Undocumented scope changes are the single biggest source of profit leakage on remodeling projects. Every experienced contractor has eaten a cabinet upgrade, a countertop change, or an extra tile pattern because it never got written down and signed. MY LAURA's change orders are designed to eliminate that leak — signed, timestamped, and applied directly to the next invoice.
A real change order with scope, pricing, signature capture, and its own record in your system — not a sticky note on a paper invoice.
Check the line items you want, apply them to an existing invoice, and they flow in with a link back to the signed change order.
Digital signature with timestamp and IP address. When a client disputes something six months later, you have the signed document.
The change order problem has two halves: the documentation problem, and the billing problem. Most tools solve one and leave the other broken. MY LAURA solves both.
When a client asks for an upgrade mid-project, you open the MY LAURA project, click New Change Order, and add the line items. Upgraded cabinet hardware, $400. Extra accent tile row, $280. Scope note describing exactly what's changing and why. Hit Send.
The client opens it in their portal. They see the scope, the price, and a signature pad. They sign. MY LAURA timestamps the signature and moves the change order to "Approved" status. The signed PDF lands in your inbox automatically.
You have an approved change order. You have an existing invoice for the project. How do you get one into the other? On most platforms, you re-type it. On MY LAURA, you open the invoice, click "Apply Change Order", check the line items you want to include, and they're added automatically — with full traceability back to the signed source document.
A client calls and says they don't remember agreeing to the $2,400 in change orders on their final invoice. Without an audit trail, it becomes a negotiation. With MY LAURA, you pull up the change orders, show the signed digital documents with timestamps, and the conversation is over in 30 seconds.
When change order line items flow into an invoice, they sync to QuickBooks with the same traceability. Your bookkeeper can see exactly what came from the original estimate and what was added via change order. Clean books, no mystery line items.
The existence of a real change order workflow changes how clients ask for things. When they know "can you add X?" means "sign a change order for X," they ask fewer frivolous questions and commit to the changes they actually want. The feature pays for the software on its first real change order.
Change Orders is included in MY LAURA at $199/month. Unlimited everything. 30-day free trial, no credit card.