How to choose a payout platform for the self-employed: 9 questions before you connect

1. Who tracks the contractor’s income limit

A self-employed person can earn no more than 300 MCI per month and 3,600 MCI per year. People often work with several customers and platforms at once, so the limit may be exceeded elsewhere, not with you.

Ask the platform whether it checks the contractor’s status and limit before every payout, and what happens when the limit is close. If the answer is “we only see payouts within our platform”, the control stays with you.

In AKJET: the self-employed status, the activity and the limit are checked before every payout.

2. Can you make payouts yourself, without a manager

Payouts are often urgent: at the end of a shift, on a Friday evening, before a holiday. What matters is whether the company can upload a register and make the payout itself, or needs the platform’s manager to do it.

Ask: “If the manager doesn’t reply on Friday evening, how do we pay our people?”

In AKJET: the company uploads registers and tasks itself, in its account or via API, at any time. A manager helps with setup but is not needed for payouts.

3. Does the contractor need an app

Not every contractor is willing to download another app, especially for one-off work. Every extra step at registration means people who never reach their first payout.

Ask whether contractors can register and get paid without installing an app.

In AKJET: contractors register and receive payouts via a link in the browser. The app is more convenient for those who work regularly, but it is not required.

4. Who onboards contractors to the platform

With dozens or hundreds of contractors, it matters who onboards them. If each person has to register on their own and verification is done manually through support for each IIN, onboarding drags on for weeks.

Ask whether the company can upload contractors as a list and how their status is checked.

In AKJET: the company can onboard contractors with an Excel register. The self-employed status is checked automatically.

5. Where contractor statuses are visible

Who is ready to work, whose status is confirmed, who is approaching the limit: these questions come up every day. If the answers arrive in a messenger, they are easy to lose and nobody has the full picture.

Ask where the company sees the status of each contractor.

In AKJET: contractor statuses are visible in the company account.

6. What a payout is based on

A payout to a self-employed person should rest on specific work: a task, a result, an act. If the basis is a spreadsheet put together after the fact, the documents support the expense less well, and the arrangement looks more like a salary.

Ask how the system links the task, acceptance of the result, the act and the payout.

In AKJET: the chain is: request, contractor response, task, act, payout. More on the “Task marketplace” page. On signs of employment, see “GPH ban from 8 June 2026”.

7. Whose brand the contractor sees

The contractor works for your company but receives money and documents in the platform’s app. For some businesses it matters that people see their brand.

Ask whether contractors can see your logo and colours.

In AKJET: White-Label is available, so contractors see the company’s brand. More on the White-Label page.

8. Is there a withdrawal fee and who pays it

Besides the company’s plan, there can be costs on the contractor’s side, such as a fee for withdrawing money to a card. Sometimes it is passed on to contractors, and they receive less than they expected.

Ask how much withdrawal to a card costs and who pays for it.

In AKJET: withdrawal to a card is free of charge, for all clients.

9. How the data gets into 1C

Accounting needs to record every payout: the contractor, the contract, the act and the postings. If all of this is entered by hand, workload and the risk of errors grow.

Ask whether there is a ready integration with your accounting system and what it costs.

In AKJET: there is a free extension for 1C 8.3. Contractors, contracts, acts and postings are created automatically. More on the “For accountants” page.

10. A short checklist

If you already work with a platform, start not by comparing prices but with three questions to yourself:

• What in your current setup would you not change?
• Who prepares the register, and how often?
• Do contractors see your brand or the platform’s?

Then go through the list above. What matters most is not the price per payout but how much manual work and risk stays on your side.

This material describes questions for choosing a platform and is not legal advice. Income limits for the self-employed are set by Article 718 of the Tax Code of Kazakhstan; an internet platform operator is a tax agent under Article 721.