Your EOR Should Not Charge Extra Every Time You Press “Send Tokens”

Most global EORs were built for one thing and one thing only: fiat salaries routed through banks.
The moment you ask them to touch tokens, the system cracks. They don’t upgrade their infrastructure - they simply bolt on a manual workflow, tack on surprise fees, and call it “crypto support.”

The pattern never changes:

• You pay a standard EOR fee per employee
• Every token grant, vesting event, or crypto bonus is treated as a “special project”
• You’re charged per distribution, per batch, or per correction
• You still carry the risk that the tax treatment was done incorrectly

In other words, you pay more for a solution that was never designed for crypto in the first place.

Toku takes the opposite approach.
Tokens and stablecoins are not add-ons. They are first-class parts of the EOR platform.

How Legacy EORs Actually Handle Tokens (And Why It’s a Problem)

When a legacy provider claims they “support token compensation,” the reality behind the scenes is usually messy, manual, and error-prone.

Here is what the workflow typically looks like:

1. Your team sends spreadsheets

Token amounts, wallet addresses, tax assumptions - all passed around in Excel or Google Sheets.

2. Someone at the EOR manually transcribes them

Human error becomes inevitable.
A typo becomes a wrong wallet.
A missing row becomes a missed payout.

3. You get charged for every click

Per event.
Per batch.
Per “crypto handling” fee.
Sometimes per correction too.

4. Tax and reporting are handled separately

Crypto income doesn’t flow naturally into their payroll engine. It lives in parallel documents your finance and tax advisors must clean up later.

5. You end up coordinating across three teams

• Your internal token and treasury team
• The EOR’s operations team
• Your legal, tax, and finance advisors

This might work for a one-off bonus.
It absolutely does not scale when tokens and stablecoins are part of your real compensation strategy.

This is why crypto companies outgrow legacy payroll platforms - and why EOR switching comes up in nearly every growth-stage conversation.

See also: Why Crypto Teams Need a Crypto-Native EOR

Toku Is a Crypto-Native EOR - Not a Fiat EOR With a Crypto Surcharge

Toku was built for teams that live on-chain.

Everything about the platform is designed to support digital assets as seamlessly as fiat:

Token grants are native.

RTUs, vesting schedules, unlocks, cliffs - all part of the EOR system itself.

Stablecoin payroll is native.

USDC and other supported stablecoins flow directly into the payroll logic.

Token distributions and crypto bonuses are native.

No parallel spreadsheets.
No separate ticketing workflows.
No per-distribution penalties.

Tax withholding is automated across jurisdictions.

Toku handles token income, valuation, and employer contributions across 100+ countries - not as a guess, not in a spreadsheet, but as part of the payroll engine.

Payouts match your treasury reality.

Toku integrates with the custodians and multi-sigs you already use so distributions are executed cleanly and consistently.

Everything is audit-ready.

Auditors, regulators, and new CFOs want clarity.
Toku gives them a consistent system-of-record across fiat, stablecoins, and tokens - not a patchwork of ad-hoc files.

Because digital assets are built into the core platform, our pricing is aligned with employment - not with the number of token clicks.

Learn more: Toku Employer of Record

Stop Paying More for Worse Crypto Support

The moment a legacy EOR charges you an extra fee for “crypto handling,” they reveal a deeper truth:

Their system was never built for tokens.

And when you pay extra per token distribution, three major problems appear.

1. You become disincentivized to use tokens and stablecoins at all

The more innovative your compensation model becomes, the more expensive it gets.

• Want to issue milestone bonuses? Fee.
• Want to run monthly vesting? Fee.
• Want to pay part of salary in stablecoins? Another fee.

You end up designing your token compensation strategy around the limitations of your payroll vendor - instead of designing it around what your team actually wants.

2. You carry the compliance risk anyway

Even after paying crypto surcharges, you’re still responsible for:

• Fair market valuation
• Withholding
• Timing of taxable events
• Local labor law constraints
• Income reporting

If the EOR’s crypto logic is bolted on (and it always is), your team is left to clean up the compliance gaps.

3. You pay premium pricing for workflows that are manual, slow, and opaque

Token compensation should feel modern.
Instead, legacy systems make it feel fragile.

A crypto-native team should never be waiting three business days to confirm whether a spreadsheet was transcribed correctly.

With Toku, Tokens and Stablecoins Are Core Payroll - Not Side Projects

Toku removes the distinction entirely.

With Toku, token and stablecoin compensation is:

• Integrated into every EOR contract
• Modeled correctly as income events
• Valued using your chosen method (spot, VWAP, rolling average)
• Handled with the right tax withholding and contributions
• Recorded cleanly for payslips and filings
• Paid out through your multi-sig or custodian
• Stored in an audit-ready system-of-record

There is no “extra fee” for using the assets your organization already runs on.

There is no “crypto exception.”

There is no “special project.”

This is how crypto payroll is supposed to work.

For more on how Toku handles digital-asset compensation, visit: Token Compensation at Toku

The EOR Partner Built for Token and Stablecoin Compensation

If your current EOR charges you every time a token vests or a bonus is distributed, you’re paying more for a system that fundamentally misunderstands your business.

Toku was built for the companies shaping the future of digital assets.

Toku gives you:

• A global EOR designed for tokens and stablecoins from day one
• Integrated token grant administration and stablecoin payroll
• Automated tax and payroll logic across 100+ countries
• Orchestration with your existing multi-sigs and custodians
• A pricing model aligned with ongoing employment - not distribution counts

Ready to Leave the Crypto Surcharge Era Behind?

If you’re done paying for “special handling fees” every time you reward your team in the assets your company actually uses, it’s time to switch to a crypto-native EOR that gets it.

👉 Talk to Toku - and run token and stablecoin compensation at scale without turning every distribution into a line item on your invoice.