Get paid as the work moves.
Every other industry gets paid before it delivers. PhaseContract brings that to trade work — the client approves the job up front and each work phase funds as it begins, so the invoice you hand over is already paid.
Founder pricing for the first 100 signups. Free to start. No app, no subscription. Card and bank payments.
You already invoice by milestone
A milestone contract breaks the job into payment checkpoints. A phasecontract keeps that idea, then fixes the part the invoice cannot: the asking, the waiting, and the record.
Your milestone invoice
You already know the idea: break the job into payment checkpoints instead of one final invoice. The weak point is the document stops where the pressure starts. You still send each invoice, wait, and chase the balance after the client has the work.
A phasecontract
The client approves the deposits, every work phase, the change rules, and the review window before work starts. Each phase collects on its own at the right step, so the asking already happened and the record fills in as the job moves.
Getting paid
You send a fresh invoice at each milestone, then wait for it.
The client approves every payment up front. Each phase collects on its own when it starts.
The follow-up
You re-ask for each payment, then chase the final balance after the work is done.
The approved structure does the asking. No new invoice and no chase at each step.
When scope changes
Extra work gets argued over at the end and often comes out of your margin.
Change orders are priced and approved before the added work starts.
What the client sees
A price up front, then a separate payment request each time.
One job record: scope, deposits, phases, review, and changes, approved before work starts.
If a job is questioned
The details live in texts, photos, and memory.
Proof, reviews, approvals, change orders, and payouts stay logged on one record.
Dig into your question
Six straight answers for a contractor weighing the switch.
Start with what is different from a milestone invoice, or jump to client buy-in, changes and disputes, the workload, or the cost.
Section 01
I already bill by milestone. What changes?
You have seen the difference. The piece that makes it work is the Work Phase. A milestone is one line on an invoice — money you ask for after the work. A Work Phase wraps that payment in the whole step, and runs the same way on phase one and phase five.
The work phase loop
Same four steps whether the job has one phase or five. Tap any screen to see it full size.
You start the phase and the payment your client already approved collects on its own. No new invoice to send.
You do the work and snap a few photos. PhaseContract stays out of the field.
The client gets 72 hours to check the work, not renegotiate the price.
After approval or the review window, payout follows. Then the next phase starts the same way.
Contractor
Money comes in around each phase, so materials and crew stop floating on the final invoice.
Client
One clear path they approved up front: what happens, when it collects, and how review works.
See the job step
If the Work Phase model makes sense, see how clients respond and what it costs before you send one live.
Retire the paperwork
Paper milestone contracts, overdue invoices, follow-up texts, the admin that never gets billed — that's the old job. PhaseContract runs the same milestone work as a system in your browser: funds proven before the work, collected as it moves, proof and payout kept on one record both sides trust. No app to download. No paper to chase.
Free to set up. A fee only when money moves — no card to create your account.