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For prime contractors on public work

The week ends
every Friday.
Collect it.

Every subcontractor on a federally funded job owes you a certified payroll, every week. You carry the liability for what they send. Friday File collects it, checks it against the wage determination, and tells you what to fix before it is filed.

Start collectingHow it works

Subcontractors never create an account. You send a link; they fill in one form.

Every week

The obligation

55 min

Department of Labor estimate to complete one WH-347

DOL, Form WH-347

15 forms

A prime with 15 subs produces and collects this many, weekly

15 × 55 min ≈ 14 hours a week

Weekly

Not a preference — a statutory cadence

40 U.S.C. § 3145 · 29 CFR 5.5(a)(3)(ii)

And the liability is yours: a subcontractor's defective report is the prime's noncompliance.

How it works

Three steps, one week

  1. 01

    Open the week

    Pick the project. Friday File issues one request per active subcontractor and sets the cutoff from your own policy — Friday 17:00 UTC by default.

  2. 02

    They submit without an account

    Each sub gets a link. They confirm the week, attach the payroll they already produced, enter their workers, and certify. The required rates for the project are on the same screen, so most errors never happen.

  3. 03

    You file a checked week

    Every report is validated against the wage determination. Blockers stop the file; warnings are for your judgement. You see who is outstanding, chase them in one click, and file with a record of any gap.

The rule most tools get wrong

A scanned signature
is not a signature

“Legally valid electronic signatures are acceptable… includes an electronic method of verifying the signer's identity. Note: Photocopies or scanned copies of signatures do not satisfy this requirement.”

DOL, Instructions for Form WH-347 — Statement of Compliance

Almost every certified payroll that arrives as a PDF has a pasted signature image on it. That is a defect, not a formality. Friday File flags it, and the form a subcontractor fills in records an attested signature instead — so the rule stops being a problem rather than being caught late.

Built for

Prime contractors, 20–200 employees

  • You subcontract on federal, state or infrastructure work
  • You collect payroll from subs weekly, or you know you should
  • Someone in your office already owns this, and it takes them hours
  • You have been asked for a certified payroll file and had to reconstruct one

Not built for

Payroll processing, and not for subs

  • Running payroll or paying anyone — keep your provider
  • General contractors with one or two subs on a single job
  • Private commercial work with no wage determination
  • Projects outside the United States