Payout Partner API
Build payouts into your product
A REST API to onboard freelancers and pay them — while Payout Partner handles invoicing, tax, and Norwegian payroll compliance. Pay hundreds of freelancers without becoming a payroll provider.
What you can build
Onboard freelancers
Send a freelancer an onboarding link. They verify their identity and add their bank details on a Payout Partner page, co-branded with your logo. You never touch sensitive data.
Create payouts
Submit a payout with a few lines of JSON — work, expenses, and benefits. Payout Partner creates the invoice, processes the payment, and tracks its status to completion.
Compliance handled
Employer's tax (AGA), income tax, occupation codes, and A-melding reporting are all handled by Payout Partner. Your platform stays out of Norwegian payroll law.
Manage at scale
List and filter payouts and enrollments, deactivate workers, and reconcile with idempotency keys. Built for marketplaces paying many freelancers.
How the integration works
-
Generate an onboarding link
Call the API to create a one-time onboarding link for a freelancer.
-
The freelancer onboards on Payout Partner
They complete identity verification and add their payout details on our hosted, co-branded flow.
-
Create a payout
Once enrolled, submit a payout for completed work. We invoice, deduct tax, and pay them out.
-
Track to completion
Poll or filter payouts by status to confirm each payment has been resolved.
A payout is one request
Authenticate with your API key, post the work, and Payout Partner does the rest — the invoice, the tax, and the payment.
See the full API reference →curl -X POST https://api.payoutpartner.com/api/v2/partner/payouts \
-H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"worker_id": "your-worker-id",
"order_reference": "ORD-2026-042",
"lines": [
{
"description": "Delivery — Oslo to Bergen",
"rate": 600,
"quantity": 3
}
]
}'Reference app
See a complete integration: Bookify
Bookify is an open-source app that books and pays freelancers entirely through the Payout Partner API. Try the live demo, then read the source to see exactly how onboarding and payouts are wired up.
Start invoicing today — it takes minutes
Whether you freelance with or without a company, Payout Partner handles the paperwork so you can focus on the work.
Create your free account