Enabling Automated Recurring Invoice Payments in Web3 with Superfluid and Request

“By partnering with Superfluid, the asset streaming protocol, we work on enabling streaming as a payment method for recurring invoices for all Web3 users.” - Christophe Fonteneau, Head of Strategic Partnerships & Business Development 

It’s simple. Suppose you hire a team of remote developers for your Web3 project, for a monthly salary. When they come onboard, each developer on your team sends you a monthly recurring payment request via Request. 

When you login to your Request Finance dashboard, you have an instant overview of all account receivable, account payable, and salaries of your team members. From there, you have two possibilities: 

1) Batch payment: you can pay all invoices in one click with the batch payment feature and keeping this process on a monthly basis. This way, you have full control of your treasury, being more hands-on with your monthly payouts.

2) Payment stream: you can automate your recurring invoice payments by opening a payment stream. In this case, you will start an open-ended stream of tokens to the recipient, enabled by Superfluid Protocol. The stream will move a fraction of the monthly salary at every block, in what feels like a constantly ongoing transfer of assets such that the total monthly amount transferred targets a predetermined value.
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The stream can be stopped at any time by either the customer, or service provider, and doesn’t require any gas while it’s running. But for as long as the stream is ongoing, Request will keep producing invoices on a monthly cadence and archiving them for your reference. Once the stream is stopped, you will automatically receive a final invoice showing the value transferred since the last invoice sent.

The possibilities this will unlock are endless. Any freelancer, contractor, employee, company or project in Web3 can set and send a recurring payment request once. Similarly, the payer - whether donor, subscriber, or employer, only has to start the streaming payment once. No more monthly administrative hassle required.

Request and Superfluid are working to build the best invoice payment automation in Web3. But this is just the beginning. Together, we want to streamline DAO payments, salaries, recurring subscriptions and recurring donations powered by Request Finance.

How to Automate Your Crypto Invoice Payments

Here's a video walkthrough demonstrating how you can automate your crypto invoice payments using Superfluid streaming:

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Start automating your crypto invoice payments today!