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Reconcile Milestone Holdbacks with Later Releases, Not Just Gross Earnings

Earned gross is not always immediately receivable cash. Track what each milestone withholds and what later rows release, with a balance that cannot release money before it was retained.

1 · Milestone code | earned gross dollars | released prior retention dollars

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Perspective: Before: gross milestone earnings looked like available cash. After: new withholding, prior releases and the remaining retained balance have separate roles in one reconcilable ledger.

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Before using the holdback-release ledger

This ledger rehearses a supplied retention convention for freelance milestones; it does not interpret a contract or decide whether withholding is lawful. Both gross earned and released prior retention are already-agreed inputs, expressed in dollars with at most two decimals. The setting applies the same retention percentage to every milestone, rounded half-up once to cents on that milestone. Releases can only draw from the balance entering the row; new withholding becomes available for a future row. The model starts at zero, excludes tax, disputes, deductions, deposits and payment timing, and reports modeled receivable amounts rather than cash actually received.

Boundary and sources

Declared local method: First verify that the release does not exceed the retained balance entering the row. Calculate new withholding as gross cents times the exact entered percentage, rounded half-up to cents. Modeled receivable equals gross minus new withholding plus the prior release. Ending retention equals prior balance minus release plus new withholding. The row working shows each component; the headline is the final balance, not the sum of all intermediate balances.
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Manual entry completes this holdback-release ledger for free without signup. If available to you, the free AI Studio interface linked in the sources may format fictional or non-sensitive notes; external access may require an account. No API key or AI call is built into this tool. Free-tier content may be used to improve products. Review each cell and transcribe it to the labeled row schema; do not paste the JSON object into the row box.

Format only these fictional or non-sensitive notes for a holdback-release ledger. Return strict JSON shaped as {"rows": [{"label": "string", "cells": ["string", "string"]}], "setting": "string"}. The columns are Milestone code | earned gross dollars | released prior retention dollars; the setting is Retention withheld from each milestone (%). Keep all supplied strings and quantities exactly; do not calculate, infer missing entries, invent dates or add advice. If any required value is missing, return an empty rows array and ask me for it separately. I will verify every cell against my source and manually transcribe rows using vertical bars before running the local calculator.

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