Payapps wins global recognition for construction software and customer impact

A Gold Stevie and three SaaS Awards highlight Payapps' role in helping contractors simplify progress claim submission, assessment and approval.

MELBOURNE, Australia, Aug. 31, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Australian-founded Payapps – An Autodesk Company has received four major international award wins across the 2026 Stevie Awards for Technology Excellence and 2026 SaaS Awards, recognising its construction software, market adoption and measurable customer impact across Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and Ireland.

Payapps won a Gold Stevie® Award for Company of the Year – Construction & Civil Engineering Technology, alongside three SaaS Awards:

• Best SaaS Product for Construction or Property Management
• Best SaaS Solution for Finance & FinTech
• Best SaaS Product for Workflow Automation

Payapps provides purpose-built progress claim software that helps main contractors and subcontractors standardise the submission, assessment and approval of progress claims, together with associated compliance and commercial workflows. The platform replaces fragmented spreadsheet and email-based processes with shared digital workflows and integrates with construction ERP and financial systems.

Recognition backed by adoption and customer impact

The award submissions represented Payapps' two operating markets — Australia and New Zealand, and the United Kingdom and Ireland — and drew on customer evidence from across both regions.

Payapps now supports more than 57,000 users, with more than AUD $35 billion in progress claims managed through the platform annually. In Australia, Payapps is used by 34 of the country's Top 50 builders.

"Over the last 10+ years, we've worked closely with the construction industry, keeping a clear focus on progress claims and listening closely to our customers. We've seen how managing progress claims through disjointed spreadsheets and emails adds avoidable risk to what is already a time-bound commercial process. When that process breaks down, the effects can flow through to cash flow and project delivery," said Misty Cronin, Head of Sales, Australia & New Zealand at Payapps.

"That's why this recognition matters. It validates the importance of making progress claim workflows more consistent and easier to manage, while also reflecting years of work from a team committed to standardising and simplifying this critical construction process."

Payapps customer success stories demonstrate how those improvements can translate into day-to-day construction operations. Buildcorp has used Payapps to standardise payment claim submission and improve visibility across its projects, while Sarah Constructions replaced fragmented spreadsheets with a single workflow spanning progress claims, compliance and Early Payment requests.

Early Payment enables eligible subcontractors to request earlier payment on approved claims within the existing Payapps workflow, while main contractors retain governance, visibility and commercial control.

Progress claim workflows at the centre of the recognition

The three SaaS Awards recognise Payapps across construction and property management, finance and FinTech, and workflow automation — different dimensions of the commercial processes surrounding construction progress claims.

Annabelle Whittall, COO of The Cloud Awards, said: "The SaaS Awards recognize products that solve genuine industry challenges while delivering measurable value for their users, and Payapps stands out as an exceptional example."

The Gold Stevie broadens that recognition to the company level, with Payapps named Company of the Year in the Construction & Civil Engineering Technology category.

Together, the awards provide independent recognition of an Australian-founded construction technology business that has grown across two international markets and is now part of Autodesk, while remaining focused on a specific industry challenge: making progress claim submission, assessment, approval and compliance simpler and more consistent.

About Payapps

Payapps, an Autodesk Company, is an award-winning cloud-based collaboration platform for the construction industry. It helps main contractors and subcontractors simplify and standardise progress claim submission, assessment and approval, including variations, retentions and compliance documentation.

By digitising these workflows, Payapps improves transparency, accuracy and collaboration while reducing administrative burden and financial risk. Payapps integrates with a wide range of construction ERP, project and financial management systems to provide greater visibility across project progress claim processes.