Patent ID: 8341078

Claim:
A construction payment management system for a construction project involving a plurality of participants associated with the construction project and a plurality of required documents to be provided by a first participant during a course of the construction project, the system comprising a processor and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the system to: define the plurality of required documents that must be provided by the first participant during the course of the construction project and stored to the memory of the construction payment management system; automatically assign a first enforcement action to a first document of the plurality of required documents; display a list of the plurality of required documents to a second participant on a screen; display a list of a plurality of enforcement actions to the second participant; receive, from the second participant, a selection of the first document from the list of the plurality of required documents; receive, from the second participant, a selection of a second enforcement action from the list of the plurality of enforcement actions, wherein the list of the plurality of enforcement actions includes a withhold payment action; assign the second enforcement action to the first document when the selection of the second enforcement action is received; monitor a status of the first document; automatically effect the first enforcement action when the first document is not provided by the first participant and when the selection of the second enforcement action has not been received; and automatically effect the second enforcement action when the first document is not provided by the first participant and when the selection of the second enforcement action has been received; wherein the first enforcement action and the second enforcement action are not automatically effected when the first document has been provided by the first participant.