Every rupee on the project, in one place.
Four money screens — what you pay your contractors, what your client pays you, what a flat buyer pays you, and where all three land in your books. Pick the one that is your business; every one of them reads the same measurements.
Which of these is your money?
Most construction businesses run two of these at the same time — paying contractors on one side while billing a client on the other. Open the one you need. They are separate screens, but not separate numbers.
You pay a contractor
If you sublet work — a labour contractor, an RCC gang, a plaster or shuttering firm.
Allot the measured work at his own rate, bill only what has passed its quality check, deduct security deposit, performance guarantee and TDS, recover the advance a fixed slice at a time, and see exactly what is still to be released.
A client pays you
If you were awarded a contract — a CPWD or state PWD division, a PSU, or a private owner.
A running-account bill cum tax invoice in three pages that agree with each other: the measurement sheet, the abstract, and the invoice with CGST, SGST, retention, TDS 194C and the advance adjustment on the face of it. Deviation and change orders come out of the same two numbers.
A flat buyer pays you
If you are a developer selling flats, shops, offices or plots.
There is no RA bill on this side. The money comes from a payment plan tied to construction stages — and the demand goes out the day the site marks that stage complete, with the late-payment interest already worked out on it.
It all has to reach the books
Whichever of the three above you run, accounts has to carry the entry.
It already does. Finalise a bill or record a payment and the double-entry voucher is passed for you, so the trial balance, P&L and balance sheet come out of the same data — nobody types the bill a second time in another program.
A contractor usually runs the first, second and fourth. A developer who builds and sells runs all four. Finance is switched on for your company during setup — it keeps your books end to end, but it is not a live two-way sync with Tally.
A bill is a waterfall, not a total.
Whether the bill goes out to your client or comes in from your contractor, it is built the same way — what was measured, then every addition and every deduction as its own line, carrying the percentage it came from. Nothing is netted off quietly inside another figure.
- GST goes on top, printed as CGST 9% and SGST 9% — two separate lines, the way your client's accounts department needs them.
- Retention and security deposit are held, not lost. The app keeps a running total of what is being held and adds it back as its own line on the bill that releases it — so a release is visible, not an adjustment nobody can trace.
- TDS is deducted at source — under 194C on a works contract. This is the figure that has to match the certificate at the end of the year.
- Advance recovery is a slice of the advance, not of the bill. Recovery of 10% on a ₹50,000 mobilisation advance takes ₹5,000 off every bill — whether that bill is ₹2,00,000 or ₹20,000, which is how an advance is actually recovered on site.
The amount also prints in words under the figure, above the Prepared, Checked and Approved signature blocks — and the same bill downloads as Excel with live formulas rather than pasted numbers.
Measured once. Billed to whoever. Posted once.
This is the only thing you have to understand about money in Civil Limitless. The quantity is typed in the Measurement Book and nowhere else. Every bill after it — to a contractor, to a client, or a demand to a flat buyer — reads that same measurement. And every one of those bills writes itself into the books.
Show us one bill. We will build it in the app.
Thirty minutes on a call, on your own terms — your retention, your TDS, your advance recovery. Bring a contractor bill, a client bill or a booking, whichever side of the money you are on.