Visualize an Upgrade on a Customer's Site

Render a customer's own site photo with an upgrade you sell — a fountain, a dye program, a clean pool, a thick lawn — and attach it to the quote line they can accept.

Updated September 18, 2026

Soliven Visualize shows a customer their own site with an upgrade you sell: their pond with a fountain, their green pool clear again, their lawn thick and weed-free. It edits the site's photo — nothing is invented that is not on the quote — and the picture goes out attached to the quote line the customer can accept. It is included in Sales Pipeline with 25 renders a month; every account gets 5 free renders to try it.

Every change is a line item

A render can only show upgrades you sell. That is the whole idea: the customer sees the sum of the lines on the quote, and unticking a line changes the picture they were shown. Sky, weather and camera angle are never changed unless you choose the separate golden-hour lighting option, which is labelled as illustration.

Render from a site or a quote

  1. Start from the site photo or the draft quote

    On a site under DirectoriesSites, the site photo section has Visualize an Upgrade once a canonical photo is on file. On a draft quote under Sales and BillingQuotes the same button sits next to Edit Quote. Either way the render uses that site's photo.

  2. Tick what to show

    Pick one or more upgrades. Each is described by the quote line it becomes. Add a sentence under Extra detail if a render needs steering — "cattails along the north bank only" — and, if you want it, choose Golden-hour dusk under Lighting.

  3. Review it

    The render takes 15–30 seconds and appears beside the photo as Today and After. Look at it the way the customer will. Regenerate replaces it with a fresh attempt; Discard throws it away. Only one render per set of upgrades ever reaches a customer, so there is never a "which one am I buying?" moment.

  4. Attach it to the quote

    Attach to quote lists the customer's draft quotes and their lines. Opened from a quote, it lands on that quote with the optional lines ticked. Choose the lines the render illustrates and attach. The quote's Visualizations card shows what is attached; Detach removes it while the quote is still a draft.

Once the quote is sent, the render appears in the PDF under Your place with these upgrades and on the customer's quote page beside the lines it illustrates, each with the "simulated rendering" caption. When the customer approves, the quote's Visualizations card records whether they accepted the illustrated lines and for how much.

Golden-hour lighting

Golden-hour dusk relights the whole scene — warm sky, low sun, highlights on the water. It sells, and it is honest as long as it is labelled, so two rules apply on their own:

  • The image carries a second line, Lighting shown for illustration, inside the band.
  • A relit render can never be the only image on a quote. Attach a render under real lighting first; the customer always sees their site as photographed alongside the dusk version.

Choose the upgrades your company sells

SettingsVisualize lists every upgrade available to your industry, on or off. Turn off what you do not offer so nobody renders it. For each one you can set the name your team sees in the dialog and add up to 200 characters of Your detail — "our fountains are three-nozzle Kasco units", "we use dark brown hardwood mulch" — which is added to the render instruction for that upgrade every time. The instruction itself is shown read-only beside the box, so you know exactly what you are adding to.

Renders, packs and the monthly count

Sales Pipeline includes 25 renders a calendar month. The count is shown in the render dialog and on SettingsVisualize. When you are near the end, the dialog says so. Render packs on SettingsBilling add 100 renders for $100, charged to the card on your OpsVara subscription; purchased renders never expire and are only drawn on once the included renders are gone. Without Sales Pipeline, every account has 5 free renders to try.

A regenerate counts as a render. A render that fails before anything is generated — the site photo is missing, for instance — does not.

Frequently asked questions

Does the customer know it is a rendering?

Always. Every render carries a "Simulated rendering — not a photograph of completed work" band inside the image itself, so it stays labelled even if someone downloads it and texts it on. A golden-hour render carries a second line, "Lighting shown for illustration". The quote PDF and the customer's quote page repeat the caption under the picture.

Can I write my own prompt?

No, on purpose. Every change in a render is something you sell, so it can become a line on the quote. You choose from the upgrades for your industry, and you can add a sentence about how you do each one under Settings → Visualize. The Extra detail box on a render clarifies the changes you ticked; it cannot add a change with nothing behind it.

What happens when the 25 included renders run out?

Rendering stops until next month, or until you buy a pack. Packs are 100 renders for $100 on the card on your OpsVara subscription, they never expire, and they are only used once the month's included renders are gone.

The render changed something it should not have. What now?

Renders vary run to run. Click Regenerate for a fresh one — the previous candidate is replaced, never shown to a customer — or Discard. If the sky came out wrong, the system usually catches it and re-renders on its own before you see it; if it still flags the render, look at the top of the image before attaching.

Can a render go on a quote that has already been sent?

No. Renders attach to draft quotes only, so the PDF a customer already holds never disagrees with what the portal shows. Edit the quote, or create a new one, and attach there.

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