Use a time- tracking software with a built-in payroll and invoicing system.

  Have a multi-national team? If your team is spread across globally, you are most of the time rid of all the legal compliance complexities even if you hire them “full-time.” This is great, but paying your workers through a freelance website often times takes away a significant part of their payment as a fee for the platform’s “referral service.” Upwork and Freelancer, for example, charges up to 20% to the freelancer’s fee. If you pay your freelancer $500, they can only withdraw $400 from the platform after the referral fee. To answer this dilemma, many time-tracking software developers provide a built-in payroll and invoicing system to ease the payroll process and make things fair for freelancers. Among the widely-used time-tracking software with this capability are Hubstaff and QuickBooks. These apps can be integrated into online payment services such as Paypal, Payoneer, and TransferWise. With these apps, you can set up an automated payroll system that only pays the amount of time worked; fair for both you and your freelance workers. They also keep a good record of things, such as invoices, you can easily download for documentation purposes.