Pay app software or AIA’s own G702 and G703 documents

AIA G702 and G703 software comes in two kinds: AIA’s own documents, sold per document, and pay app software that makes a G702/G703-style pay application in its own layout. Here the second kind costs $5.99 for one project for 30 days or $27.99 a month, against a digital Documents on Demand form, $59.99 from Jan 5, 2026, per AIA Contract Documents' 2026 pricing FAQ, read Nov 13, 2026.

The two do different jobs. A document is a blank form, and software does the arithmetic and carries the figures from one month to the next. This page sets out what buying AIA’s documents involves, what the software kind does, and where the line between them runs.

What buying AIA’s documents involves

AIA, the American Institute of Architects, publishes the G702 and the G703 and sells them as contract documents. Each is a digital Documents on Demand form, $59.99 from Jan 5, 2026, per AIA Contract Documents' 2026 pricing FAQ, read Nov 13, 2026. AIA’s G703 page, read the same day, lists the license as one-time use.

A document is a form to be filled in. AIA Contract Documents’ article AIA Billing Explained, read Nov 13, 2026, describes the G702 as the contractor’s application for payment, with the billing period, the contract value, the work completed to date and the amount requested, and the G703 as the continuation sheet that breaks that work down. A sub who fills in a form by hand types every figure each month and adds every row and column. Last month’s totals, the retainage on each line and the amount of earlier payments come from the previous form or a spreadsheet kept beside it.

AIA’s forms belong to AIA, and G702 and G703 are its registered marks. This product uses neither the forms nor the marks as its own. It is a separate pay application with its own layout, headings and type.

Price side by side

The AIA price below is the Documents on Demand price in AIA Contract Documents' 2026 pricing FAQ, read Nov 13, 2026. A document and a plan are not the same kind of purchase, so the table lines up what each costs for one use and for twelve monthly pay apps.

The twelve-month row assumes a new document for each monthly pay app, as one-time use suggests, and it counts only the continuation sheet. Solo is also $279.90 a year, ten months’ price, and it includes the lien waivers made from each finished pay app. The full list is on the pricing page.

What a G702/G703-style pay app does

A pay application from this product has the same two parts GCs know: a summary page and a continuation sheet, in our own layout. The app does the work a blank form leaves to the sub.

• The schedule of values is pasted from Excel or uploaded as a CSV file. The app shows the difference from the contract sum and blocks finishing until the SOV total equals the contract sum to date.
• Work is billed by dollars or by percent, rounded to the cent.
• Earlier work and earlier payments carry forward from the last finished pay app.
• Retainage has one rate on work and one on stored materials, rounded on each line and then added.
• Change orders signed by both parties show as additions and deductions on the summary, and each becomes its own line from the next pay app.
• Finished pay apps are frozen, and a revision makes a new version.

How the arithmetic looks on a small job

A painting sub has a $23,456.78 contract with 10% retainage. The first pay app bills $3,333.33 on prep, $2,222.25 on priming and $1,234.55 on finish coats, which is $6,790.13 completed to date. The retainage is worked out on each line and rounded to the cent, then the lines are added.

The lines add to $679.02, while 10% of $6,790.13 taken in one step is $679.01. A GC checks the rows, so the summary uses $679.02, and the payment due is $6,111.11. Doing that by hand on a blank form is possible, and each month it is one more place for a cent to drift between the continuation sheet and the summary. The G702 and G703 guide sets out what AIA’s own pages say each form holds.

Where they differ

Who each suits

AIA’s documents suit a sub whose contract names AIA’s forms and whose GC asks for them. The contract says which form it asks for, and where it names AIA’s, those are the ones it asks for. A sub in that position can ask the GC whether a pay app with the same fields in another layout is taken.

This product suits a sub whose contract asks for AIA-style billing or leaves the layout open, and who wants the totals tied out, the waiver made from the same figures and a price per month instead of per document.

How to move your jobs over

A job that lives in a spreadsheet beside AIA’s forms moves over by its schedule of values.

1. Open the SOV in Excel, or save it as a CSV file.
2. Create the project here and enter the contract sum.
3. Paste the rows or upload the CSV file. The app reads the line numbers, descriptions and values.
4. Read the difference from the contract sum and fix any line until the SOV total equals the contract sum to date.
5. Make the pay app. Earlier work and earlier payments carry forward from the last finished pay app made here.

The schedule of values guide shows what each SOV line holds.

Sources: FAR 52.232-5, Payments under Fixed-Price Construction Contracts.

Where to read more

The pricing page lists every plan, the pay application guide works a job through every line, and the lien waiver guide covers the four kinds and the 12 States whose statutes set the wording.

The AIA price on this page is from AIA Contract Documents' 2026 pricing FAQ, read Nov 13, 2026, and may have changed since.

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