Change request log
RegisterWhat somebody asked to change, why, who has to decide, and what they said — with the cost effect as you worked it out.
The changes that hurt are the free ones
A change with a price attached gets a process. A change that costs nothing — a swapped date, a different sequence, somebody else doing a task — gets agreed in a corridor and remembered three different ways in the fall. The amount here is optional so that the free ones get logged, because they are the ones nobody writes down.
It prices nothing and decides no entitlement
The cost effect is your figure. This tool has read no contract, knows no notice provision and makes no determination that anybody is owed time or money. What it produces is a dated record of what was asked and what was answered — which is the thing those arguments are actually built from.
Where it sits
Money asked for is a budget request, what is going wrong now is the issue log, and the reasoning behind a decision belongs in the decision log. On a construction job with a contract, a priced and signed change is a change order, which is a different document with different consequences.
A log of requests and decisions. CompliMaint prices nothing, adjusts no budget or schedule, and makes no determination about entitlement to time or money — it is not a contract administration tool and has read no contract. Everything runs on your device.
Questions people ask
- Does it price the change?
- No. The cost effect column takes a figure you worked out, and nothing here prices anything, adjusts a budget or applies a rate. Pricing a change depends on scope, sequence, rates and terms that this product has not seen — a number it produced would be used in an argument.
- Does it decide entitlement to time or money?
- No, and this is worth being clear about. Whether a change entitles anybody to additional time or cost turns on a contract, on notice provisions and on what actually happened — none of which this tool knows. It is not contract administration. What it gives you is the dated record any of those conversations would have to be built from.
- Can I log a change that costs nothing?
- Yes, and you should. The amount is optional precisely because a change with no cost still needs a decision — moving a date, swapping a specification, changing who does something. Those are the changes that get agreed in corridors and remembered differently six months later.
- How is this different from a budget request?
- A budget request asks for money. A change request asks to change what the project is doing, which may or may not cost anything. Different conversations, different approvers, and often different answers — which is why they are two registers.