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Your Sub Billed 85% Complete.
The Field Says 62%.

Your sub billed 85% complete on structural steel. Your field data says 62%. That 23% gap is $340,000 in overbilling — and Procore processed it without a flag.

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POD Reconciliation Accuracy

The Billing Black Box

Four reasons your pay applications are eroding your margin in silence

01

Blind Billing

Procore processes pay apps based on what subs claim. There's no automated cross-check against field-verified progress data. What's billed and what's done are two different numbers.

02

Retainage Chaos

Retainage calculations across 40 subcontracts, each with different retainage schedules, reduction milestones, and release conditions. One spreadsheet manages it all — poorly.

03

No Field Verification

The PM approves pay apps based on walkthrough estimates and sub assertions. There's no system connecting the pay app line items to daily production data.

04

Margin Erosion

Every undetected overbilling erodes your margin. Every underbilling delays your cash. Without reconciliation intelligence, you're flying blind on project financials.

How POD Reconciles Every Dollar

Pay App Accuracy Scoring

POD scores every pay application by comparing claimed progress against field-verified data — daily production reports, inspection results, photo documentation. Discrepancies are flagged before approval.

Contract Margin Dashboard

See your contract from both sides: owner contract revenue vs subcontract costs, with real-time margin tracking. Every approved change order, every pay app, every retainage adjustment updates the margin instantly.

Progress Claim Delta

Line-by-line comparison between what's billed and what's earned. POD highlights every cost code where claimed progress exceeds verified progress — before you sign.

Retainage Reconciliation

Automatic tracking of retainage balances, reduction milestones, and release conditions across all subcontracts. No more spreadsheets. No more missed reductions.

The Pay App Reconciliation Flow

Watch billed amounts compared line-by-line against field-verified progress

ContractBilledField VerifiedStructural Steel0%0%Electrical Rough0%0%Mechanical HVAC0%0%Concrete Deck0%0%Fire Protection0%0%

Pay App Intelligence — Every Line Item, Every Dollar Traced

Accuracy scoring and margin tracking that catches discrepancies before you sign

Contract Margin

POD
10.1% Margin
Revenue — Client Contract
Original Value$0
Change Orders+$0
Revised Contract$0
Billed to Date0%
Cost — GC Obligations
Sub Contracts$0
GC Directs$0
Overhead$0
Total Cost$0
Paid to Subs0%
Project Margin$0
0%10.1% of revised contract30%
Revenue $13.3M − Cost $12M = $1.4M margin (10.1%)
What we hear from the industry: “We discovered $1.2M in cumulative overbilling across 6 subcontracts — only after the project was 80% complete. Each pay app looked reasonable in isolation. Nobody was reconciling them against actual field production data.”

— The problem POD was built to solve

Frequently Asked Questions

Stop Approving Blind. Start Reconciling.

See how POD compares every pay app line item against field-verified data before you sign.

Last updated: March 2026