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Certify the claim. Hold the retention. File the 201.

Accounting built for UAE joinery and interior fit-out workshops. ProLedger prices a progress claim to the line, carries retention as a ledger balance rather than a spreadsheet column, and rounds VAT per line the way the FTA requires — so the certificate you hand the main contractor is the same figure that posts.

14 days, the full product. A card is required to start and you are not charged if you cancel before day 14. The demo needs no signup and resets whenever you want.

Interim payment certificate
IPC-2051 · PRJ-2601
Al Tamayuz Fit-Out Contracting LLC
Bait Al Khashab
Joinery & Decor LLC
TRN 100456789100003
Gross work executed to date73,120.00
Less retention @ 10%-7,312.00
Less previously certified-7,312.00
Less advance recovery-2,500.00
Net this certificate55,996.00
VAT @ 5% on work certified3,656.01
Payable59,652.01

VAT is charged on the 73,120.00 certified, not on the 55,996.00 you will be paid. Retention is withheld from the cash, not from the supply. Charge it on the net and you under-declare this certificate by 856.21.

A real progress claim on a 342,500.00 contract, with 34,250.00 of retention held to date.

ONE DOOR, SIX CLAIMSBOQ 1.01 · AED 80,000.00 · CLAIMED ACROSS 3 CERTIFICATES

ELEVATION · 900 × 2400 × 45 MM

A door is not one line. It is six, and they leave the workshop on six different days.

Bill it as one line and you face a choice you should never have to make: claim for work you have not finished, or wait for the whole door before you claim for any of it. The delivery plan splits the line once, at quotation, and every claim after that is arithmetic. This plan is not an example — it is seeded into your company on the day you create it.

Frame15% · SUPPLY12,000.00All 25 shipped in April, with the first delivery — nothing else on the door had left the workshop yet.
Door leaf35% · SUPPLY28,000.00Ten leaves in April, fifteen in June. The largest slice of the line, and it was claimed across two certificates.
Architrave10% · SUPPLY8,000.00June, once the walls had been skimmed and the openings stopped moving.
Fixing20% · FIX16,000.00Twenty doors hung in June. The last five waited on site access and were fixed in August.
Ironmongery15% · SUPPLY & FIX12,000.00Twelve sets in June, thirteen in August, as the locksets cleared customs.
Final touch-up5% · FIX4,000.00August, at handover — the five per cent every joiner ends up chasing.
25 doors, complete80,000.00
THE PAPER TRAILFIVE DOCUMENTS · ONE REFERENCE · NOTHING RE-TYPED

Every document carries the one before it.

The contractor’s LPO reference is typed once and appears on the delivery note, the claim, the certificate and the journal. Nobody re-keys a figure between two systems, because there is only one.

01 · QUOTEDQT-2618QuotationIssued by you

Priced per component and dimensioned per item, so the delivery plan exists before the job is won.

342,500.00 AED · 14 BOQ LINES
02 · ORDEREDLPO/ACC/2026/0417Local purchase orderReceived from Al Tamayuz Fit-Out Contracting LLC

Their reference, carried onto every document that follows it — including the certificate their QS signs.

342,500.00 AED · 15% ADVANCE
03 · DELIVEREDDN-0417Delivery noteIssued by you, signed on site

Logged against the plan, component by component. What is delivered and not yet claimed is a number, not a memory.

5 OF 6 COMPONENTS THIS TRIP
04 · CERTIFIEDIPC-2050Interim payment certificateCertified by the consultant

Work done to date, less the advance recovered, less retention held, less the backcharge everyone argued about.

55,996.00 AED NET OF DEDUCTIONS
05 · POSTEDJV-1184Journal voucherPosted by ProLedger

Double entry into the general ledger, dated to the tax point, the moment the certificate is billed.

59,652.01 AED INCLUDING VAT
RETENTIONAED 34,250.00 HELD · 10% OF 342,500.00

Retention accretes. The contract closes on the figure it started with.

Ten per cent of every certificate is withheld to account 1250, Retention Receivable, and carried as a balance you can age — not a column in a spreadsheet that dies with the laptop it lives on.

CertificateDateGross certifiedRetention held to dateNet payableCumulative
IPC-204830 Apr 202662,110.006,211.0049,688.0062,110.00
IPC-204930 Jun 2026207,270.0026,938.00160,603.50269,380.00
IPC-205020 Aug 202673,120.0034,250.0055,996.00342,500.00
Held against the 342,500.00 contract34,250.00342,500.00
WHAT YOU CAN CHECK ON DAY ONENOT WHAT WE CLAIM ABOUT OURSELVES

Five things you can falsify in an afternoon.

Every competitor opens with a number about itself — two million businesses, forty years, number one. ProLedger is new and cannot say any of that, so here are five claims about the software. Each is checkable inside the trial, with your own contract, and each is wrong in most general accounting packages.

VAT is rounded on each line, then summedthe FTA's rule
Retention is a ledger balance, not a spreadsheet columnaccount 1250
A claim reprints as at its own date, not today'sreprint IPC-2049
Gratuity follows the 2021 decree, not the pre-2022 rulesresignation = termination
The cutting plan counts the saw kerfbefore the sheet is cut
Numbers we publish about our own sizenone
WHAT IT WILL NOT DOFOUR LIMITS, STATED BEFORE YOU ASK

The four things we would rather you heard from us.

A trial that ends in a surprise is worse than a trial that never started. These are the boundaries in the product today.

E-invoicing generates. It does not transmit.
ProLedger produces the invoice in the mandated PINT-AE structure. Clearance through an accredited service provider is not wired to a live network — the clearance step is simulated. When you are mandated, you will still need an ASP.
Overdue reminders are drafted, not sent.
The system works out who is late and writes the chase. A person reads it and sends it. Nothing leaves your outbox because a timer went off.
Reverse charge is not implemented.
Import VAT under the reverse-charge mechanism is not handled. If a large part of your purchasing is overseas, that is a real gap and you should know it before the trial, not during it.
One industry is offered at setup: joinery.
The engine underneath is general, but the setup screen lists Carpentry & Joinery and nothing else. That is deliberate. If you are a restaurant or a clinic, this is not your software.
START14 DAYS · YOUR OWN CONTRACT · CANCEL BEFORE DAY 14

Fourteen days, with your own contract in it.

Not a sandbox with someone else’s numbers. Create your company, import a real bill of quantities, price a claim with the retention held back, and check whether the VAT ties out. If it does not, you have lost an afternoon and nothing else.

A card is required to start and you are not charged if you cancel before day 14. The demo needs no signup at all and resets whenever you want.

What is seeded on the day you sign upCount
Board, finish, hardware and consumable materials11
Labour and service lines, priced by the hour4
Reusable cutting-list templates, with waste per line3
Joinery ledger accounts — retention, WIP, scrap6
Blank screens0

Prices on the seeded materials are left at zero on purpose. They are your costs, and guessing them for you would be the first wrong number in your ledger.