The final pay app has to add up

Everything on the job lands in the final pay app: every earlier pay app, every backup sheet, every sub invoice. By then the crew has moved on. The owner looks for what you billed twice. What you never billed, nobody looks for.

One case on our Try page: a final pay app on a sewer and water main replacement. Yesper found the trench sheeting billed twice, in the lump sum and on its own line, and a paving invoice that never reached a pay app. Three corrections, $32,550 off the final.

Double billing surfaces before the final goes out, and the sub cost that slipped through gets billed instead of written off. Same for any pay app, and the rest of the Try page: an approval queue for supplier invoices, claims from site diaries, change order potential in a bid package.

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