Article One Partners Uses Tipalti's Global Payment Solution To Streamline Payment Process for Crowdsourced Team

AGOURA HILLS, Calif., April 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Article One Partners, the world's largest patent research community, has teamed up with Tipalti, the online automated global mass payment platform, to expand payment method and currency options and streamline the company's international payment process. Tipalti makes it fast, easy and affordable to pay suppliers in 190 countries, enabling Article One Partners, which leverages the power of global crowdsourcing to conduct important patent research, to save time and money by eliminating manual data entry.

By using the Tipalti global payment engine, Article One Partners has achieved greater scalability, expanding its international research community and improving researcher satisfaction by reducing paperwork and offering payment in virtually any local currency. With Tipalti, Article One Partners can now offer payment via ACH/direct deposit, global-ACH/international local bank transfer, paper check, wire transfer, PayPal, prepaid debit card or cash payments via Western Union.

Article One Partners works with hundreds of researchers worldwide, paying millions of dollars to its active community. Before implementing the Tipalti solution, Article One Partners' payment process became more time consuming and complex as the company grew, signaling the need for an efficient method to make mass payments on a global scale, comply with local tax and reporting regulations worldwide and streamline payment-related paperwork.

With Tipalti, Article One Partners found an SaaS solution that makes mass payments quick and easy. The company was able to deploy Tipalti's flexible, automated payment engine by embedding a single line of code on the Article One Partners website, which provides a branded page where payees can register and choose their preferred payment method.

When Article One Partners uploads payment files, Tipalti automatically verifies payee information, performs cross-checks against government blacklists and helps ensure compliance with local payment regulations. Tipalti streamlines and automates the entire payment process – from payee registration through fund disbursement and tax compliance.

Working with Tipalti has also enabled Article One Partners to scale operations rapidly and expand worldwide. Now the company can pay researchers in their preferred methods and currencies and improve the crowdsourced team's satisfaction by reducing their paperwork burden. This has allowed Article One Partners to efficiently partner with researchers worldwide.

"We're extremely happy with Tipalti's service because it has significantly streamlined the payment process, and it has made us much more scalable," said Eric Baer, Vice President, Product and Technology at Article One Partners. "Now we can expand and scale operations more quickly, which helps us achieve our growth goals."

"Article One Partners provides an essential service that supports global innovation," said Tipalti founder and CEO Chen Amit. "We're proud to work with them to deliver a payment solution that allows the company to focus on what it does best."

To learn more about Article One Partners, please visit www.articleonepartners.com. To find out more about Tipalti, go to www.tipalti.com.

About Article One Partners
Article  One Partners (AOP) has revolutionized the transparency of patent data. Today, AOP is the world's largest patent research community. The company has distributed requests for prior art research to more than one million scientists and technologists using a global online human search engine. AOP is active in 188 countries, presents search requests in 10 languages and is exceptionally successful in identifying key foreign language evidence, non-textual and non-patent literature. The company is a partner to 16 Fortune 100 companies, 50 Forbes Global 2000 and 7 of the top 10 US patent filers. AOP's client satisfaction rate exceeds 90%. AOP has a distinguished Board, led by Marshall Phelps, the former head of patents and licensing at IBM and Microsoft. Founded in 2008 by patent community leader, inventor and entrepreneur, CEO Cheryl Milone, the company's product offerings have been called "revolutionary" and "game changing" by leading authorities. In short, many consider AOP to be the new industry standard.

About Tipalti
Tipalti's Software as a Service (SaaS) allows affiliate, advertising, monetization, crowdsourcing and crowd-funding networks to streamline payments to developers, contributors, publishers and affiliates. Tipalti supports a large number of payment methods per country, disburses payments in local currencies, handles tax-reporting requirements and fulfills the required screening of payees. For more information, visit www.tipalti.com.

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