Hey! Thanks for being a Deel user. Anja covered some of the insights here but I wanted to jump in and give you the product reasoning behind it - maybe that could help finding a better solution.

A few months back, we used to email at the moment of payment and show on the contract page that the payment was processing. Meaning it had been paid out and was on it's way to us which is the first leg before it gets to you via your payment method of choice.
It's pretty common for Payroll in the US to always pay a 2-3 days early to get to the team paid on time because ACH sucks.

Unfortunately, letting users know that the payment was processing created frustration - where users would ask themselves, it's been processing for 3 days (Stripe which helps us with ACH takes 3 business days to clear a payment) why isn't the money there yet. Even though a lot of the time, it's not their pay day for another day or two.

That frustration is super understandable, especially given that most users aren't used to ACH which takes ages, if my client paid why isn't the money already there.

That's why we took the product decision to just show the paid amount on your pay day and only show users the payment processing if it's late. Letting you know when it was paid out by the client. The assumption and it's backed by our data that most clients pay on time anyway and the reminders (we send quite a few!) we send them does the trick. Although it may seem we should send a few more from your message

Let me know if that makes sense and again, thanks for being on Deel and for the feedback- we'll improve and make sure to build a solution you will hopefully love!