Value line by line, by percentage or by a fixed sum. Retention, previously certified and this period calculate as you type, and no line can be certified past 100 per cent.
Some lines are a percentage of measured work. Some are a lump sum, a provisional sum drawn down in tranches, or dayworks off a sheet. Forcing everything through a percentage is how spreadsheets end up with a fudge column.
Click the % on any line to switch it to a fixed sum. The rest of the certificate does not change, because underneath both routes produce the same figure.
Section 110A of the Construction Act requires a payment notice to state the sum considered due and the basis on which it is calculated. The valuation schedule is that basis, but the document has to say so.
QScope prints the statement, the due date, the final date for payment and the pay-less deadline on the face of the certificate.
A certificate is only a payment notice if it carries the dates the Construction Act attaches to it. The valuation is the easy part. The pay-less deadline is the one that turns a valuation into a liability.
QScope counts the sequence from the due date on this certificate, so the notice you issue tells the client exactly when a pay-less notice has to be with you.
The £1,209 deducted for retention on this certificate is not a setting buried in a menu. It is a deduction from the sum due, and it has to be the same figure the client sees on the retention notice.
QScope holds retention against certificates actually issued, halves the rate at practical completion and counts the release date, so the number here is the number on the notice.
VO-01 and VO-03 are not paid on a separate note. Under JCT they are valued in the certificate, so retention runs down one track and nothing is paid twice.
Add Variations pulls every approved variation into the certificate as a line, carrying its certified percentage back to the variation record.
Yes. You can enter the bill directly or bring it in, then every certificate values against those lines. Section subtotals and omissions carry through, so the certificate structure matches the bill the client already has.
You cannot. QScope caps each line at the contract value less what has already been certified, and tells you how much is left on that line rather than silently trimming the figure.
No. Documents carry your practice name and your logo. QScope does not appear on anything you send a client.
Yes, and each has their own login so the audit trail records who prepared each certificate. If two people open the same project, QScope warns the second one rather than letting one overwrite the other.
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.