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Collect the retainer. Keep the settlement.

Agencies carry a long gap between the payment and the proof of value, and card companies price that gap as dispute risk. Once a payment is treated as final, after the required network confirmations, the risk — and the reserve behind it — is not there to price.

Why this category gets penalised

The problem is the gap between paying and delivering.

Performance disputed after the campaign runs

Results are arguable in a way a shipped box is not. Card companies commonly treat service categories with subjective deliverables as elevated dispute risk, and on card rails the funds are pulled back first and argued about afterwards.

There is no pull mechanism, and Zoyn does not reverse a confirmed on-chain transfer, so a disagreement about results stays a commercial conversation.

A contractor roster spread across time zones

Designers, writers and media buyers are rarely in one country. Each payout is a separate wire with its own fee, spread, and float you cannot bill for.

Paying a designer, writer or media buyer abroad is a USDC transfer you sign from your own wallet — no banking intermediary in the path and no float to wait on.

Reserves on a category with deferred delivery

A retainer taken up front for a quarter of work sits inside the card company's dispute window for the whole engagement, and rolling reserves are a standard underwriting response to that shape of cash flow.

On-chain settlement becomes final once the transaction confirms, and the confirmed leg is not a card-network dispute rail sitting over the engagement.

How it works

One payment, settled to a wallet you control.

How a payment settles through ZoynA customer pays a payment link. The payment reaches a settlement contract, which divides it in fixed proportions set when it was deployed and pays the merchant’s own wallet and the platform fee directly. Zoyn sits outside the flow of funds.CustomerHostedcheckoutSplitcontractYour walletPlatform feeZoyn (config)Funds never pass through Zoyn
1

Create the retainer link

Fixed amount, your reference. Attach it to your own invoice, your proposal, or your client portal.

2

Client pays card or crypto

Hosted checkout handles both. Card availability depends on the buyer's location, currency, and available checkout providers. Card-funded payments are handled by the checkout provider, so card data never touches your systems.

3

Your share is fixed up front

The shares are fixed when your payments are set up: your agency's share and the platform fee. Every payment follows them exactly, and each one can be checked on a public record.

4

USDC lands in your wallet

Final after the required network confirmations, into wallets your agency controls. Zoyn is not in the flow of funds and never holds them.

Coverage

Where we can onboard you today.

Your type of business

Businesses in this group can apply. You pick your exact type of business when you apply, and every application is reviewed.

Jurisdictions we cannot serve

We cannot onboard merchants operating from comprehensively sanctioned jurisdictions. A US state stays open when at least one checkout partner still serves buyers there. We do not hold ourselves out as licensed anywhere.

Wallet addresses you'll be paid to are checked against sanctions lists when you enter them, and re-checked every day after that.

By trade

Pages for specific trades.

Common questions

What marketing & advertising merchants ask first.

Can we run monthly retainers on autopilot?

Not yet. Zoyn issues fixed-amount payment links rather than recurring charges, so each month is its own link. Plenty of agencies already bill that way from their own invoice, and the trade is that there is no card on file to be disputed six weeks after the work shipped.

Can the client's payment pay our freelancers directly?

No — the client's payment settles to wallets your agency controls, and it is not divided among your freelancers on the way in. Paying your roster sits outside Zoyn: it is a transfer you send from your own wallet, on your own schedule, out of money that has already settled, on timing you control.

Does Zoyn touch the funds?

No. Zoyn is not a payment processor or a money transmitter, and never takes custody. It sets up how you are paid; the money moves from your client to wallets your agency controls.

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Stop pre-funding a card company's reserve.

Create a fixed-amount link, collect the retainer, and have it settled in your wallet on timing you control.

Zoyn

Get paid in digital dollars, straight to a wallet you control.

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Legal & regulatory disclosures

Zoyn is software. It is not a bank, a payment processor, a payment gateway, a money transmitter or a money services business. Zoyn is never the seller in a sale (the "merchant of record"). Zoyn never holds a shop's money, and does not decide how long a payment company may hold it. When a customer pays by card or bank, the payment company handles that payment under its own terms and may hold it for a short time. The money then goes to the shop's own payment contract once the payment network has confirmed it.

Businesses can be based in 64 jurisdictions. A US state stays open when at least one checkout partner still serves buyers there. Customers can pay from 130+ countries through the checkout providers we connect to; which countries customers can pay from is set by those providers, not by Zoyn, and may change without notice. Not available in sanctioned jurisdictions: Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Syria, and the Crimea, Donetsk, and Luhansk regions of Ukraine.

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