16K+
Freelancers on Abillio
40K+
Invoices sent
€25M+
Paid out
170
Countries reached
What it is
Paying people you don't employ is a compliance job, not just a payment.
The Abillio Partner API lets a platform onboard freelancers, contractors and creators, issue invoices in their name, report their income to tax authorities and pay them out, all through one integration.
Abillio acts as the contractor of record through its own legal entities, so the people you pay don't need a company, and your team doesn't become their tax office.
What the API handles
Who it's for
Built for platforms that pay people they don't employ
Whether you call them freelancers, contractors, creators or independents, if your product pays them across borders, this is the layer underneath.
Marketplaces
Pay the sellers and makers on your marketplace without collecting tax paperwork from each of them.
Creator & influencer platforms
Pay UGC creators, clippers and influencers compliantly, including those who never registered a business.
Agencies & production studios
Run project fees for dozens of contractors through one flow instead of one bank transfer each.
Staffing & talent networks
Place developers and specialists anywhere and pay them without opening an entity in their country.
Travel & experience platforms
Pay local guides and hosts across borders, even students and part-timers with no company.
Translation & localization
Pay translators worldwide in one batch, without per-country withholding headaches.
How it works
From invite to payout in five steps
This is what your integration does each time you pay someone. Abillio carries the compliance work in every step.
01
Invite
Your platform sends the freelancer an invite link.
02
Verify
They pass an identity check and add a payout method.
03
Invoice
An invoice is issued in their name, through the API.
04
Pay
You pay by bank transfer or from your Abillio wallet.
05
Payout
Abillio pays them out and you track every status.
Your next steps
From first call to launch
Here is how an integration usually runs. We stay with your developers the whole way.
- 1
Create your PRO account
Get API keys for the staging and production environments.
- 2
Join our Slack channel
Your developers get a direct line to our tech team.
- 3
Build and test
Run the full flow in staging with test freelancers.
- 4
Go live
Switch to production and pay your first real users.
- 5
Launch
Finalize the integration and roll it out to everyone.
API versions
API v1 is live. API v2 is on its way.
v1 runs in production today. v2 is Abillio rebuilt from the ground up, with hosted onboarding, invoicing your own clients, new payout methods and a richer developer toolkit. It is documented as a preview and not yet open for integrations.
Important: API v1 will be switched off when API v2 launches.
The two versions are not compatible. v2 is a complete rebuild, so an integration built on v1 will need to be migrated to v2, not just adjusted. New payout methods will only be available on v2. We'll support every v1 partner through the migration.
Need to launch now
Build on API v1
It's live in production, but it will be switched off when v2 launches. Plan and budget for a migration to v2.
Can plan ahead
Design for API v2
Read the v2 preview now and start building the day it opens. You build once, with no migration later.
Case study
How Supply Family pays a global creator community through the API
Supply Family is a curated marketplace for design assets, founded in 2020 in Latvia, used by studios like Pentagram, Wolff Olins and Metalab. Its creators sell from Spain, Germany, France, the UK, the US, Australia and beyond.
Read the full case study →The problem
Collecting tax documents from every creator by hand caused delays and legal risk, and multi-currency payouts ate the founders' time.
What they did
Integrated Abillio through the API, automating creator onboarding, tax documentation and payments.
The result
- Founders freed from payment admin to focus on growth
- Lower legal and penalty risk from accurate tax documentation
- Creators no longer handle tax paperwork themselves
- Faster growth of the creator base and catalogue
Pricing that scales with your volume
A percentage of payout volume
The rate drops as your volume grows. We quote it against your real numbers.
- No setup cost
- Free PRO account and dashboard
- Staging environment and developer support
- Tax reporting included
- Fee billed to you or to the freelancer, your choice
