Trolley

Name: Trolley
Brand: Trolley
Price: 2399 USD

Payout infrastructure for paying commission to people who are not on payroll

Trolley is a global payout platform, formerly called Payment Rails, that lets a business onboard recipients with identity and business verification, collect their tax details, and pay them across 210-plus countries and 135 currencies through local bank transfers, wires, cheques, debit-card instant payouts and digital wallets, with approval workflows, an API and embeddable widgets; it publishes annual module pricing starting at 2,399 US dollars a year for the Pay module plus per-transaction fees, and offers a self-serve free trial.

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Overview

A surprising amount of sales commission never touches payroll. Affiliates, referral partners, channel resellers, contract closers, overseas sales agents and marketplace sellers all earn variable pay and none of them are employees. The moment your commission plan extends past your own W-2 staff, the problem stops being calculation and becomes payment: how do you get money to a person in Poland or Brazil, verify they are who they claim, collect the right tax form, and produce a record that survives an audit.

Trolley exists for exactly that. Founded in Montreal in 2015 as Payment Rails by Tim Nixon, it rebranded to Trolley in December 2021 alongside a 7 million Canadian dollar Series A led by Pace Capital, and later raised a 32 million Canadian dollar Series B. It has offices in Montreal, Toronto, Halifax, London, Miami, San Francisco, Singapore and Vilnius, and describes itself as payout infrastructure rather than a payment processor, bundling invoicing, recipient verification, tax compliance and payment delivery into one platform.

The scale evidence is real. Trolley reports paying out billions and filing more than 1.2 million tax statements across 210 countries and territories, with named customers including Envato, Canva, SoundCloud, Epic Games and Wattpad. Those are marketplaces paying creators, which is structurally the same problem as paying a distributed partner or affiliate salesforce: many small recipients, many countries, recurring, with tax obligations attached.

Pricing is modular and published, which is unusual for this space. The Standard plan lists 2,399 US dollars a year for the Pay module, 2,399 for Tax in a single jurisdiction, 1,199 for Trust and 1,199 for Sync, with Accounting at 699 and Data Connectors at 1,199 as optional add-ons. Per-transaction fees sit on top: around one euro for domestic SEPA or Faster Payments, four euros for standard ACH, EFT or NPP, ten to 25 euros for wires, two to three euros per tax statement, 2.50 euros per completed identity scan, and a 2 percent currency conversion margin. A free trial is available and the Standard plan can be started self-serve.

Best for

Companies paying commission, referral fees or revenue share to people who are not employees, especially across borders, where recipient onboarding, identity verification and tax reporting are as much of the problem as moving the money, and where volume justifies a low four-figure annual platform cost.

Not the right fit for

Anyone shopping for commission software. Trolley calculates nothing: no plan designer, no quota, no accelerator, no split, no clawback and no rep statement. You tell it who gets how much and it pays them.
Paying employee commission, which belongs on a payslip through your payroll provider rather than through a contractor payout platform.
Very small or occasional payout programmes; at 2,399 dollars a year for the Pay module alone, a company sending a handful of partner payments a quarter is better served by Wise Business or Tremendous.
Buyers who want a single all-in price, because the module structure means Pay, Tax, Trust, Sync, Accounting and Data Connectors are each priced separately and a realistic configuration is several of them.
Companies needing multi-jurisdiction tax reporting on the entry plan, since Standard covers a single tax jurisdiction and multiple jurisdictions require the sales-quoted Trolley Plus tier.

How it works

1
You onboard recipients. Trolley sends a white-labelled invitation or you embed the widget in your own portal, and the recipient enters their own payment details, chooses their payout method, and completes identity or business verification. This is the step that removes the worst of the operational load, because you never handle a partner's bank details yourself and never chase them for corrections.
2
You collect tax information at the same time. The platform handles IRS requirements for US-sourced payouts, DAC7 for EU-based sellers and OECD digital platform reporting more broadly, with statements filed at two to three euros each. For a company paying overseas partners commission, this is usually the reason Trolley is chosen over a bank transfer.
3
You create the payments. Manual entry from the dashboard, CSV import, an ERP integration or an API call, all supporting single and batch payments with line-item control and optional invoice consolidation. Internal approval workflows can be configured so the person who prepares a payout run is not the person who releases it, which is a control most small companies lack when paying partners.
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Trolley delivers and reports. Payment goes out over local rails wherever possible, ACH, SEPA, Faster Payments, PIX, EFT, NPP, or over SWIFT wires, cheques, debit-card instant payouts in the US, and mobile wallets in 25-plus countries, across 135 currencies. Returned payments are handled automatically, recipients see real-time status, and the Sync and Accounting modules push the result back into your finance systems.

