What G702 and G703 actually are
G702 is the AIA-standard Application and Certificate for Payment — the single-page summary the GC submits to the architect (and owner) for each progress payment. It states total contract sum, work completed to date, materials stored, retainage, less previous certificates, and the current payment due.
G703 is the Continuation Sheet — the multi-row schedule of values (SOV) that backs up the G702 summary. Each row is one line item from the SOV, with the scheduled value, work completed this period, work completed previously, materials stored, percent complete, retainage, and balance to finish. The G702 number is a sum across the G703 rows; the architect certifies the G702 against the G703 detail.
Why they matter
For most commercial work over a couple hundred thousand dollars, G702/G703 (or an owner-specific variant) is how the GC gets paid. The schedule of values on the G703 is set at contract award; from then on every monthly draw is computed against it. If the SOV is wrong — line items missing, percentages mis-allocated, scope concentrated at the wrong stage — the draws are wrong and the cash flow drifts.
The owner cares because over-payment early means under-payment risk later. The architect cares because certifying an incorrect G702 is signing your name to it. The GC cares because the SOV controls when cash arrives.
What software GCs actually use
The honest answer: most GCs produce G702 and G703 inside whatever ERP or accounting system already holds their job-cost data. Three categories dominate.
Construction-specific ERPs
Sage 300 CRE (formerly Timberline), Viewpoint Vista, Foundation, CMiC. These hold job-cost, SOV, and AP all in one schema and emit G702/G703 as a report from the SOV.
Construction-management platforms
Procore, BuilderTREND, CoConstruct. These layer SOV + draw workflows on top of project management. Procore in particular has formal AIA G702/G703 support that's widely used on mid-to-large commercial.
Excel + AIA-licensed templates
Smaller GCs and most subs produce G702/G703 in Excel from the AIA-licensed PDF templates or from a long-standing internal workbook. Functional, brittle, common.
Where BidLedger fits
BidLedger does not produce G702 or G703 directly — those are post-award draw documents that depend on your accounting system and your contract terms. What BidLedger produces is the upstream artifact: the citation-verified material takeoff that becomes the basis for your schedule of values when the bid wins.
On a typical commercial bid, the takeoff has 200–400 distinct line items rolled into 20–60 SOV categories. Getting the takeoff right makes the SOV right; getting the SOV right makes the G703 right; getting the G703 right makes the G702 right. The compounding error if you start from a wrong takeoff is real.
Free first bid: forward your next bid set, get a takeoff back within one business day. Import the line items into your G703 from there.