When you're automating transactions with lots of vendors, such as independent contractors and gig workers, collection of tax information is a real hassle. At least, it used to be.

If you've explored Routable's International Payments offerings - and if you haven't, why not? - you're probably familiar with the Supported Countries and Territories Explorer. This feature of our documentation allows you to check what capabilities and requirements Routable has when sending Payables to a Company in that country or territory.

Routable's international payments platform continues to grow! We've added the ability to send US dollars (USD), British pounds (GBP), or Euros (EUR) to any of our more than 200 Supported Countries and Territories via the SWIFT network. Of course, if the vendor's local currency is not one of those three but is supported by our platform, the vendor will continue to receive that currency as well. The Routable API will automatically detect what currency is expected by the vendor's receiving bank account, and the vendor will receive funds in that currency. You don't need to change anything in your Payable API requests to use this new feature!

We're excited to bring you two more ways to speed your payments around the world.

Routable is excited to announce that our API now supports creation of PaymentMethods with a type of international. This means you can now fully integrate the onboarding process for your International Payments vendors in your applications as easily as you do for your domestic vendors. Of course, if you prefer to use Routable's hosted onboarding experience, branded with your company's logo and colors, that option remains available as well.

Now, receiving can be as good as giving.

As Routable continues to enhance our International Payments offering, we have added the ability to share SWIFT network fees with your vendors. Specify a swift_charge_option of sha to share the fees, or pass our to cover the entire fee yourself. The default behavior, our, was previously the only available option, so unless you choose to use the new option, you won't need to change your code. You can use our fee calculator endpoint to see the impact of these options on your total charges.

We've got a big update for you today with 3️⃣ awesome new API features to discuss! 🎉

Routable is excited to announce the launch of Real-Time Payment support, a new payment method available in the Routable API as well as the Routable Dashboard.

We now support creating two or more contact entries that use the same email address. This could be the case if (for example) your company does business with the same contractor at several companies 😁 .
See the allow_for_multiple_companies parameter under the Create a Contact API documentation.