Feature breakdown

28 features in 5 modules

Recipient onboarding

The part that removes the most manual work, and the reason to buy this over a bank.

Self-service recipient portal: Recipients enter and maintain their own banking details and choose their payout method, so you never hold or correct a partner's account information.
White-label communications: Invitations and notices carry your brand rather than Trolley's, which matters when the recipient is a partner who thinks of the relationship as being with you.
Embeddable iframe widget: Drop the onboarding flow directly into your own portal or app so partners never leave your product to get set up.
Identity and business verification: Embedded KYC-style checks priced around 2.50 euros per completed scan, which is what lets you pay someone you have never met with a defensible record.
Recipient status visibility: You can see who has completed onboarding and who is blocking their own payment, which turns a chase into a filtered list.

Payments and rails

The delivery network, which is the widest in this shortlist.

210-plus countries and 135 currencies: Broad enough that a distributed partner or affiliate network almost never falls outside coverage.
Local rails first: ACH, IACH, SEPA, Faster Payments, PIX, EFT and NPP where available, which is cheaper and faster than wiring, at around one euro domestic and four euros standard.
Wires and cheques: SWIFT wires at roughly ten to 25 euros and paper cheques for the corners of the world where nothing else works.
Instant debit-card payouts: Available for US merchants, which is the closest thing to immediate delivery for a domestic partner.
Mobile wallets: Local mobile wallets in 25-plus countries for merchants in the US, UK, Canada and Australia, plus consolidation of PayPal, Venmo and Payoneer virtual accounts into batch workflows.
Batch and single payments: Line-item level control within a batch with optional invoice consolidation, so one payout run can carry hundreds of partners without losing per-item detail.
Automatic returned payment handling: Failed payments are caught and handled rather than silently disappearing, which is where manual payout processes lose the most time.

Tax and compliance

Often the actual reason a company buys Trolley rather than using a bank.

IRS reporting for US-sourced payouts: Collection and filing of the US tax forms triggered by paying non-employees, at roughly two to three euros per statement.
DAC7 for EU sellers: The EU digital platform reporting regime, which applies to a growing number of businesses that pay individuals across borders.
OECD digital platform reporting: Wider international reporting obligations handled centrally rather than jurisdiction by jurisdiction.
Single jurisdiction on Standard: The published Tax module at 2,399 dollars a year covers one jurisdiction. Multi-jurisdiction coverage requires Trolley Plus, which is sales-quoted.
1.2 million statements filed: Across 210 countries and territories, which is a genuine scale reference rather than a marketing claim.
SOC 2 certification: Independently audited, which is the baseline a finance team requires before routing partner payments through a third party.

Controls and workflow

What separates this from a spreadsheet and a bank login.

Configurable approval workflows: Customised internal sign-off so preparation and release are separate actions, which is basic payment hygiene most small companies skip when paying partners.
Multiple payment creation paths: Dashboard entry, CSV import, ERP integration or API trigger, so the process can start manual and become automated without changing vendor.
Real-time payment status: Recipients and you both see where a payment is, which the vendor credits with cutting support queries.
Trust module for fraud detection: Priced at 1,199 dollars a year on Standard, with enhanced fraud detection reserved for Trolley Plus. Relevant when you are paying people you recruited online.
Sync module: 1,199 dollars a year for data synchronisation, with near real-time refresh on Trolley Plus, which is how payout data gets back into your own systems.

Developer and finance integration

How Trolley connects to what you already run.

REST API and SDKs: Full programmatic control over recipients, payments and batches, which is why marketplaces embed it rather than operating it manually.
Native ERP integrations: Direct connections into finance systems, so payout data does not need to be re-keyed at month end.
Accounting add-on: 699 dollars a year, covering the reconciliation path between payouts and your ledger.
Data Connectors add-on: 1,199 dollars a year for broader data movement between Trolley and your other systems.
Invoice handling: Invoicing is part of the platform rather than a separate tool, which matters when partners are expected to bill you rather than simply be paid.

Use cases

4 documented

SaaS company paying an international affiliate programme

Two hundred affiliates in 30 countries earn revenue share monthly, currently paid by a mix of PayPal and manual wires with no tax documentation and constant queries about where the money is.

Affiliates onboard themselves through a white-labelled widget with verification and tax details collected up front, monthly batches go out over local rails at one to four euros each, and DAC7 and IRS reporting is handled by the platform rather than by a spreadsheet.

