Construction payment management system and method with automatic notification workflow features

A construction payment management system comprising an application server including a processor and a computer readable memory storing a plurality of notification workflows, each notification workflow defining a sequence of automatic electronic notifications that are transmitted from the application server to one or more participants in a construction project in response to one or more predetermined events, and storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the application server to:

• receive an input relating the construction project from a first participant,
• access one of the plurality of stored notification workflows based on the information received from the first participant,
• identify, based on the accessed notification workflow, a second participant associated with the construction project to receive a first notification,
• automatically transmit the first notification to the second participant, wherein the first notification includes a textual description of the input received from the first participant, a textual description of an action to be performed by the second participant as a next step in the accessed notification workflow, and a selectable link to an electronic form,
• receive a response related to the first notification from the second participant through the electronic form, the response including content related to the first notification,
• automatically process the content of the response, and
• automatically transmit a second notification to a third participant based on the accessed notification workflow in response to the response received from the second participant.