Payment & retainage tracking built for small crews

Stop chasing checks. Start getting paid.

Every dollar you're owed — retainage included — with overdue alerts and one-tap demand letters. No accounting software.

Set up your first job in 2 minutes Works on your phone Syncs across your devices
Demand letter sent
Retainage due in 9 days
subsettle · dashboard
Total owed to you
$0
Regular outstanding
$51,000
Retainage
$17,950
High
Payment 27 days overdue · $27,000
By the numbers

Getting paid in construction is broken.

167 days
Average wait for a sub to get retainage released — GCs wait 99.
Levelset / American Subcontractors Assoc.
94 days
Average time to get paid — the longest of any U.S. industry.
PYMNTS, 2023
$273B
Cost of slow payments to U.S. construction in 2023 — ~14% of total costs.
Rabbet, 2023
3 in 4
Subcontractors who faced payment delays over 30 days.
Rabbet, 2023
The retainage trap

Money you've already earned — locked on someone else's books.

On every pay app the GC keeps 5–10% as retainage. It piles up for months, and it's the first thing that slips through the cracks. Subsettle tracks every withheld dollar and the day it's collectible.

  • Your total retainage across every job, at a glance
  • The expected release date for each one
  • A nudge the day it becomes collectible
released ~day 167
$0
locked in retainage
The real cost of getting paid late

Retainage and slow pay are quietly draining your crew.

Built for crews under $2M a year, no back office. You did the work weeks ago — the money's still on someone else's books, and 5–10% (industry-standard retainage) is locked away with nobody tracking it but you.

Retainage you forget you're owed

5–10% (industry standard) held back on every pay app — easy to lose track of money not yet in your account.

Payments that slip weeks past due

"Net 30" becomes 60. With no one watching the clock, late blends into the pile.

The awkward "where's my check" call

Chasing feels like begging, so you wait. Send a documented demand instead — one tap.

From chaos to clarity

From a shoebox in the truck to one clean number.

Crumpled invoices, sticky notes, "did they pay the retainage?" In about two minutes, every job and dollar lands in one place.

? Receipts in the truck about 2 minutes What you're owed Outstanding$31,000 Retainage$18,000 Overdue$9,000 Total owed $58,000 One clean number
Everything in one place

Built to do one job well: get you paid.

No bloated accounting suite. Just what a small crew needs to know what it's owed and collect it.

Total-owed dashboard

One always-current number: every dollar outstanding across all your jobs.

Pay-app + retainage ledger

Log a pay app; retainage held calculates automatically. No spreadsheet math.

Money-at-risk alerts

Payment overdue or retainage due? Flagged instantly — nothing slips past the deadline.

One-tap demand letters

A pro demand pre-filled with job, amount, and deadline. Edit, then send.

GC reliability scorecard

Every GC graded on how fast they actually pay. Know who to trust before you bid.

Works on your phone

Log a pay app from the truck. Runs in your browser; syncs to your account.

How it works

Three steps. About two minutes.

Set up a job once, log pay apps, and let Subsettle watch the clock.

1

Add the job

Name, GC, contract value, retainage percent. That's the whole setup.

JobRiverside Tower
GCKeystone Builders
Contract$240,000
Retainage10%
2

Log each pay app

Enter the billed amount. Retainage held and outstanding calculate automatically.

Pay app #4$30,000
Retainage held−$3,000
Net this app$27,000
StatusOutstanding
3

Get paid

Mark payments as they land. Goes overdue? You're alerted and the demand's drafted.

Pay app #2Paid ✓
Pay app #3Paid ✓
Pay app #427d overdue
ActionSend demand →
GC reliability scorecard

Know which GCs actually pay — before you take the next job.

Every job teaches Subsettle how a GC behaves: days on invoices, late retainage, chases. Next time they call, you'll know what you're walking into.

  • Average days-to-pay per GC, across all your jobs
  • Slow payers flagged so they can't surprise you twice
  • Price slow-pay risk into the next quote
KB
Keystone Builders
2 jobs tracked · last paid 51 days out
Slow payer
47
Avg days late · retainage
2
Jobs
3
Demands sent
On-time payment ratePoor
One-tap demand letters

Turn an awkward phone call into a paper trail.

Payment overdue? Subsettle drafts a clear, professional demand pre-filled with job, amount, and deadline. Polite, firm, and documented if it escalates.

Heads up: demand-letter templates are general drafts you edit before sending — not legal advice. For anything contentious, loop in an attorney.

Made for the field

Built for the truck, not the office.

No install, no spreadsheets, no IT. Opens in the browser on the phone in your pocket — log a pay app between calls, check what you're owed from the gate.

  • Thumb-friendly, big-tap-target screens
  • Works offline — syncs when you're back online
  • Add to your home screen, open like an app
The math

What crews stand to recover.

No invented testimonials — just the money that slips through the cracks, and where Subsettle catches it.

10% retainage on a $240k job is $24,000 on someone else's books. Subsettle surfaces it the day it's collectible.
Retainage you'd otherwise forget
A GC who always pays at 60 days isn't a surprise twice. Price that risk into the next bid instead of eating it.
Slow-pay risk, quantified
A payment 27 days overdue is a one-tap demand letter — not an awkward call you keep putting off.
Overdue checks, chased on time
Pricing

Simple, honest pricing.

One plan. Everything included. Cancel anytime, no contract.

Monthly plan
$29 / month
Everything included — cancel anytime, no contract.
  • Unlimited jobs, pay apps, and GCs
  • Retainage tracking & overdue alerts
  • One-tap demand letters
  • GC reliability scorecard
  • Private account — synced across your devices
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Before you start

The questions every sub asks.

Is my financial data private?
Yes. Your data lives in your own private account — only you can see it. It syncs across your devices and keeps working offline.
Will a demand letter blow up my relationship with the GC?
The letters are firm but professional — a record of what's owed, not a threat. GCs respect a sub with clean books, and it protects you if it escalates. For anything contentious, loop in an attorney.
Do I need an accountant or QuickBooks?
No. Subsettle does the retainage math. If you can enter a billed amount, you can run it.
What does it cost?
$29 a month, flat — unlimited jobs, pay apps, and GCs. Cancel anytime, no contract.

Know exactly what you're owed.

Stop guessing. Start every week knowing the number — and chase it in one tap.

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