AsterPay AsterPay · ClinPay
For Research Panels · Live in production

Audit-grade payouts
for research panels

One consolidated record per study, per period. Every payment cryptographically signed, tax-compliant, GDPR-clean. Built on Invoica and AsterPay.

SEPA Instant < 10s USDC on Base, Polygon, Arbitrum, Optimism, Ethereum Non-custodial · MiCA-aligned partners EU compliant

Your CFO doesn't have a payment problem.
They have an audit problem dressed as one.

Most research organisations run finance ops like this:

Hundreds of small panellist payouts per study, across dozens of active studies
N small bank transfers reconciled against M payout obligations
Audit asks "prove HCP-A was paid for visit B on date C" — manual lookup, hours
Tax compliance scattered across jurisdictions (EU VAT in 27 countries)
Cross-border wire fees and delays eat 5 to 8 percent on micro-payouts
Panellist bank details touch your systems — GDPR exposure on every flow

One audit-ready record per study, per period.

ClinPay replaces hundreds of fragmented payments with a single consolidated record — and lifts tax compliance and panellist anonymity into the same flow.

Your finance team interacts withOne provider, one contract
Each study producesOne mandate plus one funded escrow
Each period producesOne reconciliation export plus tax line per jurisdiction
Each payout producesOne cryptographic receipt, one audit trace, one GDPR-clean wire

Consolidated reconciliation

One rollup per period instead of hundreds of line items. CSV plus PDF audit pack export.

Cryptographic audit trail

Prove who authorised what payment to whom, years later. No third party required.

EU VAT, jurisdiction-aware

27 EU countries. Reverse-charge for B2B, standard for B2C. Each line with statute citation. UK and US tax engines on the roadmap.

GDPR-clean anonymity

Panellist IBAN never touches your systems. Sponsor never sees panellist banking details.

Four-step lifecycle per study

1

Set up

Sponsor signs one mandate and funds one escrow. Done once per study.

~ 1 day
2

Integrate

A 10-line webhook from your panel platform. Each completion fires a payout.

~ 1 hour engineering
3

Settle

SEPA Instant payout in under 10 seconds. Full end-to-end lifecycle (mandate signing plus on-chain Deal Receipt plus SEPA) under 90 seconds.

SEPA Instant < 10s · E2E < 90s
4

Audit

Daily, weekly or monthly rollup with per-jurisdiction tax totals. CSV plus PDF audit pack.

On demand

Built on two regulated rails

Two independent layers, each accountable to its own regulator. Together they form the ClinPay stack.

Audit layer

Invoica

Agent-native invoicing and tax compliance middleware. Every payout produces a cryptographically signed mandate hash and a Deal Receipt anchored on Base mainnet. Audit-grade and regulator-defensible.

invoica.ai →
Payment rail

AsterPay

Non-custodial EU payment infrastructure routed via MiCA-aligned licensed partners. Customer funds never touch AsterPay's balance sheet. SEPA Instant for EUR, USDC on Base, Polygon, Arbitrum, Optimism and Ethereum. Panellist anonymity by design.

asterpay.io →

Transparent pricing

ON-TOP model — the sponsor pays the fee, the panellist receives 100 percent of the honorarium. No surprises.

Currency / RailRateFloorCapStatus
EUR · SEPA Instant 2%€0.55€5.00 Live
USDC · on-chain 0.5%$0.10$5.00 Live
GBP · Faster Payments 2%£0.50£4.50 Q4 2026
USD · ACH 2%$0.60$5.50 Q3 2026

Volume tier: at 50,000 payouts per month the wholesale settlement fee drops €0.05 per payout, auto-applied with no renegotiation. Second tier at 200,000 plus.
Sub-€10 payouts are batched daily per panellist (one wire per recipient per day) — the industry-standard pattern used by Cint and Prolific.

Compliance built in

Every claim below corresponds to a working production component or a named licensed partner. Nothing on this list is roadmap.

Non-custodial. AsterPay never holds customer funds. Settlement runs through licensed partners.
MiCA-aligned payment processing via EU-licensed VASP and EMI partners.
EU VAT (27 countries) — reverse-charge for B2B, standard for B2C, statute citations per line.
GDPR-clean panellist anonymity. IBAN isolation by design.
PACT v0.3.2 cryptographic mandate signing (Invoica).
On-chain Deal Receipt anchoring on Base mainnet.
Audit-pack export — CSV plus PDF for end-client deliverables.
Sanctions screening on every panellist payout (built into the AsterPay rail).

Ready to consolidate your panel payouts?

20-minute walkthrough. Bring your highest-volume study — we'll show you the audit pack it would have generated.

Request a demo