Hi, BuffaloNY101. I can't speak for other companies, but for Shoppers' View, we typically pay twice a month. We have an expedited holiday payment schedule in December. There are several reasons we do not do it all year long. For example:
1) We start to prepare for the payment 8 business days before the payment is issued. For our normal schedule, the shops we are paying for have already been submitted by the shopper. For the expedited schedule, we are preparing to pay for shops that are still at new, incomplete, or unassigned status. This makes the preparation take much more time, and it is not as accurate.
2) We are staffed to handle shops at our normal payment speed. We prefer to have shops finalized and in the client's hands before we pay shoppers. However, with the expedited schedule, there are some shops that get paid before they have been finalized. This means that some of these shops may turn out to be unusable, but the shopper will receive pay anyway.
The short answer is that we do not have the resources to do so consistently, and we believe that having consistent, reliable payments is important. We can guarantee the twice monthly payment. In December, many of us work overtime or seven days a week to make the expedited holiday payment schedule work.
Happy holidays!