Agency paying commission-only overseas sales agents

Six agents in Europe and Latin America close deals on commission and are not employees anywhere, so payroll cannot handle them and wires cost 25 dollars each.

Each agent is onboarded once with verification, paid monthly in their own currency over local rails, and their tax status is documented, turning an awkward arrangement into a repeatable process with an approval step.

Marketplace paying seller revenue share

Thousands of small payouts a month with per-seller tax obligations, which is unmanageable manually and legally risky if ignored.

The API creates payments programmatically, batch runs carry line-item detail, tax statements are filed at two to three euros each, and returned payments are handled automatically instead of appearing as an unexplained reconciliation gap.

Finance owner introducing controls over partner payments

One person prepares and sends every partner payment from a bank login, which is a control weakness an auditor has already noted.

Configurable approval workflows split preparation from release, every payment is logged with its recipient, verification status and tax record, and the SOC 2 certification satisfies the diligence question.

Pricing

from $2,399 per year for the Pay module, plus per-transaction fees

Annual subscription per module, with per-transaction and per-statement fees on top, plus a currency conversion margin. Two plans: a published Standard and a sales-quoted Trolley Plus.

Plan	Price	Includes
Standard	$2,399 per year for Pay, plus optional modules billed annually	Pay module at $2,399 per year Tax at $2,399 per year for a single jurisdiction Trust at $1,199 per year Sync at $1,199 per year Optional Accounting at $699 and Data Connectors at $1,199 The self-serve tier. A realistic configuration of Pay plus Tax plus Trust is close to 6,000 dollars a year before transaction fees.
Trolley Plus	Custom billed annually	Everything in Standard Transaction and FX volume discounting on Pay Multiple tax jurisdictions including IRS and OECD digital platform reporting Enhanced fraud detection in Trust Near real-time data refresh in Sync The tier you need if you file tax in more than one jurisdiction, which is the common trigger for leaving Standard.

Plan

Price

Includes

Standard

$2,399 per year for Pay, plus optional modules

billed annually

Pay module at $2,399 per year
Tax at $2,399 per year for a single jurisdiction
Trust at $1,199 per year
Sync at $1,199 per year
Optional Accounting at $699 and Data Connectors at $1,199

The self-serve tier. A realistic configuration of Pay plus Tax plus Trust is close to 6,000 dollars a year before transaction fees.

Trolley Plus

Custom

billed annually

Everything in Standard
Transaction and FX volume discounting on Pay
Multiple tax jurisdictions including IRS and OECD digital platform reporting
Enhanced fraud detection in Trust
Near real-time data refresh in Sync

The tier you need if you file tax in more than one jurisdiction, which is the common trigger for leaving Standard.

Add-ons

Accounting ($699 per year): Reconciliation path between payouts and your ledger.
Data Connectors ($1,199 per year): Broader data movement between Trolley and other systems.
Domestic transfers (About EUR 1.00 per payment): SEPA and Faster Payments rails.
Standard transfers (About EUR 4.00 per payment): ACH, EFT and NPP rails.
Wire transfers (About EUR 10.00 to 25.00 per payment): Use only where local rails are unavailable.
Currency conversion (2.00 percent margin): Applies whenever you pay in a currency you do not hold.
Tax statements (About EUR 2.00 to 3.00 per statement): Charged per statement filed.
Identity verification (About EUR 2.50 per completed scan): Charged per completed verification through the Trust module.

Billing notes

Pricing is annual only; no monthly option is offered, so this is a year of commitment even though a free trial exists.
The module structure means the headline 2,399 dollars covers payments alone. Tax, fraud checks and data sync each carry their own annual fee.
The 2 percent currency conversion margin is often the largest real cost for a company paying internationally, and it is easy to miss when comparing platform fees.
Standard covers a single tax jurisdiction. Paying recipients in the EU and the US at once typically forces you onto sales-quoted Trolley Plus.
Per-transaction fees are flat rather than percentage-based, which is what makes Trolley cheaper than Tremendous at high payout values and more expensive at low ones.

Value assessment: Trolley is priced for a company with a real payout operation, not for one sending a few partner cheques. Below roughly 50,000 dollars a year in partner payments, the platform fees dominate and Wise Business or Tremendous will be cheaper. Above that, the arithmetic flips hard: flat per-transaction fees of one to four euros beat percentage-based rails, and the value of automated recipient onboarding, identity verification and tax filing is difficult to overstate for anyone who has done it manually. The thing to model carefully is the 2 percent FX margin, which on a genuinely international programme can exceed every subscription line combined. Judged as payout infrastructure it is fairly priced and unusually transparent; judged as anything to do with calculating commission it is not in the running, because it does not attempt it.

