--- title: "Subcontract Management – Punch for Construction" description: "Fixed-price or hourly, SOV or production billing — set up subcontracts the way you actually work. Upload the contract you already signed and Punch reads it, creates the commitment, and stores the scope of work." canonical: https://buildwithpunch.com/product/subcontracts --- [](https://buildwithpunch.com/) [See Punch work](https://calendly.com/taylor-punch/30min?hide_event_type_details=1&hide_gdpr_banner=1) PRODUCT: SUBCONTRACTS # Contracts the way you actually write them Some of your subcontracts are fixed-price on a schedule of values. Some are a labor crew at an hourly rate, billed by production. Punch takes them the way they come — even as the Word doc, PDF, or photo of the form you already signed — and turns each one into a live commitment on the job, with the scope of work stored where the field and office can actually find it. [See Punch work](https://calendly.com/taylor-punch/30min?hide_event_type_details=1&hide_gdpr_banner=1) Fixed-price on a schedule of values, hourly billed by the week — both are commitments Punch tracks the same way. THE PROBLEM ## Real subcontracts don’t fit one template If you self-perform some trades and sub out others, or you’re a sub managing your own lower-tier agreements, you know the contracts don’t come in one shape. A drywall package is fixed-price against a schedule of values; the framing crew is hourly, billed by the week. Software that only understands one of those makes you fake the other. And the agreement itself already exists — signed, on your own form. Retyping its terms into a system is the step that gets skipped, so the commitment lives in a drawer, the scope of work lives in nobody’s head but whoever negotiated it, and every “who’s supposed to do that?” becomes a phone call. HOW PUNCH HANDLES IT ## Any contract shape becomes a live commitment 1. 01 ### Set it up the way it’s written Fixed-price or hourly-rate — tell Punch the terms, or hand it the contract itself. Both shapes are first-class, not workarounds. 2. 02 ### Billing matches the contract Schedule-of-values billing for the fixed-price package, production or hourly billing for the labor crew. The billing setup follows the contract instead of forcing the contract into the billing. 3. 03 ### The scope stays on hand Punch stores the scope of work with the commitment. When a question comes up about who’s supposed to do what, the field and the office reference the same answer — and Punch’s agent uses that scope as context when it works on the job. 4. 04 ### Billing lands against the commitment Pay apps and invoices arrive next to the commitment they draw against — committed cost stays part of the job’s current picture, not a guess. From your playbook Commitments follow your approval rules. Which subcontracts need sign-off and who gives it come from your company playbook, so a commitment is entered the same disciplined way no matter who enters it. UPLOAD THE CONTRACT YOU ALREADY HAVE ## Punch reads your subcontract and builds the commitment Keep using your own subcontract form. Upload it as a Microsoft Word file, a PDF, or even a photo of the signed pages — Punch reads it, creates the commitment, and pulls the values straight from the contract. ANY FORMAT ### Word, PDF, or a photo The agreement you already signed is the source of truth. Hand it to Punch in whatever form it exists — no retyping, no reformatting to fit a template. VALUES PULLED ### The commitment builds itself Punch reads the contract and creates the commitment with the values pulled from the document — scope, amount, billing terms — landing on the right job as committed cost. SCOPE STORED ### “Who’s supposed to do that?” — answered The scope of work is stored with the commitment, easy for field and office teams to reference when questions come up — and it becomes context Punch’s AI agent works from. Bring the form you already use — Punch reads it, creates the commitment, and keeps the scope on hand for anyone who asks. BID TO BOOKS ## Where this sits in the flow Subcontracts are the committed-cost backbone of bid-to-books: they turn the estimate’s big line items into tracked promises on their way to the books — whatever shape the contract takes. How work moves through this step In to Punch - Subcontract documents — Word, PDF, or photo - Approvals and scope agreements Punch Out from Punch - Commitment data synced to accounting Connection: Subcontracts come in from the office, email, or upload; committed costs sync to your accounting system GO DEEPER ## Related reading [Guide ### Purchasing for Subcontractors How subcontractors manage purchasing and scale without adding headcount. Read more](https://buildwithpunch.com/subcontractor-purchasing)[Product ### Invoices & Pay Apps SOV, hourly, or production-unit pay apps get the full three-way review before payment. Read more](https://buildwithpunch.com/product/invoices)[Product ### Job Costing Committed cost is one of the three numbers every job should know. Read more](https://buildwithpunch.com/product/job-costing) ## See Punch work on your own workflow. It's a working session, not a slide deck. Bring a real PO, an invoice, or a daily report. You'll use Punch on it live. 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