Our agency regularly interacts with numerous freelancers: designers, copywriters, and targeting specialists. Previously, managing this process was a real chaos. Various contracts (civil law contracts, self-employed, individual entrepreneurs), confusion in tasks, endless email and messenger correspondence to clarify details, manual calculation of payments including taxes, and, most unpleasantly, the preparation of a huge amount of documents for accounting. We spent an enormous amount of time and nerves on operational activities instead of focusing on creativity. The implementation of Mercury Pro has been a true breakthrough for us. Now the entire process is centralized on one platform. We set tasks in the personal account, attach briefs, and set deadlines. The performer sees all the information there, updates the status, and uploads results. But the most important part is the financial block. The platform automatically takes into account the tax status of each performer. The built-in payment calculator is a real find: we can immediately see how much the work will cost us, considering all deductions, and can choose the optimal cooperation scheme. After accepting the work, payment and all closing documents are generated automatically, in just a few clicks. The accounting department received an organized package of electronic documents for each performer, which minimized errors. We significantly reduced the time spent on payment administration, increased transparency for all participants in the process, and finally managed to scale without increasing the number of operational managers. Mercury Pro is not just a payment service, but a full-fledged ecosystem for managing remote teams that has returned our ability to focus on our core business.
