UK-built · CDM · CIS · MTD
Unibuild's financial management module is construction software for UK contractors that runs the money side of every job. Applications for payment are assembled from signed work, retention is carried to release, and CIS deductions close by HMRC tax month.
Construction financial management software is what sits between the work being done and the money arriving for it. For a UK contractor that means one place holding the measured work, the application for payment raised against it, the retention the client is withholding, the cash that has actually landed, and what the job has cost while all of that was going on. Unibuild holds every stage below against the same job record your site team is already working to, which is why a month end is assembled rather than rebuilt. The commercial manager, the contracts manager and the accounts team read the same position on the same day.
Cash is the business, and the application is how it arrives. In most firms it is assembled by hand, from four sources, by one person who cannot take the last week of the month off.
Two systems, one commercial position. The accounts package keeps the ledgers you file from. This keeps the job: what was measured, what was applied for, what is still owed and what it cost. Where the two meet is worth settling before you buy, not after.
Which accounts package you run changes the shape of the implementation, so it belongs in the first conversation rather than the fourth. So does the commercial side of the decision: Unibuild is priced as one flat monthly figure with unlimited users, which is what makes it reasonable to put the quantity surveyor, the contracts managers, the accounts team and the directors on the same commercial position. The module is set up around your own month end, numbering and documents. Anything else you need is built for you, and changes asked for after go-live are included in the monthly fee. More on how Unibuild is built to each firm.
The oldest and deepest part of the platform, running the commercial side of a UK contracting business since 2016.
Built from two things that already exist: the job's priced sections, and variations your client has already signed on site.
Calculated on the application, carried as a cumulative balance, and released at the end with its own flag so it cannot be quietly forgotten.
Gross value, discount, retention, the previously certified total and the net due this period. The arithmetic nobody should do by hand.
Outstanding certified value aged into buckets and grouped by the manager responsible for the job, as at any date you choose.
Amount, date, mode, transaction number and proof of payment, split across the applications it actually covers.
Every application and every payment on a job, interleaved in date order, so what was applied for and what arrived reconcile on one page.
For billing that does not fit the interim application model, with the VAT treatments a UK contractor actually needs.
What a job has cost so far, this week, rather than at the final account. Labour, purchasing and expenses land on the job as they happen.
Approved, signed-off work that has never reached an application. The direct measure of work in progress that is ready to bill today.
All of it reads the same job record site is working against, so nothing is re-entered to become an application, a cost or a statement.
The cost side below assembles itself from work people did for other reasons, so the position is current to the hour rather than to the last month end. What is entered by hand, the application and the receipt, is entered once and then read by everybody, which is why the director, the commercial manager and the accounts team never have to agree a version first.
A month end assembled rather than rebuilt. Every step below reads work that site had already measured and the client had already signed, which is why none of it starts from a blank page. It is drawn from how the commercial side has run since 2016.
Every week of the month, a supervisor valued the work in your own branded staff app, against that job's own rate card, and the client's representative signed on the screen. Nothing about month end starts from a blank page.
Contract lines from the job's priced sections, variation lines from the signed valuations. Anything already billed on a previous application is marked so it cannot be claimed twice.
Gross, discount, retention, the certified total from prior applications, the net due this period. The arithmetic that gets quietly wrong by hand, done the same way every month.
A multi-page document following standard UK practice, including the note that it is not a tax invoice, with the schedules of variations behind it. Emailed from the system, and the send is logged.
Outstanding certified value in 30, 60, 90 and 120-day buckets, grouped by whoever is responsible. Jobs where payments were never fully allocated are flagged explicitly. Chase notes recorded against each.
Recorded with the amount, date, mode and proof of payment, then allocated across several applications. Anything unallocated is flagged rather than sitting in limbo. A receipt is produced.
Approved, signed work that has never reached an application, on one screen. Two variations found from a job that finished in March. Applied for in the next cycle instead of never.
The Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996, as amended, requires a construction contract to carry an adequate payment mechanism: the date a payment becomes due, the final date for paying it, a payment notice, and a pay less notice where the payer intends to pay less than the notified sum. Below is where that regime meets the platform, on the way out to your supply chain and on the way in from your client, and where the retention sits while both are running.
The full list lives at /faqs. These are the ones that come up in every conversation about the money side.
Same platform, same login. These are the modules that price the work, buy for it, measure it, claim it and collect it.
The month end closes. The retention does not, for another twelve months.
What the ledger tells you at year end, and what you needed to know in March.
