AIA G702 and G703, explained
AIA G702 is the Application and Certificate for Payment: a one-page summary of what a contractor is billing for on a project. AIA G703 is its Continuation Sheet, breaking that total into individual line items by schedule of values. Contractors fill both out; the architect reviews and certifies them before the owner pays.
What is AIA G702?
G702, the Application and Certificate for Payment, is a standard form published by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) for requesting progress payment on a construction project. It's a summary document: total contract sum, the amount completed and stored to date, retainage withheld, previous payments, and the current amount the contractor is asking the owner to pay.
G702 is used almost everywhere commercial and institutional construction runs on AIA contract documents. A contractor fills it out each billing cycle, typically monthly, and it's the top sheet the architect reviews before certifying payment to the owner.
What is AIA G703?
G703 is the Continuation Sheet that supports G702. Where G702 shows one bottom-line number, G703 breaks that number down by line item, following the project's schedule of values: each phase or trade of work, the amount allocated to it, how much has been completed, how much material is stored on-site but not yet installed, and the running balance to finish.
In practice, contractors submit G702 and G703 together as a matched pair every billing cycle. G702 is the cover sheet an architect and owner scan first; G703 is what a reviewer checks against site progress if a number on G702 needs backing up.
What's the difference between G702 and G703?
G702 is the summary; G703 is the detail behind it. Think of G702 as the total on an invoice and G703 as the itemized list that adds up to that total. Every number on G702 traces back to the line items on the attached G703.
Who fills out G702 and G703, and who signs off?
The contractor completes both forms each billing cycle and submits them to the architect. G702 carries the contractor's certification that the billed amounts are accurate, and the architect's certification that the work has progressed as claimed before the owner is asked to pay.
How do G702/G703 pay applications relate to lien waivers?
They're related documents in the same payment cycle but they do different jobs. G702/G703 is the request for payment: it tells the owner and architect what's owed. A lien waiver is what the subcontractor or contractor signs in exchange for that payment, releasing lien rights on the amount covered.
Plenty of GCs pair the two: submit the pay application, and once payment clears, collect a matching lien waiver from every sub who got paid on that cycle. LienDone doesn't generate or read AIA pay-application forms; it isn't a G702/G703 tool. What it does is the waiver side of that same cycle: send a tokenized signing link, collect the signed statutory waiver, and keep the audit trail so payment and lien release stay in sync.
G702 vs G703 at a glance
| AIA G702 | AIA G703 | |
|---|---|---|
| Full name | Application and Certificate for Payment | Continuation Sheet |
| What it shows | Contract sum, retainage, prior payments, current amount due | Line-item breakdown of the schedule of values behind that total |
| Format | One-page summary | Itemized, can run several pages on larger jobs |
| Used for | The number the architect certifies and the owner pays against | Backing up that number, and tracking completed vs. stored materials by line item |
Where the waiver side fits
AIA G702/G703 FAQ
The American Institute of Architects, the organization that publishes G702, G703, and the broader family of standard construction contract documents used across U.S. commercial and institutional projects.
Pay app submitted. Waiver still needs to happen.
LienDone doesn't touch your G702/G703 workflow. It picks up right after: send the matching lien waiver, get it signed in two minutes, keep the audit trail next to the payment it covers.
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