Contract Settings for Owners

Do not allow the Main Contractor to modify the work breakdown

Select this setting to prevent the Main Contractor from making changes to the project Work Breakdown.

Use serial approval for Main Contractor payment application

Choose this setting to allow multiple Owner Approvers to approve the Main Contractor payment application in a specific order.

Require signatures on Main Contractor payment application

Displays when you choose the Use serial approval for Main Contractor payment application setting. Approving the Main Contractor payment application requires Approvers to apply a signature.

Project Retention Mode

The settings under this section allow you to choose Subcontractor retention settings. The type of retention held and the displayed fields—line item or contract retention—depend upon the Main Contractor's retention mode. These settings apply as the default for manually created subcontracts. Imported subcontracts may override the retention rule created in this section.

Australian projects use contract level retention.

Line Item

Enter a default retention percentage to hold against each payment applicationd line item. If left blank, the retention held percentage defaults to 10% for all line items.

Main Contractor Contract Retention Rate

The percentage of retention held on the Main Contractor's payment application.

You can also choose to allow Main Contractors to control this setting.

Allow access to subcontractor budget information (Open Book)

Choose this setting to allow Above the Line project participants to view Below the Line project participant billings.

You can also choose to allow Main Contractors to control this setting.