The money going out to subcontractors runs on a different cycle to the money coming in from the client. QScope holds both, puts every payment on the date the contract sets, and shows the funding peak before you hit it.
A late notice loses the argument before it starts. QScope counts the due date, the payment notice, the pay-less deadline and the final date for payment from the contract form, excluding weekends and UK bank holidays, so a missed date is one you chose to miss, not one you did not see.
The same engine that runs inside the app is the one behind the free public calculator, so the dates on your application are the dates that hold up.
Each subcontract package carries its own retention rate and its own payment cycle. QScope tracks what you have certified down the chain against what you have been certified up it, so the cash position between money in and money out is a figure, not a feeling.
Certify a subcontractor and the payment joins the forecast on its own dates, so the gap between paying them and being paid never hides.
Projects do not fail because they were unprofitable. They fail because the money went out before it came in, and nobody modelled the gap. The cash flow puts receipts from client certificates against payments to subcontractors on the real dates, and the peak is the deepest point of the line.
The tail matters as much as the peak. Retention and an unagreed final account keep the position negative long after practical completion, so a forecast that goes positive at handover is wrong by exactly that amount.
Instructed work that never becomes a valued variation is money you have spent and will not recover. QScope keeps every instruction in order and flags the ones with a cost effect that have no variation raised against them.
The variation carries its valuation rule, any extension of time and the loss and expense on one record, so when the account is agreed the change is defensible rather than remembered.
No. It is the cash flow of one contract: money in from client certificates against money out to subcontractors. Your own labour, plant and overheads sit in your accounts, not here.
Yes. Payment dates are computed for JCT, NEC and the Scheme, and for FIDIC in calendar days from the Statement on the 28 and 56 day defaults, editable for the Particular Conditions.
It shows the last date for a pay-less notice on every certificate and warns when a deduction needs a notice you have not issued. Issuing it is still your call.
Yes. Each package carries its own retention rate and cycle, and the cash position tracks what you pay down the chain against what you recover up it.
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.