Draw bills your schedule of values, holds the right retainage, and tells you exactly which supplier has not returned a waiver yet — before the application goes out, not three weeks later when it comes back.
No card. The demo is a mechanical subcontractor mid-contract on two jobs, with one application ready to send and two waivers standing in its way.
They reject it because the continuation sheet does not tie out to last month’s, or because the lower-tier waivers are not attached. Both are clerical. Both cost thirty days of float on a number large enough to matter.
Last month’s “previous” column gets pasted forward. Correct application #4 and #5, #6 and #7 quietly disagree with their own history.
Suppliers sign when chased, and chasing starts after the application is already sitting on someone’s desk. The month is gone before anyone notices what was missing.
Twelve states mandate the wording. Under California Civil Code § 8120 a waiver that does not substantially conform to the statutory form is void and unenforceable — the contractor who collected it has collected nothing, and finds out at the worst possible moment.
Type this period against each schedule line. Previous work is summed from the actual history, never copied; retainage, percentage and balance recompute as you type.
Before an application can go out, Draw shows which lower-tier waivers for the previous period are still unsigned — by name, with what each one is worth. Override it knowingly or go and get them.
Suppliers get a link, see the document and the amount, and sign. The app refuses to let anyone sign an unconditional waiver for a payment that has not been recorded as received — which protects them, which is why they use it twice.
Contract sum, approved change orders, completed and stored, retainage on work and on material separately, less previous certificates, current due, balance to finish.
When the other side approves less than you asked for, the shortfall carries into the next application’s line 7 automatically instead of vanishing.
Conditional or unconditional, progress or final. Draw picks by whether the period is final and whether the money has actually landed — and never offers an unconditional form for an unpaid period.
Templates ship marked unverified and say so on every document until somebody confirms them against the statute. Text that goes out under your signature should be text your counsel has read.
Certified less received, retainage accrued, backlog remaining, and which drafts cannot go out yet — on one screen.
Printable application and continuation sheet in the column order every accounts payable clerk already reads.
Priced against one rejected draw, not against a project management suite. Everything already filed stays open even if you stop paying, and signing links you have already sent keep working — a supplier should never hit a paywall in the middle of somebody else’s billing dispute.
Up to 5 active jobs, 3 people.
Everything in Trade, plus:
14-day trial with every feature. No card up front.
Trade subcontractors and small general contractors who bill progress payments — mechanical, electrical, drywall, concrete, glazing, roofing. Typically two to forty jobs open, one person who does the billing on the last Friday of the month, and a supplier list they chase by phone.
It is not accounting software and not project management. No general ledger, no job costing, no scheduling, no daily reports. It does the draw and the waivers that release it.