Your monthly pay app, done and checked.

Send us last month’s pay app. We send back this month’s G702 and G703 on your GC’s form, carried forward and checked, so it’s approved the first time.

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  • Then $149 a month
  • No setup fee
  • Cancel anytime

Fills in the form your GC already uses

AIA-style G702 / G703Your GC's Excel templatePDF pay-app formsTexturaGCPayProcore PayConditional lien waiversUnconditional lien waiversStored materials schedules

What you get

A pay app every month,
ready to sign.

One email with your pay app filled in on your GC’s form, carried forward from last month and checked. You sign it and send it.

Pay App #5 is ready to sign

Cedar Park Medical Office · for Northgate Builders

Checking Checked

Pay App #5.xlsx

On Northgate’s own template

Pay App #5.pdf

G702 and G703, ready to sign

Checked before you see it

  • Carried forward from #4
  • Retainage at 10% on every line
  • PCO 2 kept off until it’s signed
  • Cover sheet ties to all 12 lines

Billed this period

$82,985.00

Retainage held

$8,298.50

Payment due

$74,686.50

Need a change? Reply and it comes back the same day.

Sign

On your GC’s own form

Their Excel template or PDF, filled in. For Textura, GCPay or Procore Pay, the numbers to key in.

Last month carried forward

Previous billing, retainage and change orders picked up from your last approved pay app.

Checked line by line

The mistakes GCs send pay apps back for, caught before you ever see it.

You stay in control

You review it, sign it and submit it yourself. Nothing goes to your GC without you.

$0

for your first pay app. No card and no demo call.

$149

a month after that. No setup fee and no cut of what you bill.

Same day

for any change. If a GC sends one back over our mistake, that month is free.

How it works

Last month in. This month out.

No new software to learn. Send what you already have and get back a pay app your GC can approve.

Last month's pay app
GC's blank form
Signed change orders

01

Send last month's pay app

Excel or PDF, plus your GC’s blank form and any signed change orders. Email works.

LineApp #4 to date#5 previous
Rough-in, Level 186,400.0086,400.00
Rough-in, Level 252,800.0052,800.00
Switchgear47,500.0047,500.00

02

We build this month’s

On your GC’s own form, with every line carried forward and every number checked.

Current payment due Submitted

$74,686.50

Signed by you Submit

03

You sign and submit

Excel and PDF back, ready to sign and upload. Changes come back the same day.

See the whole process

What we check

Every number checked before your GC sees it.

The mistakes that get pay apps sent back are small and they repeat. Arvelo checks for them on every line, every month.

App #4 · Rough-in, Level 2 · completed to date52,800.00
App #5 · From previous application28,800.0052,800.00
Doesn’t match last month. GC sends it back. Carried forward from App #4

Last month, carried forward

From Previous is filled from your last approved pay app on every line. No retyping, no drift.

5%10%

Retainage that ties

Held at your contract rate on every line, and flagged the month it changes.

CO-1 Add 4 circuitsSigned
CO-2 Relocate LP-2Billed $3,425 Held

Change orders wait

Unsigned work stays off until your GC approves it.

G703 · Column I total42,544.00
G702 · Line 5 retainage42,544.00

Lines 1 to 9 tie to the sheet

Cover sheet ties out

G702 lines 1 to 9 match the continuation sheet, to the cent.

Northgate BuildersTheir Excel template
Castellan ConstructionTextura
Pike & SonsAIA-style G702 / G703

Your GC’s own form

Excel template, PDF or portal. Set up once, reused every month.

The seven mistakes GCs reject most

Why it matters

A pay app sent back costs you a month.

Most GCs bundle sub pay apps into one draw a month. Miss it because of one wrong number and your money waits for the next one.

Sent back

Retainage didn’t tie to the cover sheet

  1. Oct 25Submitted
  2. Nov 3Sent back
  3. Nov 25Resubmitted next cycle
  4. Dec 30Paid

With Arvelo

Checked before it went out

  1. Oct 25Submitted
  2. Nov 3Approved
  3. Nov 30Paid

Example dates on a monthly billing cycle. When a pay app misses the GC’s draw, it usually waits for the next one.

For construction bookkeepers

Every client’s pay app. One list.

See what’s due, what’s waiting on a change order and what’s ready to send, across every sub you bill for.

  • Up to 10 client companies for $299 a month
  • Your own firm’s account free
  • Refer a sub client and share their subscription
Arvelo for bookkeepers

October pay apps

9 pay apps · 5 clients

Tue Oct 20

Ridgeline Electric

Cedar Park Medical Office · Northgate Builders, their Excel form

Ready

Summit Drywall

Harbor View Apartments · Castellan Construction, Textura

Waiting on CO 3

Bluewater Plumbing

Elm Street Library · Pike & Sons, AIA-style G702

Checked

Northfork Mechanical

Lakeside Clinic · Northgate Builders, their Excel form

Ready

Thu Oct 22

Ridgeline Electric

Westgate Middle School · Halvorsen Contractors, GCPay

Checked

Northfork Mechanical

Station 9 Firehouse · Pike & Sons, AIA-style G702

Needs progress

Clearline Glazing

Riverbend Offices · Castellan Construction, Procore Pay

Needs progress

Free tools

Check one yourself, free.

No signup. Your files stay in your browser.

Pay app checker

Upload your G703 and see what your GC would flag. It runs in your browser, so nothing is uploaded.

5 problems a GC would catchSent back
  • Line 7: Total to date does not add up
  • Line CO-2: Billing a change order that is not approved
  • Line 9: Retainage does not match the rate

Retainage calculator

Enter work completed, stored materials and your rate. Get retainage and current payment due, the way the G702 lays it out.

4Total completed and stored481,900.00
5Retainage at 10%48,190.00
7Less previous certificates358,980.50
8Current payment due74,729.50

Pricing

Simple pricing. First pay app free.

Month to month. No setup fee, no contract and no cut of your billings.

Subcontractor

Founding price

For a sub billing a handful of jobs.

$149/ month

Price locked for 12 months

Start the $149 plan
  • Up to 5 active projects
  • Each GC's own form set up for you
  • Last month carried forward
  • Every pay app checked before you submit
  • Retainage and change orders tracked
  • Excel and PDF out

Unlimited

For subs running more jobs at once.

$299/ month

First pay app free

Start Unlimited
  • Unlimited active projects
  • Everything in the $149 plan
  • Conditional and unconditional lien waivers prepared with every pay app

Bookkeeper

For bookkeepers who bill for several subs.

$299/ month

First pay app free

Start as a bookkeeper
  • Up to 10 client companies
  • Every client's pay apps due this month in one list
  • Your own firm's account free
  • Refer a sub client and share their subscription for as long as they stay
If your GC sends one back because of our mistake, that month is free. Compare plans

Guides

Get pay apps right, even without us.

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Guide

How to fill out a G702 and G703

Every line and column of the pay application, explained.

Read the guide

Guide

Schedule of values

How to build an SOV your GC approves and you can bill against.

Read the guide
Returned

Guide

Why pay apps get sent back

The seven mistakes GCs reject most, and how to catch them.

Read the guide

Guide

Retainage on pay applications

How retainage is held, reduced and released on a G702.

Read the guide

Questions

Answers, up front.

Something else? Email [email protected].

Arvelo produces AIA-style forms and fills in your GC's own template. If your contract requires the licensed AIA documents, we fill in the copy you've licensed. Arvelo is not affiliated with the AIA.

First pay app free

Your next pay app, done right.

Send last month’s. Get this month’s back on your GC’s form, checked. The first one is free.

We reply within one business day. No card, no demo call.