Pay people
Add your team by email or CSV, let each person choose where their pay lands, and pay everyone ready in one approval, in one all-or-nothing transaction on NEAR, with a payslip each.
Add your team
Open People and press Add person: name, email, role (optional) and pay per run in dollars. Or press
Import CSV with a header row naming name, email, role and amount:
name,email,role,amount
Mei Tanaka,mei@studio.example,Designer,2400
Kofi Mensah,kofi@studio.example,Engineer,"3,100.50"Every row is shown before anything is saved. A row with a mistake says which line and what to fix ("Line 3: "leo@example" isn't an email"), and only the good rows are imported. A team holds up to 200 people.
Each person gets their own page at /p/<token>. Copy or share it from their sheet. Once email is switched on, they
get it in an email that says they've been added to payroll.
Where their pay lands
The person opens their page and chooses:
| Choice | What happens |
|---|---|
| Tegata account (recommended) | They sign in with the email they were invited with, name themselves, and their own name.tegata.testnet opens. No wallet, no fees |
| NEAR account | One they already have. Tegata checks it exists and, if it can't hold USDC yet, registers it and pays for that |
| Another chain | Shown locked: it needs Live, because NEAR Intents has no testnet |
| Bank account | Shown locked: cash-out to a bank needs a licensed payout partner |
Only someone signed in with the invited email can choose, and the first person to choose is bound to that invite. A change waits 24 hours once they already have a destination. The business sees "Changes Fri 17:21" on their row, and pay keeps landing in the old place until then. Their first choice, and a NEAR account you set for them from their sheet, apply at once.
Run payroll
Set a payday
Open Payroll: weekly, every two weeks or monthly, and the next payday, in your business's time zone. A monthly payday on the 31st lands on the last day of shorter months.
Review
Run payroll drafts the run from your team as it is now: each person, the account their pay lands in, and this run's amount. Switch anyone off to leave them out. People who aren't ready are skipped with the reason ("Hasn't chosen where pay lands", "Their Tegata account is still opening"). The total is shown against your balance.
Hold to pay
Your key signs one gas-free action that carries one USDC transfer per person, each with the memo
tegata:payroll:<row>. Before signing, the page re-encodes it and checks every transfer against the rows on
screen. Tegata relays it and pays the network fee.
Everyone, or nobody
On NEAR, every transfer in one action list lands together or none do. Rows turn Paid only when the USDC
contract's own event shows the transfer to that account, for that amount, with that memo. Then each gets a payslip
at /r/slip/<row>. More than 50 people go in batches of 50, and each batch is all or nothing.
If a batch fails, nothing in it moved. The run says so, and Try again drafts it fresh. People already paid stay paid and are never paid twice.
Or let autopilot pay
Turn on Autopilot on the Payroll page and the paydays you choose are paid by Tegata's own contract on NEAR at 09:00 in your time zone, with nobody online. Those paydays show Autopilot pays this one instead of Run payroll, so a payday is never paid twice.
A real one
A proof business added Mei and Kofi by hand and Sara from a CSV (the same CSV's second row, with a bad email, was
refused). Mei opened her own Tegata account; Kofi gave a NEAR account that couldn't hold USDC yet, so Tegata
registered it (G9ZMLt…FPpad7). One approval paid Mei $0.50 and Kofi
$0.30 in a single transaction (7hEg9D…anCKFr), and Sara, who hadn't
chosen, was skipped. Run it yourself with pnpm --filter @tegata/services exec tsx src/proofs/payroll.ts.
Where it shows up
Home shows Payroll due on or after payday when no run has paid it. Activity lists each run for the business and each payslip for the person. Send offers your ready people as one-tap recipients.