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£15/mo · included with ProVariations priced, submitted and approved
Estimark’s Variations module raises numbered contract variations against a job with priced line items, holds the original contract value alongside the variation amount, and records the client’s approval or rejection with a timestamp and, where rejected, a reason. Clients can request a variation through the portal. It is included from the Pro plan (£249/month) up.
What the Variations module does
- Numbers each variation and attaches it to a job, with a title and description.
- Prices the variation as line items with description, quantity, unit, unit price, total, category and sort order.
- Holds the original contract value beside the variation amount, so cost impact is visible in context.
- Runs through draft, submitted, approved, rejected and withdrawn, timestamping submission, approval and rejection.
- Records who requested it and who approved it, by name.
- Stores a rejection reason, so a refused variation leaves a reason behind it.
- Accepts a client-submitted variation request through the Client Portal.
Variations — how it works
What is a variation in a construction contract?
A variation is an authorised change to the agreed scope — an addition, an omission or a substitution — with a price attached. It matters because work done outside the contract without an approved variation is work you may not be paid for, and the defence against that is a numbered, dated, priced record with an approval against it.
How does a variation reach the client?
It is submitted, which timestamps it, and the approval or rejection is recorded against the variation with the approver’s name. Clients with a portal login can also raise a variation request themselves, which arrives as a variation for you to price rather than as an email that gets lost.
How do variations affect job cost?
A variation carries its own priced line items and an amount against the original contract value. Where you also run Job Costing, the revised contract value is what forecast margin is measured against; where you run Payment Applications, approved variations form part of the gross cumulative value applied for.
Variations — at a glance
- Plan
- Included with Pro
- Add-on price
- £15 / month
- Statuses
- 5, all timestamped
- Client requests
- Via the portal
Variations
£15per month
Variations is a bundled module. Plans are a ladder, so it is included on Pro and on Enterprise. On a lower plan you can activate it on its own for £15 a month.
Included from Pro — £249 a month
- Included on Pro and above at no extra cost.
- £15 per month as an individual module on a lower plan.
- Included in full during the 14-day free trial.
- No implementation fee and no minimum term.
Questions
Variations — frequently asked
Which plan includes variations?
Variations is included from Pro (£249 a month) upward and with Enterprise, or £15 a month individually on Solo or Core.
Can a client approve a variation online?
Clients with a Client Portal login can view variations for their job and submit variation requests. The approval is recorded against the variation with the approver’s name and a timestamp.
Is a variation the same as a day-work sheet?
No. A variation is an authorised change to scope with an agreed price. A day-work sheet records labour, plant and materials actually expended on work priced on a cost basis. Estimark handles both, separately.
Related
Payment Applications
Include approved variations in the gross value applied for.
Job Costing
Measure margin against the revised contract value.
RFI Management
The question that usually precedes the change.
For builders & contractors
Pro at £249/month — job costing, payment applications, CIS and site safety.
Payment applications & retention
Interim applications, retention, payment and pay-less notices under the Construction Act.
Job costing & CVR
Actual, committed and forecast cost per job, with a cost value reconciliation pack.
Pricing & plans
Solo £29, Core £99, Pro £249, Enterprise £999 a month. Bolt-ons priced separately.
Try it on a real job.
Fourteen days, full access, every plan. No implementation fee.