Miss a pay-less notice and the sum applied for becomes the sum due. Not the sum you valued. The sum they asked for. QScope counts the days so that never turns on someone being on holiday.
The Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996 sets the payment timetable, and the contract form sets the day counts within it. Get the form wrong and every date after it is wrong.
Enter the due date once. QScope returns the whole sequence and recalculates it if the due date moves.
The sanction in the Act is not a fine. It is that the sum the contractor applied for becomes the sum due, in full, whatever it was actually worth. A pay-less notice one day late is a pay-less notice that does not exist.
QScope counts the pay-less deadline back from the final date for payment and warns while there is still time to issue one, because after that deadline the figure is fixed by law, not by your valuation.
A single job is easy to keep in your head. Nine jobs across three surveyors is where notices go missing, and it is never the project you were thinking about.
The project list carries a deadline panel that sorts by urgency, so the job in trouble reaches you rather than waiting to be found.
A payment notice under section 110A has to state the sum due and the basis for it. The statutory dates are only useful if they print on that same document, next to the figure they govern.
QScope puts the due date, the final date for payment and the pay-less deadline on the face of the certificate, so the client is not counting days from a separate email.
The pay-less deadline is the date that costs money this month. The retention release is the date that costs money after everyone has moved on, and unclaimed retention is the most commonly forgotten money in the industry.
QScope counts the release from the practical completion date and the rectification period, and warns on the project list as it approaches, the same way it warns on payment deadlines.
JCT SBC and Design and Build, JCT Intermediate and Minor Works, NEC3 and NEC4 ECC, and the Scheme for Construction Contracts. Each carries its own day counts for the final date for payment and the pay-less notice.
Yes. The calculation excludes weekends and UK bank holidays, which is where hand counting usually goes wrong, particularly around Easter and the August bank holiday.
Enter it in the project settings and QScope uses your figure instead of the default for the contract form. The pay-less deadline is then counted back from your final date for payment.
No. QScope calculates dates from the figures and contract form you enter. It does not check that the form you selected is the one that actually applies, and the notices you issue remain your professional responsibility.
Not your whole portfolio. One live job, one certificate. If it does not save you time the first time you use it, walk away and take your data with you.