A five-minute tour of Draw.
This walks you through a real project — a mechanical subcontractor in Sacramento, mid-way through a $946,500 medical office building. Open each screen and see for yourself. It takes about five minutes and you do not need to talk to anyone.
Log in first
One shared demo account. Nothing you do here affects anything real — the data resets every night.
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Start with the money
The overview is not a dashboard of vanity numbers. It answers the three questions you actually ask at month-end.
Look at: what is billed and not yet received, how much retainage is being held until closeout, and — the important one — how many drafts cannot go out because a waiver is missing. Open the overview → -
Open the current pay application
Go to Applications and open #7 — Rivermark Medical Office Building. This is the draft still being prepared.
Look at: the continuation sheet. Six previous applications are already carried forward — scheduled value, work completed to date, stored materials, retainage. Nobody retyped any of it. You enter what you did this period; everything else is derived. Open applications → -
Type a number into a line
On that application, put a figure into any line of the billing grid. Then watch the rest of the row.
Look at: total to date, percent complete, balance to finish and retainage all move together. Bill more than a line's scheduled value and it turns red — that is an overbill, and you want to catch it before the GC does. -
Now the part that holds up your money
Open Waivers. This is the reason draws get rejected, and the reason this system exists.
Look at: the two directions — what you sign upward to get paid, and what you collect from everyone below you. Filter to outstanding and you will find a supplier who has not signed. Application #7 is blocked because of it. Without this, you learn that when the general contractor rejects the draw and payment slips another thirty days. Open outstanding waivers → -
Check the form wording
Open any waiver and read the header. These are not generic templates.
Look at: the statutory reference. This example is California — Civil Code § 8132 for conditional progress, § 8134 for unconditional. In a statutory-form state a waiver that does not substantially conform to the statute is void, so collecting the wrong form means collecting nothing. Every account starts with California’s statutory set and a general form for states that prescribe none. If your state prescribes its own wording, edit the template to match before you send a waiver — each one is marked unverified until someone has checked it. Open waivers →
What it costs
- AIA-style pay applications and continuation sheets, carried forward automatically
- Retainage on work and stored materials, including step-downs
- Conditional and unconditional lien waivers tracked per party
- Waiver templates for California's statutory forms and a general form; other statutory states need their wording entered and confirmed by you
- A submission check that shows which missing waivers will hold up the next payment
- CSV export of everything, on every plan
Trade — $149 a month, or $1,490 a year. Up to 5 active projects, 3 people.
Contractor — $349 a month, or $3,490 a year. Unlimited projects, unlimited people.
7 days free. A card is entered at checkout and nothing is charged until day 8; we email you 3 days and 1 day before. Cancel any time from inside the product — everything you have entered stays readable and exportable. Billed per company, not per seat.
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