Kittl | Tipalti

It’s like having one extra person to handle the workload. At our scale, where we can grow tenfold, it would otherwise mean needing five more people. Tipalti saves us that requirement.

Christoph Drayss

Finance Manager, Kittl

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Kittl Overview

Industry

Affiliates and influencer networks

Company Size

100 – 1000

Current ERP

Quickbooks

Region

DE, Global

Tipalti Products Used

Mass Payments

Challenge

Manual payout processes were time-consuming and error-prone, hindering scalability.

Solution

Kittl implemented Tipalti Mass Payments to automate global payouts and streamline financial operations.

Results

Kittl automated over 300 payouts monthly and reduced payment processing times from one day a week to two hours.

The Challenge

Manual Payout Processes Hindered Growth

Kittl, an innovative design platform headquartered in Berlin, has experienced rapid growth since its founding in 2020, amassing over one million subscribers, many in the U.S. The company relied on manual processes to manage invoices and issue payments via bank wires and PayPal. This approach was time-consuming and prone to errors, making it challenging to efficiently pay over 300 designers and partners worldwide, each operating under different tax jurisdictions and payment methods.

We work with a lot of designers and partners around the world that get paid based on multiple metrics. They are often not into finance.

Christoph Drayss

Finance Manager, Kittl

The Solution

Automated Global Payouts With Tipalti Mass Payments

Kittl implemented Tipalti Mass Payments to streamline its global payout process, reduce manual effort, and ensure smooth, transparent, and timely payments to its network of designers. By automating finance operations with Tipalti, Kittl automated invoicing and payouts to over 300 designers and partners, significantly reducing the manual workload and data errors.

The designers needed to make perfect invoices themselves, which was an administrative burden. The payout amount was challenging for a lean team because we were paying through traditional ways only.

Christoph Drayss

Finance Manager, Kittl

The Result

Enhanced Efficiency and Scalability

With Tipalti Mass Payments, Kittl issued mass payouts to multiple countries in multiple payment methods, minimized errors and improved the accuracy of its financial data, created a centralized, reliable source of information for the finance team, and eliminated the need to process incoming invoices with Tipalti’s self-billing module. With Tipalti Mass Payment, Kittl has removed the burden of manual processes and can now scale operations without increasing headcount.

It’s like having one extra person to handle the workload. At our scale, where we can grow tenfold, it would otherwise mean needing five more people. Tipalti saves us that requirement.

Christoph Drayss

Finance Manager, Kittl