What is a Change Order?

A change order is an amendment to the original contract terms, often involving changes to the scope of work, materials, or timelines. Change Orders can arise from design changes, unforeseen site conditions, or client requests. Managing these change orders efficiently is critical to maintaining project control, avoiding cost overruns, and meeting deadlines.

Challenges with Change Orders

Common challenges we see managing Change Orders:

❌ Complex Approval Processes: Securing necessary approvals for change orders is cumbersome and requires many status' to control.

❌ Crazy Change Order Registers: Change Order registers can become extremely long and unwieldy, making them difficult for others to use and a risk to compliance.

❌ Payments & Change Orders: Managing progress payments against change orders each month, reconciling the contract, and producing payment certificates and notices requires heavy duplication of effort.

❌ Budget Impacts: Accurately tracking the financial impact of change orders on the project budget can be difficult, especially when someones 'SUMIF' formula is missing row data 😂

❌ Schedule Delays: Change Orders can cause significant delays if not managed and integrated into the project timeline effectively.

❌ Compliance: Ensuring accurate financial reporting and compliance with contract is complex and never certain.

❌ Reporting: Formatting/transposing spreadsheet tables into charts and visualizations for reporting takes a huge amount of time for an unsatisfactory, out-of-date result.

Mastt Change Order Solutions

💡 Simple Creation & Approval: Create and approve change orders quickly and easily within Mastt.

💡 Integrated with Budgets, Contracts & Payments: Change Orders automatically link to your contracts and budgets, enabling easy monitoring and eliminating effort toward updating contract status or processing payments.

💡 Automated Certificates: Generate change order certificates with a single click, reducing administrative work and ensuring compliance.

💡 Visual Analysis: Use charts and visualizations to assess the impact of change orders on the project and make easy your reporting.

💡 Compliance Tracking: Track change orders for compliance, including key dates, insurances, and retentions, ensuring all contracts meet legal and regulatory standards.

💡 Automated Reporting: Change Orders updates are automatically captured, powering dashboards and reports instantly.

💡 Auditing: Maintain a log of changes for compliance and record-keeping.