Construction change order management
Track additions and credits with origin, amount, schedule extension and a controlled review, customer approval and posting workflow.
Construction change order management: how it works in Home Builder Software
A change order only counts once it reaches the contract, and this register is where that happens. Every record carries where the change came from — the customer, the site, an RFI or a plan revision — together with its amount, the extra construction days it costs and the point it has reached in approval. Credits for work that fell away are entered as negative amounts and read green.
Six states carry the document: draft, internal review, sent, approved, declined and posted. Each row offers only the move its current state allows, so a draft goes to costing before it can reach the customer and an out-of-order jump is refused with an error. Title, origin, amount and additional days stay editable while the record is a draft or under internal review; sending locks those commercial fields. Declined and posted records are final.
Posting moves the amount into the project contract value in the same transaction that changes the status, and the confirmation names the figure that was booked; a credit lowers the value the same way. From there the new contract value widens the billing basis shown when the next invoice is raised, the project file lists the pending record under decisions that are waiting, and any correction runs through a fresh credit rather than an edit.
Construction change order management in the daily routine
Costing drafts the change order with its origin and amount and hands it to internal review. Site management checks the calculation and the extra days, then issues it to the customer. While it sits there, the open volume metric shows how much money is still undecided. When the customer answers, the row records approval or refusal in one click, and an approved change is posted so the contract value grows before the next progress invoice is written.
Read the documentationConstruction change order management: what it covers
Filter project change orders by status and open value
Move each record through review, issue, approval and posting
Update the contract value atomically when an approved change is posted
Construction change order management: questions and answers
Can a posted change order be edited?
No. Posted records are immutable; corrections are handled with a new credit.
Can change orders reduce the contract value?
Yes. Credits use a negative amount and reduce the value when posted.
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