Get funds out the door on milestones, with proof
Release capital to recipients when milestones are met, route every payout through approval, and keep one connected record of what was disbursed, to whom, in which currency.
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What is disbursement management?
Disbursement management is the process of releasing committed funds to recipients, grantees, portfolio startups, contractors, or sub-grantees, in a controlled, auditable way. AcceleratorApp manages the full payout workflow, including recipient records, milestone-gated releases, approval routing, compliance checks, multi-currency payments, and a field-level audit trail, on one platform. It is the only system that combines disbursement management with capital calls and grants on a single data model.
The problem
Paying recipients is the part nobody built a system for
Payouts live in a bank portal and a spreadsheet
The award is in one system, the milestone evidence is in an inbox, and the actual transfer happens in a bank portal that has no idea what the payment was for.
Nothing connects a milestone to its money
A recipient hits a milestone, someone emails to confirm, someone else approves, and a payment goes out, with no single record linking the evidence, the approval, and the transfer.
When an auditor asks why money moved, you reconstruct it
Proving a disbursement was justified means rebuilding the chain from four systems and a week of email history. The compliance check that should have gated it was done by hand, if at all.
Capabilities
From award to proof of payment
Connected workflows that replace the bank portals, spreadsheets, and email approvals funding teams run on today.
Recipients
Every recipient, committed against disbursed
Track each recipient with their funding program, round, committed amount, and currency. See disbursed against remaining at a glance, with milestone and compliance progress on the same row.
No end-of-month rebuild to answer how much is left to pay, the number updates as each tranche is released.
Release basis
Release every tranche on the right trigger
Milestone, scheduled, or manual. Test the toggle below to see how a £500,000 award is structured and what becomes releasable, live.
Live release plan
One award, three ways to pay it out
Milestone ties each tranche to a deliverable and unlocks it only when the milestone is approved.
Scheduled splits the award into fixed-date tranches. Manual lets an officer release any amount on demand for top-ups and exceptions.
| Tranche | Trigger | Amount | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
T1Tranche 1 | Kickoff report | Paid | |
T2Tranche 2 | Business plan | Paid | |
T3Tranche 3 | MVP shipped | Releasable | |
T4Tranche 4 | Final report | Locked | |
| Releasable now | £150,000 | ||
Three triggers
Whatever your funding agreement requires
Milestone-based
Each tranche links to a deliverable and releases only when its milestone is approved. The default for grants and accelerator funding.
Scheduled
Split the award into fixed-date tranches, monthly, quarterly, or custom. AcceleratorApp queues each payout automatically.
Manual
Release any amount on demand for top-ups, emergency funding, or bespoke arrangements that do not follow a plan.
Compliance gating
No payout clears until the requirements do
Attach compliance requirements to a recipient or a tranche, signed agreement, KYC, verified bank details, prior report. A disbursement stays blocked until every requirement is satisfied.
The gate is enforced in the system, not in someone's memory, so money never moves before it is allowed to.
Approval workflow
Every payout routed, recorded, and timed
Disbursements move through review and approval before any money leaves. Each step is captured with who approved it, when, and the reason, so authorization is never a guess.
Average approval time is tracked on the dashboard, so a payout that stalls is visible instead of silent.
Audit trail
One record proving why every payment moved
Every disbursement state change is logged with a timestamp, user, and reason. Each payout links to the milestone that triggered it and the proof of payment that closed it.
When an auditor or funder asks why money moved, the answer is one search and one source of truth, not a week of reconstruction.
| Time | User | State change |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 10:09 | J. Coneo | pending_approvalpaid |
| Jun 2, 16:40 | Finance | in_reviewpending_approval |
| Jun 1, 14:22 | J. Coneo | milestoneapproved |
| May 28, 09:31 | S. Okafor | tranche_2paid |
| May 27, 10:09 | Finance | bank_detailsverified |
Role-based access
What the officer sees, and what the recipient sees
Every role gets fine-grained, fully customizable view, edit, and approval permissions. Recipients see what is theirs, and only what is theirs.
Full roster, every award, every tranche, every payout. Edit and approval rights scoped per role: officer, finance, program director, auditor, external reviewer.
The recipient sees their own award, disbursed and upcoming tranches, milestone tasks, and payment proofs. Nothing from other recipients.
Why AcceleratorApp
Built for the teams that actually pay recipients
Purpose-built for milestone-driven disbursements and the blended-finance vehicles that pair them with grants and capital calls.
Milestone, scheduled and manual
Whichever trigger your agreement requires, enforced by the system and logged with the payout.
Compliance gating
No payout clears until every attached requirement is satisfied. The gate lives in the platform, not in someone's memory.
Field-level audit log
Every disbursement, approval, and state change captured at the field level, with user attribution.
Disbursements, calls and grants as one
The only platform that combines money out with capital calls and grant management on a single data model.
ISO 27001 certified
Required by institutional funders and many government programs. GDPR compliant by default.
Use cases
One platform, every kind of payout
Accelerators & incubators
Pay portfolio startups against milestones, kickoff, MVP, demo day, with evidence and approval on every tranche.
Grant programs
Release grant tranches on reporting milestones, gated by compliance requirements and a full audit trail.
Development finance
Disburse to sub-grantees and implementing partners across countries and currencies, with country-level reporting.
Foundations
Manage philanthropic disbursements with the same controls and evidence trail funders expect.
Government programs
Pay recipients of public funding with auditable approval routing and the documentation a public auditor expects.
Programs that also raise and call capital
Blended-finance vehicles, family offices, and DFIs pair disbursements with capital calls and grants. AcceleratorApp is the only platform that handles money in and money out on one data model.
Pricing
Transparent pricing. No implementation surprise.
Plans start at
Disbursement management is included in the Funding Module. No hidden setup fees. No consulting requirement.
See full pricingIncluded in the Funding Module
Disbursements ship alongside grants, capital calls, milestones, and compliance. Buy it with a new deployment or add it to an existing AcceleratorApp subscription.
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Questions, answered
Customer stories
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See disbursement management in action
A 15–45 minute demo walks through recipients, milestone-gated releases, approval routing, multi-currency payouts, and the audit trail.
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