The straight answer
No, SubMark does not generate G702 and G703. Here is what it does instead.
It is the first question a commercial sub’s office asks about any software they are evaluating, so it gets a straight answer before anything is sold: SubMark does not produce the standard payment application or its continuation sheet. You submit through whatever system each GC requires, the way you do now. What SubMark owns is your side of the job — one schedule of values, every draw against it, the retainage held, what the GC certified, what actually arrived, and the change orders and field tickets that got you there.
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- SubMark does not generate the owner-standard billing documents. No G702, no G703, no PDF of either.
- It keeps the schedule of values, every draw, what was certified and what was collected as your own record.
- You submit through whatever system each GC requires — their template, their portal, email.
Everything SubMark does not do, in one place.
A software page that only lists wins is a software page you stop believing in week two. So here are the limits first, in our own words, before you find them yourself in a trial.
- SubMark does not generate the owner-standard payment application or continuation sheet, as a PDF or in any other format. It does not today, and it is not on the list of things we are adding.
- It does not log in to your GC’s portal and it does not submit on your behalf.
- It does not generate lien waivers. It tracks the ones you send up the chain — what is outstanding, what is signed, what a draw is waiting on — and the document itself still comes from wherever it comes from today.
- It is not your accounting system. Bills and purchases pull in from QuickBooks Online automatically, hourly, if you turn that on; a finished draw pushes back as a QBO invoice with a click, one at a time.
- T&M tag hours price the tag and the change order it becomes. They do not feed job-costing actuals — your payroll hours do that.
Credit where it is due
What the dedicated billing tools are genuinely good at.
There is a whole product category built around producing and delivering a subcontractor’s billing package, and it exists because the problem is real. If that is the problem you have, these are not consolation prizes — they are the reasons to buy one.
They produce the document the owner’s team expects
A sub whose GCs all want the standard application and continuation sheet, in the standard shape, every month, is buying exactly one thing: the document, correct, without a workbook being rebuilt by hand. That is the core of those products and they are good at it.
The package, not just the invoice
Billing a commercial job is rarely one sheet. It is the application, the breakdown behind it, the certificates, the releases and whatever else that GC decided gates payment. The better tools in this category assemble the whole package and will not let it go out with a piece missing.
They know the portals
Most of them have done the work of learning how each large GC wants billing delivered, and several will push the package into the GC’s system or chase the missing document for you. If you bill fifteen GCs through fifteen front doors, that is real labor someone else is doing.
They catch the arithmetic that ties periods together
Carrying last period forward, tying the breakdown back to the total, holding the right retention per line: these are the errors that get a draw kicked back a week before payroll, and a purpose-built billing tool is checking for them.
What we do instead
The document is one afternoon. The record is the whole job.
A payment application is a snapshot of something you are supposed to already know. SubMark is built around the something: what the contract is broken into, what got done, what was billed, what was certified, what was held and what came in. Produce the document however your GC wants it — then have an answer when a partner asks where that money is.
One schedule of values per job, as your own structure
Build it from your trade’s starting breakdown, make the lines match how your crews actually finish work, and it locks when the first draw is submitted — not at contract execution, so the whole first billing cycle is still yours to fix. Approved change orders are added to it automatically, as their own lines, tied back to the change order they came from.
Schedule of values →Every draw logged from drawn to certified to received
Drawn, certified and received are three separate numbers on every draw, because they are three separate events — plus the retainage held and the check you should actually expect. Each job carries its GC’s cutoff day, due day, reminder window and submission method, so the deadline finds you across every GC in one calendar.
Draw tracking →Retainage as a running balance, not a footnote
Held per draw, as dollars, whether it came off as a percentage or was entered directly — so "what are we owed in retention, across every job" is a number you read instead of an afternoon in a workbook.
Retainage tracking →The waivers a draw is waiting on, on the same job
Lien waivers are tracked, not generated: which ones you have sent up the chain, which are signed, and which one is the reason a certified draw has not turned into money yet.
