Paying international marketing contractors has traditionally meant navigating wire transfer fees, currency conversion headaches, compliance paperwork, and payment delays that frustrate both you and your contractors.
Rise eliminates all of it.
Rise is a global payroll, onboarding, and compliance platform that lets companies pay contractors worldwide in local currencies, stablecoins like USDC and USDT, or other crypto, all from one dashboard.
Key Takeaways
- Rise pays international marketing contractors in 90+ local currencies and 100+ crypto assets
- Contractors choose their own payout method (fiat, stablecoins, or crypto) every withdrawal cycle
- Onboarding is self-service: you send an invite, contractors complete everything else
- Rise automates tax forms, compliance agreements, and KYC verification
The Problem With Traditional International Contractor Payments
Marketing teams increasingly rely on international talent: content writers in the Philippines, paid media specialists in Eastern Europe, designers in Latin America, SEO consultants across Asia.
The work is borderless and the payment infrastructure hasn't caught up.
Traditional payment methods create unnecessary friction:
- Bank wires cost $25-50 per transfer, take 3-5 business days, and hide fees inside unfavorable exchange rates.
- PayPal and similar services shift compliance burdens onto contractors and take percentage cuts from every transaction.
- Manual invoicing creates administrative overhead, inconsistent documentation, and audit risk.
Contractor management becomes a full-time job.
For contractors in countries with currency volatility or limited banking infrastructure, these problems multiply. Payments get delayed. Fees stack up. Talented contractors start looking for clients who can pay them faster and more reliably.
Rise solves this by handling global contractor payments, compliance, and onboarding from a single platform, with the flexibility to pay in fiat, crypto, or both.
How to Pay International Marketing Contractors in 2026
Rise simplifies international contractor payments into a straightforward workflow.
Here's exactly how it works:
Step 1: Invite Your Contractor
You do one thing: send your contractor an email invite through Rise. That's it.
Rise handles everything else from there.
Your contractor receives the invitation and completes their own onboarding. They accept the invite, complete KYC verification, fill in their personal information, add their banking details or crypto wallets, and select their payout preferences.
Rise automates compliance agreements and tax documentation automatically.
Rise never requires you to enter contractor banking info, crypto addresses, or personal details. Contractors control their own information.
Step 2: Fund Your Payroll
Rise gives you flexibility in how you fund payments. You can fund payroll via USD bank transfer or directly from a crypto wallet using stablecoins (USDC or USDT).
For Web3 companies, DAOs, or startups with crypto treasuries, this means running payroll without converting to fiat first.
Rise handles any necessary fiat-to-crypto or crypto-to-fiat conversion automatically behind the scenes.
Step 3: Schedule and Approve Payments
Set payment schedules that match how you work with contractors: daily, weekly, biweekly, monthly, per milestone, hourly, or one-off payments.
Review invoices or scheduled payments in your dashboard and approve them with a click.
- Rise supports instant mass payouts, so you can pay your entire international marketing team in one batch rather than processing payments individually.
Step 4: Contractors Choose How They Get Paid
This is critical: Contractors always choose their own payout currency. During each withdrawal cycle, they decide whether to receive funds in their local currency, USDC, USDT, or other supported cryptocurrencies. They can even split payments across multiple methods.
Rise supports 90+ local currencies and 100+ crypto assets. Contractors in countries with unstable banking systems can withdraw in stablecoins. Contractors who prefer traditional banking get paid in their local currency.
The choice is theirs, every single time.
What Rise Handles Automatically
Rise isn't just a payment tool. Rise automates the compliance and administrative work that typically bogs down international contractor relationships.
- Compliant Agreements: Rise generates compliant contractor agreements automatically based on your contractor's location.
- KYC/AML Verification: Contractors complete identity verification during onboarding. Rise handles this through contractor self-service, you never touch it.
- Tax Documentation: Rise automatically manages tax forms including W-8BEN for non-US contractors and local equivalents where required. No manual chasing. No spreadsheets.
- Misclassification Protection: Through Rise's Agent of Record (AOR) service, Rise becomes the legal contracting entity, protecting you from misclassification risk and labor laws violations across 190+ contractor markets.
Security and Compliance
Rise takes security seriously. Rise is SOC 2 certified and GDPR compliant.
All accounts are protected with multi-factor authentication and high-level encryption.
Rise is a legally registered Money Service Business with FinCEN, maintaining full regulatory compliance for global payment operations.
When you pay contractors through Rise, you're using infrastructure built to meet financial regulatory standards.
Supported Chains and Wallets
For teams operating in Web3 or paying contractors who prefer crypto, Rise supports multi-chain payroll:
- Ethereum
- Polygon
- Arbitrum
- Optimism
- Avalanche
Rise integrates with major digital wallets including MetaMask, Coinbase Wallet, Gnosis Safe, and MyEtherWallet.
Smart-contract automation supports Web3 teams running payroll directly from their treasury.
Conclusion
Paying international marketing contractors doesn't need to be complicated.
Rise handles global payments, compliance, and onboarding from one platform, so you can focus on scaling your marketing team, not chasing wire transfers and tax forms.
Book a demo with Rise today and see how fast you can pay your first international contractor.
FAQs:
1. How do I pay an international marketing contractor?
Send your contractor an invite through Rise. They complete onboarding and KYC themselves. You fund payroll via bank transfer or crypto wallet, approve payments, and Rise handles the rest, including compliance and tax documentation.
2. What currencies can I pay international contractors in?
Rise supports 90+ local currencies and 100+ crypto assets including USDC and USDT. Contractors choose their preferred payout currency each withdrawal cycle.
3. How long does it take to pay international contractors with Rise?
Rise supports instant mass payouts. Once you approve payments, contractors receive funds based on their chosen withdrawal method. No 3-5 day bank wire delays.
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