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Designate a beneficiary account and transfer the benefactor's current balance

post/setupBeneficiary

Defines a benefactor and a beneficiary relationship between two accounts. At the time of benefactor/beneficiary setup, the funds in the benefactor account are transferred to the beneficiary account, and any further payments to the benefactor account are automatically sent to the beneficiary account. A series of benefactor/beneficiaries may not exceed four beneficiaries and may not have a cycle in it.

Endpoint destination URL
https://cal-test.adyen.com/cal/services/Fund/v6/setupBeneficiary
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destinationAccountCodestringRequired

The destination account code.

merchantReferencestring

A value that can be supplied at the discretion of the executing user.

sourceAccountCodestringRequired

The benefactor account.

After submitting a call, you receive a response message to inform you that your request was received and processed.

Depending on the HTTP status code of the response message, it is helpful to build some logic to handle any errors that a request or the system may return.

HTTP Responses

  • 200 - OK

    The request has succeeded.

  • 202 - Accepted

    The request has been accepted for processing, but the processing has not been completed.

  • 400 - Bad Request

    A problem reading or understanding the request.

  • 401 - Unauthorized

    Authentication required.

  • 403 - Forbidden

    Insufficient permissions to process the request.

  • 422 - Unprocessable Entity

    A request validation error.

  • 500 - Internal Server Error

    The server could not process the request.