Strengths & limitations

Strengths

Published module pricing with a self-serve free trial, which is rare among global payout platforms where the norm is a demo and a quote.
Recipient self-onboarding with white-label communications and an embeddable widget removes the single most tedious part of paying non-employees.
Tax handling across IRS, DAC7 and OECD digital platform reporting, with more than 1.2 million statements filed across 210 countries as evidence it works at scale.
Flat per-transaction pricing of roughly one to four euros on local rails, which is dramatically cheaper than percentage-based alternatives at meaningful payout values.
Configurable approval workflows and SOC 2 certification give a finance owner the separation of duties and diligence answer they need.
Multiple ways to create payments, from dashboard entry to CSV to ERP integration to API, so a manual process can automate over time without changing vendor.

Limitations

It calculates nothing. No plan designer, no quota, no accelerator, no split, no clawback and no rep statement; the amount owed has to be determined elsewhere.
The module structure fragments the price, and a realistic configuration of Pay, Tax and Trust approaches 6,000 dollars a year before a single transaction fee.
The Standard plan covers only one tax jurisdiction, which pushes genuinely international programmes into a sales-quoted tier quickly.
Annual billing only, with no monthly option, so the commitment is a year regardless of how the trial goes.
The 2 percent currency conversion margin is a substantial and easily overlooked cost on international payouts, and is worse than a dedicated FX provider like Wise.
Enhanced fraud detection and near real-time sync are reserved for Trolley Plus, so the published Standard tier is a deliberately reduced version of the product.

Head-to-head comparisons

6 alternatives

Trolley vs Payoneer

from $0 to open a business account; fees are charged per transfer and per conversion

Both pay non-employees globally, from different starting points. Payoneer is a financial institution with a free account, a 29.95 dollar annual fee only if you receive under 6,000 dollars, and per-transfer costs of 1.50 dollars domestic or 1.2 to 4 percent international. Trolley charges four figures a year but gives you recipient onboarding, identity verification, tax filing and approval workflows as a product. Small or occasional programmes favour Payoneer; a real payout operation with tax obligations favours Trolley.

Full Trolley vs Payoneer comparison

Trolley vs Wise Business

from $31 one-off set-up fee, with no monthly subscription

Wise Business costs 31 dollars once, converts at 0.23 percent and up against Trolley's 2 percent margin, and pays up to 1,000 people per batch. It has no recipient onboarding portal, no identity verification, no tax filing and no per-recipient compliance record. If you know your partners and just need cheap international transfers, Wise wins on cost by a wide margin. If you need to onboard strangers and file their tax statements, Wise cannot do it at all.

Full Trolley vs Wise Business comparison

Trolley vs Tremendous

from $0 to use the platform; you pay only the face value of what you send

Different scales of the same job. Tremendous costs nothing up front and takes 4 to 6 percent on cash payouts, which is ideal for small SPIFFs and prizes. Trolley costs 2,399 dollars a year plus roughly one to four euros a transfer, which is far cheaper per dollar once payouts are substantial. Crossover is around a few thousand dollars a month in cash payouts. Tremendous also offers gift cards, which Trolley does not, and Trolley offers verification and tax filing, which Tremendous mostly does not.

Full Trolley vs Tremendous comparison

Trolley vs Giftbit

from $0 to open and use an account; you pay only the face value of what you send

Barely comparable and worth separating clearly. Giftbit sends gift cards and prepaid value for free with no cash rails and no tax filing. Trolley moves real money to bank accounts across 210-plus countries with verification and tax compliance, for a four-figure annual fee. Prizes and SPIFFs go through Giftbit; earned partner commission goes through Trolley.

Full Trolley vs Giftbit comparison

Trolley vs QuotaPath

from $525 per month platform fee plus $35 per user per month (Growth), billed annually

Complementary rather than competing, and often bought together by companies with a partner channel. QuotaPath calculates commission against a designed plan from CRM and billing data, gives reps statements and a dispute path, and exports to payroll for employees. Trolley pays the people payroll cannot reach. Neither does the other's job and a company with both employee reps and external partners genuinely needs both.

