A five-minute tour of Prevail.
This walks you through a real book of certified payroll — a drywall subcontractor in Knoxville, ten people, two federally funded jobs, eleven weeks of history, and one week that does not add up. Open each screen and see for yourself. It takes about five minutes and you do not need to talk to anyone.
A certified payroll is not a form you fill in once the week is over. Every figure on it is load-bearing: raise a cash fringe to close a wage shortfall and you have just moved the overtime floor and the gross. The form is where the errors surface — it is not where they are made.
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One shared demo account. Nothing you do here affects anything real — the data resets every night.
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Start with the money that is already at risk
The overview answers three questions: what is late, what is wrong, and what it would cost if it went out as it stands.
Look at: $472.88 of back wages exposure across 8 findings — sitting on a payroll that has not been filed yet. That is the whole idea. The restitution figure is computed before submission rather than by an investigator two years later, when it also carries interest and a debarment conversation. Open the overview → -
Open the week that does not add up
Go to Payrolls and open #7, Fort Hill Elementary Modernization. It is still a draft. Four kinds of error, eight findings — and each one is the kind that gets contractors written up rather than the kind a spell-checker finds.
- Marisol Guerrero is $1.32/hr short on fringe. The determination asks $9.15; her plans credit $7.83, because her pension contribution is lower than the rest of the crew's. Nothing on a timesheet shows this. It is only visible if something compares each worker's actual credits against the schedule for that classification.
- A $1.10/hr credit taken against "Tool & uniform allowance." A reimbursement is not a bona fide fringe benefit plan, so it may not be credited at all — which means every hour it was claimed on is wrong, not just the rate.
- Overtime paid below time and a half on the basic rate.
- Two apprentices to too few journeyworkers — and it is five findings, not one. The ratio is tested per day, not averaged over the week. A crew that comes out right on Friday was still out of ratio on Tuesday, and each day is its own violation.
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Now fix one of them, and watch two more appear
Still on payroll #7. Find Marisol Guerrero's row, type 1.32 into the Cash fringe column, and save. You have just paid the shortfall in cash, which is exactly what most people would do.
Look at: the shortfall closes — and two findings you did not have before appear. Cash paid in lieu of fringes counts toward the regular rate, so the overtime floor moved the moment you typed it; and the project gross now exceeds the week's gross for all jobs. A contribution to a bona fide plan would have done neither of those things. This is the entire argument for the product, in one keystroke: the fields are not independent of each other, and a spreadsheet has no way to know that. -
Then the form itself
From the payroll, open WH-347.
Look at: the Statement of Compliance underneath it, and the 4(a) / 4(b) / 4(c) choice — which is a legal assertion about how the fringe obligation is discharged, not a formatting preference. Print preview is laid out for letter landscape, so it comes out of the printer looking like the form the agency expects. There is also a flat-file export for the primes and agencies that want an upload rather than a PDF. -
Finally, what the general contractor sees
Go to Projects, open VA Outpatient Clinic — Blount County, and find Reviewer link. Copy it and open it in a private window — that is what Cumberland Builders sees.
Look at: no account and no password, and week #4 is sitting there waiting on them — accept it, or return it with a reason, and watch it land back on the contractor's side. (The reviewer link on Fort Hill is worth a look too: there is a returned week in there, where Sandhu was taping on Tuesday and Wednesday while classified as a hanger, which is the one thing no engine can catch for you.) Then notice what is not there: the draft with the eight findings is invisible to its own reviewer. Nothing reaches a prime until it certifies clean, and the server refuses the submit — not just the button. Open projects →
What it does not do
It is not a payroll processor: no tax filing, no direct deposit, no bank connection. It does not pull wage determinations from SAM.gov — you enter the classifications and rates per project, because they change per project and per modification. It does not import from QuickBooks, ADP or Foundation; the week is entered or pasted in. It produces the federal WH-347 and a flat file, but not state supplemental forms — California's A-1-131 and its equivalents are not in this build. There is no e-signature; you sign the certification the way you sign it today. And it cannot tell you that someone was working out of classification — if a hanger spent two days taping, only your daily reports know that, which is exactly what the returned week in the demo is about. I would rather you read all of this here than find it later.
What it costs
- Fringe credits tested against the determination, including bona fide plan checks
- Overtime and apprentice ratios checked per day, not averaged
- The federal WH-347 with Statement of Compliance, plus a flat file
- Federal Davis-Bacon only: state forms such as California's are not included
- CSV export of everything, on every plan
Crew — $99 a month, or $990 a year. Up to 3 active projects, 3 people.
Contractor — $249 a month, or $2,490 a year. Unlimited projects, unlimited people, reviewer portal for the prime contractor.
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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