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Remaining Tax Compliant When Employing 1099 Workers

Remaining Tax Compliant When Employing 1099 Workers

If you’re a business that employs freelancers and independent contractors, it’s essential to stay tax compliant. Improperly classifying employees or failing to file the correct tax documents can lead to hefty fines and penalties. To stay compliant, you need to understand your obligations as an employer and ensure

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Kartikye Mittal Oct 11, 2023 • 6 min read
How Your E-commerce Business Can Benefit From Multiple Payment Options

How Your E-commerce Business Can Benefit From Multiple Payment Options

If you’re an e-commerce business, it makes sense to make the checkout process as simple and seamless as possible for your customers. This means making the process intuitive, but it also means offering multiple payment gateways. Online businesses can benefit from multiple payment options in numerous ways. Whether you

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Kartikye Mittal Oct 3, 2023 • 7 min read
An Online Business Owner’s Guide to Different Payment Methods - Dots

An Online Business Owner’s Guide to Different Payment Methods

There are more digital payment methods available to consumers than ever. If you’re an online business owner, it benefits you to offer multiple payment methods to your customers. It gives them more flexibility and options with how they pay, creating less friction in the checkout process. Less friction means

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Kartikye Mittal Sep 28, 2023 • 9 min read
How to Protect Your E-commerce Business From Online Fraud - Dots

How to Protect Your E-commerce Business From Online Fraud

Online fraud is a major challenge for e-commerce businesses. It can cost you money and put your customers’ sensitive data at risk. E-commerce businesses owners need to be proactive to prevent online frauds and take the necessary precautions to protect their customers. In this blog, we’ll be diving into

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Kartikye Mittal Sep 25, 2023 • 9 min read
The Ultimate Guide to E-commerce Payment Processing - Dots

The Ultimate Guide to E-commerce Payment Processing

E-commerce business owners can increase sales and conversions with a streamlined and versatile payment process. If you’re looking to improve your payment processes for your business, this guide can help. In this ultimate guide to e-commerce payment processing, we’ll give you all the information you need to improve

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Kartikye Mittal Sep 19, 2023 • 7 min read
Steps for Onboarding a 1099 Contractor - Dots

Steps for Onboarding a 1099 Contractor

Are you a business that needs to onboard 1099 contractors? This can be a tricky process, but it doesn’t have to be that way. In this blog, we’ll provide you with a step-by-step guide on how to successfully onboard 1099 contractors as efficiently and effectively as possible. Onboarding

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Kartikye Mittal Sep 14, 2023 • 7 min read
What is an IBAN and How Do They Work? - Dots

What is an International Bank Account Number and How Do They Work?

If you’ve transferred money internationally, you may have heard of IBANs. IBANs, or International Bank Account Numbers, are used worldwide for international and sometimes domestic transactions. But what exactly are these numbers and how do they work? In this post, we’ll be discussing everything you need to know

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Kartikye Mittal Sep 12, 2023 • 7 min read
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Connecting the Dots: TeachMe.To

With Dots, processing payments is 2 to 3 times quicker than with Stripe. This task used to take half of a day when I was using Stripe, and now it normally takes about an hour each day. It’s a meaningful change for us to reclaim that bandwidth. Zach Schmid,

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Kartikye Mittal Sep 5, 2023 • 4 min read
The Digitalization of Global Payments - Dots

The Shift Towards Digital Global Payments

The world has drastically shifted toward digital payments over the last decades. As the years have passed, digital payment technology has only become more flexible, secure, and cost-effective. This shift has made it much easier for businesses of all sizes to go global, accepting payments from all around the world

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Kartikye Mittal Aug 16, 2023 • 4 min read
Everything E-commerce Business Owners Need to Know About Form 1099-MISC - Dots

Everything E-commerce Business Owners Need to Know About Form 1099-MISC

If you’re an e-commerce business owner, you need to know about Form 1099-MISC. More importantly, you also need to be aware of the differences between 1099-MISC and 1099-NEC. While you may have used 1099-MISC in the past for certain payouts, you’ll likely need to file 1099-NEC forms instead

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Kartikye Mittal Aug 7, 2023 • 8 min read
How to Distribute eSports Prize Payments - Dots

How to Distribute eSports Prize Payments

Organizing a video game tournament is already a time-consuming and resource-intensive task. There are anti-cheat measures to consider, roster management, and much more. But perhaps one of the most difficult factors to manage is distributing eSports prize payments. Handling entry fees and payouts for entrants is an essential part of

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Kartikye Mittal Jul 31, 2023 • 5 min read
How to Automatically Pay International Contractors - Dots

Ways to Pay International Employees and Foreign Contractors With an API

Thanks to the internet, it’s easier than ever to broaden your business horizons and operate on a more global scale. The days of being limited to independent contractors and freelancers in your area are over. Collaborators with the specific skills and unique perspectives you want are only a few

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Kartikye Mittal Jul 27, 2023 • 9 min read
Open vs Closed Loop Payments - Dots

What is the Difference Between Closed and Open Loop Payments?

