Paid by the city

MASTERWORD SERVICES INC

The city's published checkbook records $968,143 paid to MASTERWORD SERVICES INC across 391 payment lines, from FY2018 to FY2026.

Name as the city files it — often the legal name, not the trading name. The city's budget year runs July 1 to June 30, so FY2026 means July 2025 through June 2026.

By fiscal year

FY2018$63,892

FY2019$50,222

FY2020$65,780

FY2021$69,905

FY2022$63,315

FY2023$120,982

FY2024$171,841

FY2025$145,527

FY2026$216,679

A dash means no payment to this vendor appears in that year's file. The city publishes this a few times a year, so it runs behind — the newest payments can take a few months to appear, and a fiscal year that has just ended usually isn't published at all yet. Treat the most recent year as incomplete.

Which department paid

Municipal Courts Department$727,520

Dept of Neighborhoods (DON)$52,955

Citywide General Government$45,328

Housing and Community Devp.$40,254

Houston Health Department$35,284

Mayor's Office$34,412

Houston Airport System (HAS)$13,370

Business Opportunity$8,012

Houston Public Works - HPW$5,602

Planning & Development$2,120

City Council$1,088

Solid Waste Management$691

Library$465

Admn. & Regulatory Affairs$403

Parks & Recreation$330

Legal Department$309

How these purchases were made

PO Contract Release — $684,810

Vendor Invoice — $104,434

PO One-time — $78,431

PO Interlocal — $42,692

Service Rel. Order — $33,261

PO Emergency — $24,511

These are the purchasing routes the city recorded: 3% was bought under emergency procurement rules. The city publishes the route, not the reason for it.

Contracts billed under

4600018634 — $253,158

4600017219 — $167,234

4600018350 — $101,229

4600013020 — $76,305

4600017702 — $75,164

4600016009 — $50,694

4600016538 — $33,904

A contract number is the city's master agreement; individual purchases are released against it and don't each go back to council for a vote.

Where this comes from

Every figure on this page is summed from the City of Houston's published checkbook ↗, FY2018–FY2026. PlainDocket stores the totals; the individual payments stay on the city's portal, where you can filter them yourself.

These are payments, not a budget. The same ledger carries debt payments, bank and pension transfers and accounting reversals alongside what the city bought, so adding it all up doesn't describe city spending — which is why you won't find a citywide total here. What a named vendor or department was paid is solid.
This covers what the city paid — not what a council vote approved. A contract approved years ago can still be generating payments, and money approved recently may not have been paid yet.