Patent ID: 7925584

Claim:
A method of managing a construction payment process involving a plurality of participants associated with a construction project, the method comprising: defining, using a computer, a plurality of required documents that must be transferred between at least two participants of the plurality of participants during the course of the construction project, wherein the plurality of participants includes a first participant, a second participant, and a third participant; displaying on a participant device a list of the plurality of required documents that must be provided by the first participant to the third participant; receiving, from the second participant through the participant device, a selection of one of the plurality of required documents; receiving, from the second participant through the participant device, a selection of an enforcement action from a list of enforcement actions, wherein the list of enforcement actions includes a withhold payment action; assigning, by the computer the selected enforcement action to the selected document; monitoring, by the computer, a status of the selected document; and automatically effecting, by the computer, the enforcement action if the selected document is not provided by the first participant to the second participant through the computer, wherein, when the selected enforcement action includes the withhold payment action, automatically effecting the enforcement action includes withholding a payment from the third participant to the first participant.