Agentic payments your business can actually trust
Payment workflows for agents that move money under policy.
The payment operations agents run, the governance Conto enforces
Automated payment operations
Conto
Every payment is checked at the moment money moves. Runtime governance decides what clears, what pauses, and what stops.
Runtime governance
Approval routing
Exceptions reach a human
Vendor and counterparty controls
Trusted recipients only
x402 budgets
Hard per-call limits
Settles, with a record
Routine spend moves at agent speed. Every payment lands with the policy result, approval, and counterparty attached.
Automated Payment Operations
Payment workflows agents can run end to end, with Conto enforcing spend policies right where the money moves.
Payout automation
Policy-checked payouts
Pay people or move funds as soon as work completes, with every payout checked before release.
- Best for
- Delivery, payroll, fintech transfers
- Controls
- Caps, velocity, approval
- Outcome
- Fast settlement with hard stops
Autonomous purchasing
Autonomous procurement, within policy
Let agents buy on demand within approved vendors, categories, and budgets.
- Best for
- Supply chain, travel, commerce
- Controls
- Supplier policy, PO caps, approvals
- Outcome
- Repeatable buying without spend drift
Credits and refunds
Refunds and credits, within policy
Let agents issue routine corrections instantly while larger refunds and credits route for review.
Industries
- Best for
- Hospitality, billing, support recovery
- Controls
- Category rules, budgets, approvals
- Outcome
- Faster resolution without leakage
Runtime Governance
Controls and safeguards for cases where autonomous payments need approvals, trusted counterparties, or hard spend limits before they clear.
Escalation paths
Approvals for payment exceptions
Keep routine payments moving while high-value or ambiguous requests pause for human review.
Industries
- Best for
- Large orders, travel, credits
- Controls
- Thresholds, escalation, records
- Outcome
- Humans review exceptions only
Vendor trust controls
Vendor and counterparty controls
Let trusted vendors clear quickly while new, changed, or risky recipients pause for review.
- Best for
- Procurement, travel, merchant spend
- Controls
- Allowlists, trust, merchant rules
- Outcome
- Faster trusted payments, less drift
Micropayments
Budgets for machine payments
Cap each request and session so API, inference, and compute spend stays bounded.
Industries
- Best for
- Inference, APIs, service spend
- Controls
- Per-call caps, session budgets, velocity
- Outcome
- Machine-speed buying with hard limits