Simple Pay ApplicationA PayAppHub alternative with e-signature and State waiver wording
Simple Pay Application makes the pay app with the math done, lien waivers in the State’s wording where a statute sets one, and e-signature, from $27.99 a month. PayAppHub’s plans cost $39.99, $79.99 and $129.99 a month on its pages as read on Nov 13, 2026, and the plan here that covers each one costs about 30% less.
This page sets the two side by side on price, limits and what each one lists. Every PayAppHub fact comes from four of its own pages, read on Nov 13, 2026: the home page, its compare page, and its help pages on plans and limits and on users and roles. Where those pages say nothing on a point, this page says so rather than filling the gap.
Price by plan size
PayAppHub sells three monthly plans, named Solo, Standard and Premium on its home page. Its help page sizes them by the users who can bill and by the pay apps finished in a calendar month, and every plan has unlimited projects. Each row below sets one plan beside the cheapest plan here with at least as many users and at least as many active projects as the jobs that plan can bill in a month, counting one pay app per job a month.
| PayAppHub plan, read Nov 13, 2026 | Its price | The plan here that covers it | Price here | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Solo: 1 user who can bill, 15 pay apps a month | $39.99 a month | Solo: 15 active projects, 1 user | $27.99 a month | $12 less, 30% |
| Standard: 5 users who can bill, 50 pay apps a month | $79.99 a month | Crew: 50 active projects, 5 users | $55 a month | $24.99 less, 31% |
| Premium: 15 users who can bill, unlimited pay apps a month | $129.99 a month | Company: 200 active projects, 15 users | $89 a month | $40.99 less, 32% |
Over twelve months, PayAppHub’s Solo plan comes to $479.88 at its listed price. The Solo plan here comes to $335.88 billed monthly, or $279.90 billed once a year. A yearly plan here is billed for ten months of the monthly price. The PayAppHub pages read on Nov 13, 2026 show no yearly price. Card payment here goes through Stripe, in US dollars, and the full list of plans is on the pricing page.
Limits side by side
The two set their limits on different things. PayAppHub counts the pay apps a company finishes each calendar month, and its help page says retainage applications and imported starting points are left out of that count. Here the monthly plans count active projects and users, and the number of pay apps is unlimited.
| PayAppHub plan (read Nov 13, 2026) | Users who can bill | Pay apps a month | Plan here | Users | Active projects | Storage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Solo, $39.99 a month | 1 | 15 | Solo, $27.99 a month | 1 | 15 | 250 MB |
| Standard, $79.99 a month | 5 | 50 | Crew, $55 a month | 5 | 50 | 1 GB |
| Premium, $129.99 a month | 15 | Unlimited | Company, $89 a month | 15 | 200 | 5 GB |
Two things on PayAppHub’s pages soften its pay app count. Its home page, read Nov 13, 2026, says going over the allowance “never blocks your billing”, and its help page says a note suggests a larger plan instead. Its users page, read Nov 13, 2026, says people with the Viewer role do not count toward the plan’s limit, and its home page says “View-only users are always free”. Here every person with a login counts toward the plan’s users, whether they edit or only read. Archived projects do not count toward the active-project limit here, and storage per plan is not stated on the PayAppHub pages read.
What both do
Both make a schedule of values pay app with the arithmetic done and carry each month forward from the last. PayAppHub’s pages, read Nov 13, 2026, describe a pay application and continuation sheet in a layout GCs know, retainage carried forward and billed at the end, stored materials with photos, change orders added to the contract, and one PDF with the pay app, the lien waiver and the backup. This product covers the same ground:
- A pay application with a summary page and a continuation sheet, the earlier work and earlier payments carried forward, and a PDF to send.
- Retainage on work and on stored materials, each at its own rate, rounded on each line and then added, and released in part or in full at the end.
- Stored materials billed as stored and moved into work when installed, and change orders signed by both parties as their own lines.
- Backup files such as photos and supplier invoices attached to the pay app and printed into the same PDF.
- An account that turns read-only when a plan ends, with every pay app still readable and downloadable. PayAppHub’s home page says the same of its own accounts.
What PayAppHub offers that this product does not
These items are on PayAppHub’s pages as read on Nov 13, 2026, and this product does not have them. They are listed plainly so a sub who needs one of them can see it here first.
| Item | PayAppHub, read Nov 13, 2026 | Here |
|---|---|---|
| Accounting software | Its home page, read Nov 13, 2026, says “Connect QuickBooks Online once”; a finished pay app then becomes an invoice there, with retainage on its own line, and is marked paid when the invoice is paid | No link to accounting software |
| Reading a contract | Its home page, read Nov 13, 2026, says “It reads your contract” with AI, filling the contract amount, retainage, contacts and schedule of values for the sub to check. Its home page, read Nov 13, 2026, gives the allowance for that as “about 40 contracts a month on Solo”, 100 on Standard and 240 on Premium, and says it “resets on the 1st of every month” | The schedule of values is pasted from Excel, uploaded as a CSV file or typed |
| Starting offer | Its home page, read Nov 13, 2026, offers a “30-day free trial”, started with a card | None; the single pay app at $5.99 is the first paid step |
| Read-only users | Viewers at no charge, outside the plan’s count | Every login counts toward the plan’s users |
| Pay apps over the plan | Never blocked; a note suggests a larger plan | No count to go over: unlimited pay apps on every monthly plan |
| The GC’s waiver form | The GC’s own waiver, from a fillable PDF, a scan or the sub’s own form, filled on screen next to the pay app | The State’s statutory form where a statute sets the wording, and our general forms elsewhere |
| Mail-in documents | A change order, a contract or a sub’s waiver forwarded to the company’s own address and matched to the job | Files uploaded to the pay app as backup |
The table weighs nothing; it sets out what each side lists. The PayAppHub column is only as current as the day its pages were read.
