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Hona partners with Confido Legal to replace the settlement check
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October 9, 2026
Settlement day should be the best day of the case. Too often it is the slowest. The funds land in trust, and then a check gets drafted, signed, mailed, and logged by several people before your client sees a dollar.
That last mile is changing. Hona and Confido Legal have partnered, and our new integration brings Confido-powered settlement payouts directly into Hona. We call it Hona Disbursements.
Why we partnered with Confido Legal
Settlement is the moment your client decides how they feel about your firm. It is also the one step in a PI case still running on paper.
Hona already carries the conversation between your firm and your client from intake to resolution. What it could not do was finish that conversation with the client's money in hand. Confido does exactly that. It moves trust money for more than 1,600 law firms, with the underwriting, banking relationships, and trust accounting controls that work demands.
Together, the payout stops being a separate process. The payment link arrives in the same text thread your client has used all case long, the status lands back on the case, and your team never leaves Hona to get it done. Confido runs the money. Hona runs the moment.
"Firms already run every client conversation on Hona. The payout is the most important one, and until now it happened somewhere else, on paper. Confido lets us close the case in the same thread it started in." Josh Christensen, Co-Founder and CTO, Hona
"Been super impressed with the way Hona helps firms automate the most cumbersome aspects of the case lifecycle and improve the client experience." Emery Wager, CEO and Co-Founder, Confido Legal
What the integration means for your firm
- Pay every party on the case. Send settlement funds to your client, medical providers, and other lien holders from Hona, instead of cutting a separate check for each one.
- Fewer hands on every payout. Your team drafts and approves the payout in Hona instead of passing a paper check from desk to desk.
- Less time on the phone. Payout status lives on the case, so the "where's my money?" calls answer themselves.
- No more lost, stolen, or uncashed checks. Nothing to reissue, no stop payments, and no stale checks sitting in your trust reconciliation for months.
- Works where your team already works. Draft payouts from your case management system with the Hona Chrome extension, and push disbursement events into your case management and accounting tools with automations.
- No subscription. No setup fee, no per-seat fee. A flat $3 per disbursement, charged only when your client accepts the funds.
What it means for your clients
- Money in minutes, not weeks. Clients choose instant to their debit card, where funds land in seconds or minutes for a small fee, or free direct deposit in 4 to 6 business days. No waiting on the mail and no trip to your office.
- A link they actually trust. Clients are rightly wary of payment links from numbers they don't recognize. This one comes from the number they have texted with all case long, in the same thread as their case updates.
- A simple, secure experience. Clients verify their identity before they accept the funds. Nobody reads account numbers over the phone.
Peace of mind for the trust account
Every firm asks about the trust account first. Money does not move until your client verifies their identity and accepts, and nothing leaves your trust account before that. Drafting and approving are separate permissions, so the person who prepares a payout does not have to be the person who releases it. Every draft, edit, approval, and payment is logged with a name and a timestamp. Funds move through Confido, a platform built for law firm trust accounting, and fees never come out of trust.
Already a Confido firm? Keep your account
If your firm already uses Confido, you do not start over. You connect your existing Confido account to Hona in a couple of clicks. There is no second underwriting review and no second bill. New firms complete a short application with Confido from inside Hona.
The takeaway
Your clients waited months for their settlement. They should not wait again for a check. With Hona and Confido Legal, every party on the case gets paid from one place, from your client to the last lien holder. Payouts move faster, and your team does less of the chasing. Hona firms have already disbursed millions of dollars to clients and other parties this way.
Already on Hona? Open Disbursements in the left navigation and click Try it out to walk through the client experience on an example payout. No money moves.
Want to see it on a real case? Book a demo.
Settlement day should be the best day of the case. Too often it is the slowest. The funds land in trust, and then a check gets drafted, signed, mailed, and logged by several people before your client sees a dollar.
That last mile is changing. Hona and Confido Legal have partnered, and our new integration brings Confido-powered settlement payouts directly into Hona. We call it Hona Disbursements.
Why we partnered with Confido Legal
Settlement is the moment your client decides how they feel about your firm. It is also the one step in a PI case still running on paper.
Hona already carries the conversation between your firm and your client from intake to resolution. What it could not do was finish that conversation with the client's money in hand. Confido does exactly that. It moves trust money for more than 1,600 law firms, with the underwriting, banking relationships, and trust accounting controls that work demands.
Together, the payout stops being a separate process. The payment link arrives in the same text thread your client has used all case long, the status lands back on the case, and your team never leaves Hona to get it done. Confido runs the money. Hona runs the moment.
"Firms already run every client conversation on Hona. The payout is the most important one, and until now it happened somewhere else, on paper. Confido lets us close the case in the same thread it started in." Josh Christensen, Co-Founder and CTO, Hona
"Been super impressed with the way Hona helps firms automate the most cumbersome aspects of the case lifecycle and improve the client experience." Emery Wager, CEO and Co-Founder, Confido Legal
What the integration means for your firm
- Pay every party on the case. Send settlement funds to your client, medical providers, and other lien holders from Hona, instead of cutting a separate check for each one.
- Fewer hands on every payout. Your team drafts and approves the payout in Hona instead of passing a paper check from desk to desk.
- Less time on the phone. Payout status lives on the case, so the "where's my money?" calls answer themselves.
- No more lost, stolen, or uncashed checks. Nothing to reissue, no stop payments, and no stale checks sitting in your trust reconciliation for months.
- Works where your team already works. Draft payouts from your case management system with the Hona Chrome extension, and push disbursement events into your case management and accounting tools with automations.
- No subscription. No setup fee, no per-seat fee. A flat $3 per disbursement, charged only when your client accepts the funds.
What it means for your clients
- Money in minutes, not weeks. Clients choose instant to their debit card, where funds land in seconds or minutes for a small fee, or free direct deposit in 4 to 6 business days. No waiting on the mail and no trip to your office.
- A link they actually trust. Clients are rightly wary of payment links from numbers they don't recognize. This one comes from the number they have texted with all case long, in the same thread as their case updates.
- A simple, secure experience. Clients verify their identity before they accept the funds. Nobody reads account numbers over the phone.
Peace of mind for the trust account
Every firm asks about the trust account first. Money does not move until your client verifies their identity and accepts, and nothing leaves your trust account before that. Drafting and approving are separate permissions, so the person who prepares a payout does not have to be the person who releases it. Every draft, edit, approval, and payment is logged with a name and a timestamp. Funds move through Confido, a platform built for law firm trust accounting, and fees never come out of trust.
Already a Confido firm? Keep your account
If your firm already uses Confido, you do not start over. You connect your existing Confido account to Hona in a couple of clicks. There is no second underwriting review and no second bill. New firms complete a short application with Confido from inside Hona.
The takeaway
Your clients waited months for their settlement. They should not wait again for a check. With Hona and Confido Legal, every party on the case gets paid from one place, from your client to the last lien holder. Payouts move faster, and your team does less of the chasing. Hona firms have already disbursed millions of dollars to clients and other parties this way.
Already on Hona? Open Disbursements in the left navigation and click Try it out to walk through the client experience on an example payout. No money moves.
Want to see it on a real case? Book a demo.
