How Gig Economy Companies Scale Freelancer Payments

It used to take bandwidth and resources from our team. We were writing and mailing checks. Now that payments automation is built into our platform for partners, we are able to pay our partners faster, in their preferred method.
Nicole Smith
CEO at Flytographer
A payables process you’ll never think about again.
Automate the entire process for paying your network of global freelancers and contractors.
Reduce the friction of making your network payable.
A complete whitelabeled, self-service onboarding system that’s easy to implement and intelligent.
Pay anyone, anywhere.
Pay freelancers in 196 countries using 120 currencies, and across multiple payment methods in a matter of clicks.
Eliminate complex partner communications.
Proactively notify freelance partners about payment status and issues—reducing calls to your finance team.
Hear from our gig-economy customers
Why trust Tipalti with your freelancer payments?
Accelerate Network Growth
Go global with your freelancer base to achieve growth at scale. If you’re on a go-to-market and expansion track, Tipalti lets you leverage providers from all over the world.
Improve Partner Relationships
Offer the most flexible payment options (including US ACH, wire transfer, global ACH, PayPal, prepaid debit, or paper check) to attract and retain the best freelancers and contractors, while reducing the risk of paying fraudsters. They can also be paid in their local currency across 120 options.
Eliminate Manual Processes
Manual effort can lead to partner payment errors. Dramatically reduce payment workload by 80% with self-service onboarding, automated communications, and a unified payment processing interface. You’ll also reduce payment errors and potential fraud.
Effortless Tax Compliance
Don’t wait until year-end to hunt down partners for their tax forms. Collect W-9, W-8 series, or VAT ID forms and produce submission-ready 1099 and 1042-S reports.
We were spending seven days a month paying our contributors around the world. Now we only spend one day making those global payments.
Persha Valman
CFO at SeekingAlpha
How Gig Economy Companies Use Tipalti
- Partners provide identity, payment details, and tax information (e.g. W8, W9, VAT).
- Tipalti verifies payment details using over 26,000 rules.
- The portal provides updates on payment status and allows for self-service changes.
- Tipalti integrates with your ERP, performance tracking data, through the Tipalti API, or accepts a payment instruction file.
- Tipalti routes payments internally to secure approvals, making sure funds exist, and paying in the supplier’s chosen payment method (e.g. ACH, wire transfer, PayPal, etc.).
- No more logging into individual banking portals or reconciling payments from across multiple accounts.
- Tipalti sends the payments out through the proper banking channels.
- Tipalti alerts payees of payment status and reports any issues to them if funds don’t land.
- Payments and transaction fees are fully reported for reconciliation in real time.
Innovation and efficiency come built-in
Tipalti offers the most comprehensive payables technology to help your business streamline, simplify, and evolve.
Invoice Management
Ditch the busy work with touchless invoice processing with smart OCR. Advanced approvals with AI streamlines the approval process and minimizes delays.
Supplier Management
Effortlessly onboard vendors with a multilingual, self-service portal that’s brandable. Plus, give suppliers a real-time view of payment and invoice status.
PO Management
Manage spend all in one place. Streamline purchase requests, PO’s, approvals, and vendors with budget visibility to make informed decisions.
PO Matching
Eliminate overspending and strengthen financial controls with automated 2-way and 3-way matching and enjoy a frictionless approval cycle.
Global Payments
Send payments in 120 currencies in 196 countries through six unique payment methods.

Tipalti Card
Gain complete control and visibility over your corporate credit and debit card spend with a solution integrated into the most powerful global payables solution with automatic reconciliation.
Currency Management
Save time and money on FX conversion payouts with highly competitive exchange rates.
Multi-Entity
Manage unique payables workflows and centralize AP for subsidiaries and entities within a single instance.
Payment Reconciliation
Speed up financial close by 25%+ by synching and reconciling multi-entity payables data with ERP and Accounting systems.
Tax Compliance
Take the headaches out of collecting and validating IRS and VAT IDs. KPMG-approved for W-8/W-9 IRS requirements and generate 1099/1042-S tax prep reports.
Self-Billing Module
Simplify self-billing processes with automated invoice creation and submission while ensuring global regulatory compliance.
Financial Controls
Enterprise-grade financial controls: Fraud, tax, regulatory, audit, spend and cash flow.
ERP Integration
Best-in-class integration with your existing ERP and accounting systems and sync invoices, suppliers, payments and purchase orders.
Fraud Detection
Tipaliti Detect lets you proactively identify payee fraud risk and maintain a full audit trail.
Payments API
Integrate any system through our highly secure API that offers full-featured interfaces.
Secure Cloud
Rest assured that data is collected, stored, and transmitted securely in the cloud. Tipalti is SSAE 18 and ISAE 3402 SOC 1 Type II and, SOC 2 Type I certified, and GDPR Compliant.
Money Transmitter License
Get peace of mind for global transactions, more transparent controls and compliance review process by leveraging Tipalti’s banking and compliance rails.
Simplify Performance-to-Pay
Easily sync data from marketplace platforms and tie performance analytics to pay partners.
Artificial Intelligence/Tipalti Pi
Take advantage of proactive, smarter processes for the entire payables operation as well as greater efficiency and risk mitigation.

Let’s get more productive
Talk to an expert and learn how you can take control of your payables.