Kartikye Mittal

If you're still emailing W-9 forms, copying bank details into spreadsheets, and waiting days for ACH batches to clear, you're losing contractors to companies that pay instantly. The gap between verifying someone's identity and actually sending them money is where most onboarding processes fall

When your sellers cash out on Friday afternoon, they expect funds to arrive before dinner, not the following Wednesday. Legacy payout systems route everything through slow ACH transfers and charge extra fees for anything faster. Marketplace seller payments built on real-time rails like RTP, FedNow, UPI, and PIX deliver funds

You've built your payment acceptance on Stripe, so keeping payouts there seems logical until you calculate the 1% FX markup on every international transfer plus 1.5% for instant access. At 4,000 monthly payouts, those percentages eat more margin than a flat monthly fee with zero FX

You're weighing Dots versus Trolley because your current payout process isn't cutting it anymore. Maybe your contractors are asking why they can't get paid instantly, or you're expanding into regions where bank wires don't make sense. The real differences show

You're weighing Tipalti against Dots, and the gap is wider than it looks. Tipalti was designed for mid-market finance teams managing the full accounts payable cycle like invoice approvals, vendor onboarding, procurement workflows, and batch payment runs. Dots is a developer API built to embed payouts into your

Everyone knows Stripe for taking payments, but when you flip the direction and need to send money out, the platform shows its limits pretty fast. Your first hint comes when you try to pay someone outside the 46 countries Stripe supports, or when you want instant settlement to more than

Your best affiliates won't stick around if they're waiting five days for ACH transfers while competing networks deliver commission payments instantly. Besides speed, you also need coverage for PIX in Brazil, UPI in India, and SEPA across Europe, plus automated KYC collection and 1099 filing that

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