Payapps

tiered subscription for subcontractors (AUD, monthly, self-serve) plus custom annual pricing for main contractors; the NA-branded GCPay sibling remains quote-only Run the Practice

Construction payment-claims and subcontractor compliance software (progress claims, retention tracking, payment applications) for general contractors and subcontractors, acquired by Autodesk in Feb 2024 for approximately $390M; dual-branded Payapps outside North America and GCPay in North America.

Made by Autodesk, public (ADSK, $43.8B)

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Agent-hostile
2.6 /5 composite score
C1 4/5 reflects published subcontractor tiers on payapps.com, C5 4/5 reflects the Autodesk Construction Cloud, Viewpoint Vista, and Sage Intacct integrations, and RF2 caps C2 because no public API, CLI, or MCP is documented. Firm-size fit is growing.
Situational

Rubric Scorecard

How we grade →

Criterion Score Evidence
Value for the price 4/5 tiered subscription for subcontractors (AUD, monthly, self-serve) plus custom annual pricing for main contractors; the NA-branded GCPay sibling remains quote-only Source →
Agent Friendliness 1/5 API: unknown -- no public developer-docs API found; integrates with ERP/accounting systems (e.g. Viewpoint Vista, Sage Intacct) via vendor-built connectors per Autodesk Construction Cloud resource content
Ease of adoption 2/5 web-saas Source →
Portability & lock-in 2/5 1 file formats Source →
Interoperability 4/5 3 integrations

Pricing

Modeltiered subscription for subcontractors (AUD, monthly, self-serve) plus custom annual pricing for main contractors; the NA-branded GCPay sibling remains quote-only
Free tierno
Billing unitper-project
Hidden costsGCPay (the NA-branded sibling product) remains quote-only per Capterra/G2 -- only payapps.com itself discloses real tiers
TiersPay-as-you-go, Basic, Plus, Standard, Premium, Ultimate, Main Contractors
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How we verified this: we checked Payapps against its live site and an independent source — sec.gov. Nothing on this page is listed from memory. See how we grade. Verified 2026-07-09.

Evidence

File formats

FormatDirectionSupport
PDF export full -- Applications for payment and payment notices.

Integrations

Autodesk Construction Cloud (native) Viewpoint Vista Sage Intacct

Adoption

Deploymentweb-saas
Self-serve signupno
Implementation requiredvendor-led

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