Building a talented team that drives your vision forward is a top priority for any startup founder. However, managing payments, compliance, and equity for employees and independent contractors can be complex and time-consuming, especially if your team is distributed globally.
As an all-in-one HR platform for global teams, Deel’s comprehensive suite of tools and services simplifies payroll management for startups, ensuring compliance with local regulations and helping you attract and retain top talent.
Here’s how Deel can help you streamline how you pay your startup team.
Create and manage compliance documentation
Navigating local labor laws, tax regulations, and employment contracts can be daunting. With Deel, you gain access to global compliance experts who stay updated with ever-changing employment laws, tax requirements, and payroll regulations.
This support can help companies avoid costly penalties and legal issues stemming from non-compliance that can hinder your startup’s growth. In the US, repercussions of non-compliance include repayment of back wages, lawsuits, fines, and imprisonment.
On the Deel platform, you can:
- Create, send, and sign contracts that are localized to the laws of your worker’s country and undergo quarterly reviews
- Automatically collect tax documents, permits, and required documentation for new hires
- Keep a clean audit trail for contracts, payments, and compliance documentation
Make competitive compensation offers in different countries
Compensation comprises a worker’s wages, monetary benefits, and non-monetary benefits. By presenting competitive compensation offers, you position your startup as an employer of choice, attracting skilled professionals who can contribute to your company’s growth and success.
Compensation expectations vary by country, but with Deel’s compensation tools, you can structure every employee’s pay and benefits packages to align with market rates, minimum wage requirements, and industry standards.
Set your salaries
With Deel’s Global Salary Insights Tool, you can access up-to-date market benchmarks to make fair and compelling compensation offers. Select the role, country, and seniority level to see the low, median, and high base salaries. You can filter your results by pay period (annual salary or monthly salary) and currency for more information.
Determine the correct employee benefits packages
Deel’s Benefits Tool assists startup founders in determining the appropriate statutory, common, and competitive benefits for their workers. The tool considers location, job role, and employee preferences to generate customized benefit recommendations. With this information at your fingertips, you can confidently design benefits packages with perks that attract and retain top talent while ensuring compliance with legal requirements.
Deel automatically collects and stores your compliance documents so you can focus on growing your business.
Offer stock options to startup employees and contractors
Since early-stage startups often have limited cash flow at their disposal, some CEOs offer workers a share of the company stock to make up for lackluster financial compensation or in addition to a competitive salary.
Whether you’re offering stock options, restricted stock units (RSUs), or other equity plans, Deel can provide unmatched legal and tax support to simplify the process, ensuring transparency and compliance.
Startup teams can issue equity and send offer letters on the Deel platform by using the Stock Options feature during contract creation. This feature is used alongside existing equity granting platforms to track grants you’ve made to new employees and independent contractors.
Automate invoices for contractors
Deel enables startup founders to automate most of the heavy lifting that comes with paying contractors, including:
- Generating invoices
- Customizing invoice schedules
- Creating Fixed, Pay As You Go, and Milestone contracts
- Adding adjustments for expense reimbursements or bonuses
Watch the video below to learn how to automate and manage payroll for contractors with Deel.
Pay your entire team on one platform
With Deel, you can pay independent contractors, EOR employees, and direct employees, all in one platform. Here’s how:
1. Select who you want to pay: Select ‘all teams’ to mass-pay workers, exclude some teams or workers, or only pay specific workers.
2. Select your payment method: Use your preferred payment method or easily add a new payment method. Some payment options require additional steps before you can transfer funds.
4. Send payment: Review, confirm, and send your payments.
Try Deel: The all-in-one HR platform that scales with you
Leveraging the right HR and payroll tools can significantly impact your startup’s success. Deel’s compliance expertise, compensation tools, and payment automation provide a comprehensive solution to manage payments for your startup team of employees and independent contractors.
By partnering with Deel, you can ensure legal and tax compliance across different countries, avoid misclassification risks, attract top talent with competitive compensation and equity plans, and streamline payment processes.
Book a 30-minute demo with an expert to get a closer look at the Deel platform.
