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Payments for recruitment agencies and executive search firms

The placement fee, paid by the employer when the hire starts.

Recruiters earn the fee when the new hire starts, or in stages over a retained search. Send the employer one link for each fee, with your invoice number as the description. The employer pays from their own wallet, wherever they are, and stablecoins settle to a wallet you control. This is for fees employers pay you. Zoyn never pays candidates or workers.

Before you read on: we publish every business type we take and every one we refuse — 28 we take, 11 we refuse.

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Why this is harder than it looks

A fee due on a start date, an employer far away, and a rebate clause.

The fee is due when the hire starts

A contingency placement is earned on the start date, and a retained search is usually paid in stages as it moves forward.

Send one link for the placement fee on the start date, or one link for each stage of a retained search. Every link is a single payment of a fixed amount.

The employer is in another country

Headhunting often crosses borders, and the company paying may never have dealt with you before.

The employer pays from their own wallet, from wherever they are, with your invoice number as the description.

The hire leaves early

Most placement terms include a rebate if the new starter leaves within an agreed period.

Your terms decide what is owed back. Returning any of it is a payment you send back yourself. Zoyn has no refund button.

Temporary and contract staffing: the client pays you, and that is all Zoyn does.

Each client invoice is its own link, and there is no automatic weekly or monthly charge. Zoyn is the software you use to get paid by your client. It does not pay your workers, and you pay them the way you do today.

Placement fees settle to a wallet only you control.

Two limits worth knowing. If your own account with us is under review, automatic payouts pause until that is resolved. And a buyer paying by card can be declined, or asked to prove who they are, before the money is sent — a payment that doesn't happen, never money taken back from you afterwards.

How it works

One fee, one link, sent to the employer.

1

Your terms set the fee

Your agreement with the employer says what the fee is, when it is due, and what happens if the hire leaves early.

2

Send the employer the link

The employer pays from their own wallet, or by card where available — buyer eligibility depends on country, payment method, provider, and compliance checks.

3

The payment reaches your wallet

After the required network confirmations, in the currency the link was set in.

Common questions

What a recruiter asks first.

We supply temporary and contract staff.

Send each client invoice as its own link, with the invoice number as the description. There is no automatic weekly or monthly charge. Zoyn is the software you use to get paid by your client. It does not pay your temporary workers or contractors, and never pays anyone on your behalf.

We place IT, healthcare or office staff.

The same way: one link for each placement fee or invoice, paid by the employer or client. The fee is always paid by the business that hired, never by the candidate.

A retained search is paid in three stages.

Send three links, one at each stage your terms set. Each is a fixed amount, and nothing is charged until the employer pays the link you sent.

What does it cost me?

A percentage of each payment, agreed with you in writing before you go live: crypto payments start at 0.75%, and card payments, if your business can take them, have a separate, higher price. No monthly platform fee and no setup fee. Network fees, and any extra charge for how your customer pays, are separate. Your customer pays them on top of your price and sees their total before they pay.

Will you take my agency?

We publish every business type we take and every one we refuse, and every application is reviewed before it goes live. We don't promise a timeline we can't keep.

Running a wider consultancy? Read the page for professional services. Working on your own for clients abroad? Read the page for freelancers. Not sure we'd take your business? See exactly how we decide.

Send your next placement fee as one link.

Apply today, and settle each payment to a wallet only you control after the required network confirmations. Every application is reviewed.

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Legal & regulatory disclosures

Zoyn is software. It is not a bank, a payment processor, a payment gateway, a money transmitter or a money services business. Zoyn is never the seller in a sale (the "merchant of record"). Zoyn never holds a shop's money, and does not decide how long a payment company may hold it. When a customer pays by card or bank, the payment company handles that payment under its own terms and may hold it for a short time. The money then goes to the shop's own payment contract once the payment network has confirmed it.

Businesses can be based in 64 jurisdictions. A US state stays open when at least one checkout partner still serves buyers there. Customers can pay from 130+ countries through the checkout providers we connect to; which countries customers can pay from is set by those providers, not by Zoyn, and may change without notice. Not available in sanctioned jurisdictions: Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Syria, and the Crimea, Donetsk, and Luhansk regions of Ukraine.

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