You handle payouts. We handle the IRS headache for your creators.
Add a webhook to your payout flow. Your creators get correctly-sized quarterly tax estimates, deadline reminders, and one-click IRS Direct Pay links — under your brand, in your dashboard, with zero ongoing work from your team.
First 10 platforms: production free for 3 months in exchange for a logo + case study.
Why this is a retention problem, not a tax problem
Average IRS underpayment penalty creators paid last year
Of US gig workers who report owing more than expected at filing
Support category for platforms that issue 1099s: 'help with taxes'
Every January your support inbox fills with "why do I owe so much?" tickets. Every April some of your top creators churn because they can't afford a $4K surprise. You already have the data to prevent it — TaxSetAside turns it into a feature.
One endpoint. Under an hour.
POST to /v1/payouts whenever you pay a creator. We return the recommended set-aside and a creator dashboard URL you can embed, link, or email. That's the entire integration.
- Idempotent on your
external_payout_id— safe to retry - HMAC-signed requests, full event log per platform
- We never touch the money — creators pay the IRS directly
- 14-day / 3-day / day-of email cadence, sent from your domain (Scale tier)
- Free unlimited sandbox while you build
POST https://api.taxsetaside.com/v1/payouts
Authorization: Bearer tsa_live_...
{
"creator_external_id": "user_42",
"creator_email": "alex@example.com",
"external_payout_id": "pay_2026_06_24_001",
"gross_amount_cents": 247500,
"paid_at": "2026-06-24T12:00:00Z"
}
// 200 OK
{
"id": "pyt_...",
"set_aside_cents": 67862,
"effective_rate": 0.2742,
"quarter": 2,
"tax_year": 2026,
"creator_dashboard_url":
"https://taxsetaside.com/c/abc..."
}