Ask HN: What is the best way to pay users? We want to establish a mechanism to send payments to our users, many of whom are non-technical professionals and few of whom will have a stripe, payoneer or even a paypal account. What are our other options, if there are any?
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You can have cash gift cards codes for reaching a tier so you can send payments of $5 or $10 off the top of my head, but seeing a bunch of .03 cent transactions would just annoy me.
Jeeesus, they are. For no communicated reason. With no recourse, even when you talk with several people there.
uses both $USD and Crypto.
Only potentially bad? thing I see is the use of a proprietary wallet. It would be so much better from a consumer standpoint if they would all agree to a few standard wallets merely for ease of use and not having to having 20 or 30 different ones.
It will handle the onboarding of payees and also the disbursement of payments globally along a variety of payment rails. It has an open API.
Probably the best solution if the economics make sense.
Edit: for context, this is the tech that Twitch, Roblox, etc. use to pay their users. For this purpose it is easily the best solution on the market.
Disclaimer: I work at Tipalti.
Mind you, the tax implications of paying users may be considerable. I certainly know Amazon has to handle this for all its self-publishing authors; and even if you're not American you have to declare that annually to Amazon.com.
If you can be less vague it might help, such as amounts of payments or times you want to pay out.
I had some issues registering with AWS, and they called me and we sorted things out. It took more than a week to fully register, as opposed to Google's GCP where I didn't even need to think about it.