Published August 4, 2025 . 5 mins read

If you’re running a construction project, two things matter a lot: knowing what’s coming and getting paid for what’s done.

This month’s release tackles both.

We’ve rolled out two major updates that make life easier for project teams, accountants, and subcontractors alike: a brand-new Pay App + Schedule of Values workflow and a faster forecasting experience that gives you clearer insights into where your project’s headed (and how it’s tracking).

Both of these updates were driven by your feedback, and both are designed to cut down on manual work and help your team move faster with more confidence.

Breaking up with with back-and-forth

Tired of playing email tag with your subs over billing? Same.

That’s why we just rolled out a new feature in the Payables module: a full Schedule of Values and Pay App workflow, built specifically for subs. It helps you manage the entire billing process before anything touches your accounting system.

Let’s walk through what’s new, why we built it, and how it makes your life a whole lot easier.

Earlier this year, we added a project-level view of outstanding AP invoices. That update helped subs see what had already been approved and synced into your accounting system without extra phone calls or emails.

That was a win.

But what about all the steps before an invoice shows up in your ERP? You know the drill: sub sends billing, your team reviews it, there’s some back-and-forth, someone forgets to include retention, and things get stuck in limbo. That’s the messy middle. And that’s what this update tackles head-on.

We’ve added a brand-new Pay Apps workflow inside the Payables module. You’ll now see two tabs:

Invoices: same as before, invoice data synced from your accounting system

Pay Apps: the new workflow where subs submit their pay apps, get reviewed, and stay aligned with your team

Forecasting without math riddles

The old version of our revenue forecasting tool blended actual and forecasted revenue together in the same view.
In theory, that sounded helpful. In practice, it got messy.

Imagine this: you’re halfway through a job. Forecast says you’ll earn $500k total. But you’ve already invoiced $1M. Then you forecast another $100k for next month. Now your forecast says… $1.1M? $600k?

To avoid underreporting, we tried to “catch up” missing actuals by stuffing them into the current month. Which made that month’s numbers look inflated and wrong. Yeah. Not ideal.

We’ve simplified things in a big way: past months now show actual revenue and cost, a current and future months show forecasted values only. Now your forecasts feel right, because they are right.

But forecast isn’t useful unless you can tell when something’s going off the rails. So we added baselines — visual benchmarks to help you stay oriented:

Linear: evenly spreads cost or revenue across the entire project

S-curve: mirrors a more realistic project curve (slow start, heavy middle, slower end).

Now you can compare actual performance vs. expected trajectory at a glance to adjust faster.

Speed boosts

We heard you loud and clear: loading the forecast used to be slow. Like, go-make-coffee slow.

Behind the scenes, we were crunching way too much data per page load. We’ve now streamlined those calculations and made things snappier across the board.

Is it instant? Not quite. Is it way faster? 100%. And yes, we’re still working on more speed improvements. But this is a huge step forward.

We’ve simplified things in a big way: past months now show actual revenue and cost, a current and future months show forecasted values only. Now your forecasts feel right, because they are right.

But forecast isn’t useful unless you can tell when something’s going off the rails. So we added baselines — visual benchmarks to help you stay oriented:

Linear: evenly spreads cost or revenue across the entire project

S-curve: mirrors a more realistic project curve (slow start, heavy middle, slower end).

Now you can compare actual performance vs. expected trajectory at a glance to adjust faster.

This release lays the groundwork for some big things to come, like tighter forecast accuracy controls, custom forecast logic for the power users, and executive-level reporting dashboards.

In the meantime, log in to your ProNovos account and check out the new Pay Apps tab inside Payables and the improved Cost Forecast Timeline.

We’d love to hear how it’s working for you. This is just the beginning—and your feedback shapes what we build next.