Construction Change Order Management
Track and manage pending change orders and internal change orders from start to finish.
Identify the real impact of change orders on projects, timelines, and financials.
- Track change order status.
- Record indirect costs, direct costs and markups for self-performed and subcontract work.
- Automatically email RFPs to subcontractors.
- Propose pending change order & revised as needed.
- Group multiple pending change orders within one approved change order.
- Forecast estimated costs and revenue for approved change orders.
WHAT OUR CLIENTS SAY:
Change Order Management Functionality
Complete Change Order Management
Simplify and automate change order processing at each step, from estimates to approvals.
- Easily select subcontractors on pending change orders.
- Approved change orders automatically update committed costs and original estimate.
- Evaluate the profitability by approved change order.
- View all the information about the completed change order, including the order number, description, dates submitted and accepted, labor, and material total costs.
- Track change order costs with subcontractors in real-time
- The ability to issue related sub-changes and predict expected revenue when working on a notice to proceed.
Stay in the Know
- Email quotes, RFQs, pending change orders, acknowledgments, and subcontract change orders from one place.
- Attach any electronic document to your change orders.
- Save time by automatically updating job cost change orders, AIA billing, subcontract files, and notify subcontractors.
- Change order costs and revenue are automatically reflected in your project reporting.
Customize your change order forms
Design your own forms to make sure they match your business needs. Customize the forms such as:
- Request for sub proposal
- Quotation cover and breakdown form
- Subcontract change order form
- Understanding what to bill and when to bill
Easily Manage Pending Change Orders
- Complete multiple pending change orders at once.
- Generate pending change orders as one approval.
- Run reports and view the status of each change order filtered by the job.
- View pending change orders and change order status updates.
Improved Change Order Billing
- With full integration, your approved charge orders are synced with your progress billing / AIA invoices.
- Assign billing percentages, or amounts, for change orders associated with one progress billing or AIA invoice.
- Include or exclude retainage/holdback on your change orders.
Jonas Cloud Takes Your Change Order Management to the Next Level
Client Case Study
With continually improving customer satisfaction and optimizing business operations a priority, Campbell and Kennedy decided to replace their legacy system to help their business succeed.
- Increased revenue by 30% without any additional office staff
- An increase in efficiencies in the change order management process and other areas
- Saving roughly 50 days per year in driver’s hours delivering pay stubs
- Complete union reporting in a timely manner, reducing time from 1 day to 1 hour per month
- The ability to attain real-time, accurate views of the current state of the business
Frequently Asked Questions
In the construction industry, change orders are an inevitable part of the construction process and they can positively or negatively impact your bottom line. If you carefully manage your change orders and record every detail, you reduce your risk and ensure accurate documentation to the original scope of work and adjustments throughout your entire project.
While the original contract may include all the right details and specifications, the progress of the job or site conditions may throw a wrench in your plans. That’s why a construction change order management software fully integrated into job costing and operations, reduces your risk while improving transparency and efficiency for all parties involved.
It’s best to plan for changed work in order to avoid the most common causes of cost overruns. Among things you can do to improve your change order processes are:
- Communicate early to avoid delays and confusion.
- Have a digital paper trail to protect you if a dispute arises.
- Standardize how you handle change order work with the help of change order management software.
