reproduce a button-by-button screen flow or promise a processing time.

1. Define the service area. List only the states and districts where the firm can survey, install, commission, maintain, and attend complaints.
2. Identify the registering authority. For a state route, confirm the designated DISCOM or state agency. For national registration, use the current REC and National Portal instructions linked from the MNRE notice.
3. Reconcile the legal identity. Use the same firm name, entity status, GSTIN, PAN, authorised signatory, and address across every current record. Resolve spelling or entity-name differences before submission.
4. Read the current application and declaration. Compare them with the referenced MNRE declaration, but treat the live authority’s format as controlling.
5. Prepare evidence behind each declaration. A tick box is not enough if the authority later asks for proof of staff, electrical-safety capability, service arrangements, or statutory records.
6. Verify the PBG instructions. Confirm the beneficiary, amount, prescribed text, validity, claim conditions, issue format, delivery address, and renewal process directly with the authority.
7. Submit through the official route. Retain the acknowledgement, submitted version, attachments, correspondence, and PBG record under one application reference.
8. Answer queries against the submitted record. Do not create a second version of the firm’s name, districts, staff count, or service contact merely to satisfy a follow-up.
9. Confirm the live registration. Check the legal name, registration status, operating area, public contact, and profile details after approval. A successful login alone is not proof of active scope.

Vendor login: first sign-in and what the dashboard does

The login is the second stage, after the firm has a registration record. MNRE’s Vendor Manual dated 26 June 2024 (hosted by a state DISCOM) describes it as follows.

After sign-in, the manual shows the vendor dashboard doing these jobs:

• seeing the list of consumers who have shown interest in the vendor;
• updating the firm profile, the operational districts and the product rates;
• viewing the applications mapped to the vendor for installation and tracking project status;
• uploading the signed consumer agreement; and
• submitting installation details such as latitude and longitude, inverter capacity, quantity, manufacturer and serial numbers, and module capacity, quantity, manufacturer and serial numbers.

Two practical points follow. The PAN used to create credentials must be the PAN the firm registered with, so a PAN or entity-name mismatch is the first thing to fix if verification fails. And the serial numbers you enter at installation should match the equipment schedule in the consumer contract, because the DISCOM inspects against the portal record.

For national and multi-state firms, the same manual describes registering on the portal by entering company type, PAN with an uploaded copy, organisation details and documents, then choosing a registration type: national, at ₹25 lakh, or multi-state, at ₹2.5 lakh per state up to ₹25 lakh. The firm then submits the bank guarantee in the format provided to REC Limited and receives empanelment on the National Portal. The manual dates from 2024 and the portal has been updated since, so follow the live labels.

Login is not proof of live registration. A firm can hold credentials and still be deactivated or limited to certain districts, so confirm the public record after approval.

Documents and details to have ready

The June 2022 and May 2023 state-registration memoranda and the 2024 national process point to the same core set. Which items are uploaded, signed or posted in original depends on the registering authority, so use its checklist as the final word.

What the referenced state declaration asks a firm to confirm

The referenced declaration is more than a list of identity documents. It tests whether the installer has technical, safety, maintenance, and complaint-handling capacity.

The 2022 declaration attached to MNRE’s current process notice asks for or confirms:

This table describes the referenced declaration. It does not claim that every item is a separate upload on today’s portal. Use the current application and authority checklist to determine what must be entered, uploaded, signed, notarised, or delivered in original form.

Build a controlled application folder before submitting. Keep the final declaration, supporting evidence, PBG correspondence, authority queries, registration confirmation, renewal dates, and named owner for each obligation together. If a staff member, complaint contact, district, or legal record changes, check whether the portal or authority requires an update.

Check the PBG before the bank issues it

Most PBG mistakes are expensive because a nearly correct guarantee can still be rejected. The amount is only one field. The issuing bank must work from the authority’s current accepted wording and instructions.

Use this pre-issuance check with the registering authority and bank:

The older state process also allows action including blacklisting and PBG forfeiture for misleading information or failure to meet declared conditions. The PM Surya Ghar residential CFA operational guidelines separately allow deregistration or penalties for non-compliant systems after notice. Treat every declaration as an operating commitment, not formality.

Registration is the start of the operating obligation

Approval puts the installer inside an accountable consumer-delivery process. It does not end the compliance work.

MNRE’s residential CFA guidelines state that a registered vendor profile can include system specifications, prices, consumer contacts, feedback, ratings, and performance information. The same guidelines place several continuing duties on the vendor:

• survey the site and guide the consumer on technically and financially appropriate rooftop capacity;
• design, supply, install, test, and commission the system within the applicable scheme and utility rules;
• conduct safety checks and explain operation, maintenance, and safety to the consumer;
• assist with required approvals, portal documentation, inspection, metering, and grid-connectivity steps;
• provide comprehensive maintenance for five years from commissioning under the scheme requirements;
• repair or replace non-performing components as required during that maintenance period;
• provide the consumer with the relevant original-equipment-manufacturer warranties;
• rectify system-quality or component issues that prevent commissioning or CFA disbursal; and
• receive complaints and maintain enough records to resolve or escalate them.

Responsibilities should be mapped before accepting a project. A simple control sheet can prevent hand-off failures:

The most dangerous gap is usually ownership, not a missing spreadsheet. If no one owns a portal correction, a consumer update, or a service escalation, the registration badge will not protect the firm from a complaint.

What vendor registration does not guarantee

Registration establishes entry into the scheme process, subject to current rules. It does not promise commercial success or approval of every project. Keep these decisions separate:

Do not market registration as a government endorsement of workmanship or a guarantee that the consumer will receive CFA. Do not promise a disbursal date controlled by the portal, DISCOM, bank, or scheme authority.

Government registration and Qbits partnership are separate

PM Surya Ghar registration authorises scheme participation within its approved scope. A Qbits partnership concerns a commercial relationship with an inverter manufacturer. Neither substitutes for the other.

The current Qbits partner form lets an applicant choose EPC or System Integrator. It asks for company, contact, and GST details. EPC applicants can provide their PM Suryaghar registered name. The form also asks about current inverter brands, technical and service teams, and previous solar-inverter experience.

That field helps Qbits understand the applicant. It does not register the applicant with MNRE, REC, a state agency, or a DISCOM. Qbits does not guarantee government approval, consumer leads, territory, margin, credit, or acceptance into its partner programme.

If your government registration is accurate and you are looking for an inverter supplier for rooftop projects, you can also discuss Qbits inverter sourcing and support. Complete the Qbits partner application under the business type that matches your work. Enter the same registered business name used in your official records. You can review the residential range on the on-grid inverter page before you apply. Treat any later commercial terms as a proposal until approved in writing.

Final application review

Before submitting, confirm that:

Official sources, checked 26 September and re-read 14 October 2026: MNRE’s 7 May 2024 vendor-registration process with its attached 10 June 2022 and 17 May 2023 office memoranda, and MNRE’s National Portal Vendor Manual of 26 June 2024. The review also used MNRE’s residential CFA operational guidelines of July 2024. MNRE amended those guidelines on 7 July 2025, and the amendment is published as a scanned image that could not be read clause by clause. pmsuryaghar.gov.in returned an access error to our automated checks, so live portal labels were not viewed directly. Confirm later amendments and the current registering authority’s instructions before acting.