For bespoke and amended subcontracts
Their paperwork, your safeguards.
Many main contractors use their own subcontract form, or a standard one with pages of amendments. VariationFlow's contract setup takes ten guided minutes with the subcontract in hand, and the Construction Act's payment rights sit underneath whatever the paperwork says.
Where bespoke forms cost you
Payment terms buried in a schedule
Due dates, final dates and notice periods set in an appendix nobody reads until the money is late.
Onerous clauses
Shortened notice periods, conditions on variations and set-off rights that quietly move risk onto you.
Retention that never comes back
Release dates missed because nobody tracked practical completion and the end of the defects period.
How VariationFlow handles it
Contract setup in ten minutes
Work through the subcontract with the setup wizard: payment calendar, retention and a sweep for onerous clauses, pinned to the project as watch-outs.
The Construction Act underneath
On the construction contracts the Act covers, the rights to payment notices, to suspend for non-payment and to adjudicate apply whatever the form says. VariationFlow tracks them.
Retention tracked to release
Retention held on each valuation and released in two halves, at practical completion and at the end of the defects period, each with its own date.
Every deadline on one screen
Where your contract sets notice periods, the clock runs on the variation, and Contract Deadlines lists every one across every project, most urgent first.
Related
JCT subcontract
Payment notices tracked on your own subcontract's periods.
NEC4 subcontract
Compensation event clocks on the subcontract's own periods.
Commercial
Offices, retail, hotels and fit-out, on tight programmes.
The clocks are decision support, not legal advice. Always check against your executed contract.
Free for your first job.
One project and two users, to capture, price and track the variations on your first job. No card and no minimum term.