Lien waiver tracking →The extra work that belongs in the next draw
Change events logged from the field with photos the day they happen. T&M tags priced off your own rate lists and e-signed on site, with several tags converting into one change order rather than eleven arguments. Then the approved change order is on the schedule of values without anyone remembering to put it there.
Change orders →And the half of the job that is not billing at all
Daily logs, crew scheduling, the time clock, job costing against budget, the bid board. Billing is one week of the month; this is the other three, in the same system, with the field free and unlimited.
Everything SubMark does →None of that is a tier you upgrade into. The core modules are on in every trade pack from setup, and the full list is on the product page.
Side by side, without the sleight of hand.
The left column is the category, not any one product, so it is hedged where an honest answer has to be — read it as "typically, as of October 2026", and check any row that decides your purchase in that vendor’s own demo. The right column is flat, because every line of it is something you can verify in a trial this week.
| What you need | A dedicated billing-document tool | SubMark |
|---|---|---|
| Produce the owner-standard application and continuation sheet as a document | Yes — this is the core of the product | No. SubMark does not generate those documents. |
| Deliver the billing package to the GC | Often, including through the portals large GCs use | No. You submit the way that GC requires; the job records which system, the cutoff date and the notes the last person left. |
| Generate the compliance forms and notarised releases | Usually, and often chased for you | No. Waivers are tracked, not generated — and only the ones you send up the chain. |
| One schedule of values per job that stops moving | Yes | Yes. Built from your trade’s breakdown, locked when the first draw is submitted, approved change orders added automatically. |
| Drawn, certified and received as three different numbers | Varies | Yes, on every draw, with retainage held and the expected check amount beside them. |
| Every GC’s billing cutoff in one calendar, with reminders | Varies | Yes, per job, across every GC. |
| Change orders and T&M tags priced in the office and e-signed in the field | Rarely — these are billing tools | Yes. Tags priced off your rate lists, signed on site, several converting into one change order. |
| Daily logs, crew scheduling and a time clock | Usually not | Yes, and the hours a foreman logs are the hours job costing reports against. |
| Job costing against budget, with QuickBooks bills landing on the job | Not usually | Yes. Bills and purchases pull hourly if you turn it on; a draw pushes back as a QBO invoice with a click. |
| What your field crews cost | Varies by vendor | Nothing. Field users are free and unlimited. |
| What it costs | Often quoted after a demo — check each vendor’s pricing page | $249/mo for the company, first 3 office users included, $39/mo each after that — in public, on /pricing. |
Pick the one that fixes your bottleneck
Buy the thing that solves your actual month.
These two products are not really competing for the same job, and pretending otherwise wastes your time and ours. Here is the honest split.
Buy a dedicated billing tool if…
- Producing the billing documents is the thing that eats your month. If the office spends three days rebuilding workbooks and the rest of the job runs fine, buy the tool that removes those three days.
- Your GCs police the format. Some owners and lenders reject anything that is not the exact standard shape, and no amount of good internal record-keeping fixes a rejected submission.
- The compliance package is the bottleneck. If payment stalls every month on notarised releases and certificates across a dozen tiers, a product that generates and chases those is solving your actual problem.
- You want someone else to deal with the portals. Fifteen GCs, fifteen systems, and a person whose week disappears into them is a good reason to pay for that labor.
- You already have field operations covered. If logs, scheduling, tickets and job costing live somewhere you like, a billing-only tool is a cleaner fit than a system that also does those.
Buy SubMark if…
- Submission is not your problem — knowing where you stand is. You can get the draw out fine. What you cannot do is answer "what have we billed and not collected, across every job" without forty minutes of opening files.
- The leak is upstream of billing. Work gets done on a verbal, the ticket is a photo in somebody’s phone, and the change order is approved in month four and first billed in month seven. That money is lost before any document gets produced.
- The job spans office and field. A billing tool cannot tell you what your crews were doing the week a GC disputes, and the daily log that could is only worth having if every foreman actually uses it — which is why the field is free here.