Full Trolley vs QuotaPath comparison

Trolley vs Palette

from $590 per month for up to 15 seats on annual billing ($790 monthly)

Palette automates commission calculation from your revenue systems and produces the number. Trolley takes a number someone else produced and delivers it to a recipient in Brazil with a tax statement attached. If your problem is that partner commission is calculated in a spreadsheet, Palette is the fix. If the calculation is fine and paying people is the ordeal, Trolley is.

Full Trolley vs Palette comparison

Implementation & onboarding

Setup time: A first payout run within a week if recipients are cooperative, most of which is waiting for them to complete onboarding and verification rather than anything you do. API and widget integration adds one to three weeks of engineering.
Learning curve: Moderate on the finance side. The payment concepts are straightforward but the tax module requires understanding which reporting regime applies to your recipients, and that determination is not something the software makes for you.
Onboarding: The Standard plan can be started self-serve with a free trial, which is genuinely unusual for global payout infrastructure. Trolley Plus is sales-quoted. No separately priced mandatory implementation engagement is published, though complex ERP or API integrations are engineering work you supply.
Migration notes: The real migration cost is re-onboarding recipients, because banking details and verification records do not transfer from a previous provider. Plan a parallel period where new payees onboard through Trolley while existing arrangements run out. Historical tax filings stay with whoever filed them, so switching mid-tax-year is best avoided.

Platform, API & security

Platforms: Web dashboardREST API and SDKsEmbeddable iframe widgetCSV importNative ERP integrations
API: Full REST API with SDKs plus iframe widgets for embedding recipient onboarding and payouts directly into your own product, alongside native ERP connectors.
Compliance: SOC 2 certifiedIRS reporting for US-sourced payoutsDAC7 for EU sellersOECD digital platform reporting
Data residency: Canadian-founded with offices in Montreal, Toronto, Halifax, London, Miami, San Francisco, Singapore and Vilnius; no specific regional data residency guarantees advertised.
SSO: Not published as a standard tier feature; access control is handled through user roles and approval workflows.
Security notes: Embedded identity and business verification at roughly 2.50 euros per completed scan, configurable internal approval workflows separating preparation from release, and automatic handling of returned payments. Enhanced fraud detection is reserved for the Trolley Plus tier.

Support & resources

Channels: Email and in-product supportAccount support on Trolley Plus
Documentation: Developer documentation covering the API, SDKs and widgets, plus product guides on recipient onboarding, batch payments and tax modules.
Community: No large public user forum; the customer base is operations and engineering teams working through documentation and support.

Company

Founded: 2015
Headquarters: Montreal, Quebec, Canada, with offices in Toronto, Halifax, London, Miami, San Francisco, Singapore and Vilnius
Ownership: Venture-backed and privately held
Founders: Tim Nixon
Employees: Not disclosed
Funding: Raised a 7M Canadian dollar Series A in December 2021 led by Pace Capital alongside the rebrand from Payment Rails, preceded by roughly 1.9M Canadian dollars in bridge rounds, and followed by a 32M Canadian dollar Series B.

Funding history

Round	Amount	Year	Notes
Bridge rounds	About CAD 1.9M	2016 to 2020	Backed by Toronto-based GreenSky Capital and angel investors while operating as Payment Rails.
Series A	CAD 7M	2021	Led by Pace Capital, announced in December 2021 alongside the rebrand from Payment Rails to Trolley.
Series B	CAD 32M	2023	Raised to expand the payout platform's global reach.

Timeline

2015Founded in Montreal by Tim Nixon as Payment Rails, building an API for sending payouts to individuals internationally.
2019Adds tax compliance to the platform, moving beyond payment delivery into the reporting obligations that come with paying non-employees.
2021Rebrands from Payment Rails to Trolley and closes a 7M Canadian dollar Series A led by Pace Capital.
2023Raises a 32M Canadian dollar Series B to expand global reach, and is recognised on the Deloitte Fast 500.
2024Adds DAC7 and OECD digital platform reporting alongside existing IRS coverage as international reporting regimes expand.
2026Operates across 210-plus countries and 135 currencies, having filed more than 1.2 million tax statements, with published Standard module pricing and a self-serve trial.

Integrations

REST API and SDKs
Embeddable iframe onboarding and payout widgets
Native ERP integrations
CSV import for batch payouts
Accounting add-on for ledger reconciliation
Data Connectors add-on
PayPal, Venmo and Payoneer virtual accounts as payout destinations
Local bank rails including ACH, IACH, SEPA, Faster Payments, PIX, EFT and NPP
SWIFT wires, paper cheques, US debit card instant payouts and mobile wallets in 25-plus countries

Frequently asked questions

10 questions

What is Trolley?

