How it works
- 1. Enter the job dates. Pick the state, say who hired you, and type the first and last day you furnished labor or materials.
- 2. See your deadlines. The page shows each notice, lien, and lawsuit date, with the statute section it comes from. Add them to your phone calendar or save the job on this phone.
- 3. Get reminders. With the $29-a-month plan, Job Clock sends an email and a text, in English or Spanish, before the dates. Only a company that signs up and asks gets them.
The free dates and the $29 plan
The dates are free
- Deadline dates for 14 states (Florida, Texas, California, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Virginia, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Missouri, Arizona, and Maryland), each with its statute section
- A calendar file (.ics) for your phone calendar
- Save jobs on this phone and print a job card
- Papers Clock: your own license, insurance, bond, CE, OSHA card, and permit dates, with a calendar file
- Everything in English or Spanish
The paid plan adds reminders: $29 a month for one company
- An email and a text, in English or Spanish, before your deadlines. On Florida jobs: seven days before the mail-by date and fourteen days before the claim-of-lien date. In every other state, the reminders are for the dates on your job card.
- On a Florida job with a permit number, the reminder names that number and the county's public permit search page.
- Reminders for your Papers Clock dates are included for now.
- After you pay, reply to your Stripe receipt email or email david.dukes77102@gmail.com with your job details, and the reminders are set from that email. Texts go only to people who opt in.
- Cancel any time before the next monthly charge.
Not in either one: Job Clock does not mail notices, file liens, pull permits, collect debts, or give legal advice.
Why it matters: missing one of these deadlines can end your lien rights on that job, and a lien is one way to get paid when an invoice stays unpaid. Job Clock shows the dates and reminds you. It cannot promise that a lien will hold or that you will get paid.
What you get
- The dates are free. Type the job and the page shows the mail-by date, the serve-by date, and the claim-of-lien date. The same rules apply in all 67 Florida counties.
- You can put those dates on your phone calendar and save more than one job on this phone.
- $29 a month adds an email and a text, in English or Spanish, seven days before a mail-by date and fourteen days before a claim-of-lien date. Only a company that asks gets those messages.
- Job Clock does not mail the notice, file a claim, pull a permit, or give legal advice.
What you still do
- You mail the notice, if one is required, and you keep the certified-mail receipt.
- If the invoice is still unpaid, you record a claim of lien with the county clerk by the date on the card, and you serve the owner.
- The building permit comes from the county or city building department. The fee is on that office’s schedule.
- A lawyer files any lawsuit.
If someone asks you to sign a lien waiver, read it before you sign. A waiver can give up the right to get paid from the property. Job Clock does not write waivers.
What this is, in plain words
A lien is a legal claim on the property when a contractor is not paid. Florida gives that claim only if certain notices go out on time. The rules are in chapter 713 of the Florida Statutes, and they are the same in Miami-Dade as they are in Pinellas.
If the property owner hired the company directly, that company does not send a Notice to Owner. If another contractor hired them, they do. Certified mail within 40 days of the first day the company furnishes labor or materials counts as served on the day it is mailed. The last day to serve it is 45 days after that first day. A claim of lien has to be recorded within 90 days after the last day labor or materials are furnished, and served on the owner within 15 days of recording.
A Notice of Commencement is a different paper. The owner records it with the clerk of the county where the property sits, before the work starts, unless the owner’s whole contract is $2,500 or less. Building departments also use that paper before they will inspect. Those inspection dollar amounts are local. Pinellas publishes theirs. The other 66 counties do not all use Pinellas’s numbers, so this page does not pretend they do.
This is a calendar. It is not a law firm, and it does not file the papers. It does not pull a permit.
Florida calculator (all 67 counties)
Who this is for
An HVAC company, a plumber, an electrician, a roofer, or a supplier. They were hired to work on a house in Florida. They want the dates in one place so a missed letter does not wipe out the way they get paid if the invoice goes unpaid.
What someone pays for
The dates are free. The paid service is $29 a month for one company: an email and a text, in English or Spanish, seven days before a mail-by date, and again fourteen days before a claim-of-lien date. If a permit number is on the card, the reminder names that number and the county’s public search page. Only a person who asked for the reminder gets it.
You can cancel any time before the next monthly charge. Job Clock does not take card numbers on this page, does not file papers, does not pull permits, and does not give legal advice.
After you pay, reply to your Stripe receipt email, or email david.dukes77102@gmail.com, with the job address, the county, the first day of work, English or Spanish, the permit number if you have one, and any date already on a claim of lien, a Notice of Contest, or a Notice of Commencement. That is how the reminders get set. Use the same email to cancel.
Where the dates come from
- Fla. Stat. § 713.02 — who has lien rights, and the $2,500 direct-contract exemption
- Fla. Stat. § 713.06 — Notice to Owner, 45 days
- Fla. Stat. § 713.08 — claim of lien, 90 days, serve the owner within 15 days of recording
- Fla. Stat. § 713.13 — Notice of Commencement, recorded with the clerk before work starts
- Fla. Stat. § 713.18 — certified mail within 40 days counts on the mailing day
- Fla. Stat. § 713.22 — one year to file a lawsuit, or 60 days after a Notice of Contest
- Fla. Stat. § 713.132 — Notice of Termination, 30 days after recording
- Fla. Stat. § 713.23 — payment bond notices, 45 days, 90 days, and one year
- Fla. Stat. § 713.20 — lien waivers
- Florida Court Clerks — find the clerk for any county
- Open My Florida Business — each county’s building and permitting pages
- Pinellas County permit page — inspection rule for the county building department (unincorporated Pinellas, Belleair Beach, Belleair Shore, Indian Rocks Beach, Kenneth City, Oldsmar, and Safety Harbor)
Statute text checked October 15, 2026. A city inside a county often runs its own building department. The clerk is still the clerk of that county. Permit search links for Pinellas, Hillsborough, Pasco, and Hernando go to those counties’ public pages. Every other county starts at Open My Florida Business.