AIA G702 Application for Payment Guide

If your G702 numbers do not tie out, your pay app gets kicked back. The G702 is the pay app summary page: contract value, change orders, completed & stored to date, retainage, prior payments, and the amount due this period. Here’s how it works, where the numbers come from, and how to generate an AIA-style version online.

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G702 is the summary. The AIA G703 continuation sheet is the line-item detail that supports your totals.

What Is the AIA G702 Application for Payment?

The G702 is the summary page of an AIA-style pay application. It rolls up key billing values for the period and to-date — contract sum, approved changes, total completed & stored, retainage, prior payments, current due, and balance to finish. Reviewers rely on this page to verify totals and approve payment.

Simple rule: the G702 should be a clean summary that ties directly to your G703/SOV detail. If the totals don’t match, you’re almost guaranteed a “please revise and resubmit.”

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What the G702 Summarizes

Original contract sum + approved change orders
Total completed & stored to date from G703
Retainage or retention
Less prior payments = current payment due
Balance to finish, including retainage

How Payment Due Is Calculated on a G702

The calculation is simple, but it’s easy to mess up when you’re tracking it in a spreadsheet. In most workflows, the “current payment due” is:

Typical formula

(Completed + Stored to Date − Retainage) − Prior Payments

Your contract and reviewer may have specific rules around retainage, stored materials, and approved changes. The key is consistency across periods and tying the totals back to your continuation sheet detail.

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Where those numbers come from

Completed + stored: rolls up from your G703 continuation sheet
Retainage: applied consistently per your project rules
Prior payments: what has been approved or paid on previous applications
Contract and changes: original sum plus approved change orders

Stored Materials on the G702

Stored materials usually appear in the total completed and stored to date amount, which rolls up from your G703/SOV detail. Whether you can bill stored materials and what backup is required depends on your contract and the reviewer’s process.

How to bill stored materials

Common stored materials gotchas

Billed without backup such as invoices, photos, or releases
Stored values counted twice across periods
Stored material not clearly separated from installed work
Retainage applied inconsistently

Why Contractors Use Software Instead of Spreadsheets

Many contractors still prepare G702/G703 pay applications in Excel. Spreadsheets can work for a simple one-off package, but they become fragile when you need to carry prior values forward, apply retainage consistently, track stored materials, add approved change orders, and keep the G702 summary tied to the G703 detail.

Dedicated AIA billing software helps reduce those errors by keeping the project, Schedule of Values, current billing, prior billing, retainage, stored materials, and PDF outputs in one workflow.

Spreadsheet risks

Broken formulas or copied rows
Prior-period carryforward errors
Retainage drift across billing periods
Stored materials counted twice
Version-control confusion

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Most Common G702 Kickback Reasons

If your pay app is getting rejected, it is usually not a mystery. It is one of these.

G702 does not tie to G703/SOV totals because of carryforward or math issues
Change orders are not reflected in the contract sum or SOV
Stored materials are billed without backup or counted twice
Retainage is applied inconsistently month to month
Prior payments or previous certificates do not match history

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Even accurate pay apps can get delayed when supporting documentation is missing, retainage is inconsistent, stored materials are unclear, or approved change order backup is not attached.

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Quality check areas

G702/G703 total alignment
Retainage consistency
Stored materials support
Approved change order backup
Missing files, notes, or supporting documents

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FAQ: AIA G702

Quick answers to common G702 questions.

The G702 is the pay application summary used to show contract value, changes, total completed and stored to date, retainage, prior payments, and the current payment due for the billing period.

Most G702 totals come from the continuation sheet, often called a G703, and the Schedule of Values. The G703 provides the line-by-line detail and the G702 rolls those totals into a project-level summary.

Payment due is typically earned to date minus retainage, then minus previous payments. In other words: completed and stored to date minus retainage minus prior payments.

Yes. Stored materials are usually included in the total completed and stored to date amount that rolls up from the G703 detail, assuming the project allows billing stored materials and the required backup is provided.

Common reasons include G702 totals not tying to the G703 or SOV detail, change orders not reflected in contract sums, retainage handled inconsistently, stored materials billed without backup, or prior-period totals not carried forward correctly.

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