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Unblock a payout

Unblock a payout to the merchant's bank account.

This operation works at merchant level.

Unblocking payouts usually require a 4-eye policy through the Adyen Customer Area (CA). 

The unblockPayout call allows unblocking payouts programmatically.

You can request to unblock a payout if the following criteria are satisfied:

  • The payout is in the Blocked state.
  • There are no pending changes for the specified payout.

This call does not support partial updates.

If an error occurs during an update:

  • No changes are applied.
  • Current data is kept.
  • The entire update fails.

Payout states

A payout can go through the following states:

Request parameters

To unblock payout, make a POST /unblockPayout request specifying:

NameTypeRequiredDescription

merchantCode

String
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A merchant code string holds a value to identify a merchant.

Format:

  • Either: MerchantAccount.Merchant_Code
  • Or: Merchant_Code

Response parameters

If there are no errors in the request, the call returns a pspReference.If any issues occur during the process, the call returns one or more warning or error messages.

NameTypeReturned by defaultDescription

pspReference

String
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A reference to uniquely identify the request.

warnings

String
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List containing one or more warning messages.
Returned when the request is not correctly processed.

errors

String
-x-

List containing one or more error messages.
Returned when the request fails.

Examples

Request

Response