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£15/mo · included from SoloVariations priced, submitted and approved
"Just move the socket while you’re there." Six weeks later nobody remembers agreeing it and nobody’s paying for it. Variations are numbered, priced as line items, and held against the original contract value so you can see what the change did to it. The client’s approval or rejection is timestamped, and a rejection carries a reason. Clients with a portal login can raise a request themselves. Included from Solo up.
What the Variations module does
- Numbers each variation and attaches it to a job, with a title and description.
- Prices the variation as line items with description, quantity, unit, unit price, total, category and sort order.
- Puts the original contract value next to the variation amount, so you can see what it does to the job.
- Runs through draft, submitted, approved, rejected and withdrawn, timestamping submission, approval and rejection.
- Records who requested it and who approved it, by name.
- Keeps the rejection reason, so a refusal leaves something behind you can argue with.
- Accepts a client-submitted variation request through the Client Portal.
Variations: how it works
What is a variation in a construction contract?
An authorised change to the agreed scope, with a price on it. Something added, something left out, something swapped. Do work outside the contract with no approved variation behind it and you may well not get paid for it. What protects you is a numbered, dated, priced record with somebody’s approval against it.
How does a variation reach the client?
You submit it, and that stamps the time. The approval or rejection comes back onto the variation with the approver’s name on it. A client with a portal login can raise their own request too, and it lands as a variation waiting to be priced rather than as an email at the bottom of a thread.
How do variations affect job cost?
A variation carries its own priced lines and an amount set against the original contract value. Run Job Costing as well and your forecast margin is measured against the revised value rather than the one you signed. Run Payment Applications and approved variations go into the gross cumulative value you apply for.
Variations: at a glance
- Plan
- Included from Solo
- Pricing
- Priced line items
- Statuses
- 5, all timestamped
- Client requests
- Via the portal
Variations
£15per month
Variations is a bundled module. Plans are a ladder, so it comes with Solo and with Core, Pro, Enterprise.
Included from Solo, £39 a month
- Included on Solo and above at no extra cost.
- There is no plan you have to add it to and nothing extra to pay for it.
- Included in full during the 14-day free trial.
- No implementation fee and no minimum term.
Questions
Variations: frequently asked
Which plan includes variations?
It’s included from Solo up. The numbering, the priced lines, the approval and the rejection reason all come with it.
Can a client approve a variation online?
Yes, if they’ve got a Client Portal login. They can see the variations on their job and send in requests of their own. The approval lands on the variation with a name and a timestamp.
Is a variation the same as a day-work sheet?
No. A variation is an authorised change to scope at an agreed price. A day-work sheet records the labour, plant and materials you actually spent on work priced at cost. Estimark handles both, and keeps them apart.
Related
Payment Applications
Include approved variations in the gross value applied for.
Job Costing
Measure margin against the revised contract value.
RFI Management
The question that usually precedes the change.
For builders & contractors
Pro at £299/month. Payment applications, HR, training, plant and fleet.
Payment applications & retention
Interim applications, retention, payment and pay-less notices under the Construction Act.
Job costing & CVR
Actual, committed and forecast cost per job, with a cost value reconciliation pack.
Pricing & plans
Solo £39, Core £129 and Pro £299 a month plus seats. Enterprise is quoted. Bolt-ons are priced separately.
Try it on a real job.
14 days, full access, every plan. No implementation fee.