- Instant payouts: leave the payment date unset and funds move as soon as you pay.
- Scheduled payouts: set a payment date and recipients can claim from that date.
Before you begin
Choose the right environment:- Sandbox: use sandbox.pvium.com to test payout setup, recipient validation, and approval workflows.
- Production: use pvium.com for live payouts.
- A Pvium account
- A payout account with funds available
- Permission to create and approve payouts
- A way to identify each recipient: Pvium handle, wallet address, email, or a GitHub, X, Discord, or Telegram handle
- Payout amounts for each recipient
- Tax certificates, such as W-8 or W-9 records, when required
Send your first payout
1
Open quick payout
Sign in to the Pvium dashboard for your environment and start a quick payout.Quick payout is designed for paying one or a few people, with records, screening, and documents handled in the same flow.
2
Choose how recipients are handled
Pick a recipient mode:
- Direct — pay immediately: you add the recipients yourself and pay right away. Suitable when you are handling compliance externally.
- Verified payees only: each recipient must provide the legal information needed to stay compliant before they can be paid.
3
Set the payment details
Optionally give the payout a label so it is easy to find in records later.Set the payment date:
- Leave it unset to pay instantly — funds move as soon as you pay.
- Pick a date to schedule the payout — recipients can claim from that date.
4
Add receivers
Select Add receiver to open the payee picker. You can:
- Select from connected accounts — authorized team members who have connected their accounts via OAuth.
- Add new payees by Pvium handle, wallet address, email, or a GitHub, X, Discord, or Telegram handle.
5
Review and sign
The Sign to Confirm Payout dialog summarizes the rail, recipient count, total amount, and scheduled claim date. Check these against what you intended — this is where an incorrect recipient, amount, or date gets caught.Signing makes the payout tamper-proof: after you sign, the recipients, amounts, and other details cannot be changed — even by Pvium. Signing does not move money yet.
6
Fund the payout
Fund the signed payout from your payout account. Pvium does not hold your money before this point — funds move only when you fund the payout, and only against the exact details you signed.Instant payouts pay out as soon as you fund them. Scheduled payouts become claimable on the payment date.
7
Track delivery
Track each payout through its lifecycle.The dashboard shows whether a payout was created, signed, funded, delivered, failed, expired, or canceled.
8
Export records
Export payout records for reconciliation, audit review, and accounting tools such as QuickBooks.
What Pvium controls for
Pvium is designed for operational risk as much as payment execution. A finance team needs confidence that payouts happen once, to the right people, with records they can explain later. Pvium helps with:- Payment execution: clear payout states, retry paths, and delivery tracking
- Recipient risk: recipient checks, ownership verification, and revocation paths for undelivered payouts where supported
- Compliance risk: tax certificate collection, sanctions screening, AML checks, payout records, and audit trails
- Internal fraud risk: permissions, approvals, and separation between payout creation and payout approval
- Human error: payout previews, total confirmation, and validation before funding
- Vendor risk: funds that stay with your organization and exportable payout history
Next steps
Payout types
Learn when to use instant, scheduled, pooled, and milestone payouts.
Non-custodial architecture
Learn what non-custodial means and why it matters for payout operations.