Yes! SeedTrust accepts independent surrogacy escrow management cases. Contact us today to learn more about intended parent surrogacy escrow management services.

• Your funds are fully insured.
• We protect all of the parties.
• Every case is has a dedicated and experienced escrow team.
• Enlisting the services of a fund manager vs. a fund holding company benefits all parties.

Learn more at https://www.seedtrustescrow.com/the-benefits-of-working-with-seedtrust-escrow/

It’s really easy! Ask your surrogacy and/or egg donor agency to email your match sheet to [email protected]. Once we set up your case, your dedicated SeedTrust Escrow team will be in touch. We will work with you to make sure that you understand how to utilize your dashboard to see all of the activity and documentation pertaining to your escrow funds.

Yes. We work with many international intended parents! Our HIPAA-compliant, online platform translates into seven (7) foreign languages. We have relationships with overseas banks that allow international intended parents to fund their escrow accounts. We also partner with foreign currency exchanges to lock in exchange rates and help minimize exchange fees.

SeedTrust charges a low, one-time fee for escrow fund management. Surrogacy fund management is a $1,850 flat fee ($2,000 for independent intended parents). Egg donor cases are $400. There are no additional annual fees and we don’t charge wire transfer fees or check-cutting fees. Need to rematch? There’s no extra charge for that either. With SeedTrust, there are no hidden fees. EVER.

An escrow fund management company, often called an “escrow provider” is a third party entity that maintains and manages how and when funds are disbursed to the parties who are contractually involved throughout a surrogacy and/or an egg donor journey. The escrow provider is responsible for holding the intended parent’s money in a secure account and ensuring that the funds are distributed in accordance with the provisions of the parties’ gestational surrogacy and/or egg donor agreement.

We will not close the account until all parties certify that all monies have been paid and that nothing more is due to be paid or reimbursed.  Once we have written confirmation from all parties, we prepare and refund the account funds via check or ACH/Wire Transfer.

Your client portal will remain active for 90 days after your account has been closed allowing you to access and download all documentation. Should you need to access your documentation after 90 days, you can do so by contacting our office, as SeedTrust® maintains files for three years after the contract has ended.

If you determine that SeedTrust is the right fit for you, please contact us at [email protected] or call 1-888-223-9818 and we will walk you through the next steps. For further information about the SeedTrust process please click here.

Because at SeedTrust, we believe in transparency and open lines of communication, we establish a benchmark payment schedule that is created and stored in the client portal; this schedule can be accessed at any time.

We believe establishing and displaying a payment schedule is the best first step, as it allows for any adjustments to be made and eliminates the guesswork. For instance, if your contract noted that your payment was to be disbursed on the 28th of every month and your particular banking institution has a required 4-day hold on incoming deposits, you would not receive your payment until after the first of the month. If agreed upon by all parties, we could easily modify the schedule and payment transfer date before the engagement began.

Once we establish a schedule that benefits all parties, the schedule document is created and stored in the client portal; this schedule can be accessed at any time. Payments are dispersed by direct deposit.

Payments for Reimbursements 

Download the reimbursement form from your SeedTrust client portal, complete the form, and upload the completed form and receipts and/or documentation to the portal.

Once all of the documentation has been uploaded to the portal, it will be reviewed, and payment will be promptly made. When the payment has been made, all parties will receive a notification from the portal that the ledger has been updated.

The documentation and forms will remain in the portal should either the IP or Surrogate need access to them.

You can easily fund your account using bank wire, ACH transfer, electronic fund transfer or by check. We suggest using wire or ACH transfer as the funds will clear and be ready for disbursement in as little as 24-48 hours. You can fund your account by check, but please note the check may take 10-15 days to clear through your banking institution. Should you need to replenish the funds in your account, you will receive an email notification from your client portal alerting you to do so. After you fund, notify SeedTrust within the system or by sending an email to [email protected] making sure to include your case name, the date you sent the funds, the amount sent, the method of payment and the name of the sender. If you decide to fund your account by check, please note the check may take 10-15 days to clear through your banking institution

Surrogates and Intended Parents have become accustomed to the complicated, antiquated and frustrating process of the industry’s current escrow experience. From the lack of communication to only receiving documentation after multiple requests to inconsistent payment schedules, both Intended Parents and Surrogates waste valuable time and even money.

Using SeedTrust® for your escrow needs introduces you to a new way of managing your funds. It gives you 24/7 access to all of your documentation through your own unique client portal (you can even download the app to your phone or tablet), customized alerts before payments are sent out and when anything has been updated in your portal, and a new and easy scheduling process that we ensure all parties agree upon before we distribute the first payment. Additionally all documentation in your client portal is in real-time; when a benchmark payment or reimbursement is made it is automatically reflected in your ledger which you can access at anytime.

SeedTrust® welcomes ALL clients and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, disability, or sex. 

Escrow means that you’re using a “third party” to hold something of value, which helps to make your transaction safer. The job of an escrow service is simply to ensure that everybody sticks to what is outlined in the contract. Ideally, this would be a neutral third party, as they would have both parties best interests in mind.

Using a third party escrow agency like SeedTrust can eliminate the sometimes-uncomfortable conversations about money and payments that arise between the Intended Parents and Surrogate. By partnering with SmartVault, a secure and easy to access file management system, we have developed a unique process that eliminates the frustrating task of emailing accounting documents back and forth and allows you to spend more time on things that matter.

SeedTrust is owned and operated by an experienced Attorney and CPA and all money is held in a secure, strictly regulated IOLTA account. To date we have worked with Intended Parents, Surrogates, Egg Donors and Agencies in over a dozen countries.