Time saved / Fill the handover certificates
Handover certificates your trade owes, drafted for you
See the certificates your trade usually owes at handover, read the certifier’s request, and draft each one from the real template with the signature blank.
The certifier sends a long list. You work out which lines are yours, find each form and fill the same details again.
- By hand
- 4 h
- In Excel
- 3 h 45 min
- In YourCA
- 30 min
- Saved
- 3 h 30 min
Estimate for a 6-month electrical job with 10 people on it, each certificate. Set your own job.
The risk it heads off
- A certificate is missed and practical completion stalls.Lists each certificate owed and who owes it.
- The certificate is filled on the wrong form.Fills the exact published form.
- Your own test certificate is retyped on every job, with last job’s address left on it.Written once in your library, with each job’s details filled in.
Step by step
| Step | By hand | Excel | YourCA | What YourCA does |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Work out which certificates are yours | 30 min | 30 min | 5 min | Suggests the certificates for your trade and matches the certifier’s request. |
| Find the right form | 20 min | 20 min | 0 min | Uses the real template or the prescribed form, or your own certificate, written once and kept for every job. |
| Fill it in | 30 min | 25 min | 5 min | Drafts it from the job record with the signature blank. |
| Total, each certificate | 80 min | 75 min | 10 min |
How to do it in YourCA
Questions subbies ask
- Who signs the certificate?
- You do. YourCA leaves the signature blank for the person who can certify the work.
- What if my certificate is not on the list?
- Write it once as your own certificate: its name, what it certifies, your standards and details. YourCA keeps it in your company library, fills the job details in on every job and prints it on your letterhead.
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