Advance Billing Overview for Subcontractors

As a Prime Subcontractor, you can use the Advance Billing project setting to bill for more than 100% on a subcontract component. You can also use it to bill a negative percent complete on self-performed work.

If Advance Billing is selected on the Project Settings page, your Billing Workflow includes subcontracted line items.

Why Use Advance Billing?

To receive more money at the beginning of the project.
To see all the Work Breakdown (WB) lines when claiming (even lines that are 100% subcontracted out).
To easily claim for a Sub-Tier Subcontractor or Supplier even if the Sub-Tier hasn't claimed yet or has submitted a late progress claim.

Enter Progress Claim Page

Advance Billing changes the behaviour of your Billing Workflow. Subcontractors have the ability to bill a component to the Head Contractor for an amount greater than the Self-Performed amount. This ability does not depend on the amount a Sub-Tier billed or whether a claim was received for that component.

See Claiming with Specified Billing and Advance Billing for details.

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