(Beta) Set or Release Retainage on a Subcontractor Invoice from the Progress Billings Tool

Objective

To set or release retainage for line items on a subcontractor invoice with the Progress Billings tool.

Background

In Procore, the term Retainage refers to the practice of withholding of a portion of a contract amount until the work is deemed satisfactorily complete. The withheld amount is specified in an agreement between the contracting party (the party paying for the work) and a contracted party (the person or company performing the work). A common practice is to withhold 5-10% of a contract's total value until a milestone is reached. Then, the withheld amount can be released as a progress payment. When work is substantially complete, the withheld amount can be released as a final payment.

Things to Consider

Notes

Access permissions to the Invoicing & Progress Billings tools are governed by the permissions set on the Commitments and/or Client Contracts, Funding, or Prime Contracts tool. Procore tool names vary, depending on the point-of-view dictionary configured in Procore. See What tool names and terms are different in Procore for general contractors, owners, and specialty contractors?
If you are a collaborator (for example, an invoice contact employed by a company performing work on a project managed in Procore, your ability to perform invoice-related tasks is determined by the Procore company account holder. Settings that the account holder may choose to provide to you include:
- A Procore User account.
- Access permissions to the project's Commitments and/or Client Contracts, Funding, or Prime Contracts tool.
- Membership on the 'Private' list of a specific contract or funding
- Designated as an 'Invoice Contact' on the contract or funding.

Required User Permissions:
- To set and release retainage when editing an invoice before, during, or after the current billing period, 'Admin' level permissions on the project's Commitments tool.
- OR
- To release retainage when editing an invoice during the current billing period only, 'Standard' level permissions on the project's Commitments tool and you must be the designated 'Invoice Contact' on the contract. Invoice contacts are automatically added to the 'Private' drop-down list on the contract. If you have these permissions, see these tutorials: Send an 'Invite to Bill' to an Invoice Contact and Submit a New Invoice as an Invoice Contact.
  OR
- Read about the alternative permissions option: Show/Hide
  - Some Procore customers choose to grant external users access permissions to the project's Commitments tool to allow them to create invoices. The following options is available, but NOT recommended:
    - 'Read Only' level permission on the project's Commitments tool and designated as an 'Invoice Contact' on the purchase order or subcontract. If users are granted these permissions, they have permission to modify the retainage amount to release on an invoice before a billing period's 'Due Date'.

Additional Information:
- For customers in Australia , you can also manage withholding using the sliding scale retention feature. To learn more, see What is sliding scale retention?
- To learn how to create an invoice to release retainage as a final payment, see Create a Subcontractor Invoice for Release of Retainage.

Prerequisites

Steps

Place the Invoice SOV in Edit Mode

Navigate to the project's Progress Billings tool.
Click the Subcontractor tab.
In the table, locate the subcontractor invoice to edit.
Click the Invoice # link to open it.
Scroll to the Schedule of Values section.
Click Edit in the lower right corner of the 'Schedule of Values' section.

(Beta) Set or Release Retainage on a Subcontractor Invoice from the Progress Billings Tool

Phased Release: Modernized Subcontractor Invoice Experience

Note

Limited Release

Objective

Background

Things to Consider

Notes

Prerequisites

Steps

Place the Invoice SOV in Edit Mode

Set and Release Retainage on SOV Line Items

See Also