Step 01
Create the contract record
Load documents, scope, dates, parties, retention terms, GST context, and compliance requirements.
Contract administration
Construction contract administration software for the commercial record
Palydin brings claims, variations, retention tracking, compliance, SOPA payment schedule dates, contract documents, and audit history into one contract intelligence platform for construction teams.
What this page covers
Progress claimsVariationsRetention / GSTSOPA schedules
Australian contract admin context
Built around the records commercial teams actually argue over.
Palydin uses Australian construction language in the product: progress claims, retention, GST, payment schedules, and the claimant/assessor relationship between subcontractors, head contractors, and principals.
Progress claims
Claim periods, claimed-to-date values, prior assessments, supporting documents, and submitted status stay together.
GST and retention
Keep GST, retention deductions, held amounts, and release context visible inside the claim workflow.
SOPA/payment schedules
Track payment schedule context beside the claim, assessment reasons, contract terms, and audit history.
Both sides of the contract
Subcontractors can prepare the record. Head contractors and principals can assess from the same file.
The broken current workflow
The old process hides the facts in the gaps.
Search pages should name the real construction workflow problem: separate files, separate assessments, and no reliable shared record.
01
Claims, variations, compliance, and retention each have a separate tracker.
02
Contract documents are searched after the commercial decision is already underway.
03
Counterparties receive PDFs instead of a shared record.
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Project health is inferred from reports rather than live workflow data.
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Audit history is reconstructed from email when someone challenges the record.
How Palydin handles it
A workflow for the full commercial day.
Step 02
Run the commercial workflows
Draft and assess progress claims, variations, retention releases, payment schedule records, and compliance activity from the same data.
Step 03
Keep both sides aligned
Subcontractors, head contractors, and principals can work from the contract records they are allowed to see.
Step 04
Preserve the audit trail
Review the commercial position with claim history, payment schedule context, documents, and contract-cited answers in one place.
Connected records
The claim is not the system. The contract record is.
This is the Palydin difference: the workflow stays connected to the records that explain and defend it.
Where Palydin fits
Keep every claim and its backup together.
Some tools help you send a claim. Big project systems try to manage the whole job. Palydin sits between them: it keeps claims, variations, retention, documents, assessments, and history in one place.
Claim and payment schedule tools
They help send the claim
Useful for getting a claim or payment schedule out, but the backup often stays in emails, spreadsheets, folders, and separate trackers.
Palydin
It keeps the full story with it
Claims, variations, retention, documents, assessments, SOPA dates, and history stay together, so anyone reviewing the claim can see what it is based on.
Broad project platforms
They try to run the whole job
Useful for large teams, but often too much if the problem is monthly claim and contract work. Palydin stays focused on that repeat workflow.
Operational trust
Proof in the workflow, not in a badge.
The trust story is practical: who saw what, what changed, which source supported the answer, and which contract record holds the history.
Audit trail
Claim changes, assessment reasons, variation decisions, and retention activity stay attached to the record.
Access controls
Role-based permissions keep claimant, assessor, admin, commercial, and viewer workflows separated.
Counterparty scoping
External parties only work inside the contracts they are connected to, not the whole project portfolio.
Contract-cited AI
Answers point back to contract material so teams can check the source before acting.
Role relevance
Useful from either side of the contract.
Subcontractors
Keep the claim, variation, document, and compliance trail ready before submission.
Head contractors
Run commercial administration from the contract record instead of a folder of trackers.
Principals
See project-level commercial health without waiting for manual reporting cycles.
FAQ
Direct answers for search visitors.
Start with one contract
Verify the workflow before you talk to sales.
Start the Pro trial, load one contract, draft a real workflow, and decide from the product surface.