The engineer’s view of a shared job
- Visibility. You often can’t see whether the client has paid the stage your work was part of.
- Inspections. Site inspections during construction are easy to forget when the design invoice was the only one quoted.
- Certification. In some places, such as the Northern Territory, certifying engineers are a registered category, and their certification stage deserves its own line.
What you are planned to get, free
- An invitation from the designer to confirm your fee on their job.
- A consultant portal (planned) showing your lines, approvals and payment status.
- Your share paid straight to you by the payments provider, with a tax invoice in your name.
- Inspection visits added as their own stage or variation, approved by the client.
Workflow example: structural and civil on a sloping site
- Footing and retaining wall design (structural)
- A$2,200 at documentation stage
- Stormwater and driveway design (civil)
- A$1,540 at documentation stage
- Two site inspections
- A$660 at construction stage
- Your total across the job
- A$4,400
An example of how an engineer’s lines might appear on a designer’s schedule.
Your terms stay yours
DrafterShare doesn’t change your engagement terms or professional obligations; it records the fee and handles the payment. Everything described here is planned or in development: DrafterShare is pre-launch, and payments will run through a regulated payments provider once live. You can try the workflow now in the live demo with sample data.