Trolley is a global payout platform, formerly Payment Rails, that onboards recipients with identity and tax verification and pays them across 210-plus countries and 135 currencies over local bank rails, wires, cheques, instant debit-card payouts and mobile wallets. It adds approval workflows, invoicing, tax reporting and an API, and describes itself as payout infrastructure rather than a payment processor.

Does Trolley calculate sales commission?

No. There is no plan designer, no quota, no accelerator, no split, no clawback and no rep statement. Trolley takes an amount you have already determined and delivers it to a named recipient with verification and tax handling attached. Anyone shopping for software that works out what a rep is owed needs a commission platform underneath it.

How much does Trolley cost?

The published Standard plan lists 2,399 US dollars a year for the Pay module, 2,399 for Tax in a single jurisdiction, 1,199 for Trust and 1,199 for Sync, with Accounting at 699 and Data Connectors at 1,199 as add-ons. Per-transaction fees sit on top: roughly one euro domestic, four euros standard, ten to 25 euros for wires, two to three euros per tax statement, 2.50 euros per identity scan, and a 2 percent currency conversion margin.

Can a small business buy Trolley?

Yes, the Standard plan is self-serve with a free trial and no minimum recipient count. Whether it should is a different question. At 2,399 dollars a year for payments alone, a company sending a handful of partner payments a quarter is better off with Wise Business or Tremendous. Trolley starts making economic sense when payout volume is regular and international and tax reporting is genuinely required.

Which tax regimes does Trolley handle?

IRS reporting for US-sourced payouts, DAC7 for EU-based sellers, and OECD digital platform reporting more broadly, with more than 1.2 million statements filed across 210 countries and territories. The published Standard tier covers a single jurisdiction; paying recipients in more than one regime requires the sales-quoted Trolley Plus plan.

How do recipients get set up?

They onboard themselves. Trolley sends a white-labelled invitation, or you embed the iframe widget in your own portal, and the recipient enters their banking details, selects a payout method and completes identity or business verification at around 2.50 euros per completed scan. You never handle their bank details directly, which is the single biggest operational saving.

Is there an approval workflow and an audit trail?

Yes on approvals: internal sign-off workflows are configurable so preparation and release are separate actions, which is the separation of duties an auditor looks for on partner payments. The audit trail covers payments, recipients, verification status and tax filings. What it does not cover is the derivation of the amount, because Trolley never sees the plan that produced it.

How does Trolley compare with Wise Business for international payouts?

Wise costs 31 dollars once, converts from 0.23 percent against Trolley's 2 percent margin, and can batch up to 1,000 payments. On pure transfer cost Wise wins clearly. What Wise has no equivalent of is recipient self-onboarding, identity verification, per-recipient tax filing and configurable approval workflows. Choose Wise if you know your payees and want cheap transfers; choose Trolley if the compliance and onboarding burden is the actual problem.

How long does implementation take?

A first payout run is realistic within a week, and most of that is waiting on recipients to complete onboarding rather than on your own setup. API or widget integration adds one to three weeks of engineering. The Standard plan starts self-serve with a free trial and there is no published mandatory paid implementation engagement.

Who owns Trolley and how is it funded?

Trolley is a privately held, venture-backed company founded in Montreal in 2015 by Tim Nixon as Payment Rails. It rebranded in December 2021 alongside a 7M Canadian dollar Series A led by Pace Capital, having previously raised roughly 1.9M Canadian dollars in bridge rounds, and later raised a 32M Canadian dollar Series B. Named customers include Envato, Canva, SoundCloud, Epic Games and Wattpad.

Editorial verdict

Trolley is the right tool for a specific and underserved problem: paying variable compensation to people your payroll cannot reach. Recipient self-onboarding, identity verification, tax filing across IRS, DAC7 and OECD regimes, approval workflows and flat per-transaction pricing on local rails add up to something a bank login and a spreadsheet cannot approximate, and the published module pricing plus a self-serve trial is more transparency than this corner of fintech usually offers. Be clear-eyed about the cost shape. The advertised 2,399 dollars covers payments only, a realistic configuration approaches 6,000 dollars a year, the Standard tier is limited to one tax jurisdiction, and the 2 percent FX margin can quietly exceed all of it. And be absolutely clear that Trolley calculates nothing. Pair it with a commission tool that produces the number, and it will get that number to a partner in almost any country with a record you can defend.

Written by the SaaSTracker editorial team. Awards, when shown, are judged against the published criteria in our methodology.