LOS ANGELES, CA, September 24, 2020 – Prize Payments, the leading payment solution for esports and gaming, today announces they have paid out over $1.5MM in prize money with their newly revamped platform and have an additional $1.5MM in committed prize money for 2020.
Prize Payments delivered payments in 29 currencies to payees with an average delivery time of 43 hours. Their clients include companies endemic to esports such as DreamHack, Ubisoft, SEGA, LiquidDogs, and PG Esports, as well as Symphony Workforce, an organization seeking to empower youth who are just starting their careers.
“We’re proud to see established tournament organizers and publishers using Prize Payments to alleviate the strains of paying out large prize pools. Due to the COVID-19 lockdowns, we are seeing more online tournaments that have a focus on larger community participation,” said Han Park, CEO of Prize Payments. “This is resulting in a greater number of players winning money than in previous years. Getting these players paid out faster not only improves the relationship between tournament organizers and their players, but also builds a stronger gaming community.”
Prize Payments’ improvements to their platform include key features that make the user experience easier and shorten onboarding times for payees. These features include secure, simplified tax forms that are easier for prize winners to fill out, lower fees and foreign exchange rates, as well as end-of-year tax statements and 1099/1042 IRS e-filing for tournament organizers. All these new features reduce the friction in paying winners and automate the manual processes that are inefficient and time-consuming.
Additionally, tournament organizers can now import payee information via a CSV upload function and use a “submit all” function to payout players en masse. To eliminate fraud and improve oversight, tournament organizers can now opt for payment dual verification which entails having a user input payment information and a second user, typically an accounting professional or executive, approving those payments. Improved payment tracking has also been added to improve transparency on payment processing which highlights fees, tax withholdings (if any), and estimated time of delivery.
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The Prize Payments team is also working on Influencer Pay — a solution for influencer agencies to address the unique challenges in onboarding, compliantly collecting sensitive information from, and paying social media influencers and creators. Influencer Pay will feature the same level of compliance and ease of use as Prize Payments, but tailored to make high volumes of payments to an influencer base that varies between campaigns.
Influencer Pay is scheduled to launch in Q4 2020. For more information, contact the Prize Payments team.
About Prize Payments
The brainchild of veteran esports professionals, Prize Payments streamlines the prize payment process for Tournament Organizers, Publishers, and Players. With an easy to use Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform, tournament organizers just need an email to onboard winners to the Prize Payments platform and to pay out their tournament winnings quickly while staying in compliance with tax regulation and privacy laws.
More information can be found at https://prizepayments.com.