You run the job for the client

Check it, certify it, and see the whole position

Whether you are the architect acting as contract administrator, the project manager or the client, you are on the same side of the certificate and you need the same figures. QScope shows what has been certified, what is retained and what is still to pay, and it carries the dates the payment runs to, so the certificate and the notice never disagree.

Retention at full rate, half at practical completion
VAT charged once, after any recoveries
The statutory dates the payment runs to

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A client-side QS certifying the contractor application: valuation lines and the certified amount

The amount due is shown line by line, so a figure that looks wrong can be traced rather than argued.

Check the application, then certify it

An application arrives as a total.

What you have to certify is the build-up behind it. QScope shows retention at the rate the contract sets, VAT once on the reduced net, and the amount previously certified, so you can see how the figure was reached instead of taking it on trust. Certifying a different sum is a normal outcome, and the document says so. Where a deduction such as liquidated damages is proposed, QScope shows whether the notices the contract requires have actually been issued, because a deduction without them does not hold.

Dashboard

One screen for the whole position

Certified to date, retention held, and the balance still to run all sit on one dashboard, per project and across the portfolio.

Certified to date, retention held, balance to collect
Every job on one screen, or one job in full
The same figures the surveyor certifies from

Client-side dashboard: contract sum, certified, paid, retention and the next statutory date

Certified is not the same as finished. The balance to collect is what is still to come against the whole contract.

Cost report

Change, and its effect on the sum

Variations move the contract sum, and the effect should be visible while there is still a decision to make, not disclosed at the final account.

Net effect of variations on the contract sum, kept current
Anticipated final cost against the approved budget
Contingency drawn down as risks land

Variations and their effect on the adjusted contract sum

The variance is the number to plan for, disclosed while there is still time to act on it, not at the final account.

Deadlines

The deadlines that fall on you

The payment notice is yours to serve, and so is the pay-less notice if you are paying less than the notified sum.

Payment notice, pay-less and final date for payment
Practical completion, sections and partial possession
The rectification period and the release of retention

The notices the client side must give, with dates and status

Every deadline is counted from the contract, so the date you are working to is the date that binds.

Who it is for

The same four dates, four different desks

You are applying

You start the clock with the application

You send the application and the clock starts. If the payment notice is late or missing, the sum you applied for becomes the sum that falls due.

Applying for payment

the same measurement

You are certifying

Your notices are what the Act reads

You issue the notices, and the dates on them are the ones the Construction Act holds you to. A missed pay-less deadline is not an argument you can win.

You are here

You are doing both

You count the dates with nobody checking

You send the application yourself and count the same four dates, with nobody to remind you which notice has to leave this week.

Doing both yourself

You are reporting

You lend against dates that must hold

You confirm the drawdown timetable against the contractual payment dates, so the facility releases against dates that will actually hold.

Recommending a drawdown

The client, the architect and the tenderer are not on this list. They are the people you let in on a link: they see the one document you sent them, answer it, and that answer is written into the record. No account, no licence, no charge, on every plan.

FAQs

The questions this page raises most often, answered without a sales pitch at the end.

No. An employer or project manager can be given guest access to the position without a surveyor licence, so you see the figures without running the certificates yourself.

Yes. The dashboard reads the same data the surveyor certifies from, so there is one position, not a report that has drifted from it.

It shows whether the notices the contract requires for a deduction have been issued. Whether to make the deduction is a decision for the contract administrator, not the software.

No. QScope calculates dates and figures from the information entered and the contract form. It is software, and the dates remain subject to the terms of your contract, which you are responsible for verifying.