tectm vs Payapps
Payapps is built around the claim exchange itself. tectm is built around the cost position that produces the claim, so the claim is an output rather than the product.
WHAT PAYAPPS IS FOR
Payapps standardises progress claims and their approval between a head contractor and its subcontractors: a consistent claim format, a clear approval trail, and less email.
If the pain is the claim exchange, chasing formats, chasing approvals, chasing what was certified, that is precisely what it is for.
WHAT TECTM IS FOR
tectm starts a step earlier and finishes a step later. The dockets that justify the claim are captured on site and priced twice in one entry: at your internal rates for cost, at head-contract rates for revenue.
From there the claim is assessed line by line against a cost code, the certificate is generated from approved dockets, retention rules and the back-charge ledger, and the same records export as a substantiation packet if the claim is ever disputed.
And because cost and revenue come off the same records, the claim going out and the margin on the job move together instead of being reconciled afterwards.
Can you run both?
They can. Plenty of contractors are required to claim through whatever their client mandates, and that is a constraint rather than a decision. What tectm changes is where the number in the claim comes from and what it costs you to prove it.
The question that decides it
When a claim goes out, do you know what that work cost you before the certificate comes back? If the claim and the cost are two separate exercises, that is the gap.
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