Contract read
Ten minutes on the phone: when the contract was signed, whether it has a claims clause, and whether it shortens the time to reply.
$0
Malaga · Perth and regional WA
Security of Payment claims for WA subcontractors
Invoice sitting at 60 days? Serve a valid claim and the builder has 15 business days to answer it. Then it’s their move.
Fixed fees printed on this page — and the free way to write the claim yourself.
Fixed fees, printed before we start
GST included. You see the fee for your claim before you send us a single invoice, and the adjudicator’s fees are never dressed up as ours.
Payment claim, prepared and checked
Written with you from your invoices and variations: the amount, the work described, and the sentence the Act needs. Claims to $50,000.
from $390
Payment claim over $50,000
The same job with more to reconcile — several stages, several variations, a running account with the same builder.
$690
Adjudication application, prepared
If no schedule arrives or the scheduled amount isn’t paid. We assemble the claim, the contract and your evidence. Claims to $50,000.
from $1,850
Adjudication application over $50,000
Larger claims carry more documents and a longer submission. Same method, same fixed fee in writing.
$2,950
Adjudicator’s fees
Charged by the adjudicator for their time, not by us. We show you how they are shared before you decide to apply.
Set by the adjudicator
The claim clock
Try:
Numbers only, like 18,400
Six months after the work is completed, unless your contract gives longer
Serve your claim by
Sun 14 Feb 2027
Counts Monday to Friday — public holidays aren’t deducted here; we check your exact dates
Their payment schedule is due by
Tue 24 Nov 2026
These 15 days run over Christmas and New Year. Ring us to check the date.
Ring us before you serve
That’s after the six-month mark. Your contract may give longer — (08) 9000 0602.
Our fee $390 claim prepared and checkedWith an adjudication application: $2,240. The adjudicator’s own fees are separate.
Book the $390 claim check
The free route
Write it yourself — $0
Does the same job as our $390 check
Plenty of claims don’t need us. The Small Business Development Corporation sets out what a valid one has to have:
Payment claims must be in writing, indicate the amount claimed, describe the work done, and state that the claim is made under the Act.— smallbusiness.wa.gov.au, Making a claim under the Security of Payment Act
- 1In writing, not a phone call
- 2The amount claimed
- 3What you did or supplied
- 4This sentence, word for word:
This is a payment claim made under the Building and Construction Industry (Security of Payment) Act 2021.
Building and Energy also publishes a free payment claim template.
An adjudication application is a different job
Not a like-for-like swap
Building and Energy lists when you can apply — no schedule by the due date, a schedule you disagree with, or a scheduled amount that isn’t paid — and then says:
To apply for adjudication in these circumstances, you must act quickly. Different timeframes and requirements apply depending on the circumstances.— wa.gov.au, Applying for adjudication
How a claim check runs
Documents, dates and plain English. You stay in charge of what gets sent.
Ten minutes on the phone
We read the contract with you: when it was signed, any claims clause, any shorter time to reply. Free, and you’ll know whether you need us.
We write it with you
From your invoices, variations and site diary. Amount, work described, the sentence. Most claims are back to you the next business day.
You serve it, the clock starts
You get both dates in writing, and a text the business day before the schedule is due.
No schedule, or not paid?
We prepare the adjudication application if you want one. If the dispute needs a lawyer, we tell you that instead.
From the trades we’ve written claims with
Fourteen bathrooms and $18,400 sitting at day 70. My claim had the amount and the work but not the line about the Act. They caught it in ten minutes and both dates went straight into my phone.
$86,000 over two stages and a head contractor who kept saying next Friday. They wrote it from my invoices and variations in a day, and told me straight which variation to leave out and why.
We supply plasterboard, so we didn’t know supply counted. The free read of our account terms took eight minutes, and we wrote the next claim ourselves from the template.
Reviews on this demonstration page are written as examples.
Perth metro and regional WA
Metro claims start at our Malaga office or your site office. Regional claims run by phone and email at the same fixed fees.
Metro
North to Joondalup and Yanchep, south to Rockingham and Mandurah, east to Midland and Armadale.
- Malaga, Wangara, Balcatta and Osborne Park
- Welshpool, Kewdale and Canning Vale
- Bibra Lake, Henderson and Kwinana
Regional
Pilbara, Mid West, Goldfields, South West and Great Southern.
- Karratha, Port Hedland and Newman
- Geraldton and Kalgoorlie
- Bunbury, Busselton and Albany
What subcontractors ask us
Does the Act apply to my job?
Start with the date on your contract. The SBDC puts it simply: The Act applies to contracts entered on or after 1 August 2022.
(SBDC)
Suppliers count too, not only trades on the tools. The free ten-minute read is where we check your contract with you.
What must the claim say?
Payment claims must be in writing, indicate the amount claimed, describe the work done, and state that the claim is made under the Act.
(SBDC)
The sentence to write is on the write-it-yourself card above. And the timing: You must submit your payment claim within six months of completing the work or supplying the goods/services, unless the contract specifies a longer period.
How long do they have to reply?
The respondent must provide a payment schedule within 15 business days of receiving your payment claim, or within any shorter period specified in the contract.
(SBDC)
The claim clock counts Monday to Friday. It doesn’t take public holidays out, so we check the exact date before you rely on it.
What if they don’t reply?
The SBDC lists no payment schedule after 15 business days as one of the situations where you can apply for adjudication. So is a scheduled amount that isn’t paid.
Building and Energy says you must act quickly, and the timeframes differ by situation. Ring us the day the schedule is due, not the week after.
Who pays the adjudicator?
There are adjudication fees to consider. Generally, these are split equally between the claimant and the respondent.
(SBDC)
Those fees are the adjudicator’s. Our fee for preparing the application is separate and fixed: $1,850, or $2,950 over $50,000.
Are you lawyers?
No. Progress Line is not a law firm and doesn’t give legal advice. We prepare claim and adjudication documents with you, from your paperwork. When a dispute needs a lawyer, we say so and stop there.
Book the $390 claim check
Tell us who owes what. We ring you back, read the contract with you, and give you the fee in writing before any work starts.
Got it — we’ll ring you
We call back inside one business day, 7am to 5pm. Have the contract and your last invoice handy.
- Amount owed
- Six-month mark
- Claim check fee
This is a demonstration page, so nothing was sent anywhere — your details stayed in this browser. On a real site this would land in the job system with the claim clock’s dates attached.
Rather just ring?
Have the contract, the invoice and any emails about it in front of you. Ten minutes is usually enough to know whether you need us.
(08) 9000 0602- Fee in writing before we start
- Both dates sent to you in writing
- The free route shown, not hidden
- No promise that you’ll be paid — just a claim done right