Interested in using Plane to pay your international contractors and employees? You can sign up here or fill out this demo form, and we'll be in touch with you!

The verification process can take 3-5 business days, depending on whether we need more details from you.

Please follow the steps here.

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Please go to the People > Access tab to add a new Admin or manager. Please find more details here.

Please go to the People > Team tab to access the team member's profile. Click on the Employment tab, click the pencil icon beside Manager, choose the manager from the drop-down list, and save. Please find more details here.

Please review this article for the ownership transfer process. If the account owner is no longer at the company, please contact Support for assistance.

Please contact Support with the following details:

Please reach out to Support for this request. All changes need to be made before the payroll cutoff, which is shared in this article. If the payroll cutoff is missed, we can pay additional incentives in the next payroll cycle.

We’re required to pay employees in their local currency. We always recommend discussing any additional bonuses or salary increases with employees in local currency. You can use this calculator to see the estimated local currency value.

Benefit options vary according to the law in different countries. Please find the list of benefit options here. You can also find more details here.

We’ve partnered with provider SafetyWing for contractor benefit options. Please contact Support for more details.

First, offboard the employee by following the steps here. Once done, please re-add your team member as a contractor by following the steps here. If you need additional help, please contact Support.

We can assist you with bulk invitations by providing a CSV import template that your company completes with your global contractors' information. If you wish to bulk-invite many global contractors to your company, get in touch with us at support@plane.com.

If you no longer work with a contractor, you can terminate them and their contract by following the steps here.

For all offboarding, including resignations, please follow the steps here.

After approving a payment request, you'll need to pick a payment date and schedule the payment. On the Pay contractors tab, click the amount requested next to the global contractor's name and schedule the payment from there. The payment request will automatically be marked as done after you authorize the payment.

Check out this article for more information about scheduling a payment.

Yes! Click here to learn how to set up multi-step payment approvals.

A "Pay schedule" is a set of instructions that informs us of the frequency in which you would like your contractors or employees to be paid. A "Payroll" is a list of contractor or employee payments that have been created from a pay schedule.

Please see this article for more details.

If a payment has not been processed yet, you'll be able to cancel it from the platform. Check out this article for more information about canceling a scheduled payment.

Please see this article for more information about reviewing an expense report.

Regular earnings for employees and contractors on the payroll are automatically reduced when their unpaid time-off requests are approved. You can find more details on this here.

Since it is supposed to mean "per pay period," when the wage type is set to "Other," and a global contractor is added to the payroll, they are paid the full amount each pay period. Payrolls are prorated only when the start date is after the start of the pay period.

You can change the wage type from the global contractor's profile to what works best for you. If you prefer to keep "Other" as the wage type, you'll need to ensure the amount paid for each period is correct.

When the wage/compensation type is set to "Hourly," and a contractor is added to a payroll, you need to add their amount manually based on the number of hours they worked in a given pay period. This option will be available once the draft payroll is created. You can find more information in the How to use Unified Payroll article.

Yes. Plane generates and fills in 1099-NEC forms for you. Please find more here.

An existing contract that has been signed cannot be edited. However, you can create a new agreement. Please review this article on how to create a new contract.

If you use a Plane generated contract, you can add information about equity under the "Special clause" section.

Check out this article to learn how to edit the compensation for global contractors and edit their contracts to reflect the new compensation.

If you set the wage type as "Other," the compensation details will be excluded from the contract. We recommend using another wage type.

Please follow these steps here. If you need additional help, please contact Support.

Pilot Platform Inc (Plane) provides the product and service by helping you manage payroll, human resources, and statutory requirements. Plane has its own entities and partners that serve as the EOR/legal employer where the employee is legally hired in another country. Plane and our partner do not manage the performance of the employees since we do not monitor or work directly with them.

Currently, payment methods such as credit cards, debit cards, and checks are not supported.

This process can take up to 4 business days.

Not at all! You're only charged for active contractors (i.e., people to whom you send at least one payment in a given month).

If we’re ever unable to draw funds from your account, we can use the security deposit to ensure we can make the payment in a timely manner. You can learn more here.

No, we are unable to withhold additional taxes for employees. We recommend that the employee contacts a tax expert in their country of work for guidance on how to manage stock-related taxes.

Yes! With most stock option plans, you can issue equity to your international team members just like you would to your US team members. As long as someone has a service relationship with the company they’d be eligible to receive stock grants like any other international employee. Someone being a global contractor satisfies that test too.

The main difference is that you’d issue NSOs, not ISOs.

Non-qualified stock options (NSOs) are a type of stock option that does not qualify for favourable tax treatment for the employee. Unlike with incentive stock options (ISOs), where you don't pay taxes upon exercise, with NSOs you pay taxes both when you exercise the option (purchase shares) and sell those shares.

Plane doesn't handle the actual issuance of equity. This must be handled by a law firm.