Deel x Paysend: Card payouts that reach contractors faster

About client

Deel is the people platform built to help companies hire, manage, pay, and equip anyone, anywhere. Trusted by 40,000+ customers, Deel supports payroll, HR, benefits, and device management across 150+ countries.

Paying workers at that scale means payout coverage has to reach every market where Deel's customers hire. To extend card payouts across international corridors, Deel integrated with Paysend.

This case study details how Deel connected to the Paysend Enterprise API to simplify cross-border card payouts, extend coverage into high-growth corridors, and grow payout volumes year over year.

The challenge:

Category scale without network complexity

Managing global payroll across diverse international markets frequently collides with legacy banking friction, multi-day delays, and fragmented payout options.

For Deel, growth meant expanding payout coverage into high-volume and hard-to-reach corridors without adding operational or technical debt.

Building and maintaining regional payment connections in-house would have required market-by-market integrations, navigating localized compliance frameworks, individual vendor contracts, and custom engineering specifications across every continent.

Deel owns its payroll and payout infrastructure. Extending that infrastructure to card rails meant working with one card network partner rather than building card connections market by market.

The solution:

One API connection, 150+ countries

Deel integrated the Paysend Enterprise API, consolidating its cross-border payout infrastructure into a single connection point. Rather than managing a web of regional payout providers or scheme connections, one integration gives Deel direct access to a unified network, combining global card schemes with high-performing local card networks and regional debit systems.

This approach delivers direct-to-card precisely where card rails outperform traditional cross-border bank transfers.

By replacing market-by-market vendor fragmentation with a single entry point, the integration removed significant engineering overhead while enabling faster payouts across key regions, including direct card payouts in the United States.

Built-in, real-time tracking provides granular status visibility and clear transaction reporting, giving Deel the precision needed to verify payment statuses instantly and reduce operational support overhead.

Business impact:

Payout volumes up 50% year over year

• Deel integrated and achieved immediate operational capability, absorbing contractor payout volumes across target jurisdictions from day one.
• Paysend has supported Deel’s growth, with card payout volumes rising more than 50% year over year.
• One card network partner replaced multi-vendor overhead, improving processing costs and routing efficiency across 150+ countries.

The partnership now goes beyond the integration itself. Joint engineering teams continuously monitor corridor performance—optimizing straight-through processing rates, investigating localized failure modes, and refining delivery speeds.

Looking ahead:

infrastructure built for control

As Deel’s global footprint expands, the partnership focuses on unlocking further capital efficiencies across the network.

Future initiatives center on expanding settlement capabilities into high-growth corridors where card adoption is high, improving liquidity and capital efficiency for Deel’s payout operations. Paysend and Deel will continue to expand card payout coverage together.

Coverage is what got us started in 2022. Sustained payment success is what has kept card payouts a method we're comfortable recommending to contractors four years later, at a considerably larger scale

Deel Team