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What are Real-Time Payments?

Discover the ins and outs of real-time payments and how they revolutionize financial transactions. Stay updated with the latest in instant payments.

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What is Know Your Business (KYB) and Its Relation to KYC?

The Ultimate Guide to Know Your Business (KYB) and How it Relates to Know Your Customer (KYC) We live in an increasingly globalized world where companies like yours can provide service, receive payments, send payouts, and more to consumers and corporate clients domestically and worldwide. While that's undoubtedly

How Payouts APIs Improve the Freelance Creative Experience

Discover the transformative impact of Payouts APIs on freelance creatives, streamlining payments and enhancing the overall work experience.

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Supporting Your Growing Business With a Payouts API

Need to simplify and scale payouts to support growth? Discover how integrating a payouts API can automate vendor, employee, and customer payments securely.

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Boosting Efficiency with Payouts API for Vacation Rentals & Property Owners

Elevate your vacation rental business! Explore the benefits of Payouts API - faster, secure transactions for property owners. Streamline success now!

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Payouts API vs. Traditional Payment Methods

What is the Advantage of Using a Payouts API vs Traditional Payment Methods? Businesses in every industry handle countless transactions every month. Regardless of your company's size, your accounts payable needs are likely substantial. Mass payouts can be a nightmare, whether you're sending payouts to local

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How to Avoid Payout Failures

Avoiding Payout Failures: A Comprehensive Guide to Optimizing Payouts If your business is responsible for sending payouts en masse, ensuring every payment goes smoothly is important. Whether you're sending funds to gig workers, marketplace sellers, or contractors in another country, reliable payment systems can help you avoid chaos

5 Best Practices for Global Contractor Payment Compliance

Learn best practices for ensuring compliance when paying global contractors, from tax laws to payment methods and record-keeping.

What to Know About Compensation in the Construction Industry

How do you attract top workers? Understand construction compensation, including hourly, project-based pay, and efficient global payouts keep you competitive.

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Changelog - Aug 26

Need cleaner accounting? Our latest changelog adds Quickbooks classes support and User IP tracking for better fraud protection. Read on to discover more.

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Changelog - Aug 9

What's new with the Dots Payouts API? The new changelog includes CSV idempotency keys to avoid double payouts, new app compliance features, and tax table fixes.

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What to Know About Gig Worker Classification

Navigating Gig Worker Classification: A Guide for Businesses An Overview Classifying gig workers accurately is essential for businesses. This guide provides insights into the factors influencing gig worker classification, the implications for both businesses and workers, and best practices for ensuring compliance. Check local, state, and federal laws for the

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The Role of Payouts APIs in Transforming Class Action Settlements

How Payouts APIs are Changing the Class Action Landscape Class action lawsuits are notoriously challenging. Not only do they often take years to litigate, but they're also more complex due to the number of plaintiffs involved. Lead plaintiffs represent an entire group of affected individuals, called class members.

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What to Know About Compensation in the Construction Industry

How can you simplify paying your crew? Learn how a payouts API handles construction industry compensation efficiently and securely. Read on to know more.

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Best Practices for Integrating Payouts APIs into Mobile Apps

How to Integrate Payouts API with Mobile Apps Managing payouts for potentially thousands of mobile application users can be expensive and time-intensive. Improving operational workflows and establishing a more efficient way of sending mass payments is key to reducing costs and improving the bottom line. However, companies that operate marketplace

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RTP vs FedNow: What's the Difference?

The Difference Between RTP and FedNow The rise of gig work and side hustles has paved the way to brand-new ways people can earn money, but it's also highlighted a glaring shortcoming in how people receive money: Lengthy payment processing times. As more and more people explore nontraditional

Case Studies

Connecting the Dots: Groovetime

Groovetime uses the Dots API to push payments to creators who choreograph for dance challenge campaigns sponsored by record labels and artists.

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What to Know About the IRS Common Law Employee Test

Do you work with independent contractors? Navigate the IRS Common Law Employee Test, understand the key factors, and avoid misclassification penalties.

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What is the Difference Between a Contingent Worker and Contractor?

Are you working with freelancers and contract employees? Learn their differences and discover how you can pay them efficiently through global payouts.

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Supporting Your Growing Business With a Payouts API

How to Support Your Business Payouts API Supporting your business with a Payouts API can be a transformative step towards efficiency, scalability, and enhanced customer satisfaction. In this comprehensive guide, we will explore the nuances of leveraging a Payouts API and how to select the right payouts API provider. Get

Payment Processing

What is a Merchant Account?

The Ultimate Guide to Merchant Accounts Navigating the complex world of financial transactions in the business landscape requires a fundamental understanding of merchant accounts. As a business owner, having a reliable and secure means to accept payments is paramount to success. In this comprehensive guide, we'll explore the

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Strategies for Reducing Credit Card Processing Costs

Are you paying too much on credit card fees? Reduce credit card processing costs and reallocate financial resources in growing your business. Here’s how.

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How to Ensure Your Credit Card Processing is Secure

How can you secure credit card processing? Our guide shares how you can leverage tokenization, implement PCI DSS compliance, and more. Read on to know more.

How to Automate Your Accounting Process

Tired of slow, manual accounting tasks? Learn how to automate your accounting process for enhanced efficiency, real-time reporting, and better data accuracy.

The Risks of Manual Payouts and Why Automation is the Solution

Is your business exposed to risks from manual payments? Find out why automated payouts are the best way to secure your finances and boost efficiency.