Pay influencers and creators compliantly. Anywhere in the world.

StrideHQ is the influencer payment platform for UK talent agencies and brands. Onboard influencers and creators, generate compliant contracts, and process creator payments in 60+ countries, all from one dashboard.

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60+
Pay-in countries
Minutes
Onboarded → invoice-ready
100%
Audit trail
stridehq.ai/payouts/run
5 of 5 clearing
Run total
£0
Creators
5
Currencies
3
Audit ID
0xA4F1·26
ID
Creator
Status
Amount
State
STR-1042
🇬🇧 A. Okafor
Outside IR35
£4,800
STR-1043
🇸🇪 M. Lindqvist
Self-billing
€12,500
STR-1044
🇯🇵 R. Tanaka
Self-billing
¥920,000
processing
STR-1045
🇬🇧 D. Mensah
Outside IR35
£3,200
queued
STR-1046
🇬🇧 S. Patel
Inside IR35
£5,400
queued
SHA-256 verified · DAC7 export ready auto-reconciles to Xero
Built into every influencer and creator payment
IR35 SDS
DAC7 EXPORT
W-8BEN / W-9
UK & EU DATA RESIDENCY
SHA-256 AUDIT TRAIL
XERO & QUICKBOOKS
The problem

Your finance team is reconciling influencer payments in spreadsheets.

There's a better way to pay creators online.

PROBLEM 01

Hours per creator onboarded

Tax forms, KYC, contracts, banking details. Each influencer burns hours of admin before they're invoice-ready.

creator_001.pdfW-8 missing!
creator_002.pdfUTR pending!
creator_003.pdfBank ✓—
creator_004.pdfDOB invalid!
PROBLEM 02

Multi-currency reconciliation chaos

Paying influencers across the UK, US, EU, and AU means juggling banks, FX, and reconciliation across systems.

£GBP
€EUR
$USD
¥JPY
PROBLEM 03

No defensible audit trail

When HMRC asks how you classified an influencer engagement, your answer is buried across email, DocuSign, and spreadsheets.

email slack docusign sheets drive notion
Pay-in countries · local rails · multi-currency creator payouts
🇬🇧 UK Faster Payments 🇪🇺 SEPA Instant 🇺🇸 ACH · Same-day 🌐 SWIFT · 60+ countries 🇦🇺 NPP / PayID 🇨🇦 Interac e-Transfer 🇯🇵 Zengin 🇧🇷 PIX · Real-time 🇮🇳 IMPS · UPI 🇸🇬 FAST 🇲🇽 SPEI 🇿🇦 RTC
Influencer payment platform

Onboard, contract, and pay creators - in one platform.

Everything your influencer marketing payments run needs, from the first onboarding link to the reconciled payout.

Onboard creator Step 2 of 4
Legal name
Adaeze Okafor
Tax residency
United Kingdom · UTR verified
Bank · UK Faster Payments
04-29-09 · 8814
🇸🇪 Lindqvist €12,500
🇯🇵 Tanaka ¥920k
🇺🇸 Reyes $8,400
🇧🇷 Souza R$22k
Audit · STR-1042 SHA-256 verified
14:02creator.onboardeda4f1·26
14:08ir35.classified · Outsideb2d9·71
14:09contract.generatedc81e·44
14:21contract.signed · 2 partiesd9a3·17
15:00payout.sent · £4,800e740·92
DAC7-ready export 5 events · sealed
How it works

How to pay influencers, in 4 steps.

One workflow from creator request to creator paid. Compliance attached at every step.

Step 01
+

Add creator

Send an influencer the onboarding link. KYC and tax forms collected automatically.

Step 02
§

Generate contract

Select template, set deliverables and rate, send for e-signature.

Step 03
✓

Approve invoice

Creator submits invoice against contract. One-click approval from your team.

Step 04
£

Pay creator

Funds hit the creator's bank in their local currency. Reconciled to your books.

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Who it's for

Built for the teams managing influencer spend at scale.

For Agencies

Onboard your influencer roster in minutes. Bill clients in one click.

Stop juggling W-8s, Wise transfers, and a spreadsheet of who-paid-whom. Run finance and ops for hundreds of creators across dozens of clients from one ledger, with self-billing invoices generated for every talent transaction.

See it for agencies
For Brands

Procurement-grade compliance. Without slowing campaigns.

One approved vendor instead of six-week onboarding per influencer. Hash-signed audit trail, IR35 and DAC7 ready, every creator payment tied to a PO.

See it for brands
Compliance, built in

Every influencer engagement
is a compliance event.

UK, EU, US - we map your creator roster to the right rails, the right tax forms, the right paper trail.

01 UK · Off-payroll

IR35 classification

Status determined per engagement using HMRC-aligned criteria. SDS generated automatically and stored against the contract.

02 EU · DAC7

DAC7 reporting

Creator earnings, jurisdictions, and tax IDs collected at onboarding. One-click export in the format your accountant needs.

03 US · 1099 / W-8BEN

Cross-border creator tax

W-8BEN / W-9 collected, retained, and renewed. Tax treaty rates applied at payment time, not reconciliation time.

Paying creators across multiple countries used to be a nightmare. StrideHQ handles it all from one dashboard.
MH
Maddie Hall
Co-founder & Talent Manager, The Coup Management
Common questions

What teams ask before they switch.

How do brands pay influencers without setting each one up as a vendor?+
You onboard StrideHQ once. Every influencer or creator you work with after that is onboarded, contracted, and paid through that single relationship, so finance never raises a new vendor record for a one-off post. The influencer self-onboards through a link, and you can pay them as soon as KYC and tax details clear.
How does the IR35 classification actually work?+
Each engagement is scored against HMRC's status indicators - control, substitution, mutuality of obligation, and others. The platform produces a Status Determination Statement (SDS) per engagement, attached to the contract and audit trail. If a status changes, you re-run it; the history is preserved.
Can you handle influencer marketing payments in multiple currencies?+
Yes. We pay creators in 60+ countries on local rails including UK Faster Payments, SEPA Instant, ACH, PIX, UPI, and Zengin. Payouts are made in the creator's local currency and reconciled back to the originating contract and engagement, so multi-currency creator payments do not turn into a month-end spreadsheet exercise.
What about data security?+
Data is encrypted in transit (TLS 1.2+) and at rest (AES-256), with UK and EU data residency. Access is granted on a least-privilege basis with MFA enforced.
Which accounting systems do you integrate with?+
Native sync with Xero, QuickBooks, and many others. Single sign-on via Okta, Google Workspace, and Azure AD.
How is StrideHQ priced?+
Book a demo to find out more.
How long does implementation take?+
Most teams are live in under two weeks. Onboarding includes legal-entity setup, contract templates, integration mapping, and a kickoff with your finance lead. We migrate your existing roster from CSV - no manual re-entry.
Get started

Stop running influencer payments
in spreadsheets.

Book a 15-minute demo and see how StrideHQ works for your team.