1Progress claims are invoices and need representing properly
Each interim application that becomes an invoice has to be a compliant structured document, with its relationship to the contract clear.
Construction invoicing is not a simple sale. It is a sequence of progress claims against a contract, with retentions held back, variations added, and a payment certificate somewhere in the middle. Mapping that into structured invoicing is a design exercise.
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Each interim application that becomes an invoice has to be a compliant structured document, with its relationship to the contract clear.
How retention is shown, when it is released and how the release is invoiced all need deciding once and applied consistently.
Approved variations change the contract value mid-stream. Your invoicing needs to reflect that without breaking the reconciliation back to the contract.
Main contractors receive as well as issue. Where you sit in the chain determines whether your bigger problem is issuing compliantly or processing what arrives.
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We are not reselling somebody else's product. Zaini Developers is our own development team, and the e-invoicing engine sits inside the same platform that already runs CRM, accounting, POS and HR for UAE clients. That means when your business needs a field, a document layout or a report that a shrink-wrapped product does not have, we add it instead of putting it on a roadmap.
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Each progress invoice is a structured document in its own right. The design question is how you represent its relationship to the contract, retentions and variations consistently.
Decide on a single treatment and apply it consistently. Ad hoc handling of retention is where reconciliation problems start.
Yes. You issue invoices to the main contractor, which is a business-to-business transaction and in scope on your own timeline.
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