What this product does that PayAppHub’s pages do not list
The four PayAppHub pages read on Nov 13, 2026 do not mention the items below. That is a statement about those pages, not about everything behind them.
- E-signature and signing links. A pay app or a waiver is signed here with a typed or drawn signature, or sent by link to the person who signs. PayAppHub’s home page says its PDF is filled in and signed by hand, and its compare page says its waivers are printed for signing rather than signed on screen.
- The statute’s own wording in 12 States. Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, Texas, Utah and Wyoming print lien waiver wording in their statutes. Here the waiver for a job in one of those States uses that wording word for word, with its section and the date it was read, filled from the pay app. The lien waiver guide covers the four kinds.
- Unlimited pay apps on every monthly plan. The limits here are on active projects and users, so a busy month never brings a note about the plan.
- A single paid pay app. One project for 30 days costs $5.99, for one user. It does not renew, and payments for it in the last 30 days come off the first payment of any plan.
- Yearly prices. Each plan here has a yearly price of ten months’ billing, from $279.90 a year for Solo.
Who each suits
PayAppHub suits a sub who wants each pay app sent to its accounting software as an invoice, who wants a contract read to set up a job, or whose GC sends its own waiver form that must be used as it is. It also suits a company with several people who only need to look. Those items are on its pages as read on Nov 13, 2026.
This product suits a sub whose need is the pay app and the lien waiver, signed on screen and sent as one PDF, at a monthly price about 30% lower. It suits a sub working in one of the 12 States whose statutes print the waiver wording, and one who would rather pay $5.99 to see one project through before choosing a plan. There is no free period here.
How to move your jobs over
A job moves by its schedule of values (SOV). The SOV is usually in the Excel file the job began in, or in the contract’s exhibit.
- Put the SOV lines in a spreadsheet: line number, description and scheduled value, one line to a row.
- Start a project here with the job’s name, the GC, the contract sum and the retainage rate.
- Paste the rows straight from the spreadsheet, or upload them as a CSV file, and check each line as it comes in.
- Fix any line until the total ties out: a project cannot be finished while its lines and its contract sum differ.
- Make the next pay app here, typing each line’s work for the period by dollars or by percent.
Finished PayAppHub pay apps stay in that account, and its home page says they can be downloaded at any time. From the first pay app made here, earlier work and payments carry forward on their own.
PayAppHub comparison questions
How much cheaper is this than PayAppHub?
On PayAppHub’s pages as read on Nov 13, 2026, its plans cost $39.99, $79.99 and $129.99 a month. The plan here with at least the same users who can bill is Solo at $27.99, Crew at $55 and Company at $89, which is 30%, 31% and 32% less.
Does PayAppHub cap pay apps?
Its help page, read Nov 13, 2026, gives 15 pay apps a month on Solo, 50 on Standard and no limit on Premium, counted when a pay app is finished, and says going over is not blocked. Here every monthly plan has unlimited pay apps, and the limits are on active projects and users.
Can a GC’s own waiver form be used here?
No. The waiver here is the State’s statutory form in the 12 States whose statutes print the wording, and our general form in the four kinds elsewhere. PayAppHub’s pages, read Nov 13, 2026, describe filling the GC’s own form on screen.
Are waivers signed on screen?
Yes. A waiver or a pay app is signed with a typed or drawn signature, or sent by link to the person who signs, and a notary block is printed where the State’s form has one. PayAppHub’s pages, read Nov 13, 2026, describe printing for signing by hand.
Does this read a contract to set up the job?
No. The schedule of values is pasted from Excel, uploaded as a CSV file or typed, and the app checks the total against the contract sum. PayAppHub’s home page, read Nov 13, 2026, lists contract reading with a monthly allowance on each plan.
Is there a yearly price?
Here, yes: ten months of the monthly price, so Solo is $279.90 a year and Crew $550. The PayAppHub pages read on Nov 13, 2026 show no yearly price.
Do I keep my files if a plan ends?
Yes. The account turns read-only when a plan ends: pay apps, waivers and their PDFs can still be opened and downloaded, and changes wait until a plan is bought again.
Sources: FAR 52.232-5, Payments under Fixed-Price Construction Contracts.
Where to read more
The pricing page lists every plan with its limits, the pay application guide works a job through every line, and the retainage guide shows how the held amount is worked out and released.
PayAppHub’s prices, limits and features on this page are from its own pages as read on Nov 13, 2026: the home page, the compare page, and the help pages on plans and limits and on users and roles. They may have changed since.
The other comparisons: PayAppPro, PAYearned and software for AIA’s forms.