Manual payouts
Best for a few workers in one or two countries
- Setup
- Bank accounts or wallets per country, plus your own agreements
- Payout cost
- Per-transfer fees plus a currency markup
- Reporting
- Spreadsheets you maintain
Freelance developers, designers, data annotators and QA testers all expect to be paid fast, in their own currency. Gloroots Gig Pay runs your payouts across countries, with agreements and reports built in.
Gig operations is how a company onboards, contracts, pays and supports an on-demand workforce: freelance developers, designers, data annotators, QA testers and support agents. It covers agreements, payout schedules, currencies, earnings reports and worker classification. Gloroots Gig Pay runs recurring, multi-currency payouts in 150+ countries with agreements aligned to local labour law.
Why it gets complicated
Every country treats gig work differently. These slow companies down most.
A gig-worker agreement that follows each country's labour law and how gig work is classified there.
Talk to a Compliance ExpertRecurring, multi-currency payouts to workers in 150+ countries, each paid in their own currency on schedule.
Talk to a Payouts ExpertAutomated payout and earnings reports for every run, by worker and by country.
Talk to an ExpertLocal rules shape how gig work is classified and paid, from the EU's presumption of employment to India's social security contributions.
Talk to a Compliance ExpertOn-demand earned wages, prepaid expense cards and human support for payout questions.
Talk to an ExpertRate changes, rule updates and a clean offboarding when a worker or market winds down.
Talk to an ExpertGetting one of these wrong can delay payouts, cause worker disputes or lead to fines later.
How Gloroots helps
Gloroots runs recurring payouts for your gig workforce in 150+ countries, in each worker's local currency. You choose who works and what they earn. We handle the payout.
Recurring, multi-currency payouts reach workers in their own currency on the schedule you set, with no wires to chase.
Pricing is transparent with no hidden fees. Tell us your countries and volumes and we quote a custom price.
Workers can draw earned wages between pay cycles and spend with prepaid expense cards, which helps you keep them.
Known before you run payouts
+ Nigeria added, no new vendor
Gloroots runs recurring payouts and sends automated payout and earnings reports after every run.
Every new country runs on the same platform. No new payout vendor for each market.
Dedicated support answers payout-related queries from your workers, so your team does not have to.
Gig Pay vs. manual payouts
Gig Pay suits high-volume workforces across countries. Manual payouts suit a handful of workers in one or two countries.
Best for a few workers in one or two countries
Best for high-volume workforces across countries
If a worker acts like an employee, with fixed schedules, exclusivity or company tools, Gloroots can move them to a Contractor of Record or EOR arrangement.
Paying freelance developers, designers, data annotators or testers across countries? Tell us where your workers are and how often you pay them.
Talk to a Gig Pay ExpertGig operations is how a company onboards, contracts, pays and supports an on-demand workforce such as freelance developers, designers, data annotators, QA testers and support agents. It covers worker agreements, payout schedules, currencies, earnings reports and classification. Gloroots Gig Pay runs this across 150+ countries.
Companies usually pay international gig workers by bank wire, digital wallet, payout platform or marketplace. With Gloroots Gig Pay you run recurring, multi-currency payouts across 150+ countries from one platform, with each worker paid in their local currency and automated payout and earnings reports for every run.
Gloroots Gig Pay is a payout product for high-volume gig workforces. It includes recurring multi-currency payouts in 150+ countries, prepaid expense cards, on-demand access to earned wages between pay cycles, localized gig-worker agreements aligned with local labour law, automated payout and earnings reports, and dedicated support for payout queries.
Gig Pay uses custom pricing based on your countries and payout volume. Pricing is transparent with no hidden fees. For comparison, Gloroots contractor management is $29 per contractor per month, Contractor of Record is $99 and EOR starts at $199 per employee per month.
It depends on the country and on how the work is done. The EU Platform Work Directive creates a rebuttable presumption of employment for platform workers, with member states required to apply it from 2 December 2026. California applies the ABC test, and the US Department of Labor uses an economic-reality test. If a worker has fixed schedules, exclusivity or company tools, review the classification.
Earned wage access lets a worker draw part of the pay they have already earned before the next pay cycle. Gig Pay offers on-demand access to earned wages between pay cycles, so workers are not waiting for the next payout date.
Gloroots Gig Pay supports recurring multi-currency payouts across 150+ countries. You can add countries and workers at any time on the same platform instead of adding a new payout vendor for each market.
Move a worker when the relationship looks like employment, for example long-term, exclusive, on a fixed schedule or using company tools. Gloroots can engage them as a Contractor of Record ($99 per month) or employ them through its Employer of Record service (from $199 per month), so classification risk sits with Gloroots.