# Placements invoiced on schedule. Contractors paid in one batch URL: https://www.orla.finance/en/for/staffing Markdown twin of that page. Append `.md` to any Orla page URL to get one. Ridgeway Staffing places engineers and operations people with three clients, four people in the office. #### Every placement invoiced on schedule Three engineers at Meridian, two ops people at Tolley, one permanent fee at Halden. What is owed this month, and which invoice is still only sent? - Four figures as filters: owed, overdue, received this month, paid without an invoice; each one opens its own list. - Recurring invoices for the monthly placements, reminders sent on schedule, and an invoice that marks itself paid the day the money lands. - Who owes, one row per client and not per invoice: how much, how late the oldest is, how many reminders went and when, whether they answered, the day they promised, and one next step with its reason. Write it down records a promised day; Send it sends the same reminder the schedule would. - Paid by card via your Stripe, by transfer or in stablecoins; a quote becomes the invoice. #### Contractors in four countries, paid in one batch Arjun in India, Beatriz in Brazil, Tomasz in Poland, Grace in South Africa. Can they be paid together, signed once, each on their own rail? - One batch a month: every contractor's amount listed, signed once, paid on the rail each contact carries, a bank account or a wallet. - A threshold and a quorum: what crosses the line waits for a second signature. - The bank share leaves from your own account, and Orla cannot send it alone. In Airwallex the approved payments are lines of a draft batch, one per currency, that a person submits there; from Mercury each is a request in Mercury's approval queue, under a token that cannot send. Both rails reach spaces as they roll out. - Ask what is paid this week and whether it all fits: each payment reads fits or move, with the day a client's money is expected on that account. The card only moves a payment later, never earlier. - A contractor is a contact with a rail, not a seat; the payout carries the client it belongs to. #### Margin per client, from the rows Meridian pays 54,000 a month and the three engineers cost 36,800. What is left after the employer-of-record fees, per client? - A client is a project: its invoices, its contractors' payouts and the fees sit under it, and its profit is shown for that client alone. - A report is described in words and saved as a question, and it runs again each time it is opened. - Compare periods side by side; the report goes out as a file. #### Contracts, terms and background checks on one shelf Every client has a master agreement, every contractor a contract, every placement a background check. Where is the one the auditor asks for? - Filed by a schema you set in words, with versions and access. - A document becomes a bill to pay or the receipt on a payment; upload in bulk. - A whole sort run is shown as a plan before it runs, and undone at once; a document can be sealed in the browser so the server itself cannot read it. - Before the contract: a counterparty check on the contact's card screens the company or the person by name against sanctions, politically exposed persons, criminal lists and adverse media, and confirms a company number in its registry. It spends one check from the same balance as the address screenings. #### Sourcing tools and travel on cards with a ceiling LinkedIn Recruiter, Greenhouse and the background checks bill the sourcing card; the Berlin trip goes on another. Can each carry its own ceiling? - Virtual cards from a prepaid balance you refill in USDT or USDC. - A card per person with a ceiling, freeze and block; the issuer's history is checked against what you allocated, so a stray charge shows up the same day. - Refunds are answered in the books on their own. #### Who can move money, and what holds them Four people, a contractor batch every month above the threshold. Who prepares, who signs, and what does the accountant read? - Roles: owner, admin, member, viewer, accountant. - Signing rules: a threshold, the number of signatures, address book only, a monthly allowance per person counted across every door. - A role is only a starting set: each action that changes the book asks for its own key. Fine-grained keys come with the team plans. - A line under a payment says This does not look like you when a payee is paid far above their usual or the same amount goes to the same payee twice in a week. It explains and never blocks. - Every action in an audit trail the accountant can read, never edit. #### The month to the accountant Three clients, four contractors on two rails, the office payroll, and an accountant who wants one folder, not a login. - A closing checklist with a door into each list: rows without a category, without an account code, without paper, unpaid invoices, payments still waiting for a signature. - Rows without paper are asked of whoever paid: the teammate answers with the file, No receipt or Not mine, or presses Attach a receipt in Slack or Telegram. A supplier's bill is checked against the ones already in the book before it is paid, and a person says duplicate or different bill. - Ask what moved after the month went to the accountant: how many rows were added, edited and removed, and what the additions and removals do to the total. What the edited rows contributed is not known, and the answer says so. - A zip archive, a journal CSV, and each account's feed for QuickBooks Online and Xero. - Review, Close, Reopen with a reason; what changed after the export is visible, and the accountant's seat opens the closed period read-only. #### Four people here, four contractors abroad - Founder: Signs the contractor batch and reads the margin per client. - Account manager: Sends the placement invoices and hears from the client when they ask for time. - Finance lead: Prepares the contractor batch, chases the invoices, and closes the month. - Office manager: Files the contracts and background checks, and runs the sourcing card. #### Ask it what the client owes ahead of payday Contractors are paid before clients pay; the composer keeps the gap in view and chases the late side. - The week's payments: The signing queue, the calendar and the forecast as one order: which of the nine fit this week and which two are marked move, with the day money is next expected. - Who is overdue, and what next: One line per client: how late the oldest invoice is, the reminders sent, what they promised, and one next step with its reason. Write it down and Send it are a press each. - What changed after handover: How many rows were added, edited and removed in a month the accountant already has, and what the additions and removals do to the total. #### Contractors paid in their own country, or on Base Clients pay by transfer or by card; contractors are paid to a bank in their country or a wallet on Base. #### Every signature, for the auditor - A quorum: The monthly batch is above the threshold, so it waits for a second signature. - Address book only: A payout goes only to a contractor already in the book, on the rail they gave you themselves, and no other. - Paper: Every contract and background check sits under the placement it belongs to; the auditor gets a door, not a folder to search. - Audit trail: Every signature, edit and export is written down with who did it, when, and from which device. #### Questions ##### Can contractors be paid to a bank in their own country? Yes. A contractor is a contact with a rail: a bank account, or a wallet on an EVM chain or TRON. The batch pays each on the rail they carry, and each payout is priced at the day's rate in the book the accountant reads at the end of the month. ##### Does Orla run payroll for the placed contractors? No. Orla pays contractors as a batch from your accounts and books each payout under its client. Employer-of-record fees and payroll come in as rows from the bank feed and sit under the client they belong to, like any other cost. ##### Do contractors need a seat? No. Seats are people in the space; contractors are contacts and do not count. Paid plans start at $25 a month, and any single limit can be raised with a pack instead of a plan change.