Create a payout

Send money to your customer for payout transactions.

Overview

You can use payout to send money to your customer without any reference to previous transactions. Possible use cases for this transaction could be paying out sellers on your marketplace, online gaming, lottery wins, and so on.

Money flow
Payout triggers a payment transaction from you to the customer.

This transaction is possible for selected payment methods only. Please check Payment methods page for details.

Example

A payout is triggered by calling the /payments/payouts after you have created your preferred payment type with an amount, a currency, transactions’ description and a reference to a payment type.

POST https://api.unzer.com/v1/payments/payouts
{
  "amount" : "100",
  "currency" : "EUR",
  "returnUrl": "https://www.unzer.com",
  "resources" : {
    "typeId" : "s-crd-fm7tifzkqewy"
  }
}

Parameter	Type	Description
`amount` (required)	float	The payout amount (for example, `12.23`)
`currency` (required)	string	The payout currency, in the ISO 4217 alpha-3 format (for example, `EUR`)
`typeId` (required)	string	The ID of the payment type resource to be used (for example, `s-crd-fm7tifzkqewy`)

A payout call returns a payment ID and the payout ID 1, because only one payout per payment is possible.

{
    "id": "s-out-1",
    "isSuccess": true,
    "isPending": false,
    "isError": false,
    "message": {
        "code": "COR.000.100.112",
        "merchant": "Request successfully processed in 'Merchant in Connector Test Mode'",
        "customer": "Your payments have been successfully processed in sandbox mode."
    },
    "amount": "100.0000",
    "currency": "EUR",
    "returnUrl": "https://www.unzer.com",
    "paymentReference": "Test payout transaction",
    "date": "2018-09-13 21:27:16",
    "resources": {
        "customerId": "",
        "paymentId": "s-pay-2",
        "basketId": "",
        "metadataId": "",
        "traceId": "bf4ce634575d479eaaac4e6ad436d95d",
        "typeId": "s-crd-fm7tifzkqewy"
    },
    "processing": {
        "uniqueId": "31HA07BC8179DC97ADB61081D525202A",
        "shortId": "4008.0043.6848"
    }
}

The parameters isSuccess, isPending, or isError indicate the result of the transaction. Only one of these three can be true.

Status parameter	Description
`isSuccess`	The `payout` call was executed successfully.
`isPending`	The `payout` cannot enter the pending state.
`isError`	An error occurred. The `message.merchant` contains more information about the problem.

Parameter	Type	Description
`id`	string	The authorization’s unique ID.
`isSuccess`	boolean	If the transaction was successful, the value is set to `true`.
`isPending`	boolean	If the transaction is pending, the value is set to `true`. This is not possible for payouts, so this flag is always set to false.
`isError`	boolean	If an error occurs, this value is set to `true`.
message	object
`message.code`	string	A 9-digit code returned with every API call.
`message.customer`	string	Response message for your customer translated into the customer language.
`message.merchant`	string	Response message for you. This message always appears in English.
`amount`	string	The amount to be paid out on the specified account. The amount is rounded depending on the respective currency.
`currency`	string(3)	ISO currency code.
`paymentReference`	string	The description of the transaction.
`date`	date	Timestamp of this transaction.
resources	object
`resources.customerId`	string	Customer ID used for this transaction.
`resource.basketId`	string	The basket ID used for this transaction.
`resource.metadataId`	string	The metadata ID used for this transaction.
`resources.paymentId`	string	ID of the payment.
`resources.traceId`	string	The unique `traceId` of the transaction. Used for internal API purposes.
`resources.typeId`	string	ID of the types `Resource` that is to be used for this transaction.
processing	object
`processing.uniqueId`	string	Unique ID of the payment system used.
`processing.shortId`	string	User-friendly reference ID of the payment system.

Returned amounts

When fetching the payout resource (s-out-…), transaction value will be positive, for example 100. But when fetching the payment resource (of which payout is part of), transaction value will be negative (respectively: -100).

Payment response for payouts

"customerId": "",
        "paymentId": "s-pay-4359",
        "basketId": "",
        "metadataId": "",
        "payPageId": "",
        "typeId": "s-crd-fnqkgcfb2a72"
    },
    "transactions": [
        {
            "date": "2019-05-27 12:34:18",
            "type": "payout",
            "url": "https://dev-api.unzer.com/v1/payments/s-pay-4359/payouts/s-out-1",
            "amount": "100.0000"
        }
    ]
}

For a full description of the Payouts call, go to the API reference.