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A payout sends money in local currency to a bank account in the destination country. The amount converts from local currency to USDT at your account’s rate (the one from GET /v1/rates) and usdt_amount + fee (the fixed fee, when configured) is debited from your balance. This is the full lifecycle, including what happens to your balance at each step:

1. Discover the available corridors

Countries, currencies and methods are defined by CBPay. Always check the catalog:
Available corridors and methods: Availability may vary; the catalog (GET /v1/payouts/methods) is always the source of truth. If a country has a single method, method is optional. Every method is charged the same way: your rate + fixed fee. For bank transfers you also need the banks catalog (that is where the beneficiary’s bank_code comes from):

2. Create the payout

beneficiary is a key/value object whose required fields depend on the corridor (RUT and bank in Chile, CLABE in Mexico, CCI in Peru, PIX key in Brazil, etc.). The methods catalog documents each one.
Every payout saves the beneficiary as a contact automatically ("save_contact": false to skip it). To pay them again without re-typing their data, send "beneficiary_contact_id" instead of beneficiary — their most recent saved beneficiary for that country and method is used (422 no_saved_destination if there is none).
Response 202 Accepted:
At that moment your balance already reflects the debit: total_debit moved from available into held (on the settlement_asset balance).

Paying from another balance (settlement_asset)

By default the debit comes from your default settlement asset (USDT unless you change it via PUT /v1/settlement). To pay a single operation from another balance, add settlement_asset to the request. Example: a 100,000 CLP payout paid from the BTC balance goes through four transformations, all recorded on the response:
  1. CLP → USDT at your rate: 100000 / 950.25 = 105.235465 USDT.
  2. + fixed fee: 105.235465 + 0.30 = 105.535465 USDT (total_debit).
  3. USDT → BTC at the effective settlement price (settlement_rate 109029.34070000): 105.535465 / 109029.3407 = 0.00096795 BTC (rounded up to the satoshi).
  4. Debit and hold in BTC: settlement_amount 0.00096795 leaves your BTC balance; the beneficiary receives their 100,000 CLP exactly as always.
If the payout fails, the exact settlement_amount is refunded to your BTC balance — never re-quoted. If the BTC/GOLD execution price is unavailable at that moment you get 503 pricing_unavailable, and volatile assets have a per-operation limit (422 settlement_limit_exceeded; check it in GET /v1/settlement).

3. Receive the final state

Subscribe to the payout_status_changed event (webhooks):
  • completed: the money arrived; the hold is consumed.
  • failed: the full debit is refunded automatically (payout_refund in your ledger).
You can also query at any time:

Payout statuses

Reads and history

Every payout can be read individually and the listing accepts filters:
from/to use YYYY-MM-DD (UTC, both inclusive); an invalid date responds 400 invalid_range.

Examples by country

Every corridor with its exact beneficiary, the full request and the real response. Rates (fx_rate) are illustrative — your account’s rates from GET /v1/rates always apply; the debit is usdt_amount + fee (fixed, when configured; 0.30 here).

Beneficiary fields per corridor

Bank transfer in CLP. Requires RUT, bank and account:
The banks catalog (GET /v1/payouts/banks?country=CL) lists the current bank_code values.

QR payout

In Bolivia (the local interoperable QR) and Brazil (PIX QR, including the “copia e cola” code) you can also pay a collection QR in two steps: scan and confirm. Scanning is free; you are only charged on confirm, exactly like a regular payout (your rate + fixed fee). Without country/currency Bolivia (BOB) is assumed; for Brazil send country: "BR" and currency: "BRL".

1. Scan the QR (free)

Returns the recipient’s data so the user can confirm who they are paying:

2. Confirm the payment (charged here)

  • usdt_amount + fixed fee is debited at your rate, just like a bank_transfer.
  • The result is synchronous: the response already carries the final state (completed, or failed with an automatic refund) — no waiting.
  • Retries with the same idempotency_key return the original payout. In Bolivia the scan reference is single-use (a scanned QR can only be paid once); in Brazil a static PIX QR is reusable and each payment carries its own key.

Common errors

Immediate rejection vs later failure

If the processor rejects the payout at creation, you receive 422 with the object in status: failed and the refund already applied. If it fails later (e.g. the destination account does not exist), the webhook arrives with status: failed and the automatic refund happens at that moment.

Reading status_code on a failed payout

In every case the refund is already applied — verify it with the payout_refund entry in movements.
A payout in processing cannot be cancelled through the API: the rail already has it. Wait for the final state via webhook or GET — it always arrives, with an automatic refund on failure.
Last modified on July 17, 2026