Someone asks for extra work.
The instruction might be verbal, emailed or buried in a message while the programme keeps moving.
CERTKEEP DAYWORKS
Keep extra work visible from the site record to the money.
For small UK subcontractors who are tired of reconstructing dayworks and variations weeks later. Record the detail while it is fresh, keep the value on a commercial register and see what is still waiting to be agreed or paid.
No sales call. Public daywork and variation tools need no account. Saved Dayworks starts free.
THE COMMERCIAL GAP
The extra is obvious on site. It gets messy later.
The work gets done.
Labour, plant and materials are real, but the supporting detail is easiest to lose at exactly this point.
The valuation arrives.
The office now needs the instruction, daywork record, value, current status and next action in one place.
Capture the daywork.
The free browser tool records instruction details, labour, plant, materials, evidence references, percentage additions and a site acknowledgement/signature, then prints or saves as PDF.
Open the free daywork sheet →Keep the value and evidence visible.
Signed-in Dayworks stores the project, daywork number/date, instruction reference, description, recorded value and commercial status. Pro can attach up to five private PDFs or photos to each saved daywork.
Open the saved register →Track the variation position.
The free browser register handles one-off variation tracking. Pro can save variations against a project, link the supporting dayworks and keep quoted, submitted and agreed value plus the next action.
Open saved variations →Track the application and payment.
Pro saves each application period with applied, certified, retention and paid values, plus the expected payment date you enter, certificate reference, next action and linked variations.
See payment application tracking →WHAT EXISTS TODAY
A narrow workflow, not another full project-management system.
- Free digital daywork sheet with PDF/print output
- Free variation register with CSV export
- Saved projects and daywork values
- Draft → Sent → Acknowledged → Included in application → Agreed / Disputed → Paid
- Recorded, open, agreed and paid daywork totals
- Pro saved variations with linked dayworks, quoted / submitted / agreed values and next action
- Printable variation summary with the linked daywork values for PDF handoff
- Pro private daywork evidence: up to five PDF/photo files per saved daywork
- Pro payment application tracking: applied, certified, retention, paid, expected payment date, certificate reference and next action
- Printable payment application tracking summary with linked variation support
Enough free use to prove the workflow. Pay when you need to keep more live work moving.
Try the saved commercial workflow on a real job.
- 1 saved project
- 5 saved dayworks
- Existing records stay editable after the limit
- Free detailed daywork sheet
- Free variation register
For subcontractors using the register across ongoing projects.
- Up to 30 saved projects during beta
- Up to 500 saved dayworks
- Up to five private PDF/photo evidence files per saved daywork
- Saved variations linked to supporting dayworks
- Printable variation summary with linked daywork values and evidence counts
- Quoted, submitted and agreed variation values plus next action
- Saved payment application tracking with applied, certified, retention and paid values
- Printable payment application tracking summary
- Includes the existing Pro training workspace
- £120/year option saves £24
- Cancel through Stripe billing
Current Dayworks limits are beta limits and may change as real usage is validated. Existing records are not deleted when a limit is reached.
Record keeping, not a contractual decision.
CertKeep records the information and statuses you enter. It does not decide whether work was validly instructed, whether a variation exists, which contractual rates or additions apply, calculate payment dates, create contractual applications or notices, or decide whether payment is legally due. Keep the underlying contract, instruction and evidence required by your own commercial process.
START WITH THE WORK YOU ALREADY HAVE
Try one real daywork before changing anything else.
Create the sheet, keep the value in the saved register, and see whether the workflow makes the next valuation easier to control.