Free payment claim builder · Black Creek Solutions

Built on your device. Information, not legal advice.The claim is made in your browser: nothing you type is sent anywhere or stored, and there are no cookies. You check it, sign it and serve it yourself.

Free to use, all of it. The online team version is coming, in a monthly plan.Free: A payment claim with Form 1 attached, as Word and PDF, checked against section 20. Early access, in a plan, set up for you: your business details, the contract and your claim lines in your shared project, ready for each month's claim. 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

The parties

Your business name (the claimant)

Your address and contact (optional)

Who the claim is to (the payer)

The contract and the work

The contractEnough to identify it: the job and the parties.

Contract or order number (optional)

The work this claim is for

Period from

The amount and the dates

Claim number (optional)

Date of claim

Amount claimed, excluding GST ($)

I'm registered for GST: add GST at 15%Leave unticked if you're not registered.

How you calculated the amount

Date you'll serve itUsually the date of the claim. The dates below are worked out from it.

Province, for its anniversary day

Due date for paymentWorked out here with the deadline checker's own code: 20 working days after the claim is served (s18), unless your contract sets another date. Change it if yours does.

Payment schedule due by (optional)Shown on the claim if you add it.

Include: "This is a payment claim made under the Construction Contracts Act 2002."Ticked for you: s20(2)(f) says a payment claim must state that it's made under the Act. Untick it only if you know why.

Form 1, "Information that must accompany all payment claims", is attached word for word after the claim. The register row matches the free claims register (Excel).

Want it checked before you send it?

Get Paid Check: Check before you send, $195 (plus GST if applicable). Invoiced after delivery, due on the 20th of the month after the invoice.

Get Paid Check $195

Where the rules come from (checked 1 Nov 2026)

What a payment claim must contain: Construction Contracts Act 2002, s20(2)(a) to (f). What must go with it: s20(3) and (4), and Form 1 in Schedule 1 of the Construction Contracts Regulations 2003. Both read on legislation.govt.nz.
Due date: s14 (agreed in the contract) or s18 (20 working days after the claim is served).
building.govt.nz, "Other Construction Contracts Act 2002 requirements": "You must include a notice (Form 1) with all payment claims you make."