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Milestone Payment Budget calculator.

Track an entered advance and staged payment shares separately from retained amounts.

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Use measurements from your plan and properties from your chosen product. Any prefilled values are illustrative.

Where to get this value

Enter your own allowance. Presets are input shortcuts, not a construction recommendation.

Where to get this value

Enter your own allowance. Presets are input shortcuts, not a construction recommendation.

Milestone 1
Where to get this value

Enter your own allowance. Presets are input shortcuts, not a construction recommendation.

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Formula and assumptions
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How this calculation works.

Progress shares are portions of the whole entered budget. Retention is applied only to entered progress payments, while unassigned budget remains visible.

Cash = advance + Σ(progress amount−entered retention)Calculated with normalised units

A worked example

Illustrative inputs only. Product properties and design dimensions are not recommendations for your project.

Entered agreed budget
1,000.00 USD
Entered advance percentage
10 %
Entered retained share of progress payments
5 %
Milestone 1
Entered share of total budget
30 %
Milestone 2
Entered share of total budget
40 %

Cash paid through entered milestones: 765.00 USD

Uses your agreed percentages only. No statutory retention, tax, legal payment entitlement or contract advice is inferred.

Before you purchase

Use dimensions from your plan and properties from your chosen product. Any design spacing, section or fixing pattern must already be specified.

Progress shares are portions of the whole entered budget. Retention is applied only to entered progress payments, while unassigned budget remains visible.

Dimensions, quantities, prices, timing and product properties are supplied by you. This tool does not select construction specifications or assess structural, electrical or hydraulic suitability.

Method: dimensional arithmetic and user-supplied specifications. Software checks: 2026-10-04. Calculation and review policy.

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