California lien processes / schedule

Well I've been away for awhile as the wife and I decided where to head next and we ended up making our way out to California. Sadly this company isn't on sitelink yet.. New year = woohoo time for me due to the coming change to sitelink for all their sites which I came on board to assist them with. This is our first time in California and I know the lien process is pretty different versus most other states with the pre-liens and all. The site we took over has no real structure as it's been more of a mom and pop style company so unfortunately no official forms that we're use to with checklists to go off of and what not. I was curious if any of you California veterans may have a step by step lien check/to-do list that you go off of you'd mind sharing?