🏗️ Industry · Construction & Contracting
How long does an RA bill sit before the money reaches you?
Where your RA bills actually stop. How much material was consumed against estimate, while the work is still running. How many snags are genuinely still open.
One contractor measured forty-nine days from RA bill submission to payment. Twenty-one of them were a single query nobody was chasing.
Construction businesses — project phase visibility live
As featured in PrintWeek India, April 2026 ↗
Three contractors. Each one had done the work and was waiting to be paid for it.
01 The RA bill that sat for six weeks
Work is done. The running account bill goes up. Then it waits — for measurement, for the engineer, for a query, for a signature.
Every week it waits is your money funding somebody else's project. And because each delay has a different reason, nobody adds them up.
One RA bill, submission to payment
Joint measurement9 days
Engineer certification13 days
Query and resubmission21 days
Payment release6 days
Measurement, certification and query stages each carry an owner and a date, so the delay has a name.
49 days → 24submission to payment
Show me howFifteen minutes. Bring one bill.
02 Material at site, and material on paper
Cement, steel and finishing material go to site. Some is consumed, some is wasted, some walks.
Reconciliation happens at the end, against a BOQ. By then the difference cannot be explained, only argued about.
Consumption against estimate, one project
Cement+4%
Steel+11%
Tiles and finishing+23%
Sanitary+7%
Issue against activity is recorded at site as it happens, so a variance is caught during the work rather than after it.
+23% → +8%on finishing material
Find out howFifteen minutes. Bring one project.
03 Snags, and the list that never closed
Handover happens and a snag list is made. Some items are closed. Some are argued about. Some are simply forgotten until the client refuses final payment.
The list lives in a spreadsheet emailed back and forth, so nobody knows the real open count on any given day.
Snag list, one handover
Raised at handover142 items
Closed in first month74 items
Still open at 90 days63 items
Each snag is an item with an owner, a photo and a date, closed by the person who fixed it.
63 open → 11at ninety days
Show me howFifteen minutes. Bring one list.
Cash on a project is not lost. It is sitting somewhere, with somebody, waiting.
Your Production Flow
Every phase. Every vendor delay. Every milestone tracked.
This is how a print job moves through your business. Clicarity gives you live visibility at every phase — and flags delays before they become client calls.
01
Pre-Construction
5 stages
Client Brief & Scope
Project scope, budget, and timeline confirmed with client.
✓ Clicarity: Project ID created, all scope documents attached
Design & Drawings
Architectural and structural drawings prepared and approved.
⚠ ⚠ Common delay: design revisions with no deadline — site start pushed
Regulatory Approvals
Building permits, NOCs, and local body approvals obtained.
⚠ ⚠ Common delay: approval bodies take weeks — tracked but status invisible daily
BOQ & Estimation
Bill of quantities prepared and contractor estimates received.
Vendor & Sub-Contractor Finalisation
All sub-contractors and material vendors confirmed and onboarded.
✓ Clicarity: Each vendor assigned their scope — they update their own stages
02
Site Preparation & Foundation
4 stages
Site Clearance & Levelling
Site cleared, graded, and prepared for construction.
Excavation
Foundation excavation to required depth and dimensions.
⚠ ⚠ Common delay: underground utilities or rock — programme disrupted
Foundation & Footings
Foundation laid per structural drawing — PCC, reinforcement, and concrete.
✓ Clicarity: Concrete pour date logged — curing time tracked automatically
Plinth & Basement
Plinth beam, basement walls, or raft foundation completed.
✓ Clicarity: Stage completion logged, next phase notified automatically
03
Superstructure & Civil Work
5 stages
Column & Beam Construction
RCC columns and beams poured floor by floor.
✓ Clicarity: Floor-wise progress tracked — bottleneck floors flagged
Slab Construction
Floor slabs poured with reinforcement as per drawing.
⚠ ⚠ Common delay: formwork shortage — next slab delayed while previous cures
Brick / Block Masonry
Walls constructed per floor plan after slab completion.
⚠ ⚠ Common delay: masonry contractor stalls — next trades cannot start
Plastering
Internal and external plaster applied to masonry walls.
Waterproofing
Waterproofing applied to wet areas, terrace, and basement.
✓ Clicarity: Waterproofing stage logged — cannot proceed to flooring without it
04
MEP & Finishing
5 stages
Electrical Rough-In
Conduits, junction boxes, and wiring laid before plastering or flooring.
⚠ ⚠ Common delay: electrical contractor arrives after plaster — remedial work required
Plumbing Rough-In
Pipe runs and plumbing fixtures roughed in before finishing.
⚠ ⚠ Common delay: plumbing and civil not coordinated — phases clash
HVAC / Ducting
Air conditioning and ventilation ducts installed.
Flooring & Tiling
Tiles, marble, or wooden flooring laid after sub-floor preparation.
✓ Clicarity: Room-wise or floor-wise progress tracked
Painting & Finishing
Wall putty, primer, and final paint applied.
✓ Clicarity: Painter productivity visible — slow areas flagged before handover deadline
05
Handover & Closeout
3 stages
Snagging / Punch List
Final inspection — all defects, incomplete items, and snags listed.
✓ Clicarity: Every snag item tracked with responsible party and resolution date
Snag Clearance
All punch list items completed and re-inspected.
⚠ ⚠ Common delay: sub-contractors slow to clear snags — handover delayed
Handover & Documentation
Keys, warranties, as-built drawings, and compliance certificates handed to client.
✓ Clicarity: Full project history from design to handover preserved
Real Printing Business. Real Results.
""We used to discover that a sub-contractor had stalled only when the next trade couldn't start. By then we'd lost a week. Now I see stalled phases on my phone before they impact the programme.""
What improves in construction businesses using Clicarity
↓ 40%
Project delays from phase dependencies
↑ 35%
On-time milestone completion
↓ 70%
Sub-contractor follow-up calls
5 days
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Questions from construction businesses
How does Clicarity work for a printing business specifically?
Clicarity is configured around your specific print workflow — pre-press, printing, finishing, dispatch — in your terminology. Every job gets a unique ID and moves through your defined stages. You see live status, timestamps, and alerts when a job sits too long at every stage. The Clicarity team builds everything for you. You go live in 5 days.
Does it work for both offset and digital printing?
Yes. Clicarity works for any print process — offset, digital, wide format, screen printing, or a combination. The stages are configured around your actual workflow. If offset jobs go through plate making and digital jobs skip that stage, both can be tracked correctly under the same system.
Can it track material wastage at each stage?
Yes — with the Multi Licence. At every stage, your team logs quantity in and quantity out. Clicarity calculates the loss automatically. You see wastage by stage, by job, live — not at month-end when nothing can be done about it.
Will my press operators actually use it?
Yes. The update screen has two fields — Job ID and status. Under a minute. No training needed. GP Offset's entire team was using it from day one, including floor workers who had never used a software system before.
See every phase. Every vendor. Before the delay compounds.
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