Smart banking from MVP to nationwide scale
Kickfin has facilitated $2B+ in payouts, transforming how restaurant employees get paid.
Kickfin partnered with TrueNorth to build and scale the industry’s most reliable, real-time tip-payout platform — from first MVP to nationwide adoption.
INDUSTRY
Financial Services / Payments
SERVICE
Payment Platform Development
In hospitality, 70% of worker income comes from tips, yet payouts were traditionally slow, manual, cash-heavy, and operationally burdensome. Waiting days to receive earnings hurt retention and worker financial stability.
Kickfin set out to replace outdated processes with a seamless, automated, and fully digital experience — but needed a partner who could move quickly, build securely, and support rapid iteration.
Kickfin’s vision required a robust MVP to validate product-market fit fast. TrueNorth partnered as a full-stack extension of their team, delivering a secure and scalable foundation for real-time payouts.
MVP Key Features
With the MVP validated, TrueNorth continued supporting every function — Design, Frontend, Backend, DevOps, QA — and handled integrations with POS systems and payout providers like Toast, Square, and Ingo
Kickfin chose TrueNorth for:
As Kickfin grew, TrueNorth remained embedded — supporting the platform’s evolution through every stage.
TrueNorth deployed a multi-disciplinary senior pod, including:
Over time, this team supported integrations, scaling, refactoring, and new feature development across the ecosystem.
“TrueNorth has been with us throughout our growth, contributing at every stage of the product’s evolution.”
Mike Caffey, Head of Technology & Product Development

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