Value the job, and the certificate, the retention, the VAT and the payment dates follow from it. Variations, dayworks and the final account sit on the same record, so the money reconciles instead of living in six spreadsheets.
You enter one thing: how far each item has moved this period. QScope produces the certificate from it, deducts retention at the right rate, charges VAT once on the reduced net, and prints the statutory dates the payment runs to.
The figure a client certifies real money against is the figure you valued, on your practice letterhead, not a number re-keyed into an accounts package that never sees the contract.
A variation without an instruction behind it is the first thing an auditor pulls. QScope keeps the instruction, the valuation rule, any extension of time and the loss and expense on one record, and flags an instruction that changed cost with no variation raised against it.
Dayworks are valued the way the contract says, with the three percentage additions kept separate, and only agreed sheets reach the account.
The final account starts from the adjusted contract sum, takes off what has been certified and any unrecovered deposit or advance, adds the retention release, and lands on the balance due. Nothing is counted twice, because the interim certificates and the final account read from the same base.
The deposit and the advance wash through to zero: paid up front and recovered through the certificates. The figure at the bottom is what is genuinely left to pay.
The cost report, the retention notice, the payment schedule and the variation register go out as documents on your own letterhead, alongside the certificate the client is waiting for.
The audit trail records who changed which figure and when. It is not editable and it exports to CSV, which is what a QS needs when a number is questioned six months later.
No. You value the way you already do, by percentage or fixed sum. QScope does the deductions, the VAT and the dates that a spreadsheet leaves you to remember.
Yours. Every document prints on your practice letterhead. QScope is the tool, not the name on the paper the client sees.
No. You enter the tax rate and confirm the statutory days for the contract, so the figures are yours and sit behind the audit trail. QScope calculates from what you enter, it does not assert the number for you.
The audit trail is not editable, which is the point, but your project data is yours and exports to CSV whenever you need 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.