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Newah
Newah

Reputation: 102

Does Stripe instant payout allow for an instant charge to payout?

I've been attempting to use Stripe Instant Payout to go from charge to a payout in "mere moments" as documented here : https://stripe.com/docs/connect/payouts#instant-payouts

This has proved to be confusing and difficult.

I currently have a Stripe account with a "Connect"ed Stripe profile. I create the charge for the Connect user, (which has an instant pay valid card) and then I create the payout. When I go to payout, using the method here, it fails, saying the balance isn't available.

Why is this? The balance is in pending, but the docs state "You can pay out an account’s available balance plus its pending balance"

Upvotes: 2

Views: 742

Answers (1)

Tunbosun Ayinla
Tunbosun Ayinla

Reputation: 41

@Newah when you place a charge to a Stripe Connect account that charge is not available for payout immediately. You can check when the charge will be available for payout using the balance transaction object https://stripe.com/docs/api/balance/balance_transaction. You can also get this when retrieving a charge by expanding the balance transaction.

{
  "id": "txn_19XJJ02eZvKYlo2ClwuJ1rbA",
  "object": "balance_transaction",
  "amount": 999,
  "available_on": 1483920000,
  "created": 1483315442,
  "currency": "usd",
  "description": null,
  "exchange_rate": null,
  "fee": 59,
  "fee_details": [
    {
      "amount": 59,
      "application": null,
      "currency": "usd",
      "description": "Stripe processing fees",
      "type": "stripe_fee"
    }
  ],
  "net": 940,
  "source": "ch_19XJJ02eZvKYlo2CHfSUsSpl",
  "status": "available",
  "type": "charge"
}

The charge will be available for payout on the timestamp set in available_on.

Upvotes: 0

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