Varipack — new
Voice-first variations for Australian subcontractors. Your crew captures the change on site — a voice memo and a photo. Varipack prices it against your contract schedule of rates or a dayworks build-up, drafts a numbered claim, and gets it to the head contractor with a client approval link. The notice clock starts on site, not in the office.
Varipack is in supervised beta with a small group of subcontractor site supervisors. Join the waitlist to be invited when a slot opens for your trade or region.
Why variations get lost
The typical notice period in an Australian head contract for a variation claim. Miss it and the work is done for free — no matter how legitimate the change.
The supervisor writes it on a dayworks sheet, the site manager takes it home in the ute, the office types it into a claim. Something drops on every hand-over.
Subbies routinely absorb variations they legitimately could have claimed — because the process was too slow, the evidence was thin, or the notice period had run out by the time anyone looked.
How it works
Your crew opens Varipack on their phone, taps once, and talks through the change — what the head contractor asked for, why the original scope won't do it, what it's going to take. Snap a photo of the site condition. It's timestamped and queued, even out of range.
Varipack matches the captured change to your schedule of rates or builds it up from dayworks — labour, plant, and materials at the rates you've set. You review the priced draft on screen and edit anything you want.
Varipack issues a numbered variation claim with a client approval link. The head contractor can approve, reject, or query in one click. Every step is logged as an audit trail — the on-site capture, the priced draft, the approval, the payment.
What's different
The person doing the work talks through the change instead of translating it into a claim form back at the office. Nothing gets lost between the site and the desk.
The time-bar clock ticks from the crew capture timestamp — not from the day the paperwork reached the head contractor. You have proof, not a memory.
Load your contract schedule of rates and Varipack prices against it. Or build it up from first-principles dayworks — labour hours, plant hours, materials at cost plus your margin.
The claim goes to the head contractor with a one-click approval link. No hunting for a signed PDF, no chasing a reply in a threaded email.
Sitepack for the safety side. Varipack for the commercial side. Sitepack drafts your SWMS, Take 5, toolbox talks and incident reports. Varipack captures your variations, prices them, and claims them. Same crew, same phone, two problems solved. Use one, the other, or both — see Sitepack →
Common questions
A variation is any change to the scope, method, or conditions of the work after your contract is signed — a direction from the head contractor, a design change, an unforeseen site condition, extra hours because someone else is late. Most head contracts give you a short notice period (often 5, 7, or 10 business days) to claim it. Miss the window and the claim is time-barred: the work happened, but you can't recover the cost. Varipack starts the clock from the moment your crew captured the change on site, not the day the paperwork lands in the office.
Two ways. If your contract has a schedule of rates, Varipack matches the captured change to the rates you've loaded and prices it directly. If it's dayworks — labour hours, plant hours, materials at cost plus margin — Varipack builds it up from first principles using the rates you've set for your crew and gear. You review the priced claim on screen before it goes out.
Sitepack handles the safety paperwork side of a job — SWMS, Take 5, toolbox talks, incidents. Varipack handles the commercial side — capturing variations, pricing them, claiming them, and getting paid. Different problems, same crew, same phone. You can use one, the other, or both.
Subcontractors claiming up the chain — trades running work on commercial or civil projects where the head contractor issues site instructions, RFIs come back with directions, and the notice-period time bar is real. If you're running dayworks sheets on paper and losing claims because they went in late, Varipack was built for you.
Varipack is in supervised beta with a small group of subcontractor site supervisors testing the crew capture module, voice-to-variation flow, and claim generation. Join the waitlist and we'll bring you in as soon as a slot opens for your trade or region.
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