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2026. Mellow Launches Contractor Management



Payroll service Mellow introduced Contractor Management - tool that lets you onboard freelancers for one-time tasks or long-term projects, quickly scaling your team. With Contractor Management, you can conveniently manage all your freelancers and quickly pay them in the required currency (via single invoice). Mellow automatically pays all freelancers in their required currency according to your configured schedule. This service helps streamline your operations and reduce the workload on your employees working with external contractors. Contractor Management is suitable for projects of any size - from a few freelancers to distributed international teams. The tariff is fixed and does not depend on the transfer amount.


2024. EasyStaff launches international marketplace for freelancers



EasyStaff, a freelance payment service (which allows freelancers to be paid by invoice), has launched its own freelance marketplace, EasyBusy. It positions itself as an international service and specializes in remote digital professions, such as developers, marketers, designers, UX/UI researchers, product managers, and others. A unique feature of the service is the ability to pay freelancers directly within the task card. For this purpose, integration with the secure online payment system Stripe has been configured, and payment by bank details is also available. Thanks to seamless integration with the EasyStart service, freelancers can receive payments in dollars and euros and withdraw funds to virtually any bank card.


2021. Workday acquired contractor management platform for $0.5B



HRM vendor Workday acquired contractor management platform developer VNDLY for $510 million. Prior to the deal, VNDLY already had certified integrations with Workday Financial Management and Workday Human Capital Management. The deal with VNDLY will allow Workday to unify its tools for managing salaried, hourly, and temporary workers. Specifically, both companies will have a unified accounting system for managing clients' entire workforces, and will be able to optimize costs and staffing. Workday's long-term partnership with VNDLY includes the creation of a system to ensure a seamless process for receiving and processing applications, performance reports, onboarding, invoicing, and payroll.

2021. Fiverr acquires freelance management toolset Stoke Talent for $95M



On the heels of LinkedIn last week launching Service Marketplace, a competitor to freelance platforms like Fiverr and Upwork, today Fiverr announced an acquisition that speaks to how it plans to stay in the game by building in more features for its users. Fiverr is acquiring Stoke Talent, which lets companies manage their freelance teams, for $95 million. Stoke’s toolset includes features to onboard new freelancers; employers can also pay them through the platform and accordingly track their overall freelance budgets. The idea here is to build tools that both tie in those employers more tightly into Fiverr’s freelance marketplace — Stoke will remain independently operated, but the products also will be integrated, so that freelancers hired via Fiverr can be onboarded and paid through Stoke — and also tie Fiverr more deeply into how those companies work with freelancers overall, even if they are not sourced via Fiverr itself.