- You want one system instead of a billing bolt-on beside four workbooks. The schedule of values, the draws, retainage, waivers, change orders, logs and job costing already know about each other.
- You want to know the price before the call. It is on the pricing page, and so is what happens when you add a seat.
And if the answer is both, that is fine — say which system owns the schedule of values, and the two stop fighting. How the SOV works here →
Questions
AIA billing: what a sub’s office actually asks.
Does SubMark generate AIA G702 and G703 documents?
No. SubMark does not produce the standard payment application or continuation sheet as a PDF or in any other format, and that is not on the roadmap. What it holds is your own record of the billing: the schedule of values, each draw against it, the retainage held, what the GC certified and what arrived.
Then how do I actually bill my GC if I use SubMark?
The same way you bill them today. Every GC has a different front door — their own template, a portal, a PDF by email — and you submit through whichever one that job requires. The difference is that the job in SubMark already records which system it is, the cutoff day, the due day and the reminder window, and the draw you submitted is logged against the schedule of values rather than living in a folder.
Can I log a draw I already submitted somewhere else?
Yes. Upload the PDF of the pay application you submitted and the figures are read off it for you to confirm before anything is saved, or type them in. It lands in Drawn and behaves like any other draw from then on — it shows on the draw calendar, in the draws report, and in what the job says it has billed to date.
What do I get at billing time, then, that a spreadsheet does not give me?
A schedule of values that locked when the first draw went out, so the basis of billing has not moved under you. Percent complete recorded per line all month, with stored materials tracked on the line instead of smuggled into a percentage. Approved change orders already added as their own lines. Drawn, certified and received as three separate numbers, so a short certification stays visible instead of being reconciled away. And the whole thing readable across every job in one table.
Does SubMark submit through Procore, Textura or GCPay?
No. Those appear in SubMark only as submission methods you record on a job, so the office knows how this GC wants billing delivered. They are labels on your own record, not integrations, and nothing is sent anywhere on your behalf.
Does it generate lien waivers?
No. Lien waivers are tracked, not generated, and only the ones you send up the chain: what is outstanding, what is signed, and which waiver a certified draw is waiting on. There is no workflow for the waivers your own lower tiers owe you.
Can I use SubMark alongside a dedicated billing tool?
Some subs do, and it is an honest answer rather than a sales one. Let the billing tool produce and deliver the documents, and let SubMark be the record of the job — the schedule of values, the change orders, the field tickets, the logs, the costs and what has actually been collected. The one thing to decide up front is which system is the source of truth for the schedule of values, so two versions of it never exist.
Why not just add the forms?
Because the forms are the AIA’s copyrighted documents, available under the AIA’s own licensing terms, and we have chosen to be the record of the job rather than a document generator. It is also usually not the win it looks like: the GC frequently dictates the format and the portal anyway, so a generated file often gets retyped at the other end. We would rather be unambiguously good at the record of the job than mediocre at a document you can already produce.
Is SubMark built for subcontractors or for general contractors?
Subcontractors — commercial specialty subs, with a setup pack for 29 trades. Your GC may run Procore or another platform, and you are the one filling in their requirements. SubMark is the system on your side of that relationship.
Read next
Schedule of values for subcontractors: how to build one that bills clean
Where to break the lines, where change orders and retainage sit, and why twenty minutes in week one decides every draw after it.
Billing extra work without a signed change order
Why an extra does not belong quietly inside a draw, and the sequence that gets it paid instead.
Draw tracking across every GC you bill
Nine cutoff dates, nine submission methods, one calendar — and drawn, certified and received kept as three different numbers.
AIA, G702 and G703 are trademarks of The American Institute of Architects. SubMark is not affiliated with, endorsed by or licensed by the AIA, reproduces no part of those documents, and does not generate them. Where this page refers to them, it is to answer the question subs ask — nothing on it is legal or contract advice.
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