POST /v1/payouts

To send funds to your own bank account, create a new payout object. Your Stripe balance must cover the payout amount. If it doesn’t, you receive an “Insufficient Funds” error.

If your API key is in test mode, money won’t actually be sent, though every other action occurs as if you’re in live mode.

If you create a manual payout on a Stripe account that uses multiple payment source types, you need to specify the source type balance that the payout draws from. The balance object details available and pending amounts by source type.

Servers

Request headers

Name Type Required Description
Content-Type String Yes The media type of the request body.

Default value: "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"

Request body fields

Name Type Required Description
method String No

The method used to send this payout, which is standard or instant. We support instant for payouts to debit cards and bank accounts in certain countries. Learn more about bank support for Instant Payouts.

Possible values:

  • "standard"
  • "instant"
description String No

An arbitrary string attached to the object. Often useful for displaying to users.

destination String No

The ID of a bank account or a card to send the payout to. If you don't provide a destination, we use the default external account for the specified currency.

amount Integer Yes

A positive integer in cents representing how much to payout.

expand[] Array No

Specifies which fields in the response should be expanded.

source_type String No

The balance type of your Stripe balance to draw this payout from. Balances for different payment sources are kept separately. You can find the amounts with the Balances API. One of bank_account, card, or fpx.

Possible values:

  • "bank_account"
  • "card"
  • "fpx"
metadata Object No

Set of key-value pairs that you can attach to an object. This can be useful for storing additional information about the object in a structured format. Individual keys can be unset by posting an empty value to them. All keys can be unset by posting an empty value to metadata.

statement_descriptor String No

A string that displays on the recipient's bank or card statement (up to 22 characters). A statement_descriptor that's longer than 22 characters return an error. Most banks truncate this information and display it inconsistently. Some banks might not display it at all.

currency String Yes

Three-letter ISO currency code, in lowercase. Must be a supported currency.

How to start integrating

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    • This loads the API reference documentation and prepares the Http request settings.
  3. Click Test request to test run your request to the API and see the API's response.