Business
International payments, freelancing, cross-border payroll, and treasury.
91 articles
In this section
Latest business articles
- Glide Equity · Migration guide·10 min
How to migrate your cap table from Carta to Glide Equity
Export the five required Carta Excel reports, upload them to Glide Equity, resolve reconciliation errors, confirm legal terms, and invite stakeholders safely.
- Learn · Payment timing·11 min
How long do international payments actually take?
Compare international wire, ACH-style, SEPA instant, local real-time, and stablecoin timing, including cut-offs, last-mile credit, holidays, and compliance holds.
- Learn · Getting paid·11 min
How to receive money internationally as a business
How to issue international receiving instructions, handle SWIFT, IBAN and purpose data, respond to holds, choose conversion treatment, and match receipts to invoices.
- Learn · Payment operations·11 min
What is payment orchestration?
How payment orchestration routes transactions across providers, where failover helps, what remains processor-specific, and when the added complexity is justified.
- Learn · B2B payments·12 min
B2B payments: a practical guide for businesses paying and getting paid
An end-to-end B2B payments operating model covering commercial obligations, counterparty onboarding, invoices, approvals, rails, treasury, settlement, and reconciliation.
- Learn · Billing operations·13 min
How recurring payments work: subscriptions, billing, and authorization
How recurring card and ACH payments move from consent to billing, collection, retries, dunning, cancellation, and reconciliation, with scoped US regulatory guidance.
- Learn · Accounts payable·13 min
AP automation: what it actually changes about accounts payable
How AP automation adds invoice capture, matching, approval routing, payment preparation, and exception controls without removing human judgment.
- Learn · Business finance·13 min
What is working capital, and how do businesses manage it?
Working capital explained with the current-assets-minus-current-liabilities formula, cash conversion cycle, timing risks, and practical management levers.
- Learn · Payroll operations·14 min
What is a payroll system? How businesses actually run payroll
How payroll systems turn employee and time data into gross-to-net pay, direct deposits, tax deposits and filings, records, pay statements, and year-end forms.
- Learn · Spend management·13 min
What is expense management? How businesses track and control spend
How expense reports, employee reimbursements, company cards, spend controls, receipt evidence, approvals, accounting, and reconciliation fit together.
- Learn · Vendor payments·10 min
How to pay international vendors: methods, costs, and what to check first
How businesses pay international vendors by wire, international clearing, payment platform, or stablecoin, including payee data, tax forms, costs, and fraud controls.
- Learn · Contractor payments·11 min
How to pay foreign contractors: forms, rails, and compliance basics
How to pay foreign contractors, including W-8BEN versus W-9, 1099 and 1042-S basics, worker classification, currency choice, and payment rails.
- Learn · FX risk·11 min
Managing FX risk: a practical guide for businesses with foreign-currency exposure
A practical FX risk-management guide for businesses, covering exposure registers, natural hedging, multi-currency balances, forwards, options, and a worked example.
- Learn · Accounting·11 min
Multi-currency accounting: how businesses handle FX gains, losses, and bookkeeping
How multi-currency accounting works: functional currency, transaction and closing rates, realized and unrealized FX, revaluation, settlement, QuickBooks, and Xero.
- Learn · Global payroll·11 min
International payroll: how businesses pay employees and contractors across borders
How international payroll works for SMBs: EOR versus entity versus contractor, current published cost examples, currency, funding, compliance, and controls.
- Learn · Invoicing·11 min
What is an invoice? Anatomy, legal requirements, and common mistakes
Learn what an invoice is, which fields it needs, how it differs from receipts and purchase orders, and what changes for EU VAT and cross-border trade.
- Learn · Accounts payable·11 min
Invoice processing: how the AP workflow actually works
Learn the invoice-processing workflow, including two-way and three-way matching, approvals, bottlenecks, automation, duplicate controls, and reconciliation.
- Learn · Accounts receivable·11 min
What is accounts receivable? AR basics for growing businesses
Learn accounts receivable basics, the AR collection process, aging reports, AR turnover and DSO formulas, and how to interpret a worked example.
- Learn · Accounts payable·11 min
What are accounts payable? AP basics and why they matter for cash flow
Learn accounts payable basics, why AP affects cash flow, how 2/10 net 30 works, and the correct AP turnover formula with a worked example.
- Learn · Reconciliation·11 min
Accounting reconciliation: how businesses match records and catch errors
Learn accounting reconciliation, the manual bank-reconciliation process, common discrepancies, review controls, and how remittance data improves matching.
- Learn · Treasury·11 min
Corporate treasury management: what it means for a growing business
Learn what corporate treasury does, when an SMB needs treasury discipline, and how to manage cash, liquidity, forecasts, FX, banks, and controls.
- Learn · Foreign exchange·11 min
What is the interbank exchange rate, and why can quotes differ?
Learn what the interbank or mid-market exchange rate means, why customer quotes differ, and how to calculate the effective FX spread with an example.
- Learn · International payments·11 min
Should you pay international vendors and staff in USD or their local currency?
Compare USD and local-currency payments for international vendors and staff, including who bears FX risk, end-to-end cost, and worked examples.
- Learn · Business payments·12 min
How to avoid (or reduce) wire transfer fees for business payments
Learn where business wire fees come from and how to reduce the all-in cost with better quotes, batching, digital channels, and rail comparisons.
Glide · Business
Plan your next business payment
Run payroll and cross-border payments from one account: hold USDC and 80+ currencies, convert close to the mid-market rate, and pay out on local rails instead of paying the wire tax. Solo, or with multisig for teams.