Getting paid on time in split-fee deals

Payment friction is one of the most common complaints in traditional split-fee recruiting: an employer pays an invoice, but by the time the fee has been divided between multiple recruiters, a platform, and a withheld guarantee reserve, it can take weeks for each participant to see their share — if they see the correct share at all.

A reconciled payment flow starts with a single point of truth for the deal: the signed split agreement. When an employer is invoiced and pays, funds are collected once, the split percentages from the agreement are applied automatically, any guarantee reserve is withheld per the agreed schedule, and the remaining amounts move to each participant's account in the same transaction batch.

The result recruiters actually care about is predictability: knowing, before a deal even closes, roughly when a payout will land and how large it will be relative to the gross fee — because the split, platform fee, and reserve were all locked in before the first candidate was submitted.