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Budgets & Invoices

Protect your margin from budget to final payment.

Plan job financials with confidence, invoice the way your contracts actually work, and track cash flow without losing sight of original budget targets.

Everything the spreadsheet can't do

5 Overhead Recovery Methods

Percentage of direct costs, percentage of revenue, fixed amount, activity-based allocation, or labor-hour absorption. Pick what fits your business — not a one-size-fits-all markup.

Activity-Based Allocation

Our activity-based overhead method understands that a maintenance job and a design-build project carry overhead differently. Per-category rates derived from your actual service mix.

Budget Line Hierarchy

Groups and children with auto-summing parent rows. A proper chart of accounts — income, COGS, expense — with indentation and rollups that match how contractors already think.

Read-Only Actuals Overlay

Actual costs and invoiced revenue show up as a variance overlay on your plan. Your budget stays clean. Variance is visible. The plan is never silently rewritten.

Progress Billing with Retainage

Draw-based invoicing per work area. Completion-percentage math. Retainage withheld on every draw and released through a dedicated flow. First-class — not a bolted-on afterthought.

Service Billing

Period-based billing that aggregates completed visits and their costs into a single invoice. Recurring maintenance work never falls through the cracks.

Configurable Revenue Recognition

Choose how revenue is recognized (paid in full, paid in part, or invoiced) plus retainage timing rules so reporting matches your accounting approach.

Over-Invoicing Prevention

Built-in guardrails prevent billing above remaining estimate value, even during busy operations.

Company-Wide Budget Rollup

Multiple divisions feed into a single grandmaster view. See the whole business or drill into residential, commercial, design-build, or maintenance.

What the financial lifecycle looks like in CC

A practical flow from budget planning to payment collection and financial review.

1
Plan

Set your budget and overhead strategy

Set your pricing assumptions once so estimates start from a consistent financial baseline.

  • Multiple overhead strategy options
  • Cost-type-aware pricing setup
  • Reusable assumptions for estimating consistency
  • Division-aware financial planning support
  • Controlled override flexibility when needed
2
Execute

Actuals flow in as a read-only overlay

Track plan vs actual during execution so overspend risks show up while there is still time to correct course.

  • Division and cost-type variance visibility
  • Project and service cost outcomes reflected
  • Change-order-aware financial context
  • Original budget reference preserved
  • In-flight variance awareness for managers
3
Bill

Three ways to invoice

Use billing workflows that match your contract type, whether one-off, progress-draw, or recurring service.

  • Standalone invoice support
  • Progress-draw billing with retainage handling
  • Service-period billing support
  • Structured retainage release flow
  • Clear payment-term behavior
  • Consistent billing history across job types
4
Collect

Record payments with no double-booking

Record payments clearly and keep invoice status accurate so receivables stay reliable.

  • Safe payment-recording workflow
  • Partial and full payment status visibility
  • Retainage-aware payment handling
  • Online payment support where configured
  • Manual payment method support
5
Recognize

Revenue hits the right month

Align financial reporting behavior with how your business recognizes revenue and retainage.

  • Configurable recognition policy support
  • Retainage treatment options
  • Division-level reporting compatibility
  • Cleaner period reporting outcomes
  • Better finance-team alignment

Flexible Overhead Strategy

Use overhead methods that reflect how your business actually operates so pricing stays realistic across different job types.

  • Multiple overhead approaches available
  • Supports varied service and project mixes
  • Improves pricing consistency
  • Feeds estimate assumptions
  • Practical for teams with mixed job portfolios

Progress Billing and Retainage Control

Handle progress draws and retainage in a structured way so billing stays aligned with contract requirements and project progress.

  • Progress-based invoice workflow support
  • Retainage withholding and release structure
  • Clear draw history tracking
  • Safer close-out billing
  • Stronger financial audit readiness
  • Better owner/client billing transparency

One System for Multiple Billing Models

Keep billing workflows consistent across standalone, progress, and service invoicing without fragmenting your process.

  • Supports one-off and recurring billing needs
  • Progress invoicing for construction contracts
  • Service-period invoice support
  • Shared payment and status handling
  • Consistent operational training for teams
  • Less process drift between departments

Safer Collections and Billing Guardrails

Use built-in billing guardrails to reduce costly errors in invoicing and payment recording.

  • Payment-entry safety protections
  • Over-billing prevention controls
  • Retainage release safeguards
  • Cleaner reconciliation outcomes
  • Higher trust in receivables data

How budgets and invoices connect to the rest of the platform

Data flows through the platform. Here's where this feature fits.

Budget → Estimate

Budget assumptions — overhead method, margin, contingency, burden — snapshot into every estimate at creation. Per-estimate overrides are supported without mutating the budget itself.

Project → Actuals Overlay

Time entries, PO receipts, and manual cost entries flow into a read-only overlay on the budget. You see variance per division and per cost type. The plan stays clean.

Completion % → Progress Invoice

Work-area completion percentages drive progress billing. Completed-to-date minus previously-billed minus retainage becomes the draw amount. Automatic, verifiable, auditable.

Invoice Payment → Recognized Revenue

Payments feed budget rollups based on your selected revenue policy, with retainage timing handled separately.

PO Receive → Pricing Signals

When you receive a PO and the actual unit cost differs from the estimated cost, CC captures the variance as a pricing signal you can use to sharpen future estimates.

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