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Variations

Digitise and automate your variation register, process and certificates.

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Variations

Digitise and automate your variation register, process and certificates.

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Variations in Mastt

Save time and make easy your contract variations with Mastt's super simple yet powerful Variation tools:

  • Effortless Variation Management: Easily create, track, and approve contract variations.
  • Automate Variation Certificates: Generate variation certificates with a single click, reducing administrative burden.
  • Integrated Tracking: Seamlessly link variations to a contract or project budget for comprehensive tracking.
  • Visualize Impacts: Utilize automated charts and visualizations to understand the financial and schedule impacts of variations.

Learn more about Variations in Mastt below. 👇

What is a Variation?

A variation is an amendment to the original contract terms, often involving changes to the scope of work, materials, or timelines. Variations can arise from design changes, unforeseen site conditions, or client requests. Managing these variations efficiently is critical to maintaining project control, avoiding cost overruns, and meeting deadlines.

Challenges with Variations

Common challenges we see managing Variations:

Complex Approval Processes: Securing necessary approvals for variations is cumbersome and requires many status to control.

Crazy Variation Registers: Variation registers can become extremely long and unwieldy, making them difficult for others to use and a risk to compliance.

Payments & Variations: Managing progress payments against variations each month, reconciling the contract, and producing payment certificates and notices requires heavy duplication of effort.

Budget Impacts: Accurately tracking the financial impact of variations on the project budget can be difficult, especially when someones 'SUMIF' formula is missing row data. 😂

Schedule Delays: Variations can cause significant delays if not managed and integrated into the project timeline effectively.

Compliance: Ensuring accurate financial reporting and compliance with contract is complex and never certain.

Reporting: Formatting/transposing spreadsheet tables into charts and visualizations for reporting takes a huge amount of time for an unsatisfactory, out-of-date result.

The classic Variation Register tab of an insane cost tracker. Variations are duplicated from here into Contracts, Budgets, Payments and other tabs manually.

Mastt Variation Solutions

💡 Simple Creation & Approval: Create and approve variations quickly and easily within Mastt.

💡 Integrated with Budgets, Contracts & Payments: Variations automatically link to your contracts and budgets, enabling easy monitoring and eliminating effort toward updating contract status or processing payments.

💡 Automated Certificates: Generate variation certificates with a single click, reducing administrative work and ensuring compliance.

💡 Visual Analysis: Use charts and visualizations to assess the impact of variations on the project and make easy your reporting.

💡 Compliance Tracking: Track Variations for compliance, including key dates, insurances, and retentions, ensuring all contracts meet legal and regulatory standards.

💡 Automated Reporting: Variation updates are automatic captured and power dashboards and reports instantly.

💡 Auditing: Maintain a log of changes for compliance and record-keeping.

Add Variations easily in Mastt.

Variation Features

Mastt's intuitive variation management tools simplify your workflow, making it easy to get started today.

🔷 Create Variations: Create variations and certificates with ease.

🔷 Variations Register: Track all variations in a single, automated register that updates automatically when payments and other related data is changed.

🔷 Variations & Payments: Add variations and process payments against the updated contracts with a single click.

🔷 Certificate/Letter Automations: Instantly generate compliant variation certificates in PDF format, eliminating the need for manual formatting.

🔷 Link Budgets: Connect variations and line items to budgets, allowing you to spread one variation across multiple budgets, cost codes, or work breakdowns.

🔷 Attach Documents: Attach key documents and other artifacts directly to the variation for easy reference.

🔷 Charts and Visualizations: Utilize out-of-the-box charts and visualizations for all variation data.

🔷 Auto Reporting: Automatically generate reports and dashboards from your variation data, streamlining your reporting process and eliminating double handling.

Create Variation Approval PDFs with a single click.

Variation Best Practice

🟢 Always Read and Understand the Contract: Upload key information variations into Mastt.

🟢 Stay Compliant: Ensure variations are managed in accordance with the contract and specified timelines.

🟢 Centralize Storage: Keep all variations and documents in one secure location for easy access and retrieval.

🟢 Keep Record and Audits: Maintain a detailed history of key variation actions in registers.

Step by Step Guides

Are you a Mastt user? For detailed information about this feature, please visit this Help Page article. You can also explore more articles at help.mastt.com.

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