Patent ID: 8306883

Claim:
A construction payment management system comprising: a software enabled user interface accessible by a first participant associated with a construction project and a payee associated with the construction project; a computer readable memory; and a processor configured to selectively operate in either a specified billing mode or a normal mode in response to an input received from the first participant, wherein operating in the specified billing mode includes receiving invoice details from the first party, generating an invoice based on the invoice details received from the first participant, displaying the invoice to the payee, requesting an approval or a rejection of the invoice from the payee, and initiating a payment to the payee after receiving the approval of the invoice from the payee, and wherein operating in the normal mode includes receiving invoice details from the payee, generating the invoice based on the invoice details received from the payee, displaying the invoice to the first participant, requesting an approval or a rejection of the invoice from the first participant, and initiating a payment to the payee after receiving the approval of the invoice from the first participant.