holykent

[hidden wagon]

Hi 👋 Transfers and Payouts are two distinct things.

Transfers represent moving funds between Stripe Accounts, and they provide immediate feedback on whether they were successful.

Payouts represent the process of moving funds from a Stripe Account's balance to its associated bank account/debit card.

[silver mesa]

Ok, and when I pay out to merchants, should I transfer from my stripe balance directly to their external account in my code (dotnet package) or should I use a transfer with automatic payout and let stripe handle the payout to extenral account?

So payout or transfer in my own code?

In any case, how can I get the result of this operation

thanks for the clarification btw

[hidden wagon]

You should use a Transfer to move the funds to the Connected Account (you cannot pay out directly to another Stripe Account's External Account).

The request to create the Transfer will immediately indicate whether it was successful.

[silver mesa]

But there's no way for me to ensure that the money ends up in the merchants bank account after that, since stripe handles the rest of that flow (payout to external account)

so what if that occurs and I have released teh escrow already?