Business owners must consider what payment systems they accept or use during the course of regular business. One consideration that sometimes goes unaddressed is the difference between closed and open-loop payment systems. The distinction seems fairly straightforward, but there are nuances to consider for each. In this blog post, we&

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Kartikye Mittal Jun 21, 2023 • 6 min read
Ways to Quickly Pay Your Contractors - Dots

How to Easily Pay Your Freelancers and Independent Contractors

Business owners need to pay freelancers and independent contractors differently than they pay their employees. Creating a separate process for paying non-employees can be a hassle, especially if you work with a lot of contractors. Fortunately, it doesn’t have to be complicated. Dots provides a hassle-free and frictionless way

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Kartikye Mittal Jun 12, 2023 • 8 min read
What to Know About Staying Compliant With 1099 Workers - Dots

Compliance for Independent Contractors and 1099 Workers: What to Know

Independent contractors and freelancers can be a useful source of work for employers. They can help your business pick up the slack in certain areas or they can bring unique expertise without having to create a new department. Of course, it’s important to remain compliant when your business utilizes

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Kartikye Mittal May 16, 2023 • 4 min read
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Connecting the Dots: Collabstr

Starting out, our biggest limitation was what we were previously using–Stripe Connect. We kept running into roadblock after roadblock. Initially, it was fine, as we were just using it for basic use cases, but once we needed more flexibility, that's when we were banging our heads against

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Kartikye Mittal Mar 29, 2023 • 5 min read
What Does the INFORM Consumer Act Mean for Marketplaces? - Dots

What Marketplaces Need to Know About the INFORM Consumer Act

What is the INFORM Consumer Act? The INFORM Consumer Act, which stands for Integrity, Notification, and Fairness in Online Retail Marketplaces for Consumers, was passed December 29, 2022 as an addendum to the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 bill. This new act applies to online marketplaces defined as any business

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Kartikye Mittal Mar 23, 2023 • 5 min read
How to Streamline Your Payment Infrastructure - Dots

Tips for Streamlining Your Payment Processes

Every business can benefit from streamlining its payment infrastructure. However, restructuring your payment processes and workflows can be difficult and time-consuming. But it doesn’t have to be that way. With the Dots API, you can make your payment processes more efficient and save time while also making sure your

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Kartikye Mittal Mar 20, 2023 • 4 min read
How the Dots Digital Wallet Works - Dots

How the Dots Digital Wallet Works

One of the best ways to streamline your payout ecosystem is with a digital wallet. Instead of transferring money to a payee’s bank account, you can send their funds directly to their digital wallet on your platform. This keeps funds in your system until users’ funds reach a certain

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Kartikye Mittal Mar 9, 2023 • 2 min read
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Connecting the Dots: Forward Forestry

Since implementing Dots, just about everything–time, speed, user interface–is better. At every turn, we were disappointed with Stripe’s performance, especially regarding speed. It was so slow for us that mailing a physical paper check to the customer was faster than the time it took for them to

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Kartikye Mittal Feb 27, 2023 • 4 min read
What is a W-8BEN Form?

What Is Form W-8BEN?

A Brief Overview Many employers have international workforces, allowing them to get skilled employees from around the globe. Not only does this open up the talent pool, but it can also help you enter new markets and grow your business. W-8BEN Forms are a critical part of hiring foreign employees

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Kartikye Mittal Feb 14, 2023 • 5 min read
How Do ACH Payments Work?

What Are ACH Transactions And How Do They Work?

An Overview Banking is much faster and more efficient in the modern era. Rather than dealing with cash transactions or transactions through checks and cards, you can now transfer money electronically through ACH, also known as the Automated Clearing House The ACH network has been in operation for decades now,

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Kartikye Mittal Feb 14, 2023 • 6 min read
What is the Difference Between Wire Transfers and ACH Payments?

ACH Payments vs Wire Transfers: What’s the Difference?

An Overview Technology has made it much easier for individuals and businesses to exchange funds. Sending money online is more convenient and affordable than ever, with various methods to do so. Some of the most common methods are ACH payments and wire transfers. While the two methods seem similar, they

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Kartikye Mittal Feb 14, 2023 • 7 min read
How to Monetize Your Online Marketplace - Dots
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Monetization Strategies For Your Online Marketplace

Implementing a Good Strategy Online marketplaces are a multibillion-dollar industry, with many businesses getting their piece of the pie. However, to get the biggest share possible you need to have the right monetization strategy in place. The question is, which monetization strategy should you use? The common strategies all have

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Kartikye Mittal Feb 7, 2023 • 10 min read
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Connecting The Dots: Vantage Sports

The biggest value for us has been organization and time. We've really been able to streamline the service and easily manage our high frequency of low volume transactions. We have a lot of coaches, who are our contractors and used Venmo to pay them out previously, which was

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Kartikye Mittal Feb 2, 2023 • 4 min read
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