Pass-Through Payment

Track Owner-to-Sub Payments

In construction, it's common for the project owner to pay subcontractors directly, or for a general contractor to pay a sub's supplier on their behalf. These pass-through or cross-tier payments reduce the contract value of the party in the middle. If not tracked properly, they can cause confusion, disputes, or inaccurate job cost reports.

Record Owner Payments

Track payments made directly by owners to subcontractors or suppliers, ensuring accurate contract deductions.

Accurate Contract Balances

APARBooks deducts payments from both the GC and subcontractor contracts when payments are made directly.

Seamless Payment Tracking

Easily record payments received on behalf of subs or vendors, ensuring accurate financial tracking.

Prevent Payment Discrepancies

Automatically update contract balances when owners pay directly, avoiding errors and ensuring smooth financial management.

Owner Payment Entry

Owner Payment Entry

With APARBooks, you can easily log direct payments made by the project owner to subcontractors or lower-tier vendors. These transactions are recorded outside the general contractor's payment flow but still affect the overall contract value.

APARBooks ensures these payments are captured clearly, maintaining a complete and auditable history of all owner-to-sub transactions. This gives construction bookkeepers full visibility into how much has been paid, to whom, and how it impacts billing, retainage, and future pay applications. No more chasing missing records or adjusting manually, every owner paid amount is tracked and reflected in your reports with precision.

  • Accurate tracking
  • Payment status
  • Clear history
  • Project steps
Auto Contract Adjustments

Auto Contract Adjustments

When an owner pays a subcontractor or supplier directly, APARBooks automatically adjusts the general contractor's contract balance to reflect the deduction. This intelligent automation ensures your records stay current, accurate, and aligned with the real financial flow of the project.

By updating contract values in real time, bookkeepers avoid overbilling, duplicate payments, or reconciliation errors. APARBooks eliminates the guesswork and manual calculations, giving construction teams reliable contract tracking that adapts instantly as pass-through payments occur.

  • Automatic adjustment
  • Contract updates
  • Efficient processes
  • Error-free tracking
Complete Payment History

Complete Payment History

APARBooks keeps a full, detailed history of all cross-tier payments, including owner-to-subcontractor and GC-to-vendor transactions. Bookkeepers always have a complete financial record at their fingertips.

Every payment is automatically linked to the correct project, subcontract, or vendor, and clearly marked whether it was paid directly, passed through, or deducted from a contract. This end-to-end visibility makes it easy to trace who paid whom, when, and how much.

With APARBooks, you get a centralized audit trail that improves compliance, simplifies reporting, and eliminates payment confusion.

  • Transaction history
  • Full documentation
  • Easy reference
  • Financial oversight
Voucher Payment Tracking
Voucher Payment Tracking

Voucher Payment Tracking

In many construction projects, especially those under funding control, payments are released directly to vendors by the funding control company using specific voucher numbers, check numbers, and tied to a defined payment application cycle.

APARBooks is designed to handle this complexity with ease. You can track each voucher linked payment, including amount, issuing entity, and related application serial, all within a centralized system. Whether payments go directly to vendors or bypass the General Contractor,

APARBooks ensures these transactions are properly recorded, matched, and reflected in the project's financials. This eliminates confusion, maintains compliance with funding oversight requirements, and gives bookkeepers a clear, voucher friendly audit trail.

  • Track voucher-based payments
  • Link to voucher numbers
  • Link to pay applications
  • Comply with funding controls

Frequently Asked Questions

Feel free to contact us if you have any other questions. Reach us at support@aparbooks.com

A pass-through or cross-tier payment happens when the owner pays a subcontractor or vendor directly, or when the GC pays a lower-tier vendor on behalf of a subcontractor. These payments skip one level of the contract chain but still affect contract balances. They must be carefully tracked to maintain accurate records and avoid double counting.

APARBooks allows you to log direct payments from the owner to subcontractors or vendors. Each payment is recorded against the appropriate project, tagged as a pass-through, and automatically adjusts the GC's contract balance to reflect the deduction, keeping your books accurate and organized.

Yes. When an owner pays a subcontractor directly, APARBooks automatically deducts that amount from the GC's contract. This ensures your records always reflect the true contract balance and prevents billing errors.

Yes. All owner-to-sub and GC-to-vendor payments are integrated into your project's WIP and job cost reports. APARBooks ensures these cross-tier transactions are tracked just like standard payments, so your reporting stays complete and reliable.

If the owner's payment to a subcontractor or vendor goes beyond the remaining value of the general contractor's contract, APARBooks will still record the transaction. However, it will be clearly tagged as 'beyond contract' and will not deduct from the GC's contract balance.

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