Subcontractor payments
Can I pay them today?
The only subcontractor compliance tool that answers one question per sub, per payment.
For the office manager or controller at a small commercial GC who pays 15 to 60 active subs from QuickBooks, without Procore.

- Certificate passes your minimums
- W-9 on file
- Lien waiver for this payment
Sample pay-day packet
Track the payment, not the certificate.
Every payment to every sub gets its own pay-day packet, built from three documents.
A COI that passes
The certificate of insurance has to clear the minimums you set as the GC.
A W-9 on file
The sub’s W-9 is in the packet before the payment goes out.
This payment’s waiver
The lien waiver that belongs to this payment, not an earlier one.
One question, asked at the right moment.
The question comes up on pay day, once for each sub. Here is how it gets answered:
- Pick the sub and the payment you are about to make.
- Ample Horn lines up the COI, the W-9 and this payment’s lien waiver.
- You get one answer: pay today, or see what is missing.

Sample answer
Can I pay them today?
- Yes, the packet is complete
- Not yet, something is missing

Hold this payment
SampleNorthline Electric, payment 4
- COI passes your minimums
- W-9 on file
- Lien waiver for this payment is missing
One sub. One payment. One packet.
This is a sample of what you see on pay day for a single sub. Each payment ends in one of these answers:
- Clear to pay today
- Hold: the COI is below your minimums
- Hold: no W-9 on file
- Hold: no lien waiver for this payment