FOR DEVELOPERS

You’re the one paying for it.

Your contractor tracks his side of the job in siteMargin. Open the same figures from yours: what you’re holding, what he’s added, and whether this month’s claim matches the walls.

UNIT 7
THE SAME NUMBERS, REVERSED

He claims it. You hold it.

Three things run in both directions, and the software does not care which end you are standing at.

Your contractor sees
Unit 7 · Brickwork
You see
R4 300 retention owed to him5% held back from this month’s R86 000 claim
Retention
R4 300 retention you holdReleased only when Unit 7 is signed off
VO 3 issued: +R18 500Extra course of face brick to the gable
Variations
VO 3 to approve: +R18 500Logged against the R1.2m agreed baseline, not folded into it
Claiming R86 000 this month90% of the line’s budget spent
Progress
60% actually builtAsk before you certify the other 30%

One line, one set of numbers. siteMargin shows each side the same figures from where they sit.

Retention

Your contractor claims it; you are the one holding it. Five percent of every certified claim, held back per unit, released when the work is signed off. On one house you remember it. Across nine units you do not — and he has every reason to remind you before you remind yourself.

Variations

He issues them; you are the one paying for them. Each approved change order sits against the original baseline rather than disappearing into a revised total, so when the final account arrives you can point at what was agreed, when, and for how much.

Progress

He reports it; you decide whether it justifies the claim. Money out against work actually done, per line, per unit. Ninety percent spent on sixty percent built is the thing you want in front of you before you certify, not after.

STRAIGHT ABOUT IT

What it does, and what it doesn’t.

We’d rather you know now than find out in month three.

FROM YOUR SEAT, TODAY
  • Retention across every unit. What is held, on which unit, and how much of it sits on work already finished.
  • Variations against the agreed baseline. Priced, dated and logged, so the final account is a document rather than an argument.
  • Progress against spend, per unit. The gap between money out and work done, flagged the day it opens.
  • Payment certificates that carry forward. Issue one and its figures freeze; the next one starts where it left off.
  • Every drawing, contract and spec, versioned. So nobody on site is building off last month’s revision — and any drawing explained in plain words.
  • The whole portfolio on one page. Every unit’s cost, variance and status, without opening nine spreadsheets.
NOT IN HERE
  • Funding and drawdowns. No facility, no interest roll-up, no drawdown schedule against a lender’s programme.
  • Sales revenue. It does not know what a unit sold for, so it cannot show you margin on the sale — only cost against budget.
  • Feasibility and appraisal. It starts once you have a budget. It will not help you decide whether to buy the site.
  • Your books. The Xero sync is read-only and always will be — siteMargin never writes anything back to your accounts.
WHICH PLAN

Company, at R1 599 a month.

The portfolio view and the retention register across every job are the two you will actually live in, and both sit on the Company plan.

Company

R1 599 /month
Every unit on one page, retention tracked across all of them, and twenty-five free seats so the site team can keep it current without costing you a cent more.
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  • Portfolio view across every unit
  • Retention register across every job
  • Automated weekly & monthly reports
  • Xero accounting sync, read-only
  • 25 free seats for your site team
  • 10GB attachment storage — extendable

Managing a single build rather than a portfolio? There is a once-off plan for that instead, at R899 for the project, with nothing to cancel when the job finishes.

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