Construction PM lets project managers enter change orders the moment they happen and rolls the impact through to budget, schedule of values, and billing — so the next owner conversation includes the change instead of missing it.
Project managers enter change orders from the dashboard the moment they happen, whether in the office or on a mobile browser at a job site. Each change order captures the contract value, labor and materials budget, schedule impact, requested-by, and notes, so the change is documented in real time instead of reconstructed three weeks later from memory.
When a change order moves from pending to approved, Construction PM updates the job’s contract total, posts the labor and materials budget into budget items, and creates or updates a linked scope on the schedule of values. The same workflow that captures the change keeps the budget and schedule of values current. No second pass, no re-keying.
Each change order moves through pending, approved, rejected, completed, and billed status. Approver and approval date are captured automatically on transition, and downstream views (budget, schedule of values, billing) only act on change orders that have actually been approved, so a pending change does not silently move money.
Approved change orders flow into AIA-style billing applications by adjusting the contract total used to calculate completion percentages and amounts due. Pending change orders surface in the billing application view as a conditional impact, so the project manager can see what the next application looks like with or without each pending change before it goes out.
Each job’s change orders appear inline within the billing view: change order number, description, status, contract value, and approval date, all sorted and totaled per job. The change order total stays visible alongside the original contract value, so the impact of changes on a job is never hidden inside a separate report.
Change order tracking is the practice of recording each change to the contract scope or value as it happens, capturing approval status and approver, updating the budget and schedule of values when the change is approved, and rolling approved changes into the next progress billing application.
When a change order moves to approved, Construction PM updates the contract total on the job and adjusts the schedule of values by creating or updating the linked scope with the labor and materials budget from the change order, so the schedule of values reflects the new contract value without re-keying.
Yes. Approved change orders adjust the contract total used in AIA-style progress billing, and pending change orders surface in the billing application view as a conditional impact so a project manager can see what the next application looks like with or without each pending change.
