Free claim deadline checker · Black Creek Solutions

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Free to use, all of it. The online team version is coming, in a monthly plan.Free: Every date, the statutory timeline, the calendar file and the register row. Early access, in a plan, set up for your contract: its own periods and region, and every claim's dates in your shared project and claims register. Subcontractor plan: $49 a month, per business; Project plan: $99 a month per project, by contract value, plus GST if applicable. Early access: order now and we'll set up your project when the online team version opens. Order by email to hello@blackcreek.co.nz. There's no charge until your project is set up. Plans are billed monthly in advance: the invoice is dated the 1st and due on the 20th of the same month. Your monthly price is held for 12 months from your start date. Any rise after that comes with 30 days' notice. Cancel at the end of any month. Nothing here is locked. Build your project

Which side are you on? I sent the claim I received the claim

The claim

Date the claim was servedThe day the payer received it.

Payment schedule: the contract's period

How long the contract gives the payer to send a payment schedule. Leave blank if it doesn't say.

Payment: the contract's period

Days after the claim is served. If the contract sets a date instead (say, the 20th of the next month), that date is the due date.

Where the work is (for the anniversary day)The province's anniversary day isn't a working day. Choose the one your area observes.

Any other non-working day (optional)For example, a different local anniversary day.

Job name, for your calendar and register (optional)

Claim number (optional)

Enter the date the claim was served to see the dates.

Saves a calendar file (.ics) on your device, with a reminder 2 working days before each date.

The statutory timeline, for your programme or register

The chain of dates the Act sets once the claim is served, for planners and cost controllers. Paste the CSV into P6, MS Project or Excel (ID, Name, Start, Finish), or add every date to a calendar.

Enter the date the claim was served to see the timeline.

The register row has the same columns as the free claims register (Excel). Adjudication isn't on the timeline: it starts only if a party refers a dispute.

Is your claim complete?

Tick what your claim has. Section 20 of the Act sets out what a payment claim must contain and what must go with it.

Want us to check it?

Sending a claim: Check before you send $195, or Unpaid claim pack $295. Answering one: Schedule Check $195. All plus GST if applicable, invoiced after delivery, due on the 20th of the following month.

Get Paid Check Received a claim?

Where the rules come from (checked 1 Nov 2026)

Payment schedule due: Construction Contracts Act 2002, s22(b): the time in the contract or, if it doesn't say, 20 working days after the claim is served.
Payment due: s14 (the parties may agree the due date) and s18 (if they haven't, 20 working days after the claim is served).
Notice of intention to suspend work: s23(2)(b) and s24(2)(b), once the amount isn't paid in full on or before the due date; the notice must state its grounds and that it's given under the Act (s23(3), s24(3)). The right to suspend arises if the amount isn't paid within 5 working days after the date of the notice: s24A(1).
Working days: s5, "working day": not a weekend, Waitangi Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, Anzac Day, the Sovereign's birthday, Matariki Observance Day, Labour Day, or the province's anniversary day; and, for ss 18, 22 and 24A (among others), not 24 December to 5 January. Waitangi Day and Anzac Day on a weekend move to the Monday.
Claim contents: s20(2); Form 1: s20(3) and (4), and the Construction Contracts Regulations 2003, Schedule 1, Form 1.
Matariki dates: Te Kāhui o Matariki Public Holiday Act 2022, Schedule 1. Anniversary days: Employment New Zealand, "Public holidays and anniversary dates". Dates from 2025 to 2035.
All Acts read on legislation.govt.nz (Construction Contracts Act version as at 5 October 2023, the latest). Calendar days are counted as calendar days; a contract can define its own working days, so check yours.