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Pay your canvassers as they power the elections

Fast, compliant, automated payouts for civic and campaign organizations and the field teams who get out the vote. Onboarding, payments, sanctions screening, and 1099s—all in one platform.

Batch payouts screen on the Dots dashboard with CSV upload for bulk global payouts
$2bn+ payout volume processed
1m+ payees paid on Dots
300+ payout rails
24 hrs typical time to go live

Getting out the vote is hard. Paying the people who do it shouldn’t be.

Election-season field programs run on a temporary, 1099-heavy workforce that can scale overnight: thousands of canvassers, organizers, poll greeters, drivers, signature gatherers, and performers spread across states and payment methods. Spreadsheets and manual transfers lead to late payments, lost goodwill, compliance gaps, and a brutal tax season. Dots replaces all of it with one automated platform.

Built for field operations at scale.

Pay anyone, instantly

Reach 190+ countries through 300+ payout rails, including same-day options like RTP and FedNow.

Workers get paid their way

Offer ACH, PayPal, Venmo, wire, and 300+ more rails so everyone can choose what works for them.

Onboarding and KYC

Use white-labeled identity verification and real-time OFAC screening for every field worker.

Automated tax

Collect W-9s during onboarding and complete 1099 filing with one click at year-end.

Fraud and control

Dots Control flags risky and duplicate payees before a payment leaves your account.

Payouts that run themselves

Let your team focus on getting out the vote while Dots handles the payout operations.

Keep field programs moving from kickoff through tax season.

Staff up from 50 to 5,000 without breaking payroll.

Field programs spike headcount in days. Manual wires and spreadsheets can’t keep up, and canvassers who aren’t paid on time don’t come back.

  • Pay 10 or 10,000 people in one run or a single API call.
  • Offer same-day pay via RTP, FedNow, Venmo, PayPal, Cash App, and ACH.
  • Let recipients pick their preferred method in a branded portal.
100,000s of people paid every week
<1 hr on payouts with Dots, down from 3–6 hrs

A thousand temp workers is a thousand tax forms.

Seasonal field teams generate a mountain of year-end filings. Chasing W-9s in January—after the campaign is over and everyone has moved on—leaves finance teams scrambling.

  • Collect and validate W-9s during onboarding.
  • Complete 1099 filing with one click at year-end.
  • Give recipients a self-serve portal for forms, edits, and downloads.
70% fewer tax-season support tickets
Near-zero filing errors with automation

Know exactly who you’re paying.

Paying thousands of new recipients quickly is exactly when bad actors, duplicates, and sanctioned parties can slip through. Even one incorrect payment carries real compliance and reputational risk.

  • Screen every payee against sanctions and watchlists, including OFAC, in real time.
  • Use Dots Control to flag suspicious and duplicate accounts before payment.
  • Keep a complete audit trail for clean records and reporting.
50%+ reduction in payout fraud
SOC 2 Type II certified

Who it’s for: anyone paying a field team to get out the vote.

GOTV and voter-registration nonprofits

Canvassing and field programs

Ballot-initiative and signature-gathering campaigns

Experiential turnout events, DJs, and crews

Poll workers and election-day staff

Campaigns, committees, and their vendors

Field organizations choose Dots.

“Dots is helping us take our work to the next level by helping us monitor metrics we could not otherwise check for on our own.”

Amanda Brink profile

Amanda Brink

Executive Director, Empower Project

1,500+ organizations
50 states
$XX mm paid out

Purpose-built for payouts, not bolted onto accounting software.

One platform

Onboarding, payments, sanctions screening, and 1099 filing in one system.

Instant, domestic-first

Native RTP, FedNow, Venmo, PayPal, and Cash App help U.S. field teams get paid in minutes instead of waiting days for legacy AP tools.

Live in 24 hours

Start with the no-code dashboard or a CSV today, then add the API when you are ready.

FAQs

A payouts platform that's self-explanatory. But just in case.

Pay your field team without the chaos.

See how civic and campaign organizations run fast, compliant payouts on Dots and go live in 24 hours.

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