Top Mistakes in RA Billing That Delay Contractor Payments
1. Why RA Bills Get Rejected The Real Anatomy of Payment Delay Most contractors blame difficult clients or slow consultants when Running Account bills get rejected. The harder truth is that the majority of payment delays originate inside the contractor's own billing office. A rejected RA bill is not a client decision it is a document that failed to meet the conditions of the contract. Every day the bill sits in rejection is a day the contractor is funding the project from his own liquidity. The anatomy of a delayed payment almost always traces back to one of three root causes: the bill was submitted with measurement that cannot be verified, the supporting documents were incomplete, or the claim was structured in a way the contract does not recognise. Consultants and owners do not reject bills out of malice. They reject bills because approving an unverifiable claim creates personal liability for the certifying engineer. Understanding this shifts the entire approach to billing from...