Section 3 and certified payroll should not live in a spreadsheet.
Publicly funded housing comes with a second job nobody quotes for. Prevailing wage means weekly certified payroll, and chasing it down through sub-tier contractors. Section 3 brings its own forms and its own reporting. Every generic project management platform we have seen pushes all of it into a side spreadsheet that lives next to the software rather than inside it, and that spreadsheet is only current if somebody updated it this week.
Sound familiar?
Compliance sits beside the platform, not in it
You bought project management software and you still keep a workbook for certified payroll through-dates, Section 3 forms, insurance expiries and executed contracts. Two systems, one of which nobody owns.
Certified payroll means chasing other people's paperwork
It is weekly, it covers sub-tier contractors as well as your own subs, and the gap only becomes visible when someone asks for the file. By then it is months wide.
Every draw is assembled by hand
Building the pay application out of the schedule of values, with retainage and stored materials, then reconciling it against what the lender and the syndicator each want to see. Monthly, carefully, by copying.
An audit means reconstructing a year
The question is never whether the work was done. It is whether you can show the paperwork trail for it, and whether the change orders still reconcile to the contract sum they landed on.
Too many people need to see part of it
The lender, the syndicator, the owner's representative and the architect all want visibility. None of them should be looking at your cost budget.
What we build for multifamily & affordable
Compliance tracked per sub, per job
Section 3 forms, certified payroll through-dates, sub-tier contractor payroll, existing employee lists, insurance certificates and their expiries, executed contracts and W-9s. In the system, next to the money, rather than in a workbook beside it.
Overdue paperwork that chases itself
A payroll week that has not arrived or a certificate about to expire surfaces as an item somebody owns, with reminders that keep going until it is closed, instead of being noticed at draw time.
Draw packages off the schedule of values
AIA G702 and G703 generated from the contract schedule of values with retainage and stored materials, and the schedule frozen while an application is open so the numbers cannot move underneath it.
Cost control that reconciles
Budget by CSI division and cost code, tracking committed, actual, approved changes and remaining from one calculation, so the figure on the draw agrees with the figure on the budget page.
A change order chain that survives review
Change event to potential change order to the subcontract change order down and the prime contract change order up, each keeping its own money, status and lineage back to where it started.
Outside parties at the depth you choose
Lenders, syndicators, owner's reps and architects get real accounts with access set by role and overridable per job, so they see progress and pending changes without ever seeing your margin.
Proof from your world
Two promises the software industry hates making
One monthly fee, starting at launch
Design, development, hosting, and support in one number you can budget like rent. No hourly meters, no change-order invoices, and no per-seat fees that grow with your team. Billing does not begin until version 1.0 is live and your team is using it.
See the plans →You own the custom code. All of it.
The repository, the documentation, and the infrastructure are in your name from day one. If you ever leave us, you take everything and any developer can pick it up. No ransom, no rebuild, no being trapped in someone else's platform.
How we work →Questions we hear from multifamily & affordable
Does it actually handle Section 3 and certified payroll, or just mention them?
They are fields in the compliance tracker, per subcontractor and per job, alongside insurance, executed contracts and W-9s. Certified payroll carries a through-date so you can see at a glance who is current and who is three weeks behind, and sub-tier contractor payroll is tracked rather than assumed. That is the paperwork most platforms leave you to keep separately.
Our state agency and our lender each want their own forms. Can you match them?
Usually, and it is worth scoping early because it varies more than anything else on these jobs. Standard AIA output is built. Agency-specific and lender-specific formats are a build item, and we would rather look at your actual templates during discovery than find them in month four.
Does this make us compliant?
No, and be wary of anyone who says their software does. It tracks the paperwork, shows you what is missing and stops it going unnoticed until a draw or an audit. Whether a given project is subject to Davis-Bacon or Section 3, and what your obligations are under them, is a question for your compliance people and your funder, not for a piece of software.
Can the lender and the syndicator see progress without seeing our margin?
Yes, and that is the point of setting permissions by role against each module rather than handing out logins and hoping. An owner's representative can watch the contract sum, the pending change orders and the pay applications while the cost budget stays invisible to them.
How is this different from your construction page?
Same system, different emphasis. Our construction page covers the commercial side for any mid-size general contractor. This one is about the paperwork that only comes with publicly funded housing, which is the part that decides whether the software fits your world or leaves you running a spreadsheet next to it.
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