For property owners & developers

Control every phase, deadline and pound on account.

ConstructionControl.app gives owners and developers a single place to plan the build, hold contractors to the schedule, and govern the money held on account — as a real ledger with a complete audit trail, not a number someone can type over.

Set up an organisation and your first project in a few minutes. No card required.

Money on account — Barn conversion, phase 2
Balance computed from the ledger below. Illustrative figures.
Received £240,000
Certified £96,000
Allocated £60,000
Released £36,000
Unallocated £48,000
In Client payment received · 14 Mar +£120,000
Alloc Allocated to Groundworks · 16 Mar £45,000
Cert Certified — groundworks 80% complete · 02 Apr £36,000
Rev Reversal — correction to entry 41 · 03 Apr −£1,200
The difference

The balance is computed, never edited.

Most tools show money as a field on a form — and a field can be overwritten, leaving no trace of what it said before. Here every movement is an append-only ledger entry, and the balance is derived from those entries. Corrections are posted as reversals, so the trail stays intact and yesterday’s number is still there tomorrow.

Every state of the money

Received, unallocated, allocated, released, certified, approved spend and bank balance — each one a distinct, reportable state rather than a single opaque total.

Funding coverage, ahead of time

See whether the money on account actually covers the payment moments coming up, before you commit to them — not after the invoice lands.

An audit trail that holds up

Who changed what, when, and what it was before. Amounts are stored as whole pence — never floating point — so totals reconcile exactly.

How it works

Plan it once, then watch it hold.

The plan and the money are the same structure, so progress on site and spend on paper never drift into separate spreadsheets.

The question is never what a project cost. It is what it will cost by the time it finishes, and whether the money to finish it is already on account.

Why this exists
1

Break the work into four levels

Phase, subphase, task and subtask — deep enough for a real programme, shallow enough that people keep it up to date. Each level carries its own budget and dates.

2

Fund it and allocate

Register client payments into the account, then allocate against the work that needs it. Unallocated money stays visible instead of quietly disappearing into a total.

3

Contractors report, owners approve

Progress and expenditure come from the people doing the work. Nothing is certified or released until the owner approves it.

4

Compare against expected progress

Expected progress is derived from today’s date, so anything trailing the plan is flagged on its own. Parents roll up budget-weighted completion and summed money automatically.

Roles

Permissions enforced on the server, not just hidden in the UI.

Hiding a button is not access control. Every rule below is checked in the backend on every request, so a contractor cannot reach an owner’s figures by another route. All data is scoped to your organisation.

OwnerFull control

Sets budgets, registers client payments, allocates money, approves expenditure, invites the team.

Project administratorRuns the project

Maintains the plan, keeps dates and progress current, prepares work for the owner’s approval.

ContractorReports in

Reports progress and submits expenditure on their own work. Cannot edit budgets, register payments, allocate money, or approve their own spend.

Also included

The rest of the day-to-day.

Projects & portfolio

Every project in one place, with the tasks assigned to you pulled together across all of them.

Documents

Drawings, certificates and photographs attached where the work is, not lost in an inbox.

Calendar & deadlines

Payment moments and delivery dates on one timeline, so funding pressure is visible early.

Notifications & timeline

In-app notifications for what needs you, and a per-project history of everything that changed.

Put the next project on a ledger you can trust.

Create an organisation, add your first project, and invite the people who need to see it. You can start from an example project to see the shape of it first.