Patent ID: 8682789

Claim:
A real estate closing payment system for transferring funds of at least one closing party to at least one municipality, wherein the funds are associated with fees due with respect to a particular real estate property, comprising: a registration module configured to receive information corresponding to the at least one closing party and at least one funding source; a calculation module configured to calculate an amount of funds due to at least one municipality; a transfer module configured to transfer the amount of funds from at least one funding source of at least one closing party to the municipality; and a certification module configured to: receive images of documents corresponding to the particular real estate property, the images of documents including: an image of a title report corresponding to the particular real estate property; an image of documents that will be delivered to the at least one municipality corresponding to the particular real estate property; and an image of the particular real estate property; generate a certificate of payment, the certificate of payment displaying the received images of documents; determine a delivery designation for the generated certificate of payment; and deliver the certificate of payment to the designated delivery destination after the amount of funds is transferred from the at least one funding source of the at least one closing party to the municipality.