FieldPay Resources

Customer stories, guides, podcasts and tools for businesses that run on contractors.

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Your Payables Can Out-Earn Your Treasury Account

Paying a sub on day 7 instead of day 30 for a 2% early-pay discount earns your cash about 16% a year after fees, versus about 4% in treasury. Run the math on your own payables.

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Press

Press Release: The Cold Standard Recruits Pool and Spa Pros

America's first dedicated cold plunge service network is adding technicians in 24 markets across 9 states, and network techs get paid as soon as the same day through FieldPay.

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Customer story

Customer Story: Murdock Pool Service

Brett Murdock has been trying to solve field-tech pay since 2015. Here's how connecting Skimmer to FieldPay made pay something he never has to think about again.

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Customer story

Built From Necessity: Inside The Cold Standard

How one San Diego gym owner's search for a reliable cold plunge technician turned into the industry's first national service network — featuring FieldPay customer Pyramid Pool Service. Excerpted from the September IPSSAN.

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Guide

1099 Compliance in 2026: The Latest DOL Guidance

The DOL has a new independent contractor rule in the works, the IRS just raised the 1099-NEC filing threshold, and state tests haven't gone anywhere. Where things actually stand, and the practices that hold up either way.

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Tool

Repair Pipeline Calculator

See what your team's repair pipeline is really worth. With 5 technicians, we helped one pool and spa operator surface $50,000 in repair volume—by making instant pay the reward for flagging opportunities their team was already seeing every day.

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Guide

You Value Your Great Subs. Paying Them Fast Is Just a Tap.

Good subs don't leave because the work dried up. They leave because someone else started paying them faster. How to make fast payment part of the relationship, not an afterthought.

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Guide

How the Skimmer Integration Works

A step-by-step walkthrough: connect Skimmer, choose payable categories, preview before you go live, and turn completed route stops and work orders into same-day tech payouts.

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Guide

Three Keys to Performance Pay That Actually Work

Incentive pay works best when it is positive, known, and immediate. A practical behavioral framework for managers designing pay-for-performance.

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Guide

Known vs. Unknown Payoffs: Why Competitions Quietly Kill Motivation

A bite-sized guide to why predictable, known payoffs outperform competitions—and how uncertainty quietly reduces motivation across your whole team.

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Guide

Immediacy vs. Later payoffs: Why Timing Beats Amount

Why delayed bonuses lose their power. A practical look at discount rates—and the math behind why timing matters more than dollars.

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Guide

Sports Betting Is Coming After Your Guys

Sports betting apps have mastered incentive design. If your incentives are slow or uncertain, they’re losing.

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Guide

Why Don’t They Care? The Hourly Pay Dilemma

Hourly pay sends a weak signal in field services. Piece-rate and performance pay clarify what matters, reward initiative, and help teams step up.

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Podcast

Podcast: Get Paid Before You Pack the Truck

FieldPay joins David Van Brunt of The Bottom Feeder to talk instant pay—what changes for recruiting and retention when a completed job can trigger same-day pay.

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Podcast

Podcast: Pay Smarter, Grow Faster

Listen to FieldPay’s founder Flavia de la Fuente on Lemon Seed Marketing’s From the Yellow Chair podcast, discussing how instant pay incentives transform recruiting, retention, and growth.

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Guide

The New Weekend Coverage Playbook

How to activate your team on weekends with surge pay opportunities that keep customers happy and costs low.

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