DevelopmentBusiness automation engineer

Get paid for automation work delivered to American clients

You automate a workflow, hand over the runbook, and then the invoice crosses a border. PANORAMA payments lets a US company bill your American client in dollars and pays you at home, so an operations budget that can only buy software can also pay for the person who connected it.

Get paid for automation work delivered to American clients

What this looks like for you

As a business automation engineer, you deliver systems that remove friction, yet collecting payment for your own work often creates more friction than the process you automated. You hand over a Zapier pipeline that saves a team ten hours a week, or an n8n workflow that turns a spreadsheet into a reporting dashboard, and then your invoice sits in a queue because operations never onboarded a foreign vendor. PANORAMA payments gives your US client a domestic bill for that work. A US company issues the invoice, accepts ACH or wire in dollars, and supplies a W-9 if asked. When the payment clears, the platform takes its fee and pays you in your country by bank transfer, Wise, or another method that works where you are. The operations budget that pays for tools can finally pay the person who connects them.

What your client receives

From
A US company, W-9 on request
Bill to
Your client, a company or a person
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An example line, not a real invoice. Your own wording, amounts and currency go on the document itself.

Where your client can be

Your client does not have to be American. We accept payment on behalf of clients in any country that is not under sanctions — Canada, the United Kingdom, the European Union, the Gulf, Australia, Singapore, Japan and the rest — and the money is always received by our US company. Nothing else changes for you: the same fee, the same payout, the same documents.

The invoice can be issued in any of these currencies

  • USD$
  • EUR€
  • GBP£
  • AED
  • AUDA$
  • CADC$
  • CHF
  • PLNzł
  • ILS₪
  • HKDHK$
  • CNYCN¥

The payment problem after the work is done

The automation is in production. The triggers fire, the data moves, and the dashboard updates itself. The client's team has stopped doing the manual work you replaced. Then your invoice reaches their accounts payable department, and the process stops being automatic.

US operations teams buy software all day long. They have a vendor onboarding flow for that: a W-9, a US bank account, a payment run. But a freelancer in another country does not fit that flow. You are not a software subscription and you are not a US business, so the payment stalls.

You can spend weeks explaining that you are a legitimate vendor, chasing a finance contact who does not have a process for you. Or you can leave the money where it can actually be collected.

How the payment moves

PANORAMA payments acts as the merchant of record for your work. When you register, you verify your identity once and describe the client and the work. From then on, invoices to that client are issued by a US company.

Your client's accounts payable team sees an entirely domestic transaction. They pay by ACH or wire transfer in US dollars to a US bank. If they need a W-9, the US company provides one. No international forms, no new vendor category, no special approval for a foreign contractor.

The client does not need to be American, and the invoice can be issued in eleven currencies including US dollars, euros, pounds sterling, Canadian dollars, Australian dollars, and Swiss francs. Whoever the payer is, the money is received by the US company and then paid out to you.

What you get at the end

Once the client pays, PANORAMA payments deducts its platform fee and sends the rest to you in your own country. Depending on where you live, that can be a local bank transfer, SWIFT, SEPA, Wise, or dollar-denominated digital assets.

There is no monthly subscription and nothing is charged before the client has paid. The fee comes out of the money that actually arrives, not out of your pocket before you have earned anything.

Your tax obligations do not change. You are not an employee of PANORAMA payments and the service does not give tax advice. The money you receive is your income, and you remain responsible for reporting it wherever you live.

A process that matches how you already work

You quote a fixed price for a defined piece of automation. You build it, test it, document it, and hand it over. The client pays from an operations budget that already has a category for software and services. PANORAMA payments lets that budget pay you without a special exception.

The client receives an invoice from a US company that describes the work you did. Your name appears as the person who performed it, but the legal entity on the invoice is the platform's. That is what keeps the payment domestic for them and possible for you.

You do not get a US company, a US bank account, or a US tax number through this service. You get a way for US money to reach you without waiting on a payment process that was never designed for you.

How you get paid

  1. 1
    Register and verify once

    An identity document and a photograph. It is done once, and it has to be finished before the first payout rather than on the day you are waiting for money.

  2. 2
    Describe the client and the work

    Who they are, what was agreed, the amount and the currency. The client and their country are screened before anything is sent, so a payment is not refused after the work is delivered.

  3. 3
    The invoice goes out from a US company

    Your client receives an invoice from a United States supplier, with US banking details and IRS Form W-9 on request. They pay by ACH or wire, domestically.

  4. 4
    You are paid where you live

    One platform fee is deducted and the rest is sent to you by whichever route works in your country: bank transfer, SWIFT, SEPA, Wise, a local account, or dollar-denominated digital assets.

One platform fee of 10% is deducted when you are paid. No subscription, no signup fee, and nothing is charged until your client has paid.

Questions people in this trade ask

Does my client need to sign up for PANORAMA payments?

No. Your client simply receives an invoice from a US company. They pay it like any other US vendor invoice. The platform handles the merchant of record responsibilities quietly, so their accounts payable process does not change.

Can I invoice in my local currency?

The invoice to your client can be issued in one of eleven currencies, but it is always received by the US company. You then get paid in your own country in your own currency through a payout method that works there. The currency spread and conversion are handled by the platform.

Do I need a US bank account to use this?

No. The US company receives the payment in US dollars. You receive your payout through a method available in your country, which could be a local bank transfer, SEPA, Wise, or stablecoins. You do not get a US bank account as part of this service.

Is this legal for my tax situation?

PANORAMA payments does not give tax advice, but the arrangement does not change your tax residency or remove your home-country obligations. The US company is the merchant of record, not your employer and not your own company. You remain responsible for reporting your income where you live.

What if my client is a private individual, not a company?

The payer can be a company or a private individual. The invoice is still issued by the US company, so the private individual pays a US entity in US dollars with a normal payment method. Nothing about your side changes.

Does my client have to be in the United States?

No. We accept payment on behalf of clients in any country that is not under sanctions: Canada, the United Kingdom, the European Union, the Gulf, Australia, Singapore, Japan and others. The invoice can be issued in US dollars, euros, pounds sterling, Canadian and Australian dollars, Swiss francs, dirhams, złoty, shekels, Hong Kong dollars or yuan. The money is received by our US company either way, and your fee, your payout and your documents stay the same.

Send your first invoice

Create an account, pass verification and raise an invoice. Nothing is charged until your client pays it.

Get started

You keep the client, the contract and the price. We handle the invoice and the payout.

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PANORAMA payments is a payment service. It is not an employer, not an agency and not a tax adviser, and nothing on this page is tax or legal advice.