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Repairs, make-goods and turnovers for agents, landlords and strata: the job is funded into a regulated trust account before you attend, and releases on sign-off. Stop carrying someone else’s payment terms.
No credit card. No lock-in. Funds held by a licensed Australian trustee.
Property maintenance lives on volume and thin margins — and often on the long payment terms agents and strata managers impose. You do the work now and get paid on their cycle.
Real estate and strata offices often pay on 30–60 day cycles. Escrow flips it: the job is funded before you attend, so you’re not floating their terms out of your own pocket.
A dozen small invoices across a dozen properties is a lot to track and chase. Pre-funded jobs release on sign-off — the admin of chasing largely disappears.
Make-goods and repairs invite “that wasn’t finished” push-back. Milestone evidence — before/after photos, timestamps, sign-off — settles it, and the funds are already set aside while it’s resolved.
The fix
Your customer funds each stage into a regulated Australian trust account (Zai Pty Ltd, AFSL 461841) before you pick up a tool. You do the work, capture the evidence, and the money releases the moment the stage is signed off — typically 1–2 business days via NPP. That’s the difference between getting paid faster and getting paid, full stop.
Each stage is funded before it starts and releases on sign-off. Here’s how a typical job breaks down.
Scope & fund
Agreed scope across repairs, patching and make-goods; job funded.
Repairs & make-good
Multi-trade repairs, patching and fixture replacement completed.
Clean & sign-off
Final tidy, before/after evidence and agent or landlord sign-off.
Trustee-held escrow
Zai Pty Ltd · AFSL 461841
7-day payouts
After milestone sign-off
Dispute cover
Funds already set aside
No lock-in
Month-to-month, cancel anytime
Yes. Property maintenance is exactly the high-volume, thin-margin work where chasing lots of small invoices hurts. Each job is funded before you attend and releases on sign-off, so the admin of chasing largely disappears — even on smaller jobs.
Whoever is paying — agent, landlord or strata manager — funds the job into the regulated trust account before you attend. That means you’re no longer carrying their 30–60 day payment terms out of your own cash flow.
Milestone completion captures photos with timestamps and sign-off. For make-goods and turnovers that contemporaneous before/after record is exactly what settles a “that wasn’t finished” dispute — and the funds sit ring-fenced while any issue is resolved.
Stagex Professional is $59/mo. The first $30,000 funded into escrow per job is fee-free; above that a flat 1.6% escrow fee applies only to the amount over $30,000. No lock-in.
Bring one staged job through Stagex this week and see what guaranteed, chase-free payment feels like.
Stage by stage. Always paid.