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# Activate Introw Pay

> Switch partner payouts to Introw Pay: complete billing info, confirm your company currency, switch Introw Pay on with a schedule, and make sure partners can set themselves up from the portal.

Today a payout cycle ends with a spreadsheet: partner ops exports the earned commission, finance keys in a transfer per partner, and both sides reconcile afterwards. Introw Pay replaces that tail with one invoice. This guide makes the switch end to end. It covers the company details that print on statements and your invoice, the currency your invoice is issued in, the Introw Pay option in Payout Settings and its cadence, and the portal section partners use to set themselves up. Do it once, then every cycle is a review and one payment.

## What you'll achieve

Payouts run on Introw Pay. The Commission area shows a **Payments** tab, every batch offers **Pay now**, and statements carry your billing details. Partners with money waiting see a prompt in the portal to link a bank account and get verified. Finance pays one invoice per cycle and Introw Pay does the rest.

## Before you start

<Steps>
  <Step title="Confirm Introw Pay is switched on">
    Introw Pay is included in every plan. Introw charges a percentage fee on the transactions it processes, so there is nothing extra on your subscription. If Introw Pay is still locked in Payout Settings, ask your Introw account manager to switch it on for your account first.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Confirm access">
    You need write access to commissions and admin access to company settings.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Gather billing details">
    Have your legal company name, address, finance email address, company number and VAT number ready. They print on every partner statement and on your consolidated invoice.
  </Step>
</Steps>

## Steps

### Phase 1 - Complete the details your invoice depends on

<Steps>
  <Step title="Set your company currency">
    Go to [Company settings](https://app.introw.io/settings/company) and check **Company currency**. Your consolidated invoice is issued in this currency, and Introw Pay currently issues invoices in **EUR** and **USD**. In any other currency **Pay now** stays disabled, so confirm this before switching the method. Partners are still paid in their own currency; this setting only governs what you pay.

    While you are here, confirm **Fiscal year start date** if you intend to pay every fiscal quarter, because that schedule is anchored on it.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Complete billing info">
    Open the **Billing Info** tab, or go to [Billing info](https://app.introw.io/settings/company/billing-info), and fill in every field:

    * **Company Name** - your legal entity, exactly as it should appear on statements and your invoice.
    * **Address Line 1**, **Address Line 2**, **Postal Code**, **City** and **Country** - your billing address.
    * **Finance Email Address** - where partners direct billing questions, and who is copied on payout emails.
    * **Company Number** and **VAT Number** - your registration and tax numbers. Introw validates the VAT number when you save, so a rejected number is caught here rather than on an invoice.

    Choose **Save**. Until billing info is complete, **Pay now**, **Request partner invoice** and statement generation are blocked with **Billing info required**.
  </Step>
</Steps>

### Phase 2 - Switch the payout method

<Steps>
  <Step title="Choose Introw Pay">
    Go to [Payout Settings](https://app.introw.io/commission?section=settings). Under **How will payments be sent to partner?**, select **Introw Pay**: you send a single payment to Introw, Introw Pay distributes it to all your partners, and verification is performed per partner. The other option, **Manual invoicing**, keeps Introw emailing statements while your team pays outside Introw and marks payouts paid.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Set the payout schedule">
    Set **Payout schedule** to the rhythm you pay on:

    * **Every month** or **Every quarter** - a batch is created on the first day after each calendar period closes, covering that period.
    * **Every fiscal quarter** - the same, anchored on your fiscal year start.
    * **Manual** - no automatic batches; you choose **Create payout** when you are ready, for example once a year.

    A scheduled cadence is what removes the last manual step: the batch is waiting for you, and your only job is to review it and pay.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Set the minimum payout amount">
    On any schedule other than **Manual**, **Minimum payout amount** is required and must be above zero:

    * **Minimum payout amount** - balances below it roll forward to a later cycle instead of creating a tiny payout.
    * **Per partner** applies the minimum to each partner's own balance. **Organisation total** applies it to the whole batch, so either everyone is paid or the cycle is skipped.

    A per-partner minimum in the range of a typical small commission keeps the invoice free of trivial lines. Choose **Save** in the page header; the confirmation reads **Payout settings saved**.
  </Step>
</Steps>

### Phase 3 - Make sure partners can set themselves up

<Steps>
  <Step title="Add the Commissions section to your experience">
    Partners link their bank account and follow payouts from the **Commissions** section of your partner portal. Open the [Experience builder](https://app.introw.io/templates), edit the experience your partners use, and add the **Commissions** section if it is not there yet. It shows their **Forecasted**, **Expected**, **Upcoming payouts** and **Total paid** amounts, the list of payouts, and the **Link a bank account** prompt as soon as a payout is waiting for them. See [Experiences](/features/portal/experiences) for how sections are added and published.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Set each partner's currency">
    Introw Pay pays each partner in the currency on their partner record. Open a partner and set **Currency** in the partner info card, or set it for many partners at once from the partner list. Partners without a currency are paid in your company currency. The field shows when [Multi-currency](/features/localization/multi-currency) is enabled on your plan.
  </Step>
</Steps>

## Verify it worked

The **Commission** area shows a **Payments** tab next to **Payouts**, **Commission Plans** and **Payout Settings**. Open any payout batch: the header offers **Pay now** instead of the **Manual Payout** pill, and each partner's payout carries a **Payment details** row reading **Not connected** until they set up. In the partner portal, a partner with a payable payout sees **Unlock** their amount **from** your company, with a **Link a bank account** button. Continue with [Pay a payout cycle with Introw Pay](./pay-partners-with-introw-pay).

## Related

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    Run the first cycle from batch to paid partners.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Get partners ready to be paid" icon="book-open" href="./get-partners-ready-to-be-paid">
    What partners do once, and how to nudge the ones who have not.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Configure commission and payout settings" icon="book-open" href="/features/commissions/settings/guides/configure-commission-payout-settings">
    Schedule, minimum and billing info in full.
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  <Card title="Implementation reference" icon="screwdriver-wrench" href="../technical">
    Every setting, status and failure state.
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