Global teams face mounting challenges managing cross-border payouts, from fragmented banking rails and high transaction costs to compliance risks. Trolley’s global payout API simplifies it all through a single, secure integration.
Within one system, businesses can automate recipient onboarding, global payouts, recipient management, ERP syncing, and more.
“Trolley is re-wiring how global business payments move,” notes Tim Nixon, co-founder and CEO. “With one API, businesses can send payments to over 210 countries and territories, using live FX rates and direct bank deposits. Teams want flexibility and control, rather than handing the experience off to a third party.”
Key features of the global payout API
- Global bank account validation to ensure accuracy and reduce failed payments
- Embeddable recipient onboarding widget for securely capturing payout details
- Single or batch payment generation to handle one-off or high-volume payouts
- Internal approval workflows to unify workflows and simplify team collaboration
- Automated, white-labeled recipient emails for transparent communication
- Customizable bank statement descriptors to keep brand identity consistent
- Automatic handling of returned or failed payments for operational efficiency
- Direct syncing to ERPs and accounting systems to eliminate manual data entry
Built for automation, speed, and flexibility
Modern businesses expect their payout partners to deliver both reliability and agility. Trolley’s platform combines the strength of traditional banking infrastructure with the flexibility of modern fintech.
Developers can embed international payouts directly into their platforms, unlocking new global markets with minimal friction. Trolley’s robust suite of developer tools ensures a smooth path from sandbox to production.
REST-based APIs
Trolley follows an API-first philosophy, meaning every feature in the Trolley interface has a corresponding API component. This gives teams the flexibility to design workflows tailored to their business needs.
Our REST-based APIs help you get up and running in minutes, scale seamlessly as your transaction volume grows, and build sophisticated automations across multiple components. Each endpoint is supported by detailed documentation to guide you through every step of the integration process.
Open source SDKs
With SDKs available in six development languages—JavaScript, Ruby, PHP, Python, Java, and C#—you can integrate Trolley faster and write less code.
Each SDK is maintained on leading package managers, regularly updated, and built to help you implement API functionality directly into your platform. Our open-source approach means you can also contribute improvements and benefit from a community of active developers.
Webhooks
Trolley’s lightweight webhooks enable seamless communication between your internal apps and systems.
Receive notifications whenever key events occur, such as a recipient being updated or a payment failing, and ensure your business logic responds in real time. Each webhook is delivered sequentially for accurate event processing and includes reliable retry mechanisms, so you never miss a critical update.
Modular widget
Hosted by Trolley or embedded directly into your platform, the modular widget streamlines recipient onboarding with built-in bank information collection, tax compliance, and ID verification. It offers white-label options for a seamless brand experience and a responsive design that integrates as an iframe with an event emitter.
The widget is fully customizable and modular: choose from Pay, Tax, and Trust modules to fit your specific business requirements.
Free sandbox environment
Built by developers, for developers, Trolley understands that integrating payout infrastructure into your existing codebase can be challenging. Our developer tools make it simple to move from testing to production quickly.
Sign up, select the tools suited to your tech stack, experiment in the free sandbox to customize workflows, then swap your API keys from sandbox to production and go live within minutes.
Comprehensive API documentation
Our documentation includes detailed developer guides, API references, and in-depth developer blogs to help you get the most out of our tools.
Support teams are available at every stage of the integration process to help you troubleshoot, optimize, and scale your implementation.
Empowering global businesses
For digital marketplaces, creator platforms, affiliate networks, and other businesses powering the digital economy, Trolley provides payout infrastructure that is reliable, compliant, and truly scalable. Our customers use our API to automate their global payments and focus on growth, not manual payout management.
One standout example is Test IO, a crowd-testing platform operating across more than 100 countries. Test IO fully automated their global payment workflows via the Trolley API.
The results speak for themselves: an 84% decrease in transaction costs, automated payouts sent to 100+ countries monthly, and more than six months of developer time saved.
“Trolley checked every box: strong API, broad payment coverage, and a tax platform we could rely on. It was clear they understood businesses like ours.”
— Markus Naumann, Head of Community, Test IO
Through Trolley’s integration, Test IO achieved automation across critical financial operations, including W‑8 and W‑9 collection and validation, real‑time handling of failed or returned payments via webhook status updates, and the elimination of spreadsheets and manual uploads.
The API-driven approach allowed Markus and his team to test, configure, and launch their payout system in just weeks, without lengthy customization or delays.
Trolley’s responsive support team helped ensure a smooth transition. “Trolley support is fast, helpful, and solution‑oriented,” Markus added. “It’s a real differentiator when operating at this scale.”
Stories like Test IO’s reflect how Trolley empowers global businesses to simplify complex workflows, reduce costs, and focus on their customers rather than managing the logistics of payments.
Start building
Explore the docs, test in the sandbox, and go live when you’re ready.
Trolley’s global payout API is designed to make integrating cross-border payments a seamless, low-effort part of your development process.
Whether you’re ready to start coding or just exploring what’s possible, we make it easy to get started. Explore our documentation for detailed guides and API references, experiment in the sandbox to test and customize your workflows, or contact our team for personalized guidance and integration support.
Build faster, scale globally, and simplify payouts with Trolley today.
