You never pay creators by hand. Fund your project's wallet, and Artec does the rest:
Flat deals: pay out when you mark the deal complete.
Per-post, CPM, and performance deals: earnings are computed nightly from delivered posts and paid automatically.
Nightly auto-funding tops the wallet up from your card to cover what's owed, so campaigns never stall: you control the auto-funding floor, an optional per-charge ceiling, and a kill switch.
If a creator hasn't finished their payout setup yet, their money waits safely and retries automatically: it never comes back to you and never blocks the campaign.