Pay-App Requirements for Skanska USA Subcontractors

Skanska USA is a top-5 commercial GC in the US with substantial practice across building construction, civil infrastructure, transportation, healthcare, and commercial buildings. They bill subcontractors through Textura Payment Management and impose some of the strictest authorized-signer and T&M-ticket rules in the industry.

If you bill Skanska monthly, this page covers what their billing team requires, why their authorized-signer rule is the dominant rejection cause, and the per-transaction Textura cost most subs underestimate.

Portal & submission

• Portal: Textura Payment Management (Oracle product). Skanska

is one of the largest Textura customers.

• Per-transaction fee: Textura charges subs a per-transaction

fee for waiver and pay-app submissions. Typical range: $5–$15 per transaction. A sub with 30 active Skanska jobs absorbs $150–$450/month in Textura fees alone.

• Cutoff: typically end-of-month with weekly-aggregated

billing on certain projects.

• Pay cycle: 30 days from clean submission.

Lien waiver form

Skanska uses state-statutory waiver forms across most projects, with Skanska-preferred forms on federal work and certain owner- specific projects.

• California work: strict CA Civil Code §8132 / §8134 / §8136

/ §8138 form usage. Even minor language deviations invalidate the waiver.

• Federal work: Skanska-preferred forms with SAM.gov

reference numbers and federal contract IDs.

• Lien waiver summary sheet: Skanska requires a top-sheet

summary listing all waivers attached to the packet, signer name, waiver type, down-to date, and amount per waiver. Most subs assemble waivers in a folder and skip the summary sheet, which Skanska's intake team uses for fast review.

Authorized signer rule (Exhibit C)

This is the dominant rejection cause on Skanska packets.

Skanska's subcontract Exhibit C lists the authorized signers for that subcontract — typically a corporate officer, CFO, or designated signer. Waivers signed by anyone not on Exhibit C are rejected.

Common failure pattern:

• Sub assigns waiver e-sign to the project manager or estimator

for convenience.

• Skanska's risk team validates the waiver signer against the

Exhibit C roster on file.

• Signer not on the roster = hard reject.

California Civil Code §8132(b) reinforces this: even outside of Skanska's contract terms, CA law requires waivers signed by someone with authority to release lien rights on behalf of the claimant entity. Estimator titles typically don't qualify.

Fix: maintain an authorized-signer roster per GC. Route waiver e-sign requests to the right person. If your roster is out of date with what Skanska has on file, request the current roster from Skanska's regional risk contact and reconcile.

SOV and change-order reconciliation

Standard Textura validation. G703 column F sum must equal G702 contract sum (line 1 + executed COs). Skanska's tolerance is moderate — looser than DPR but tighter than some — and the reconciliation pattern is the same as on Procore-based packets.

Time-and-materials (T&M) tickets

Skanska is strict on T&M daily sign-offs.

For any T&M scope billed in the period, the sub must produce daily T&M tickets signed by the Skanska superintendent on the day the work was performed. Reconstructed weekly summary tickets do not satisfy this.

Common failure pattern:

• Sub performs T&M work over the week.
• Sub aggregates labor and materials into a Friday weekly

summary ticket.

• Skanska superintendent signs the weekly summary.
• Skanska's billing team validates against the daily ticket

requirement, rejects the T&M portion of the packet.

Fix: issue a T&M ticket for every T&M day, get the field signature same-day. SubCash's OS subscription includes a T&M ticket workflow that prompts the field crew to digital-sign each day.

Stored materials

Standard Textura requirements: vendor invoice, off-site insurance rider, photographs. Skanska is less strict than Holder or DPR on the bill-of-sale requirement but still asks for documentation sufficient to confirm title transfer where the subcontract calls for it.

Certified payroll (public works)

Skanska runs heavy public-works exposure on civil and transportation work. Davis-Bacon WH-347 weekly on federal jobs; Textura's CPR module accepts the upload. State equivalents (CA DIR, etc.) on state jobs.

Top rejection causes on Skanska packets

In SubCash's rejection taxonomy:

1. R010 — Waiver signed by party without binding authority (top — Exhibit C

roster mismatch).

1. R020 — T&M billing without daily superintendent sign-off (hardest to fix

retroactively because the field opportunity is past).

1. R008 — Waiver does not use state's statutory form on California work (non-statutory

§8132 deviations).

1. R021 — Certificate of Insurance expired before or during pay period mid-cycle.

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FAQ

Q: What portal does Skanska USA use for pay apps? A: Textura Payment Management (Oracle). Skanska is one of the largest Textura customers. Subs are charged a per-transaction fee ($5–$15 per submission).

Q: Why does Skanska reject waivers signed by my project manager? A: Skanska's subcontract Exhibit C lists authorized signers per subcontract — typically a corporate officer or designated signer. PM and estimator titles are usually not on the Exhibit C roster. California Civil Code §8132(b) reinforces this with a statutory requirement that the signer have authority to release lien rights.

Q: Can I aggregate T&M work into a weekly ticket on Skanska projects? A: No. Skanska requires daily T&M tickets signed by the superintendent on the day the work was performed. Weekly aggregated tickets get rejected even if the superintendent signs them retroactively.

Q: Does Skanska charge me to use Textura? A: Yes. Textura charges subs a per-transaction fee for waiver and pay-app submissions ($5–$15 per transaction). On 30 active Skanska jobs this adds up to $150–$450/month in direct fees. SubCash OS doesn't charge per-transaction — the $499/mo flat subscription covers unlimited submissions across all GCs.

Q: How does SubCash help with Skanska-specific packet prep? A: SubCash detects Skanska as the GC, applies the Exhibit C authorized-signer roster (you maintain it once; we route every waiver e-sign to the correct person), enforces daily T&M ticket workflow with field-crew sign-off, and reconciles SOV/CO math before submission. The free Pay-App Checker shows the rule hits; the $499/mo SubCash OS subscription prevents them every cycle on every active Skanska job.