Security of Payment Claim (Unpaid Contractor)

What this document does

• A statutory payment claim under your state's Security of Payment Act — the document that, outside the Northern Territory, gives them 10 to 15 business days to respond or the full amount becomes a debt you can sue for, with the right to suspend work and go to fast-track adjudication (the Northern Territory has its own dispute and adjudication rules).
• Records the facts that matter on paper: respondent (builder / principal), respondent business address (for posting the claim), project or site address, engagement, start and last-work dates.
• Sets a clear deadline and spells out what happens if they ignore it.
• Cites the right Act, regulator and tribunal for your state — all eight states and territories covered.
• You review the draft first; we only send it to the other party on your say-so.

What we'll ask you

Plain-English questions, one at a time. No legal knowledge needed — if you don't know an answer exactly, your best estimate is fine.

1. Who owes you the money? The builder, head contractor, developer or principal exactly as named on your contract, purchase order or their ABN record.
2. Which state or territory is the job site in?
3. Is the person you did the work for a home owner living in the home?
4. What is their business address, for posting the claim?optional
5. Tell me what's happened — what work you did or what you supplied, what the arrangement was (written contract, quote accepted by email, PO, verbal), what's unpaid, and what they've said when you chased it.
6. What is the address of the project or site?
7. The date you were engaged, the date you started, and the date you last did work or made a delivery.
8. Invoice number(s), the invoice date(s) and the period of work each one covers.
9. Are there approved variations or retention still owing? List them.optional
10. What payment terms does your contract or quote give? (e.g. 30 days from invoice.)
11. What's the total you're claiming today, including GST? This is the figure the payment claim states.
12. Did you send a formal payment claim for this work before? If yes, when, and did it say it was a payment claim under the construction payment law?optional
13. What is your ABN?optional
14. What evidence do you have? Signed contract or accepted quote, invoices, approved variations, signed timesheets or delivery dockets, site photos, texts or emails about the work and payment.optional
15. Do you have the builder's or principal's email address? Once you approve it we can email the claim. Unless your contract allows notices by email, also post it or leave it at their business address.optional
16. Where the job is — the claim follows that state's Act
17. Your name and email — so the draft lands in your dashboard and inbox.